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With unlimited information becoming available with the click of a mouse, internet users have lost their patience, when it comes to waiting for a WordPress blog to load. If a page is taking too long to become legible, most internet users will move on to the next page that offers similar information, news, views, images or whatever else they are seeking. Therefore, if you want to capture your audience long enough for them to read what you have to say, you need to not only make sure that your blog is attractive to look at but that it loads quickly, before you lose a prospective reader. The good news is that there are some easy tips and tricks that you can use to maximize the speed of your WordPress blog. Let me take you through a tour of the 10 best ways to speed up your blog. Some of these tricks are so simple that they might seem obvious to some of you but all of them work brilliantly when it comes to reducing the page load time.

Some businesses share details about their company, products, services, etc, in their "coming soon" pages to grab market attention. This article offers a few tips on "coming soon" page design and discusses how this marketing strategy can help you make your site popular.

"In celebration of Cyber Monday, today we're going to show you a technique for creating a custom "Splash Page" for your WordPress theme. You're probably seeing a lot of these around the net today, so you know that they're great for running quick promotions of products or events... but you can have fun with it and come up with creative ways to use a splash page such as advertising, donation button, radio pledge drives, highlight of an upcoming race, or highlight of a new product."

"CleanPrint - Eco-friendly content output to print, PDF, email, Kindle, Box, Google Drive and Dropbox The world's best and most used eco-friendly print tool is now available on WordPress. Join top sites like NBC News, CNN, Disney and Fox Sports and offer your users an economically and ecologically friendly printing and saving experience that saves paper, ink, and money while saving trees. How CleanPrint Works CleanPrint is an eco-friendly tool that saves paper, ink and money when printing from the internet. Users can easily edit content before printing or saving to PDF, Kindle, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box. CleanPrint includes sharing tools and a pagination/paper saving counter that shows visitors how eco-friendly your site is and helps them avoid that dreaded extra sheet of paper! User activates CleanPrint by hitting print button Print preview appears including pagination and editing tools for optimization User selects desired output: PDF - Saves content as a PDF document Text - Saves content as a rich text formated file Dropbox - Saves a PDF or text file to your Dropbox account Box - Saves a PDF or text file to your Box account Google Drive - Saves a PDF or text file to your Google Drive account Kindle - Saves content directly to your Kindle Google Cloud Print - prints to a remote printer Print - Sends content to your printer Email - Sends content via email Share article link to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ Features and Benefits Use the CleanPrint button set or point your own buttons or text to CleanPrint. Lightbox keeps users on your page within their original browser window. Green ticker shows how many pages CleanPrint has saved. Pagination/paper saving counter helps users avoid that dreaded extra sheet of paper. Control - Users are in control of font size, images, gray scale of text, and eliminating any unwanted content before outputting t

A useful little tool that can be very helpful if you use and have a lot of pages on your Wordpress website is a plugin named - Page Switcher.

Widget Context Plugin allows you to place different sidebar widgets on different pages and posts on your Wordpress blog. Good for having different sidebars for home pages versus individual posts or pages.

Welcome to the Challenge plugin documentation page. Challenge is a WordPress plugin based on and improved over Steve Herod's "Did you pass math?" plugin, Challenge restricts comment spam by throwing the commenter a challenge. The default challenge is an addition and multiplication math question. The challenge and the answer can also be user-defined. They can be of anything including PHP-evaluatable expressions. The positions of the challenge and the answer are also customizable via the plugin's own 'Options' page in the Wordpress Admin page. This plugin can also be used to ensure the commenter's basic intelligence before he/she/it leaves a comment.

Information (from the Codex) about creating your own page templates.

Get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, edit, view, re-order/sort and add pages - all with just one click away!

Page Tagger is a WordPress plugin which lets you tag your pages just like you do with your posts.

"Redirects to the page you were reading just before logging in. Redirects to the homepage when you log out. Sky Login Redirect redirects users to the page they were reading just before logging in. In case that page is not defined, users are redirected to the homepage."

WP Rocket WordPress Plugin is one of the premium page caching plugin. It helps you to load your pages and it gives a better user experience. Google gives first priority for fast loading pages. Grab the Plugin now

Looking for the best landing page builder for WordPress? Read our OptimizePress review. Build high-converting landing pages and sales funnels.

Many low cost hosting providers oversell their infrastructure. This article explains what overselling is and how Page.ly is different.

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Great for use with the Widget Logic plugin. A reference for all the conditional tags that help you restrict a widgets viewing.

Warning: You can only use conditional query tags on or after the init action hook in WordPress. For themes, this means the conditional tag will never work properly if you are using it in the body of functions.php, i.e. outside of a function.

The video service, Viddler, now hosts their blog with the secure WordPress hosting company, Page.ly.

Whether you run a business or a blog with multiple writers it's important and add more value to show the people that are involved with a Meet The Team page.