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Creating an online quiz website is easier than most people think. Whether you want to build a BuzzFeed-style personality quiz site, create educational assessments for students, or launch a trivia site for your audience, you can have a fully functional quiz website launched in no… Read More »

If you’re looking for a way to build a community and boost engagement on your website, then accepting calendar events from users is a great place to start. This is a win-win situation: Your visitors get free promotion for their events, and you get to… Read More »

One of the biggest challenges in running an online store is making sure visitors actually stick around and buy something. Most of the time, you’ve got just a few seconds to grab their attention before they click away to a competitor. That puts a lot… Read More »

Many website owners find themselves wishing they could use categories and tags for their pages, just like they do for blog posts. We’ve been there too. As we built more complex websites, we realized how helpful it would be to have a way to group… Read More »

Do you hate waiting for search engines to notice your new content? It is frustrating to publish a great post and see zero traffic because search engines haven’t crawled it yet. The traditional approach requires search engines to visit your site at random intervals. This… Read More »

Linking to external websites in your navigation menu is sometimes necessary, but it can accidentally drain your site’s SEO authority. If you don’t use the ‘nofollow’ tag, search engines might pass your hard-earned ranking power to those third-party sites. At WPBeginner, we always apply the… Read More »

We’ve been running a public-facing WordPress blog for over a decade. During this time, we’ve seen many cases where you need to make your WordPress blog completely private. Maybe you’re still working on your site and aren’t ready to show it to the world yet.… Read More »

In our opinion, keeping WordPress core, themes, and plugins up to date is one of the most important things you can do for WordPress security. But updating a WordPress plugin to its newest version can sometimes break your website. This can be extremely frustrating and… Read More »

Adding YouTube playlists to your website can increase user engagement and improve SEO by providing your visitors with a seamless viewing experience. It can also help you gain more subscribers and grow your channel. At WPBeginner, we have been embedding YouTube videos on our blog… Read More »

Stuck with a WordPress update that won’t budge? The ‘another update is currently in progress’ error can be frustrating, especially when you’re eager to keep your site up-to-date and secure. We’ve dealt with this error countless times across our own sites and even the WPBeginner… Read More »