Entries by Team Lufa

Creating a Manual Backup of WordPress When It’s Down or Locked

So your site is down and you can’t log in… and you just realized you don’t have a recent backup. Dammit. Before you launch into panic mode, though, it’s safe to say you’re not completely screwed. In an ideal world, you would have a working backup that you could use to restore your site, but […]

How to Plan, Build and Launch a WordPress Website

A successful web design project involves plenty of work before you type a line of code. Before you can start designing or building a site, you need to know what it needs to achieve, who the stakeholders are, and what you need to do to make it a success. Today, I want to encourage you to take some time […]

The Ultimate Mega Guide to Speeding Up WordPress

A few years ago, I played a big part in building a client website that’s still successful enough today but has become frustratingly slow. The database is full of clutter and there are some pages that take as long as 26 seconds to load due to the number of images and other requests it makes […]

10 of the Best WordPress Support Services Available in 2016

WordPress is the preferred content management system behind 26% of the world’s websites. Many of which are for major brands, companies, and public figures like CNN, Major League Baseball, Katy Perry, Mashable, TechCrunch, and the New York Post. Obviously, their experience managing their WordPress website is going to be much different from your own. Source: […]

Using Gulp to Speed Up WordPress Development

Build tools let developers focus on efficient development rather than the nitty-gritty details that take away half your life but don’t add much to the project on their own. One such build tool is Gulp. Gulp optimizes your theme’s images, concatenate your JS files, and processes your Sass/LESS code automatically. In this article, I’ll show […]