Mobile-friendly websites have been the talk of the town for some time now.

In fact, Stone Temple reports that mobile usage jumped from 57% in 2016 to 63% in 2017, while desktop usage is steadily declining year-over-year, going from 43% in 2016 to 37% in 2017.

And if those numbers hold true, we’re only months away from discovering that over 70% of internet users likely favor their mobile devices when viewing websites.

So, what does all this mean for your website?

From hosting a coming soon page for a website launch to a maintenance page for an under-construction website, these two options are the most likely used although there are a number of reasons to disable a WordPress website temporarily.

For instance, I stumbled into the website design and development business in the early 2000s. From design to hosting, I’ve amassed a good growing base of monthly subscriptions to our web hosting services.

While the web hosting was not intentionally marketed, it has been a steady flow of business amongst web design and development, search marketing, and domain buying and selling.

In the early days, managing payments for web hosting services was a complete nightmare and a laborious black hole at times. Fast forward to today, and there are a number of ways to manage monthly subscription payments.

However, associating website non-payment from a customer for a website can still send one down a rabbit hole if the right solutions are chosen.

Nevertheless, I’ve used a number of manual tools to suspend WordPress websites for non-payment, under construction, or maintenance mode sessions.

For almost two decades, I’ve read the rollercoaster of website design. From static HTML pages to harnessing the dynamic power of PHP/MySQL websites to content management systems, I finally settled into a groove of rapid website development using the same platform as nearly a third of the websites hosted online: WordPress.

Good, bad, or indifferent, WordPress has come a mighty long way (and likely still has a ways to go depending upon which side of the fence you stand, having experienced operating or managing a WordPress website).

One of the most common questions raised — whether a new website development project or a redesign effort — about WordPress centers upon extensibility, flexibility, and the ease of migrating content from one website to another.

I’ve experienced a number of WordPress-to-WordPress migrations as well as WordPress to 3rd-Party CMS’ and vice versa.

Often, customers want to preserve blog posts and pages when redesigning their websites but shy away from preserving them due to thinking it’s too laborious to perform and achieve such a feat. But that will no longer be your fear after this tutorial.

Recently, a customer contacted me inquiring about steps they should take to improve their website speed.

This customer was adamant that their website ranking was greatly suffering because of it. While I agree with their assessment, let me be clear that ranking on page one of Google or any other search engine was not solely because of website performance or lack of.

Website performance is a factor, but not in this customer’s case. In fact, this customer’s overall website performance and SEO health put their competition to shame upon further review of keyword ranking, backlink profile, and domain authority.

Nevertheless, I discussed and walked the customer through a step-by-step process for what to check for to determine how to improve website performance, checking the following:

I’m back with another tutorial today that builds on a previous tutorial that instructs you how to change and customize the default WordPress logo displayed on the WordPress login page.

Although I thoroughly discussed and provided code examples and plugins, I forgot to mention one additional aspect not discovered until a customer clicks my customized logo, only to be redirected to WordPress.org. DOH!

A few weeks ago, I received a message from one of my many video tutorials questioning the ease of customizing the WordPress login page — specifically, how easy it is to change or replace the WordPress logo.

So back to the tutorial cave, I discovered how it’s relatively easy to replace the out-of-box WordPress login page logo.

Last month I introduced readers to a WordPress plugin, Popular Posts, which is one of the best-kept secrets to boosting search rankings while lowering a website’s bounce rate.

In addition, I revealed the Popular Posts plugin was developed and designed to help website owners and operators gain clarity in regard to the most popular website content.

But it’s not the use of this plugin alone or the one to be introduced shortly that will boost search rankings and lower website bounce rates.