WordPress Tools

The ‘Avoid an excessive DOM size’ warning can appear in Google Lighthouse or other website speed testing tools.It basically means your website has too many elements, which can slow down loading times and frustrate visitors. Luckily, there are a few things you can do to reduce the DOM size and […]

When I started blogging in 2006, I had no idea it would one day lead me to create WPBeginner, which is now the world’s largest free WordPress resource site. Hi, my name is Syed Balkhi.I am the founder and CEO of WPBeginner, which I launched in 2009.What started as a […]

Are you looking for the best WordPress themes of 2025? The team over at WPBeginner, with over 15 years of experience and solid expertise in WordPress, has hand-picked the best WordPress themes just for you. WPBeginner has spent years understanding what works best for websites like yours, and we are […]

We’ve worked with countless WordPress sites where clients accidentally deactivated key plugins, causing major issues.It’s a common problem, but one that’s easy to fix with the right approach. Deactivating an essential plugin can break important features or even make a site unusable.This is why it is so important to manage […]

Before becoming WordPress practitioners, almost everyone in our WPBeginner editorial team, had used several different CMS platforms (Content Management System). Each of us built our personal websites, worked on several client projects, and even set up side projects with different CMS, including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Wix, and many more. We […]

Every individual on the WPBeginner editorial team has been using different free WordPress themes for our personal blog projects. We did use free themes like Neve, OceanWP, GeneratePress, and more.Among all the themes we tested, Neve stands out thanks to their flexibility and over a dozen block patterns. However, we […]

For many years, WPBeginner team members have been using tools like AIOSEO, Clearscope, Semrush, Ahrefs, and others to optimize our WordPress guides and articles for SEO. Our experience has convinced us that, when used correctly, content optimization tools like these can improve search rankings in a big way.Because these tools […]

Over the last few years, we’ve been using several WordPress drag and drop page builder plugins, like SeedProd, Beaver Builder, and Thrive Architect, for different projects.We’ve used them to launch a landing page quickly and even build a website from the ground up. After much trial and error, the biggest […]

When we first started WPBeginner back in 2009, we had one main goal: teaching people how to succeed with WordPress.Even though we’ve now spent 16+ years helping more than 2 million people build their WordPress websites, we totally understand if you’re feeling overwhelmed right now. You might be wondering whether […]

When we are talking to new website owners, we always recommend setting up a WordPress security solution as soon as possible. We have successfully kept WPBeginner safe from repeated attacks over many years.We do that by using the best security plugins and following WordPress security best practices. That being said, […]