Easy fixes for common website blunders (and how Kadence makes it simple!)
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There are a few common website mistakes we see over and over. They’re easy to miss and even easier to fix (especially if you’re using Kadence).

Summer is a great time to review your website without overhauling everything. Here are five to look for today:

1. No clear call-to-action above the fold

Make sure your homepage and landing pages have one strong CTA visible as soon as the page loads.

You can use a simple button directing users to another page, a lead-capture form, or even a modal pop-up if you want your form to look like a button while collecting the client’s info on click.


A collage of three website newsletter and pop-up call-to-action designs. The first design features a clean, modern homepage for a health-focused blog with a lavender "Subscribe" button beside fields for first name and email. The second set shows a bold, black-and-white pop-up form with the heading "Join the Newsletter!" overlaid on a lifestyle blog background featuring a young woman. The third shows a beach-themed yoga site with a soft brown overlay that reads "Ignite Your Light. Connect With Your Highest Self," and a button inviting users to "Practice with Kay Kay." The designs highlight personalized messaging, inviting visuals, and clear calls to action, reflecting diverse niches and audiences.

2. Using improper heading tags
We see this one a lot: using a heading tag based on how it looks instead of where it belongs in the content structure.

For example, someone might use an H5 just because it’s smaller even if it follows an H2, which is a no-go for accessibility and SEO.

Kadence makes it easier to stay organized with built-in global heading styles (H1–H6), so you can control the appearance and maintain proper structure. You might need to style a paragraph to look like a heading now and then—just to keep your heading structure SEO-friendly. 

With Kadence Blocks 4.0 development in the works, global styles is about to get even better and will help solve this even more. Want a sneak peek? Head over to our Facebook Group to see it in action.

3. Not enough white space
Crowded layouts make content harder to read and scan. Adding a little space between sections, images, and text goes a long way toward creating a clean, comfortable experience.

In Kadence, you can use padding and margin settings to create that breathing room on row layouts, sections, text, forms, buttons, and just about every element you can imagine. 

If you want more consistent spacing across your site, clamp controls can help with that too.

Easily adjust padding and other layout settings for your Kadence blocks to fine-tune your website's design without code.

4. Cluttered navigation menus
When your nav menu has too many items, or too many dropdowns, it can overwhelm visitors and make it harder to find what matters.

Try limiting your top-level links to just the essentials. Group secondary links into a dropdown or move the unimportant links to the footer. With Kadence, you can create mega menus, use icons, or even hide certain links on mobile to keep things clean.

5. Ignoring mobile layout
Your site might look great on desktop, but how’s it holding up on phones?

Overlapping content, tiny buttons, awkward spacing, or broken stacking can ruin the experience on smaller screens. 

Use Kadence’s responsive controls to adjust padding, font size, and layout per device so everything stays readable and clickable.

Kadence makes it super easy to control what shows up where. In the advanced settings, you can hide or show sections based on device so you can have one layout for desktop and a different one for mobile.


Control responsive design with ease using Kadence Row Layout block settings for padding, margins, and device visibility.

Even small improvements can make a big difference. Whether you tackle one of these fixes or all five, your visitors and your future self will thank you.

Have a favorite website tip of your own? Share it this week in our Facebook group: Web Creator Community.

Have a great week! 

~The Kadence Team



Product Updates

We pushed out some enhancements and fixes this week for Kadence Blocks and Kadence Theme. Keep the feedback coming so we can keep on improving!


Kadence Blocks 3.5.12

  • Enhancement: Header block off canvas trigger focus styles.
  • Fix: Icon List default bottom margin.
  • Fix: Count Up block responsive font/number size/lineheight preview in editor.
  • Fix: Content for Testimonial block when copy/paste styles.
  • Fix: Warning that content doesn’t match template while editing Navigation posts.
  • Fix: Inability to insert new row when table block was inside a section.
  • Fix: Display issue with design library button when editing Lifter LMS course

View more details in the full changelog.


Kadence Blocks Pro 2.7.12

  • Add: Post Carousel arrow and dot settings for custom color, size, border, position.

  • Fix: Ability for randomly sorted query loops to be paginated.

View more details in the full changelog.


Kadence Theme 1.2.27

  • Fix: Sale button position in pro gallery for Woo Templates.

View more details in the full changelog.

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