5 UI Tips For Building Your Next WordPress Site

5 UI Tips For Building Your Next WordPress SiteWordPress is known for its easy navigation and great templates, but that’s not any guarantee that your WordPress site is going to have a flawless UI. You need to intentionally create a great UI experience for your viewers otherwise, regardless of how flashy, your site will have a terrible usability stats.

As the Internet continues to expand in the mobile market, site performance and user interface are become all the more important.CONTINUE READING »

The WordPress Handbook – 60+ Resources For First Time WordPress Users

The WordPress handbookWordPress is become very popular over the past couple years and today it powers more then 20% of sites on the Internet; no other content management system comes close to its widespread usage. It’s so robust that you can easily create just any type of website without spending much money.

There are still a lot of people who don’t much about WordPress. So I thought, it might a good idea to assemble my favorite WordPress resources into a WordPress Handbook list that has everything all in one place for folks who are new in the WordPress land. CONTINUE READING »

WordPress supports the 100% GPL premium theme marketplace: Creative Market

creative market wordpressLast week, the guys over at Creative Market announced that all WordPress themes will now be 100% GPL. For last few months, a good debate has been going on allowing full 100% GPL license for WordPress themes on ThemeForest.

Envato did updated their license recently but still it’s not 100% GPL and is not something most of the WordPress folks including WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg likes. So when CreativeMarket decided to make their themes 100% GPL, folks at WordPress were first to support them.CONTINUE READING »

Weekly Roundup: Themes Now 100% GPL & Twenty Thirteen Theme

creative market wordpress themesSo it’s been just over 2 weeks since I published any blog post here and with my inbox full of questions such as why I haven’t been publishing any post or reply to emails.

The main reason is I have been spending a lot of time learning new things about WordPress development, watching Tedx videos and connecting with other bloggers. I also spent a few days on building a new WordPress coupons & deals section, currently there are not many products but we will get there. CONTINUE READING »

How to Scan your WordPress site for Malwares and Threats

How to Scan your WordPress site for Malwares and ThreatsSetting up a WordPress site takes less than 10 minutes with all the essential plugins but hours to fix a small bug or error.

Wouldn’t you want to save those extra hours? I am assuming your answer is Yes.

You can easily save those extra hours or work by taking 10 minutes out of your schedule and scan your website for malwares and threats.

There are ton of free & paid tools that helps to protect our WordPress site from malwares & malicious code.CONTINUE READING »

WooThemes announce partnership with Codeable, for theme customization

woo-themes-codeableioWooThemes has announced a partnership with the newly launched startup, Codeable to recommend their services to Woo customers. Codeable is newly launched startup that provides extensive WordPress support and price starts at $29 per task. I never used any such service but from a customer perspective – it looks like a great service.

The partnership stems from Codeable’s desire to provide extensive customization support to Woo customers. “The customization of our products has always been a very prevalent & popular activity within the WooCommunity”, wrote Adii in the announcement post. CONTINUE READING »

Weekly Roundup: WP Kube is Awesome & Story of WonderThemes

Weekly Roundup: WP Kube is Awesome & Goodbye WonderThemesHappy Sunday! I have some great blog posts to share with you, today.

The most popular & unofficial news blog – WPCandy is finally back with some great podcasts & WordPress related articles And Jean from WPMayor started a new weekly news roundup series.

Though, one not-so great thing happened, WooThemes closed their affiliate program.

For those who don’t what this roundup is about or new to this site, every week I do a weekly roundup where I share most useful posts & resource that will help you become a better WordPress user.CONTINUE READING »

Keep Your WordPress Site Secure and Spam-Free With User Verification

stop spam verification wordpressUser verification is the process of discovering whether a particular user is what or who they say they are.

The most frequent reason for user verification is the avoidance of spam, particularly in comments. Comment spamming is frequently carried out by automated bots, and verifying that there is a human attached to a particular account is a great way of immediately reducing the amount of spam a site receives.

This is what the CAPTCHA system, essentially a Turing test, was designed for.CONTINUE READING »