Once you’ve been blogging for a short while, you will more than likely start receiving notifications about pingbacks and trackbacks. While they both can serve a genuine purpose, they can also cause problems in terms of misleading your readers, maliciously or deceptively adding irrelevant links to your blog posts, and even negatively affecting your site’s position in the search engines….. Continue Reading
Improve the Way You Work with Images in WordPress
Recently we covered how to optimise your images for SEO purposes, in order to help increase the visibility of your site in search engines like Google. Today we are going to look at how to work with your images more effectively in WordPress. While it is easy enough to upload images into your site, ensuring they are optimized to reduce…. Continue Reading
Proven Ways to Make Money from Your WordPress Website
It’s always a good idea to determine how you are going to monetize your website before starting it. After all, you wouldn’t build a physical store without first deciding what your business was going to be and what service you would be providing. However, sites can grow organically and what once might’ve been a blog where you aired your thoughts…. Continue Reading
Ninja Forms: The Freemium Advanced Form Builder for WordPress
On a recent post that looked at the best contact form plugins for WordPress, a few readers left comments recommending we take a look at Ninja Forms. Ninja Forms is a free plugin that allows users to build highly customizable forms for WordPress sites without editing any code. The most popular premium plugin the WordPress forms space is Gravity Forms…. Continue Reading
LENS – An Enjoyable Photography WordPress Theme
Today we are taking a closer look at a new WordPress theme which has been designed for photographers or photography agencies who want a suitable platform to showcase their work on. The theme has been developed by PixelGrade, an Elite Author team from Theme Forest, where it can be purchased. If you are looking for a photography theme for your…. Continue Reading
SlideDeck 2 Review: Advanced Dynamic Slider Plugin for WordPress
SlideDeck 2 is a premium slider plugin for WordPress. Not only does SlideDeck allow you to build regular slideshows that contain a mixture of content include video, images, HTML and text, it can also be used to create sliders that display content from dynamic sources such as Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest and many more. The Slide Deck plugin was developed…. Continue Reading
Elegant Themes Support Uncovered
In our recent review of the Elegant Themes service, a few readers commented that the support provided was lacking. Being the investigative reporters that we are, we decided to do some research and find out if there was any substance to the claims. In fact it is quite common for blog posts reviewing the Elegant Themes service to receive many…. Continue Reading
How to Preview WordPress sites on Mobile Devices
Whether you are designing sites for clients or are managing your own WordPress website, having the ability to be able to check how the site looks on a mobile device is now becoming increasingly important. With an 81% growth in smartphone usage in 2012, according to a report by Cisco, there is a good chance an increasing number of the…. Continue Reading
WordPress Post Formats Explained: What They Are and How You Can Use Them
Despite the decision to remove post formats from the WordPress core for version 3.6, this popular feature of WP will still be available as a plugin. This is similar to the way the link manager was treated in the release of version 3.5. This means that if you’ve yet to embrace post formats and are curious to know more about…. Continue Reading
Enable Easy File Storage and Sharing with BuddyPress Using the BuddyDrive Plugin
If you’re fed up of storing the files you are working on in your inbox, treating your email account like some kind of file repository, and you don’t want to entrust your files with, or push your collaborators onto, another cloud storage service then a BuddyPress site and a newly released plugin called BuddyDrive might just be the answer. Of…. Continue Reading
