Some of the top online stores are able to survive and ultimately thrive because they know how to bring back customers who have already purchased from them. It’s a well know fact that you don’t have to spend as much time or money bringing in past customers as opposed to brand new customers. So why are you not sending out…. Continue Reading
Farewell Tedious Pricing Tables and Portfolios: Enter Essential Grid Plugin
The first time I looked at the Essential Grid plugin page it was a little unclear to me what it actually did. Was it a gallery plugin? A drag and drop page editor? Maybe something for creating grid-based pricing pages? Well it turns out the Essential Grid Plugin from ThemePunch includes a little bit of everything I just mentioned, but…. Continue Reading
15 Best WordPress Courses to Hone Your Craft
How would you rate your WordPress knowledge? Are you a beginner? Intermediate? Jedi Knight? It turns out everyone has to start somewhere with WordPress, and luckily there are tons of options to choose from if you are interested in WordPress courses. I started my WordPress journey back in college, playing around with some random websites I created while jumping back and…. Continue Reading
10 Best WordPress Live Chat Plugin Options for Top Customer Support
How do you stay in contact with your customers? Do you have a phone number or contact form on your website? I honestly can’t remember the last time I called a company for help because I can’t stand waiting on the phone in those long support queues. As for email, I might send out a few on occasion, but I am…. Continue Reading
An SEO Beginners Guide to Permalinks and Slugs
The word “permalink.” Any idea what it means? What about a slug? You may stumble upon these terms while scrolling around your WordPress dashboard or while reading an article on how to improve your search engine optimization, but what do both of them really mean? Read this guide to permalinks and slugs to understand the intricacies that go into these sometimes…. Continue Reading
10 Best Gaming WordPress Themes to Nerd Out About
I can still remember the first time I received a Game Boy original for Christmas. It was the first gaming system my siblings and I had owned, and we spent hours looking over each others’ shoulders waiting for a turn. Then the Nintendo 64 came along one year, and of course the original Xbox. Many other gaming systems came after that,…. Continue Reading
Must Follow Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn Groups for WordPress
It’s not often I go a day without checking out my social media pages, and I assume many of you are the same way. Whether you flip through your Facebook feed to click on the onslaught of Buzzfeed posts or you mosey around on Twitter to catch up on the hottest news, there is certainly plenty of time wasted on…. Continue Reading
How to Build an eCommerce Store with Shopkeeper Theme
It’s not always the easiest thing to choose an online store WordPress theme, since you don’t want to make the wrong decision and then get stuck with a theme that doesn’t fit your brand or something that just makes it difficult for people to checkout quickly. The process doesn’t become any easier when you browse through ThemeForest, because although it’s…. Continue Reading
Send Invoices from WordPress? A Sprout Invoices Review
I’ve spent way too much money on junky invoicing systems that force me to navigate away from my WordPress dashboard to send out to all my clients. The only problem is that I am always working for these clients in WordPress, so what’s the point of leaving that screen to send an invoice? Sprout Invoices offers a nice little service so you…. Continue Reading
12 Best WordPress Forum Plugin Options for Community Building
Think about the type of site you run. Is it for selling shoes? Offering marketing tutorials? Talking about gardening? It doesn’t matter what you talk about or sell online, because content is fine, but community is better. Do you think people will just come flocking to your content and stick around after you slip from their minds? Keeping customers and…. Continue Reading
