WordPress Plugins

BackupBuddy from iThemes is a popular solution for WordPress developers looking to simplify the management of multiple client sites. This handy plugin helps handle backup, migration, and restoration of websites in a sensible manner. Backups include all elements of the theme – content and style – as well as any installed plugins and widgets. Backing up or migrating websites individually…. Continue Reading

Ask any blogger what their two main wishes are for their blogs, and eight times out of ten* you’ll probably get “more comments” and “more subscribers” as the answer. *Note – eight times out of ten is not a scientific discovery, although it may be. So….  Especially for bloggers who thrive on engagement, more comments means more goals met. More…. Continue Reading

Do you want more email subscribers? Not just any old ones, but actual qualified subscribers who are genuinely interested in your emails. Of course you do! The key to growing your email list is using your existing content. If your content provides valuable information to your audience, why not use it to capture more emails? And the best way of…. Continue Reading

You’ll hear it said all the time: “The money is in the list.” To someone who doesn’t know too much about online marketing and making a living from online work, this may raise a few eyebrows. However, the reason why so many seasoned online entrepreneurs swear by their email list is because they’ve personally experienced the power that is The…. Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: For those of you, who can’t afford premium plugin such as SeedProd, we recently released a beautiful free coming soon theme called Launch. It comes with MailChimp integration and Live Customizer. Working on a new WordPress site? Does it have a coming soon page? Would you like to learn how to create a kick-ass coming soon page with minimal…. Continue Reading

Just the other day, one of my clients and a close friend had a nasty run in with hackers. They threw DDOS attacks at his website, and as a security precaution, his web host shut him down for a couple days. From the emails we exchanged, I could tell it was a frustrating and horrifying experience for him. Luckily for him,…. Continue Reading

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

Putting data into WordPress manually can take up heaps of time. Back in my days as a Content Manager, I knew this only too well. I would spend hours at a time copying and pasting over product listings, uploading images and filling in meta data. It was a real headache and one of the reasons why I stopped that line…. Continue Reading

I’ve already mentioned how handy the Duplicator plugin is for backing up your WordPress sites, but where it really excels is when it comes to moving your sites to a new server. When I used to develop sites for clients, I would build them either locally on my own computer or online on my own webspace. The most difficult part…. Continue Reading

Setting up Google Analytics Goals isn’t hard, but when using WooCommerce with PayPal, a bit of tweaking is required in order to get accurate data. Maybe some of you have noticed that you’re getting some strange and inaccurate information in your Goals. That’s because the transactions (conversions) are credited to PayPal, rather than the original traffic source (your site). We’ll…. Continue Reading