What are the first impressions of a visitor landing on your website? Research has proved that visitors make their mind up about a website in just seconds. If you want visitors to stick around, you need to be making a positive first impression. Of course, what makes a positive first impression is far more subjective. Generally speaking though, a huge…. Continue Reading
WordPress Plugins
There are currently 30,000+ WordPress plugins available in the WordPress repository to choose from and installing too many of them may result in conflicts and security issues. We frequently get questions like which plugin to use, what is the best plugin for SEO, etc. You can easily see the most popular plugins either by visiting the plugin directory or doing a google search of top 10 WordPress plugins, but you'll miss many great potential additions by not digging deeper. So we have a taken a different approach and decided to do some digging on your behalf.
How to Create A Kick-ass Coming Soon Page in WordPress with SeedProd Coming Soon Pro
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
How to Backup Your WordPress Site with blogVault
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
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
5 Ways To Track Social Media Metrics Right From The WordPress Dashboard
Keeping track of your social media metrics can be a lot of work. With multiple accounts, jumping from one account to another can become tiring very quickly. But it’s still important to stay on top of the data. Failure to monitor and track your stats can prevent you from spotting important trends. It’s important to make sure you put some…. Continue Reading
WP All Import Review: A Simple Plugin For Easy WordPress Importing
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
How to Setup the WP Super Cache Plugin and MaxCDN in WordPress
In a world where the average Internet speed is well over 2.8 Mbps, it is crucial for a site to run at its peak speed. A single second’s delay in a site’s loading time could lead to a 30% loss in business. Search engines like Google, love speedy sites. That’s because Google does not want to waste it’s searchers’ time,…. Continue Reading
How to Move or Backup Your Website with the WordPress Duplicator Plugin
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
How to Set Up WooCommerce and PayPal for Google Analytics Goals
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
