With WordPress anyone can build a website — quite literally. The platform is beginner-friendly, powerful and makes the process really easy. However, building a website and building a successful website are very different things. While anyone can now do the first part, not everyone is up for part two. What is a successful website? Simply put, a website that achieves…. Continue Reading
How Much It Cost to Run a Solo Founder Plugin Business
WordPress Plugin and software businesses in general, are great businesses to run. It’s easy to get started (if you’re a developer) and profit margins are usually very high. When I started SeedProd, my Coming Soon Plugin for WordPress business, back in 2011 it only cost me $5 to launch aside from my development time to build the plugin. Today I…. Continue Reading
5 Ways To Change The Design Of A WordPress Theme
When you find a WordPress theme that’s perfect for your website, with a design you.. mostly love, it might be time to take matters into your hands. But if you’re not confident enough to change the design of a WordPress theme by yourself, rest assured you’ve come to the right place. In this post we will cover the 5 main…. Continue Reading
Keep WordPress Running Smoothly with these 5 Maintenance Tasks
Almost everything you own requires maintenance. Your car, your home, your computer — even yourself. Not surprisingly, your WordPress website is no different. Of course, you could choose to forego maintenance on any one of those items, but doing so comes with a risk. Take for example your WordPress website. When it’s first set up and installed, everything runs smoothly,…. Continue Reading
Small Business Owners: Attract and Retain More Customers With the Power of WordPress
WordPress is the content management system of choice for many small business owners, and for good reason. Whether you’re running an online business or a brick and mortar shop, WordPress has the potential to be a valuable asset — adding efficiency, improving customer communication and boosting your marketing efforts with relative ease. What’s surprising is that very few business owners…. Continue Reading
How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website Using Gonzales
Speeding up your WordPress website is like an art form. Everyone is capable of doing it in some fashion, yet everyone has a different way of going about it. Though there is no set consensus on how to achieve the fastest website around, the truth remains that website visitors want fast loading webpages and will go elsewhere if they don’t…. Continue Reading
WordPress and WordPress Themes: Yes, They’re Different. But…
I remember the days when I was just like you. I had no idea what a web host was, what WordPress really was, and terms like themes and plugins were completely lost on me. I’m serious: No idea… If this is you — don’t feel bad. Everyone has a starting point and soon enough you’re going to understand all of…. Continue Reading
16 Useful Code Snippets for WordPress
It’s the little things that make a difference, right? That’s part of what makes WordPress so great – the number of ways in which it can be customized to meet your specific needs is virtually limitless. Sure you can find plugins to meet just about every need imaginable but if you can find a simple snippet to get the job…. Continue Reading
Improving WordPress Site Performance With Prefetching and Prerendering
The never ending quest to improve the performance of our WordPress sites requires a wide arsenal of tricks, not just caching. Two important and related tools, are telling the browser which domains to be prepared to load, and which pages to start loading in the background. This way the browser is able to load links the user is likely to…. Continue Reading
How Many WordPress Plugins Should You Have on a Site?
Do you have any idea how many WordPress plugins you should actually have on your site? This is the age old question that confuses WordPress beginners and usually creates a bit of a debate between WordPress developers, because all WordPress users are interested in plugins for things like comment spam moderation and landing pages. Plugins are one of the main…. Continue Reading
