In this post you will learn how to easily turn text links into attractive buttons in WordPress. By following this how to guide you will find out how to add a dropdown menu to the WordPress visual editor that allows you to apply custom CSS styles to your post content. These custom CSS styles can be applied to text in…. Continue Reading
9 WordPress Design Trends to Look out for in 2014
In the fast moving world of the Internet, it doesn’t take long for a web design to start looking dated. An out-of-date design sends the message that you’re out of touch with current trends and aren’t willing to put time and money into your online business ventures. Therefore it’s vitally important for WordPress designers and developers to stay up to…. Continue Reading
10 WordPress Sites That Don’t Look Like WordPress
With WordPress powering nearly 20% of the top 10 million websites, it’s getting tougher to make your site stand out from the crowd. Even though there are countless premium and free WordPress themes available to give your site a professional look, for many sites, the fact they are using WordPress is almost instantly recognizable. While there is nothing wrong with…. 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
6 Simple Tips For Learning CSS For WordPress
No matter your skill level, there will likely come time when you feel the need to customize your WordPress theme by digging into the dreaded ‘custom.css’ or ‘style.css’ file. The reality is that there are just some things that you can’t do without getting your hands into the code. Luckily, it isn’t as hard as you think. Even some basic…. Continue Reading
Thoughts on Horizontal Scrolling Web Design in a Mobile World
Having published two roundup lists devoted to horizontal scrolling WordPress themes, the first in September 2012 and the second in March 2013, I have begun to appreciate the idiosyncrasies of the “sideways” approach to Web design. In this post I want to share some thoughts on why I think horizontal designs are worth taking a look at and what makes…. Continue Reading
SEO for WordPress – What Every Blogger Should Know
WordPress has to be my favorite CMS for carrying out search engine optimization within. It has a wealth of great plugins that can be used, URL structure is easily manipulated and the general structure of the CMS is extremely flexible enabling users with basic coding knowledge to easily make changes. Based on my past experience with carrying out SEO within…. Continue Reading
7 Powerful SEO Tips For WordPress Blogs
Search engine optimization is the key to build a popular blog in your niche. Without getting quality traffic from the search engines, you REALLY can’t convert your blog. Here are few basic SEO tips for WordPress blogs to consider. Follow them, you will certainly see a huge growth in your search rankings in the long run.
