If you want to make your WordPress site a success, you need three things – traffic, social shares, and quality backlinks. According to recent survey done SearchMetrics, it has been proven that social shares play a huge role in getting your website ranked in search engines. One of the best ways to increase social shares is, by asking users to…. Continue Reading
Creating Custom Templates in Genesis
The Genesis Framework is undoubtedly one of the most popular WordPress theming frameworks on the market. Genesis is extremely designer and developer friendly offering rapid creation and customization of sites through hooks and filters. An easy way to make new views of pages in WordPress is by making template files. This tutorial will show you how to make custom page templates for…. 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
How to Display Social Media Buttons with count in WordPress
The social media icon is a beautiful part of any WordPress website, since it combines style, simplicity, and functionality to bring more people into your community without distracting them from the rest of the content on your site. If you take a look at your website(s) right now, where are your social media icons? Do you have any? Are they…. 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
5 Powerful WordPress Split Testing Plugins
Throughout my time as a marketer and blogger I’ve come to learn that a lot of site owners are missing out on a huge opportunity. Have you ever seen one of those blog posts that go on about “How I earned $40,000 in a month from my blog” or “How I improved conversions on my squeeze page by 78%”? So how…. Continue Reading
Best WordPress Resources For First Time WordPress Users
WordPress is become very popular over the past couple years and today it powers more then 20% of sites on the Internet; no other content management system comes close to its widespread usage. It’s so robust that you can easily create just any type of website without spending much money. There are still a lot of people who don’t much about…. Continue Reading
Back to the future with WordPress transients API
If you use WordPress, you may have heard this word at least once: “transient”. Good, you already achieved step one. But do you really know what transients are, and to use them? I this quick post I’m going to explain what transients are and how to use them in your own developments. First of all, and this should be your…. 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
5 Powerful WordPress Plugins to Help Prevent Content Theft
In this post you’re going to learn about the different ways in which your blog content is been stolen without attribution for the benefit of others and which plugins you can use to stop it. The unfortunate truth of being a blogger and content publisher is that there are a select group of people that constantly rip off our content,…. Continue Reading
