ClassifiedEngine is a premium WordPress theme from EngineThemes. The theme is well designed and comes with all the essential features that you will need to create a classified listings site with WordPress. Over the last few years, they have released some awesome products including Job Engine, Forum Engine, HotelEngine, and BookingEngine, and so far each of their themes has been…. Continue Reading
Envato Marketplaces API Introduction for PHP – The Public Set
Hello guys! I’m excited to be writing my debut article for WPKube and today I’m going to talk to you about Envato’s Marketplaces API. Envato is the largest and, in my opinion, possibly one of the most relevant online companies today when it comes to premium WordPress items. With Themeforest.net currently standing at over 4000 premium WordPress themes and Codecanyon.net…. Continue Reading
How to Import Your WordPress Content From One Website to Another
Every time, I had to transfer a site from one server to another, I either used plugins such as Duplicator or Backup Buddy, or did it manually. It involved taking backups, manually copying the media files, uploading database, among other things, and took around 30 minutes or more depending on the size of the site. While this works, I think…. Continue Reading
7 Really Annoying Things About WordPress (and How to Fix Them)
If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably a fan of WordPress. And yes, I love WordPress too, but nothing is perfect. Wearing my different hats of web designer, web developer, writer, researcher and blogger, there are plenty of things that annoy me on a regular basis about WordPress. Luckily, WordPress is updated frequently and it gets better with every update….. Continue Reading
How to Install and Setup SumoMe: A Free Opt-in Signup Form and Twitter Tool
SumoMe is a free toolkit for growing your website traffic. At the moment the toolkit consists of two apps: one for making it easier for your readers to Tweet your content, and the other for adding a popup opt-in signup form to your site. The tools can be used on any type of website, but for WordPress users there is…. Continue Reading
How to Reduce the Bounce Rate of Your WordPress Website
Your bounce rate is a measure of how quickly people are visiting your site and then clicking away straight away again. While this isn’t always a bad thing (if your main goal is to get visitors to click an advertising banner, you’d hope for a high bounce rate, likewise if your website consists of only one page, you’re always going…. Continue Reading
A Step-by-Step Guide to Launching Your Redesign in WordPress
As design trends come and go so fast, it’s easy for your website to start looking dated if you don’t update the design every couple of years or so. WordPress has made it easy to switch to a new theme without affecting the content of your site – you don’t have to spend days doing an elaborate switchover anymore. However…. Continue Reading
How To: Add a Dropdown CSS Style Selector to the Visual Editor
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
7 Fantastic WordPress Plugins to Make your Site Mobile Responsive
According to Statista, 33.4% of the total share of traffic comes from mobile devices and it’s increasing rapidly. One of the most important things you need to do to grow your site’s viewership is mobile-optimize your website. This simple mobile marketing strategy goes a long way in delivering value to your visitors by providing them with an improved browsing experience….. 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
