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
WishList Member Plugin for WordPress Review and Tutorial
[UPDATE] WishList is a great plugin but not the best at what it does, in last few years many new fantastic solutions have released. You may want to check out our list of best membership plugins before making a final decision. We recently took a high level view of some of the best membership plugins for WordPress. That article provides…. Continue Reading
The WPKube Guide to Content Scraping in WordPress
Content scraping is essentially the act of copying the content from one site and publishing it on another. If you are publishing content online then there is a good chance that you have been a victim of content scraping at some point. Content scraping is usually carried out in one of two ways. One popular method is to use a…. Continue Reading
How to Deal with Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress
Once you’ve been blogging for a short while, you will more than likely start receiving notifications about pingbacks and trackbacks. While they both can serve a genuine purpose, they can also cause problems in terms of misleading your readers, maliciously or deceptively adding irrelevant links to your blog posts, and even negatively affecting your site’s position in the search engines….. Continue Reading
Improve the Way You Work with Images in WordPress
Recently we covered how to optimise your images for SEO purposes, in order to help increase the visibility of your site in search engines like Google. Today we are going to look at how to work with your images more effectively in WordPress. While it is easy enough to upload images into your site, ensuring they are optimized to reduce…. Continue Reading
Cherry Framework – WordPress Theme Framework Review
Update: We don’t recommend Cherry Framework anymore, if you are looking for our recommendations, see our post on what the heck are WordPress frameworks. Here on WPKube, we are using Genesis Framework. The Cherry Framework is a free WordPress theme framework developed by TemplateMonster – one of the oldest website template marketplaces since 2002. People who were into web development…. Continue Reading
Ninja Forms: The Freemium Advanced Form Builder for WordPress
On a recent post that looked at the best contact form plugins for WordPress, a few readers left comments recommending we take a look at Ninja Forms. Ninja Forms is a free plugin that allows users to build highly customizable forms for WordPress sites without editing any code. The most popular premium plugin the WordPress forms space is Gravity Forms…. Continue Reading
LENS – An Enjoyable Photography WordPress Theme
Today we are taking a closer look at a new WordPress theme which has been designed for photographers or photography agencies who want a suitable platform to showcase their work on. The theme has been developed by PixelGrade, an Elite Author team from Theme Forest, where it can be purchased. If you are looking for a photography theme for your…. Continue Reading
How to Schedule WordPress Blog Posts with Bufferapp
For last few months, I have started putting more efforts on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook to reduce dependency on Google for generating traffic. I have used sites like Twitter and Facebook, extensively to drive traffic to WPKube and build connections with other bloggers. Last month, I ended up getting more than 5,000 visitors from Twitter, alone….. Continue Reading
How to Add a Sticky Floating Sidebar Widget in WordPress
Elements that float with the screen as a user scrolls tend to have a higher click through rate. This is why authority websites such as Quick Sprout, ManageWP, and Shopify use the floating widgets – it improves the conversion rate. In this post, we’ll show you, how you can add a sticky floating sidebar widget in WordPress using the Q2W3…. Continue Reading
