If you are just getting started with developing WordPress themes, your best course of action is to begin by building on bare-bones frameworks or “blank themes” as some like to call them. The best thing about it is that both amateurs and professionals build on these frameworks, and as such your skills and experience with […]
How to Speed up a WordPress Site Using Plugins
While WordPress is an amazing platform on its own, it lacks speed and optimization right out of the box. This can be remedied via the use of powerful plugins that introduce caching, image compression and database optimization. It is very important that you dedicate your time to creating a website that loads quickly because a […]
How to Convert Tags to Categories or Vice Versa
Converting tags to categories (or vice versa) isn’t a very common practice and as such this feature was never implemented into WordPress by default. Most of the time people are forced to seek this solution when they migrate from other blogging services such as Blogger (Blogspot) to WordPress. The confusion starts when you try to […]
How To Backup WordPress: The Best Services and Plugins
When I started creating websites years ago I had no idea just how important it is to keep a backup of your site available in case things go wrong. A long time ago it wasn’t even that easy to create one on a constant schedule, but technology has advanced quite a bit since then. WordPress […]
How to Add Pay with a Tweet Button in WordPress
The “pay with a tweet” (or with a “like”) concept has been rather popular this year, but it isn’t as widespread as other Internet marketing methods. Nonetheless, depending on your content you may find that this “business model” is exactly what you need. If implemented correctly it can get your more social media traffic and […]
How to Redirect Visitors after Commenting
In order to gather more people to their mailing list a lot of websites will redirect visitors after commenting to a special “thank you” page. Usually this page is created with the purpose of thanking the user for contributing to the community and to encourage them to keep following the development of the website. It […]
Elegant Themes Giveaway
We are glad to announce that our friends at Elegant themes gave us this amazing opportunity to organize a giveaway in celebration of their new theme called Divi. I’m sure that we don’t even need to explain what the Elegant themes stand for in WordPress theme industry but for those who don’t know they are probably […]
Giveaway: Win One of Three Premium Themes from Theme Fuse
Chances are good that you’ve heard about ThemeFuse. They have a reputation as being at the top of the field when it comes to creating premium WordPress themes. Now, they are offering three WordPress themes for our readers lucky enough to win. If you are using WordPress for your blog or website of choice, you […]
WordPress Theme Trends in 2013
In case you haven’t noticed the world of web design is very dynamic and trends often come and go. The general trends in the world of design have also greatly influenced the WordPress theme trends in 2013 and it’s only fair that we take some time to discuss and analyze them. However, we can already […]