Most products for sale online are straightforward, with variations mainly in colors and sizes. WordPress ecommerce plugins can be an easy, inexpensive way to sell these items. If you already have a WordPress website, or plan to build one, here are four popular WordPress ecommerce plugins. WooCommerce Number of themes on ThemeForest: 123 Number of...Read More
Everybody seems to be in a hurry these days, and online loading times matter. Studies show that speedy WordPress websites perform better in terms of: Conversions Usability SEO (search engines really appreciate speed) Likeability Time People Spend Browsing Now, let’s take a look at how to quickly increase the speed of your WordPress website! 1....Read More
The early Dot Com promise was that the web puts small and large businesses on a level playing field. But as the platform has matured, that promise has turned out to be somewhat hollow, not least in the area of online marketing. Small businesses, let alone ‘mom and pup’ shops, often don’t have the online...Read More
Coming up on Speakers Forum, October 17 at 9:00 p.m. WordPress.com is the 15th most-trafficked website in the world. It’s also a unique workplace. Everyone works from home, employees use blogs and chat instead of email, and there are no schedules. Scott Berkun reports on his year at WordPress, including lessons he learned about leadership,...Read More
Posted: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 5:04 pm Question: What is WordPress or CMS? 1Â comment Answer: Â Â WordPress is a program used to create web pages. WordPress and several other programs, including Joomla, are called Content Management Systems or CMS. Â Â Content Management Systems (CMS) have your basic web pages already built and you can choose...Read More
Is it time to move your WordPress website to a new host? With the importance of website speed on visibility in the search engines, you may decide that it is time to move your WordPress website to a new hosting provider. If you have been blogging for a while and have many posts with images,...Read More
(click image for larger view) If I wrote a Security 101 story in light of this news — outdated WordPress sites are used to launch malicious attacks on other websites — it would go something like this: Use strong passwords. Stay current on software updates and patches. Educate employees on security risks and fundamentals. Use...Read More
If you’re using WordPress for your small business website, you have access to thousands of WordPress content marketing plugins that can enhance your site’s functionality and effectiveness. Nearly all companies engage in some form of content marketing. Whether you maintain a business blog, post articles on your website, use social media or combine these methods,...Read More
WordPress installations sporting known vulnerabilities continue to be compromised by hackers and turned into distributed denial of service (DDoS) launch pads. That warning was sounded last week after IT professional Steven Veldkamp shared an intrusion prevention system (IPS) log with Hacker News, which found that a single 26-second DDoS attack against a site run by...Read More
Seasoned web developers know there’s more to WordPress than a blogging platform and if you’re willing to get your hands dirty, you can tweak it enough to do just about anything. Smashing Magazine’s Daniel Pataki has been around the block with this flexible collection of PHP scripts and has come away with quite the collection...Read More
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