The online learning market is huge. If you’re a traditional business owner or a new-age entrepreneur, one of the most effective ways to create new revenue is to launch an online course. You’re taking the knowledge and experiences you’ve painstakingly curated over the years, bottling it up, and selling member-only access to it. A pay-wall, as it’s known …
Editor’s note: The Baton theme is created by my company, Slocum Themes. The following tutorial aims to get you started using our new theme, and understand why we made the choices in features. After 7 long months in the WordPress theme review queue, our recent theme Baton has been pushed live. Baton (free) and Baton Pro …
Welcome to PluginTut’s first weekly preview round-up. This week, we preview two plugins that you might find useful for your next WordPress project. In fact, these two might play well together for someone building a more advanced business website, and become part of your everyday WordPress-building toolkit. Let’s dive in!
The opening season of PluggedIn Radio has been showered with lightweight plugins that serve very specific functions within WordPress. Tom McFarlin’s Easier Excerpts makes excerpts, well, easier. John James Jacoby demonstrated a plugin that cleans up the user profile page and one that makes drop-downs look better. They are small, quick to develop, and make a large impact …
In our opening Jetpack plugin overview article, we covered a lot of the features and functions this popular plugin provides WordPress website owners. If you’re new to Jetpack and wondering if it’s going to serve your particular needs, go visit that article to get acquainted. Installing the Jetpack plugin should be fairly straightforward even for …
The Jetpack plugin was built to easily add a host of features that WordPress core doesn’t include out-of-the-box. It’s target audience, from my experience, are new users launching their first self-hosted WordPress website or users migrating from WordPress.com for more control over their website. This is probably why it’s difficult to fully understand the main …
On any given day, at any given WordCamp, if you asked someone to name WordPress plugin developers, John James Jacoby would show up on 9 out of 10 lists. He’s breathing new life into his WordPress plugins, starting with WP Event Calendar, the best way to mange events in WordPress. Sure, event calendars are as …
Have you ever wanted to setup search filtering on your WordPress e-commerce store that looked like you were browsing Amazon products? You know, the little checkboxes on the left-hand side of the screen that, when clicked, filter down the amount of products shown on the screen. That’s what FacetedWP plugin does for your WordPress website and it …
Welcome to the first episode of PluggedIn Radio! This podcast serves as a bridge between the creators of WordPress products & services and our listeners. I feel it’s important that we understand who creates our software, before uploading to the websites that power our brands and organizations. The podcast also serves as a means to …
For the past three-plus years, I’ve been producing a WordPress podcast called the Matt Report. The show is a labor of love, a way to connect with other WordPress business owners and gather together to talk shop. It has served as an amazing way to connect with many of you around the WordPress community, and …