I wanted to take a commercial break in-between the rush of content coming out lately, with a small service announcement to help pay the bills. If you’re a WordPress product or service business, PluginTut can help you reach more customers, refine your marketing message, and even smooth out your product’s rough edge through a handful …
The first thing you should do before customizing your WordPress website is to create a child theme. I’ll try to keep it as non-technical as possible, but think about it this way: You install your new shiny WordPress theme, start changing the colors, adding to the functions file, and then your theme updates. If you’re …
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Gone are the days of those generic stock photos of “young professionals” smiling at fake presentations around a corporate meeting room. We all know that’s not what a busy work day looks like, anyway. If you’re still stuck in the stone-age of stock photography, or simply don’t know where to look, you’re in luck today. Adding …
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Page Builder plugins for WordPress have come a long way. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you’re going to see more of them around the WordPress ecosystem. If WordPress is to continue it’s growth beyond our current 27% piece of the pie, the software will need to keep up with competing platforms like, Wix or Squarespace, …
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Getting feedback on your website from new visitors can solve a lot of problems. I spend a lot of time helping clients build WordPress websites, and it’s amazing how many of them don’t know what their site visitors want to consume. So much time and money is wasted at just guessing what the blog post …
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If you find yourself building a large-scale website with WordPress, chances are the requirements are going to go well-beyond standard pages & posts. Custom Post Types make WordPress a true content management system, not just a simple blogging platform. Think of CPT’s as posts, but for any type of content, and the options become limitless. You …
I’m excited to review the new features of the Baton theme, partly because I helped build them, but also because I think it introduces a new era for website implementors. In this article, we’ll review the new features of Baton and how the free version integrates so nicely with Beaver Builder. We’ll explore the parallels …
Choosing to use WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads is like trying to pick your favorite pizza toppings. It’s not an easy decision, it depends what you’re in the mood for, and you can’t put them together, or it won’t taste good. If you follow the FUSE model I created for choosing the best WordPress plugins, both of …
If you’re making a living building WordPress websites, one major part of the process is supporting and training your customer. You might need to teach them the basics of WordPress, or you might need to create documentation on the custom features you built. The latter being more commonplace among the higher paying web consulting jobs, where they expect …
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It’s about time you start that new podcast you’ve always wanted to launch. Podcasting is a great way to repurpose existing blog content, show-off your prowess in a particular area, and build an engaged audience. Even if you’re selling dog biscuits, you should be thinking like a big media brand. Gary was right when he mulled over …
