Business themes have came a long way over the last several years. They now come packed with a host of features including home page sliders, shortcodes for styling content, built-in contact forms and templates for portfolios and blogs. I would like to share with you thirty of the best WordPress …
Many design marketplaces offer deals from time to time that reduce the price of themes or offer multiple products for a lower price. If you are looking for one of the items on sale, you can save a lot of money. A great service that you should keep in mind …
For several years, WordPress automatically defined the initial admin username as “admin”. This meant that 99.99% of WordPress users used their admin as their login username. It did not take long for hackers to catch onto this fact and use it to their advantage. They already knew the admin username, …
The post revision system is one of my favourite features of WordPress. It allows WordPress to keep every draft of your posts and pages. This allows you to refer back to older versions of your article. It is also useful if you experience a power outage or if your internet …
I spoke yesterday about the news that Getty Images are allowing bloggers to embed their high quality photos on their websites. Thomas Hoefter from CMS Commander posted a comment noting that the embed option is only available to non-commercial websites, which renders the feature pretty useless to most bloggers. Coincidentally, …
Finding the right images for your blog posts can be a real pain. To complicate matters even more, bloggers need to ensure that they only use free and creative common images. This greatly restricts the quality and quantity of images they can use, however using stock images without permission is …
Although social media has been grabbing the headlines for the last few years, email is still the king of marketing on the internet. I am still far from perfecting the art of marketing people, however you can learn a lot about email marketing by looking at what other people are …
Apple successfully marketed their high pixel density devices such as the Macbook Pro as “Retina Displays”. The name caught on quickly. Within the web development world, it “Retina Ready” quickly came to mean a website template that was optimised for high density devices and screens. In this article, I have …
As someone who finds it difficult to even dig a hole in the sand, I have a respect for people who can carve beautiful sculptures with nothing more than water, a bucket and a knife. It boggles the mind how some of these sculptures are actually created. In this article, …
As we stride forward in March, it is time for me to take a step back and see how this blog has performed in the previous month. Those of you who have read my income reports in the past will be accustomed to what I cover. For the benefit of …