Few people will argue that the star of WordCamp Europe 2016 was PixelRockstar. More specifically, the stars of the event were Wapuu and the PixelRockstar team who walked around for a couple of days taking polaroid pictures of everyone. It was a fantastic marketing ploy that caught the attention of …
Optimus Image Optimizer is a WordPress plugin that greatly reduces your image files. It prides itself in reducing image sizes without losing image quality. Smaller image files will help your website pages load quicker. It also means you will be using up less storage in your hosting account. In this …
Image optimisation WordPress plugins will compress your images and improve website page loading times on your website. By reducing the size of images you can greatly improve your search engine presence too as search engines use page performance as a ranking factor. Smartframe Smartframe is an image toolkit that can …
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 …
Images are rarely ready for publication when you download them. Therefore, you will need to modify the image for your blog. Sometimes an image will just need resized, other times you will need to crop the image and add text. There are many free and premium image editing applications available …
Stock images sometimes offer a small percentage of images for free, however most will cost you. It is important to check the license of any image you purchase. Rights managed licensed images place restrictions on how you can use an image. For example, an image may be restricted to what …
The Jetpack by WordPress.com was updated again today. This is not something I normally pay much attention to as the plugin gets three or four updates every month. Today’s update added Facebook embed support and a new VideoPress support; however what grabbed my attention was the introduction of Google+ integration. …
The stable release of WordPress 3.5 was released yesterday. Known as “Elvin”, it was the second major WordPress release of 2012. I wrote an extensive review of WordPress 3.5 a few weeks ago after thoroughly testing the beta versions and release candidates. It has a lot of great new features. …
Far too often we see roundup articles with the best WordPress themes, that some of the other top platforms get neglected. Have you ever heard of Ghost? If not, you may want to consider it, because it provides a beautiful opensource interface that many would argue is easier to manage …