There are about 9000 wordpress plugins only in the wordpress plugin directory. Many other are created but for some reason they are not listed in the official directory. For example the paid ones can’t be included. The fact that they are paid does not guarantee quality, but we can hope for good things. If you [...]
Things that make wordpress so powerful are: plugins and themes. If you find the right themes and you install the right plugins you can turn your wordpress site in a great website. A great debate among web developers is either to use wordpress, other CMS or to make something custom. Few years ago i was [...]
Split testing is a technique used by website marketers to find the optimal page layout for maximizing conversion rate. Conversion rate can be a sale, a lead, an user registration, a click somewhere. When you make a change to a website you can’t be sure of it’s impact until you see the results. Before people [...]
If you are on a shared server and you want to prevent your site going down due to massive traffic that comes to your wordpress you may consider installing a plugin that caches your pages. WordPress is keeping all the data into a mysql database. The database connections are very slow sometimes and use the [...]
Last week i had a client who liked a child theme for genesis, provided by studiopress and i had to work with genesis theme framework. Now i want to share with you how it was to work with genesis and where is good at. My first impression was that it was somewhat built for wordpress [...]
The lightbox effect is when you want to focus on a specific element on a webpage, everything else will go dark to highlight the one you want to focus on. On web pages, lightbox is used to show images, instead of opening a new browser window to view the image in full, you can use [...]
An image worth one thousand words. True. It is a very good practice to add at least one image to every of your blog posts, or pages. If you are describing something that you’ve done it is easy to take a screenshot or share an image made with your camera. There are post where you [...]
If you are the only one who post on your blog it is still good to have an about author box somewhere. People will consider your articles more valuable if they know who wrote them ? This is happening because they want something to see to consider it worth reading. There are so many spam [...]
I bet that over 90% of wordpress sites are using google analytics for tracking. It gives complete statistics and you can figure out many things just by looking at values there. Some people are saying that analytics are not working well because they don’t track users who have javascript disabled, or they are counting the [...]
Social networks are very important nowadays if we think about a good marketing strategy. It is necessary to connect your visitors in social networks. They read one of your posts and they like it, most of them are too lazy to use a RSS reader or e-mail, but there is something that they are not [...]
