I can easily notice that people start to use wordpress often and often not just to add the blog functionality to their websites. They want to easy manage the content and they see wordpress as a good content management system.
It is very easy to make a presentation site in wordpress, few things to change, add the content and you’re done. [Read the rest of this entry…]
I know the Easter is not the same for all people. There are so many differences: religion, region, etc. But this should not stand between you and your community.
Prepare your blog for easter by either customizing your theme for easter, or by using a complete new one. [Read the rest of this entry…]
You already know that commenting on other blog let you put your website link. That link is on your name entered when you add the comment.
It will look spammy to use your targeted keyword instead of your name. It looks bad and the chances that your comment won’t be approved are high. If you want to start a debate, how it would be that other people will address to you: “Hello Mortgage Calculator. How are you ?”. I don’t like it.
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 want to start a website or a blog about a specific topic, based on content you won’t need to complicated things. You need only wordpress. Good features may be added to enhance the blog usability. You can choose from 9000 plugins to enhance your blog, but there are several that provides maximum benefit. [Read the rest of this entry…]
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 reticent about wordpress and it’s capabilities. I didn’t trusted the power of a blog. I was afraid that good content will go to the bottom of the post list and they will be never seen again. My thinking was more focused on the organisation of information, and not just publishing.
At that time i didn’t know that i can do all these with wordpress, but i was more familiar with things that i’ve done. Now, if someone asks me i will definitely go for wordpress. [Read the rest of this entry…]
You are familiar with the wordpress Widgets section. You can drag and drop things to your sidebar: recent posts, latest posts. It is a good wordpress feature.
What about if you want to edit stuff on other locations of your website directly from the admin panel ? For example a portion of your header or footer, or you just simply want to add another sidebar. [Read the rest of this entry…]
In this video i will show you how to use firebug to improve the proccess of design editing. The most important feature of firebug is that you can change things and see the results immediately.
The design is mostly about experiments, you make it and the you take a look. If you like it you leave it, else you have to either improve or change.
You installed wordpress, found a great theme, installed some plugins but you want to personalize the look of your blog. You need to change the copyright text, you want to add a custom header image, you want to make the post titles smaller or other changes.
To do that the best way is to quick change some values in the template. In the wordpress admin panel you have a theme editor, under Appearance -> Edit. You may expect that it will be something visual, where you select what you change and edit. Well, i’m sorry to disappoint you: All you get is code.
But there is not the end of the road, if you spend some time figuring out how things works you may be able to do minor changes without programming knowledge. [Read the rest of this entry…]
We are very fortunate that wordpress tell us as how long is the article ( in words ) as we type. Sometimes this can change our mood. After you worked hard to write the article, you look at the word counter and see 200 words it can be frustrating. On the other side, if you write very easy and at the end you see 700 or 1000 words you feel that you should write another article.
Well, your post value is not the number of words, it is the message that you deliver. Can your article catch attention to your visitors ? Does your article provide enough information ? [Read the rest of this entry…]
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 used split testing, they were just making changes and track the results. If the conversion improved, they move on, if not, they switched back. [Read the rest of this entry…]