If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably a fan of WordPress. And yes, I love WordPress too, but nothing is perfect. Wearing my different hats of web designer, web developer, writer, researcher and blogger, there are plenty of things that annoy me on a regular basis about WordPress. Luckily, WordPress is updated frequently and it gets better with every update….. Continue Reading
How to Install and Setup SumoMe: A Free Opt-in Signup Form and Twitter Tool
SumoMe is a free toolkit for growing your website traffic. At the moment the toolkit consists of two apps: one for making it easier for your readers to Tweet your content, and the other for adding a popup opt-in signup form to your site. The tools can be used on any type of website, but for WordPress users there is…. Continue Reading
How to Reduce the Bounce Rate of Your WordPress Website
Your bounce rate is a measure of how quickly people are visiting your site and then clicking away straight away again. While this isn’t always a bad thing (if your main goal is to get visitors to click an advertising banner, you’d hope for a high bounce rate, likewise if your website consists of only one page, you’re always going…. Continue Reading
A Step-by-Step Guide to Launching Your Redesign in WordPress
As design trends come and go so fast, it’s easy for your website to start looking dated if you don’t update the design every couple of years or so. WordPress has made it easy to switch to a new theme without affecting the content of your site – you don’t have to spend days doing an elaborate switchover anymore. However…. Continue Reading
How To: Add a Dropdown CSS Style Selector to the Visual Editor
In this post you will learn how to easily turn text links into attractive buttons in WordPress. By following this how to guide you will find out how to add a dropdown menu to the WordPress visual editor that allows you to apply custom CSS styles to your post content. These custom CSS styles can be applied to text in…. Continue Reading
7 Fantastic WordPress Plugins to Make your Site Mobile Responsive
According to Statista, 33.4% of the total share of traffic comes from mobile devices and it’s increasing rapidly. One of the most important things you need to do to grow your site’s viewership is mobile-optimize your website. This simple mobile marketing strategy goes a long way in delivering value to your visitors by providing them with an improved browsing experience….. Continue Reading
10 WordPress Sites That Don’t Look Like WordPress
With WordPress powering nearly 20% of the top 10 million websites, it’s getting tougher to make your site stand out from the crowd. Even though there are countless premium and free WordPress themes available to give your site a professional look, for many sites, the fact they are using WordPress is almost instantly recognizable. While there is nothing wrong with…. Continue Reading
WishList Member Plugin for WordPress Review and Tutorial
[UPDATE] WishList is a great plugin but not the best at what it does, in last few years many new fantastic solutions have released. You may want to check out our list of best membership plugins before making a final decision. We recently took a high level view of some of the best membership plugins for WordPress. That article provides…. Continue Reading
The WPKube Guide to Content Scraping in WordPress
Content scraping is essentially the act of copying the content from one site and publishing it on another. If you are publishing content online then there is a good chance that you have been a victim of content scraping at some point. Content scraping is usually carried out in one of two ways. One popular method is to use a…. Continue Reading
How to Deal with Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress
Once you’ve been blogging for a short while, you will more than likely start receiving notifications about pingbacks and trackbacks. While they both can serve a genuine purpose, they can also cause problems in terms of misleading your readers, maliciously or deceptively adding irrelevant links to your blog posts, and even negatively affecting your site’s position in the search engines….. Continue Reading
