Another week and another great new feature comes to our performance optimization plugin Hummingbird – full CloudFlare integration! So, if you haven’t already heard of CloudFlare, go take a look .We think you’ll be really interested in their services (we use them for CampusPress, and Edublogs) and as with all our articles, that’s not an affiliate link – we genuinely do like …
ButterBean Post Meta Box Framework 1.0 Released
Justin Tadlock’s new ButterBean post meta box framework was officially released this week. The framework allows developers to easily build a metabox with a tabbed UI to accommodate multiple fields. After roughly three months of beta testing, ButterBean is ready for use in projects. It can be dropped into a plugin or used as a standalone plugin. “The framework was …
Use the Candidate's Recruiting Experience to Find the Best Talent
Think like the applicant. It will open your eyes to a new way of promoting jobs, interviewing and follow-up. View original post at Entrepreneur…
10 Simple Ways to Convert Casual Visitors into Paying Customers
We spend a lot of time talking about how you can improve your WordPress website’s design and functionality in order to get your visitors to feel a certain way about it. In other words, you want them to want to convert. You’ve given them a quick-loading site, beautiful high-resolution imagery, and an engaging story to follow… and yet you still …
Dennis Cooper Booted from Blogger, Relaunches on WordPress
photo credit: Sergey Zolkin Nearly two months after Google removed Dennis Cooper’s 14-year-old Blogger site and Gmail account without explanation, the novelist and performance artist has been officially ejected from the platform. According to Cooper, a post he wrote 10 years ago, which he had placed behind an adult content warning due to pornographic material, was flagged by a recent …
How to Add User Ratings to Your WordPress Website
User ratings are everywhere. Every popular eCommerce site provides user ratings for their products. Question and answer sites like Quora and StackOverflow identify the best answers by relying on user ratings. Books, movies, businesses, and even college professors are ranked on the basis of user ratings. There are lots of different types of WordPress sites that might want to incorporate …
Nailing the Perfect Navigation for Your WordPress Site
It’s a funny thing. We often place a large emphasis on the creation of great content and on the development of an effective design to wrap around that content. But without as much effort or thought put into your website’s navigation, your visitors may never be able to enjoy all that your website has to offer. A B2B Web Usability …
How to Get Readers to Actually Comment on Your WordPress Blog Posts
If you use WordPress for blogging you almost certainly want more reader comments. Posts that get a lot of comments feel successful, while those that fail to generate a conversation sometimes feel like wasted effort. Comments are a form of validation. They let you know that your readers are engaging with your content and that your writing is worth responding …
WordPress for iOS Adds People and User Role Management
WordPress for iOS version 6.4 is available in the app store and comes with a couple of notable features. Those who write content using an external keyboard connected to an iPad can now access a shortcut menu within the WordPress app by pressing the command key. Keyboard Shortcuts Available in The WordPress App Media such as videos and images can …
4 Ways to Tune Up Your Brand's Intellectual Expression
How to improve your brand by tweaking your sound bites, your biography, your social media profiles and your content creation View original post at Entrepreneur…