WordPress is the ideal platform for charities and non-profit organisations. It’s free and open source and you have access to a huge community of users and developers who can help you build and manage your site. But one of the most important functions of a website for many nonprofits is to encourage people to donate money. So in this post, …
Twitter Moments Now Open to All Users, WordPress 4.5+ Supports Embedding
Twitter rolled out its Moments feature to the common folk yesterday. Moments, a collection of tweets that tell a story, were originally made available to a select group of high profile accounts. In August, Twitter expanded access to Moments and announced that Moments would soon be open to all users. As of today, anyone can visit the Moments tab on …
Data 'Changes a Brand From a Promise to an Outcome'
When there are sensors in everything, companies will have to do more than deliver on their promises. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Take a Vacation Without Giving Your WordPress Website a Break
Running a WordPress business can be a really rewarding experience, but it’s not without its drawbacks. According to a Constant Contact survey, 785 small business owners shared their insights into the personal sacrifices they make for the sake of their business. These were the top three: Feeling as though they couldn’t take time away from the business. Spending more time …
WPWeekly Episode 249 – Zerif Lite, Kinsta Scholarship, W3 Total Cache, and My Take on Headway Themes
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss some of the major headlines of the past two weeks. We talk about the unprecedented move by the Theme Review Team to suspend Zerif Lite from the theme directory leaving 300K users without a way to get updates. We share what’s new in Edit Flow 0.8.2 and the troubles …
You Need a Strategy for Branding Yourself Online as a Thought Leader
Adroit use of social media is essential for highlighting your industry knowledge. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Advanced WordPress Development: Working With Transients
Transients are a super-handy type of WordPress caching that is often sorely underutilized. But what are they exactly? Simply put, a transient is a bit of data you can store with an expiration date. This may not seem like much, but transients allow you to create more efficient systems in WordPress that clean up after themselves. This is the third …
Tom Auger and Greg Mount of Agency Chat Discuss Headway Themes and Relying on Third-Party Tools
Agency Chat is a weekly 30 minute show hosted by Greg Mount of Pasada Media, Tom Auger from Art & Science, and Andy McIlwain that discusses trends and challenges relevant to digital agencies. On the episode that aired September 14th, Mount and Auger discussed the Headway Themes situation and how integral communication is when it comes to running a digital business. “You can do whatever you want …
The Marketing Genius Behind Snapchat's Name Change
Wait! What’s this ‘new’ company Snap and what are those cool new video glasses it’s selling? View original post at Entrepreneur…
Say Hello to Builder! Creating, Exporting & Managing Upfront Themes Just Got Amazing :)
It’s finally heeeeeeere! You know how you said you wanted a way to simply create an Upfront theme for WordPress from scratch, export it to another site or even sell it? Well, we’ve just gone and made that for you 🙂 Say hello to Upfront Builder! Upfront + Builder = stunning WordPress themes! And we’ve taken our time to make …