If you’ve been following my series on blogging for profit, you’ll now have a high quality blog with a growing audience in a well-defined niche. But how do you turn that into revenue? In this final post in the series, I’ll examine that question. I’ll explore the options for monetizing your blog, and identify what our […] View original post at …
How to Add Google Analytics Tracking Code to WordPress
When you think about the greatest pairings of all time, you probably think about duos like Batman and Robin, Mickey and Minnie, and peanut butter and jelly. I mean, you can’t find more compatibility than those couples, right? Then again, there is the very modern duo of WordPress and Google Analytics. While they might not […] View original post at …
10 Lessons Learned From Five Years of Selling WordPress Products
This post was contributed by Rebecca Gill. Rebecca is the founder of Web Savvy Marketing, a web development, design, maintenance, and SEO consulting company based in Michigan and host of the SEO Bits podcast. Rebecca recently sold her Genesis Theme store to 9seeds, a store she managed and maintained for five years. In this post, she shares ten lessons learned …
10 Essential BuddyPress Plugins for Growing Online Communities
BuddyPress is awesome. It lets you add social media functionality to your WordPress site, turning it from a static website to a community, and all for free. Out of the box, it has loads of features – including private messaging, groups, sitewide notices and more. In fact, it has so many features that you’re given […] View original post at …
WordCamp Europe 2017 Kicks Off with Contributor Day Focused on Growing WordPress through Inclusion
photo credit: WP Tavern Hundreds of WordPress contributors gathered today with space for each team to have its own dedicated room. The Community Summit was held earlier in the week, lending a strong contingent of veteran contributors to this event, ready to use the short time they had together. With a high concentration of WordPress expertise gathered in Paris, WCEU …
Why So Many of America's Greatest Brands Are Unhealthy
Learn to hit the pause button, start from the beginning and do what the most disruptive businesses have done — focus on the individual. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Top eCommerce Payment Gateways for WordPress in 2017
Okay, so you’ve created a kickass design, your site’s running in tip-top shape, and your visitors are more than ready to convert. What more could you ask for? But then your soon-to-be-customers get to the payment gateway and don’t see their preferred provider listed. Or there’s a security warning that’s thrown them off-guard. Or, even […] View original post at …
WPWeekly Episode 277 – WordPress 4.8, Filing Good Bug Reports, and WP Super Cache
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I start off the show by sending Jesse Peterson our thoughts, prayers, and positive energy. Peterson is a longtime member of the WordPress community, founder of Genesis The.me, and is battling Cystic Fibrosis. He received the call last Friday to receive a double-lung transplant but the surgery was cancelled after doctors determined the …
How Partnering With Mommy Bloggers Helped This Startup Make a Big Splash
Leura Fine sat down with Entrepreneur Network partner Jen Hacker at the Project Entrepreneur Summit to talk about building her brand. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Why Consistency is the Most Powerful Force in Web Design
You want to create a strong brand presence. You’ve got your logo, you’ve picked the font, and you’ve selected a strong color palette to represent your brand. But how do you ensure that you’ve consistently used your branding elements and other stylistic choices across your WordPress site? Perhaps you rely on multiple rounds of QA […] View original post at …