When it comes to spam, comments are one of the first things that comes to mind. However, spam user registrations can be just as prolific on sites with open registration. Leland Fiegel, founder of Themetry, has developed a new plugin called Stop Signup Spam that prevents users from registering an account if their email or IP address is on the …
Want to Make Money From Your WordPress Blog? You Need a Niche
It’s the mother of all cushy jobs, isn’t it? Start a blog, find an audience, and watch the dollars roll in! I’m sure everyone who runs a blog sometimes dreams of quitting the day job and becoming a full-time blogger. Except full-time blogging isn’t as easy as it seems. Like so many “dream” jobs, the reason […] View original post at …
How to Use Canva to Make Beautiful Images for Your WordPress Site
These days, it’s rare you’ll come across a website that doesn’t have any images. In fact, images are so important to the way we use the internet that they’ve become a necessity – especially if you want to market your website, project or service. In a study of over one million articles, BuzzSumo looked at how […] View original post at …
How to Run Your WordPress Freelance Business Like an Agency
Having managed a startup marketing agency for a few years, I can tell you that it’s not easy work. Although I had managed projects for nearly a decade, this was my first time handling the management of a company on such a large scale. Needless to say, there was an adjustment period. Once I became […] View original post at …
Weglot Multilingual Plugin Closes $450K in Seed Funding
Weglot, a multilingual plugin which has been in the WordPress market for a little over a year, has closed $450K in seed funding from SIDE Capital. Co-founder Rémy Berda reports that there are now more than 10,000 websites using Weglot and the company has passed 30K€ in monthly revenue. Over the past six months Berda and his small team have …
Project Management Tools for WordPress to Help You Stay on Track
It takes more than a cup of coffee and a monitor covered in sticky notes to organize a WordPress project. Whether you’re building a client website, launching a new plugin or running a SaaS, the success of your project depends on your organizational skills. And if your organizational skills are somewhat lacking – or even if they’re […] View original post at …
WPHugs: A Community Devoted to Educating, Discussing, and Raising Awareness of Mental Health
In the past two years, there has been an increased effort in the WordPress community to raise awareness of mental health. Cory Miller, Rich Robinkoff, Michele Butcher, and others have presented on the subject at numerous WordCamps. A common theme that surrounds mental health is the fear of discussing it openly. WPHugs.org, a passion project by Leo Gopal, aims to provide a safe space …
5 Lessons From the Great Pepsi Shakeup
Hitching your advertising to a trendy topic has great potential, both for better and worse. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Tell a Potential Client Their Site Sucks – and Offer to Fix It for Them
As I was reading about the weird ways to find new gigs as a WordPress developer the other day, I noticed a comment from kalico that I thought was worth exploring: Adding insult to injury is something every WordPress freelancer should be wary of whenever approaching a new client (or an old one whose website […] View original post at …
WordPress Community Team Considers New Retreat-Style WordCamp
photo credit: Jesse Bowser The WordPress Community Team is debating the merits of a new type of WordCamp, a hybrid event with the traditional WordCamp content in a retreat-style format. Sven Wagener and the Köln meetup group in Germany, which has more than 700 members, have proposed a new style of camp that would potentially be called “WordCamp in the …