Among the many enhancements in WordPress 4.7 are improvements to the media component. Previous to 4.7, users who uploaded files to the media library and changed the title could not search for them by file name. Four years since the ticket was created, users will be able to search for media by filename. PDFs are easier to preview as the …
5 Rules of Branding That Will Make You A Sought-After Superstar
Customers stick with companies they like and remember for the long haul. Ask yourself, “What does my brand represent?”
3 Lessons to Learn From the Marriott-Starwood Merger
Entrepreneurs should pay close attention to how these two hotel chains merge their brands and strategies.
How to Write Winning Case Studies That Will Score You More WordPress Work
So there’s this guy who runs a business. Let’s call him Joe. Joe runs a contest on 99Designs and has shiny PSDs for his soon-to-be-built WordPress site. But he needs a developer and somehow he lands on your portfolio and he likes what he sees. He browses through your website and notices a resource called “How I helped ABC turn …
4 Quality Survey Tools for Creating Fun and Effective WordPress Polls
Figuring out what website visitors really want can be tough. After all, it’s not like you can just grab their attention and ask them for their thoughts, right? Well, actually, you can. Surveys are a tool you can use to stop beating around the bush and just ask for the information you need. While there are many strategies you can …
5 Ways to Get to Know Your Brand Better (and Why You Should Do That)
If your brand were a fictional character, what personality traits would he or she display?
How I Built a Kick-Ass WordPress Theme With Upfront Builder (And Why I’m Freaking Out)
I am a photographer, a videographer, a designer, a writer, a marketer. I am not a developer… and I’m freaking out because I just finished building a WordPress theme from scratch – without writing a single line of code – with Upfront Builder. Most people I know have no clue what it is that I actually do. They know it has …
How to Customize the WordPress Multisite Activation Email with a Plugin
One of Multisite’s useful features is the way it lets you change the experience users get when they first register a site on your network. You can edit their welcome email and change the default content that’s created for their site. You do this by configuring your network settings in Settings > Network Settings. But there are two emails that are …
Why Are You Thankful for WordPress?
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the US. It’s a time of reflection and an opportunity to express gratitude for the good things in life. In episode 143 of the KitchensinkWP podcast, host Adam Silver asked his two sons why they’re grateful for WordPress. “I am thankful for WordPress because it gives you a job for the household that we live in …
How to Code Your Own Custom WordPress Widget
Have you ever wanted to create a custom widget for your WordPress website? While WordPress does include a built-in text widget, which you can use to display HTML along with embedded CSS and JavaScript, if you want to do anything more than that the text widget just won’t cut it. What if you want to grab a bit of content …







