According to WPMU DEV lore, our Ultimate Branding plugin was born out of our CEO’s frustration with rebranding Edublogs as Edublogs, not WordPress. As CEO James Farmer tells it, he was “slightly obsessed” with branding Edublogs and each time there was a new release of WordPress he’d spend half a day replacing all the icons […] View original post at …
10 Fun Ways to Use the Element of Surprise in Your Site Design
Did you know that Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” turned 30 this year? Even if that name doesn’t ring a bell, there’s a strong possibility you’ve unintentionally encountered the music video for it at some point, thanks to a rickroll. Or maybe you’re more familiar with the maze game prank from about 10 […] View original post at …
Why It’s Time to Protect Your WordPress Business with a Contract
Any business transaction you make should have a contract attached to it. And, if you should happen to encounter clients who aren’t “comfortable” with the terms of the contract, well then… Danger, Will Robinson. It doesn’t matter what the price tag is for each project or individual task you take on with a new client. […] View original post at …
How to Design and Craft a Killer Author Bio Readers Will Love
To many, author bios are an afterthought. An easy way to give some significance to the creator of a certain piece of content—nothing more, nothing less. Pushing forward to an age of authority and authenticity, it would seem that author bio features must have some importance past mere vanity. In fact, CodeinWP made sure to […] View original post at …
8 Steps to Starting a Kickass WordPress Business
If you’re reading this, then you’ve already decided to make the leap into the wonderful world of WordPress web development and design. While I’d love to take this time to celebrate and welcome you to what’s bound to be an exciting adventure, I think we should jump right into talking business. Shall we? Starting a […] View original post at …
99 Incredible WordPress Stats and Facts
WordPress has come a long way since it first launched back in 2003. It’s now the most popular content management system and has become a become a dominant force online, now powering 28.6% of all websites. What follows is a huge round-up of some of the most interesting stats and facts about WordPress divided into […] View original post at …
The Best Ways to Make Images Retina-Ready for Your WordPress Site
We live in a high-definition world. And since most of us spend more than eight hours a day staring at different types of screens, the quality of the images and characters contained within those screens is very important. Although they’ve only been around for a few years, Retina displays are the way of the future. […] View original post at …
Smush Pro Super Servers Now Compresses Images up to 200% Faster
Smush recently compressed its 11 billionth image. Huge! So to celebrate, we’ve given our Smush Pro super servers a major speed upgrade – images are now being pushed out a whopping 200% faster! The server upgrade means you can do all the things you already do with Smush, just much faster, including: Super Smushing – You get […] View original post at …
Using Social Proof to Positively Influence Potential Customers
Social proof is kind of a scary thing. It’s the idea that, despite any gut feeling one might have to the contrary, people are more willing to go along with a decision if the majority of their peers agree with it. Take movies, for instance. You’ve got the original The Fast and the Furious movie […] View original post at …
How to Stop Google from Indexing Your WordPress Site
The whole idea of this post might seem crazy. After all, don’t you want search engines to find your site? That’s why you optimize it for search and why you create an XML sitemap to improve your chances of ranking in search. That said, there are a number of reasons why you might want to […] View original post at …

