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There are two main ways to monetize WordPress: you can use it to set up an online store and sell products, either physical or virtual. Or you can use it to power a Software as a Service (SaaS) business, like our own Edublogs. Both of these sound like a great way to earn a living: you don’t have to deal …
WordCamp US is less than a month away and attendees are finalizing their travel plans. In August, organizers were estimating 3,000 attendees on the ground but official numbers are not yet available as tickets continue to sell. A maximum capacity has not been published, because organizers have a great deal of flexibility to expand the event to thousands more if …
In a recent post, I demonstrated the easy way to move a WordPress site into a Multisite network, using plugins. For many sites, this method works perfectly fine. But what if your site’s settings are a bit more complex? If you move your site using plugins, you’ll be able to move two things: your content (posts, pages, custom post types, …
When was the last time you checked your WordPress website’s analytics? How about your site’s conversion rate? If the two pictures don’t quite sync up (e.g. you’re getting a lot of visitors, but sales are in a slump), then it’s time to figure out what’s going on with your website. Let me ask you a few questions: What was your …
PressNomics, an annual conference devoted to the economics of WordPress has announced that the fifth iteration of the event will take place April 6-8, 2017 at Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, in Phoenix, AZ. The event is organized by Joshua Strebel of Pagely, a managed WordPress hosting company that recently celebrated its seventh birthday. A hallmark of the event is its …
Imagine for a moment that your hosting provider has suffered a massive server failure and completely lost every trace of your WordPress website(s). Once you stop hyperventilating, think about how you’ll repair the damage. Will you be able to quickly get all of your sites back online without any major data loss? Not to brag, but my answer would be …
What impression do you get from blogs that have no images or low quality, cheesy stock photos? Perhaps you feel the blog is unprofessional or it gives you the feeling that the content is possibly of a lower quality? If your blog has poor imagery, then visitors to your blog might have the same first impressions of your site. Fortunately, …
photo credit: ParisJS, May 2012 – (license) Zac Gordon, a WordPress educator, has opened enrollment for the Fall for his JavaScript for WordPress course. Gordon created the course after Treehouse dropped WordPress from its library in late 2015. Open enrollment began on October 25th and ends this Friday, November 4th. You can either take all four parts of the course for …
We heard that you were looking for a set of WooCommerce themes that you could easily customize with drag and drop functionality, and you could also download and keep for free. Well, guess what? You just found them! With all new full WooCommerce compatibility, our Upfront theme framework now gives you all that and a whole bunch more. And did I …
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) today kicks off its 18th year helping writers achieve their creative goals. The online event is organized by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that encourages participants to work towards writing a 50,000-word novel. Writers commit to posting their word counts to their profiles each day during the event, which runs from November 1-30. NaNoWriMo began in …
