BuddyPress continues to be one of the most popular free WordPress plugins. Its customizability and flexibility make it a great tool for creating your own social media platform. But it has another use as well, one that I’ve used with a number of clients, and that’s as the basis for an intranet, or an internal […]
Where to Put Your Contact Form? What the Research Says
You want leads. You need conversions. So you put a contact form on your website (or you build one from scratch). Here’s the million-dollar question though: how do you know if you’ve placed it in the right spot? I recently shared research I found that focused on optimal logo placement as well as CTA placement. […]
How to Download WordPress in Any Language
The WordPress admin is fairly straightforward to use no matter where you live in the world since it has been translated into many different languages. The trickiest part is knowing where to grab a translated copy. While WordPress can be downloaded in US English by default, the WordPress.org download page doesn’t provide any obvious directions on how […]
9 Reasons Why You Should Have an Explainer Video on Your WordPress Site
Let’s face it: no matter how intelligent or well-informed your audience is, there are some parts of your product or service they might not be able to comprehend just by reading through your site. And that’s might not be the fault of your content or even the deliverable itself. Think about the last time you tried […]
24 Weird Ways to Find New Gigs as a WordPress Developer
There are plenty of people and businesses in need of a WordPress developer’s assistance, even if they don’t know it or aren’t ready to admit it to themselves yet. Whenever they do become ready, you’ll need to be in the right place and the right time in order to deliver your pitch and land that […]
15 Competitor Analysis Tools to Help You Spy On Your Competition
Running a business can be tough, especially when you have pesky competitors jeopardizing your bottom line and stealing away potential customers. Fortunately, there are competitor analysis tools out there you can use to get the drop on your competition so you can blow them out of the water. Today, I’m going to share some of […]
Learn WordPress and Dream Big: Academy Courses Now Available On-Demand
All courses in our online learning school, The Academy, are now available to enroll in and complete at any time! Yes, we’ve scrapped start and end dates for courses and removed the week-by-week release of units. Now you can join a course at any time, work through the videos, tutorials and assessments at your own […]
10 Creative and Engaging About Pages to Inspire You
Can we talk about the About page for a minute? I know it doesn’t usually merit as much attention because it’s not selling your product or service, but it’s still an important part of your site’s identity. While I can’t give you a tried-and-true formula for how to make an About page shine (because it’s […]
5 Surefire Ways to Diversify Your Income as a Freelance Web Developer
Let’s face it, freelancing isn’t so great when it comes to having control over one’s income. There are “famine” situations when there’s just not enough work and times when the work just doesn’t pay enough. And then there are times when some paying clients simply disappear, often taking away a huge chunk of your estimated […]
Clef’s Dead, Now What? 4 Free Two-Factor Authentication Alternatives
The Clef plugin made logging into WordPress easy and more secure thanks to two-factor authentication. But it was recently announced that Clef is sunsetting and now users need to find an alternative. So what the fudge are we supposed to do now? Two-factor authentication for logging into WordPress meant you didn’t have to fumble trying to […]

