No matter how amazingly equipped your site is to entice, educate, or entertain your visitors, you may still find that it’s not always enough. You do everything you can to maintain consistency and offer a high-quality experience, but sometimes you just want someone to give you the secret to converting more visitors to paying customers […] View original post at …
The Complete Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer
WordPress 4.7 was released with a ton of great new features (which you can check out here), including some user experience and user interface upgrades to the theme Customizer. In case you’re hearing about the Customizer for the first time, it’s a feature in the WordPress admin (go to Appearance > Customize) that allows users […] View original post at …
27 Must Have WordPress Plugins to Kickstart Any New Website
Don’t get me wrong, a fresh installation of WordPress is great and all, but if you really want to kick your site into gear, you’re going to need some top-notch plugins to get the job done. There are certain plugins that are exceptional because they can help you create a stunning site that performs at its […] View original post at …
How to Become a WordPress Professional in Your Free Time
Getting established as a WordPress pro isn’t easy. If you want to freelance or set up a WordPress business, you’ll need to build up a list of clients and establish a reputation for yourself. And if you’re looking for a WordPress job, you’ll need to demonstrate that you’ve got experience with WordPress and can work with […] View original post at …
10 Hottest Web Design Trends You Gotta Know for 2017
The web is a rapidly evolving space. Technologies and development techniques can appear quickly. Ever improving tools allow for greater freedom when designing interfaces and interactions. And because of this, web design patterns and techniques can begin to trend within a short period of time. Below is a list of web design trends to keep […] View original post at …
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Post Type Templates in WordPress 4.7
WordPress 4.7 has delivered some fantastic new enhancements to the CMS’s template system. Templates have now been expanded to include all post types, allowing developers to create more nuanced themes and at the same time allowing site owners to manage content more easily. But how does it all work? In this article, I’ll show you how […] View original post at …
How to Give Away a Free Ebook (and Get More Subscribers) with WordPress
If you like ebooks, you can get a boatload of them by signing up for newsletters. That’s because offering a free ebook download as an incentive for signing up for a mailing list is a time-tested strategy to (hopefully) boost mailing list opt-in rates. There’s a good chance you either use this strategy or have […] View original post at …
WPMU DEV Update – 2016 Review (And What’s Coming Up!)
While the world over couldn’t wait to see the back of 2016, it was a huge year for us – our biggest year ever, in fact! We released a stack of new plugins and API services. Seriously, we released loads of products. So to kick off the new year, today we’re launching Update, our new […] View original post at …
10 Ways WP-CLI Can Speed Up WordPress Development
WP-CLI is a useful time-saving tool for WordPress developers and advanced WordPress users. However, if you’ve never used this command line package before, it can be a little intimidating to get started. Most of us learn best by doing, so that’s what we’re going to do with this tutorial. That way, you can see WP-CLI […] View original post at …
What’s New (and Awesome!) in WordPress 4.7
WordPress 4.7 was only recently released in December and numerous user experience and developer, not to mention Twenty Seventeen, a brand new default theme. If you haven’t already checked out this new version of WordPress, here’s what you need to know. Introducing the Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme Work began on Twenty Seventeen shortly after last year’s […] View original post at …