While mention of the command line strikes fear into the hearts of many developers, the truth is that it is an easy to use and immensely helpful tool for development. Once you understand how it works, the command line is straightforward to use and will streamline how you work, saving you a bunch of time. This is the fourth post …
10 Email Templates Every Web Developer Needs to Keep Handy
Let’s face it — writing emails is not fun. It’s time-consuming, requires rewrites, and needs proofreading. But as someone who runs a web development business, you send emails daily. You virtually run your business on emails. Which means you spend several hours each day crafting and revising them. Which also means that if you streamline all of this emailing you …
How to Build a Successful Website: The 5 Core Factors You Need
This isn’t one of those dime-a-dozen list posts that tells you which must-have plugins you need to have installed on your WordPress website if you want it to be successful. No, because building a successful website actually takes a lot more forethought than that. Thanks to Wix, Squarespace and all of the other site builders that are popping up all …
How to Add Facebook Open Graph Meta Tags to WordPress Themes
When you’re doing social networking the right way for your website it can bring huge amounts of traffic. Social is all about the visuals so if you want to make your content work well you need to use all the right visual cues. But how do you make sure the right imagery – the imagery you want – is being used? …
Hustle Gets Awesome Triggers (Adblock, Leave Intent & More) and Integrations Galore
When we released our first version of our email opt-in plugin for WordPress Hustle last month we asked you what you wanted… and today, here’s a delivery of goodness to your ultimate email opt-in and soon-to-be all-in-one-marketing-machine. Specifically, we’ve added a whole BUNCH more integrations (based off of your requests, and we’re not done yet!) along with some triggers for your marketing that’ll, …
Top Tools for Managing Your WordPress Site With Your Mobile Phone
Ask any web developer what the secret ingredient is to building a high-performance website and they’ll all probably tell you the same thing: third-party tools. WordPress is a fantastic platform to build websites on, but let’s face it: we wouldn’t be able to give visitors a truly intuitive or engaging experience without a little outside help. Third-party applications come in …
Setting Up Simple A/B Testing With Google Analytics Experiments and WordPress
If you’re anything like me, you obsess over driving more traffic to our websites, which makes complete sense. I mean, what’s the point of spending time and money on your site if nobody sees it? But what about once people have actually reached your site? Are you giving enough thought to what visitors actually do on-site other than having a …
How to Add a Donation Page to Your Non-Profit or Charity WordPress Site
WordPress is the ideal platform for charities and non-profit organisations. It’s free and open source and you have access to a huge community of users and developers who can help you build and manage your site. But one of the most important functions of a website for many nonprofits is to encourage people to donate money. So in this post, …
How to Take a Vacation Without Giving Your WordPress Website a Break
Running a WordPress business can be a really rewarding experience, but it’s not without its drawbacks. According to a Constant Contact survey, 785 small business owners shared their insights into the personal sacrifices they make for the sake of their business. These were the top three: Feeling as though they couldn’t take time away from the business. Spending more time …
Advanced WordPress Development: Working With Transients
Transients are a super-handy type of WordPress caching that is often sorely underutilized. But what are they exactly? Simply put, a transient is a bit of data you can store with an expiration date. This may not seem like much, but transients allow you to create more efficient systems in WordPress that clean up after themselves. This is the third …