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 …
Say Hello to Builder! Creating, Exporting & Managing Upfront Themes Just Got Amazing :)
It’s finally heeeeeeere! You know how you said you wanted a way to simply create an Upfront theme for WordPress from scratch, export it to another site or even sell it? Well, we’ve just gone and made that for you 🙂 Say hello to Upfront Builder! Upfront + Builder = stunning WordPress themes! And we’ve taken our time to make …
A to Z of WordPress Terminology for Beginners to Advanced
A lot of posts on this blog attempt to explain WordPress concepts and terminology, or at least those that are relevant to the post. And the WordPress Codex does a great job of explaining the concepts used by WordPress. But following lots of questions I’ve seen in comments on posts asking for definitions and explanations, I thought it would be useful to create …
How to Arrange WordPress Posts in Any Order
Have you ever tried to change the standard order of posts on your site’s blog page? By default, posts are ordered based on the date that each post is published, and there’s no built-in way to change the order in which posts appear. If you do want to change the post order, you have three options: change the post publish …
Getting the Most out WordPress Tags for Improved SEO and Readability
Vincent Van Gogh once said, “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” If I didn’t know any better, I’d think he were talking about WordPress tags. In all seriousness though, Van Gogh had a point. Much like his own pointillist style of painting – one which utilized small dots of color …