When people hear Wordpress, they immediately think of a blog. Wordpress is not just a blog, it’s a full-fledged Content Management System (CMS) and you can use it as your platform to launch pretty much any website you might need. Wordpress makes it easy not just for writers and magazines to quickly and easily create and publish content online, but it’s also a hell of a good candidate for real estate websites, personal portfolios, corporate websites and even e-commerce sites. In this article, I’l … [Read more...]

You’re not a serious blogger or company if you don’t have a strong presence in social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin. But how does social media tie in to websites and why is it important to have your content marketing plan tightly integrated with social media? The short answer is: traffic. Traffic is the lifeblood of any website and Wordpress, unfortunately, has no built-in way to integrate social media out of the box. Below, I’ll explore a short list of the best Wordpress pl … [Read more...]

No matter what type of business you’re running or even if you’re using Wordpress just for your personal blog, at some point you’re going to need a contact form. Unfortunately, Wordpress doesn’t come with any sort of form builder, so your best bet is to look for this functionality in a plugin. Form plugins are plenty in the Wordpress.org catalogue, but if you’re looking for a customisable, stable, well documented and regularly updated contact form plugin, you don’t need to look further than Contac … [Read more...]

So you’ve decided to go with Wordpress as the platform for your business or personal website. That’s great! You got yourself a great domain name, arranged for hosting and, hopefully, you have content ready to go. But what do you do about design? Designer or not, Wordpress gives you several options when choosing a theme. You could go with one of the free themes available on Wordpress.org, or you could choose one of the premium themes on various marketplaces online, such as themeforest. Or maybe yo … [Read more...]

No matter if you’re just starting out and looking for a user-facing website for your business or you need a revamped website, this is one of the first questions you’re likely to have as a potential Wordpress website owner. How much does it cost to have this website built for me? Unfortunately, the answer is not a one-liner like the question. Ask any two developers or any two development agencies and you’re likely to get at least four different quotes. There is no good way for most business owners … [Read more...]

Wordpress is one of the most used CMS platforms out there powering millions of websites worldwide. Generally speaking, the platform is stable and runs without issues, and the community is helpful and quite developed. But sometimes, you just find yourself fighting Wordpress instead of actually running your business. Whether it’s because of lack of features or just too many choices for how to add a feature, or whether it’s managing security for your website or just frustration with the old WYSIWYG … [Read more...]

Backups are just too important to overlook, especially if you’re running a blog on a platform such as Wordpress. Imagine waking up in the morning and looking at your website only to see a blank page, or even worse a defaced homepage that makes you shiver in pain. You’re not the only one who’s seeing the wrong homepage and most probably not the first one either. Your customers are all getting the same version and they’re running scared. So what can you do? You could dig through the Wordpress sourc … [Read more...]