I wanted to write some instructions for beginners to WordPress to explain how to add a plugin. Note that this applies to self-hosted WordPress sites like those I build for my clients, not the free ones on WordPress.com. I figure I will be wanting to refer to this often, so I am making it a […]
Learning by example is one of the best ways to progress in your craft. In this article, I present five inspiring ecommerce shops built with WooCommerce on WordPress. Each shop has unique products, and a different lesson to help you with future projects. WooCommerce is quickly becoming the most popular WordPress ecommerce plugin. Blue Star Coffee […]
One of the most common things I hear from my eCommerce site clients is that they have had a report that their customer “can’t place an order”. 99% of the time there is nothing actually wrong with the site – the problem is that the customer has done something that the site can’t cope with. […]
Let me start by saying that I know and like James Laws, founder of Ninja Forms, and also consider Carl Hancock, one of the guys behind Gravity Forms, a friend. So anytime you write a post about the products of friends, you navigate careful waters. But people still have to choose what WordPress form plugin […]
A video to show you how to create and manage custom navigation menus in WordPress
I have been working on a site that has a slow load time for the home page. The client was concerned that the slow loading was discouraging some visitors from becoming customers. To speed up WordPress was becoming a priority! Since I managed to get the load time down from 13.9 seconds to 3 seconds, […]
Search engines have two major functions – crawling & building an index, and providing answers by calculating relevancy & serving results. Imagine the World Wide Web as a network of stops in a big city subway system. Each stop is its own unique document (usually a web page, but sometimes a PDF, JPG or other […]
You can’t make a sale until a shopper adds a product into their shopping cart, which can’t be done without your add-to-cart button. For best practices and common trends from some of the world’s top ecommerce sites, check out this handy infographic. To help you draw inspiration and pick up on some common best practices, […]
Perhaps you are in a hurry to get your web site up, and don’t want to work with our designer to get that custom-built site you have always wanted. If you think you will be happy with an “out of the box” solution, you will enjoy this series of some of the best themes we […]
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