So, we all are definitely used to making photos for our social media accounts like Facebook, Instagram, whatever. We all want to stand out, to showcase our life in the best light, and to make all the shots look special to enhance social activity on our profiles. However, photography is not only about shooting our … Read more
Tasty Recipes is a recipe plugin for WordPress that was designed by Lindsay and Bjork Ostrum of Pinch of Yum. Retailing at $79, the plugin allows you to insert recipes into any WordPress theme. It has a lot of cool features, such as the ability to add nutritional information into the recipe. Recipe websites remain … Read more
Earlier this year I closed my newsletter and started using the Jetpack Subscriptions module instead to deliver email updates to subscribers. In my quest to increase suscribers, I took the advice of Colm from Create & Code and added a subscription form underneath my blog posts and pages. In this short tutorial I will show … Read more
Cloudways recently announced the launch of a new caching WordPress plugin called Breeze. This plugin is designed to reduce the weight of your website and make pages load quicker by creating static HTML pages of your website. Breeze is an easy to use plugin that has support for content delivery networks and Varnish. It is … Read more
Kinsta is a popular managed WordPress hosting company that has offices in Los Angeles and London. The company has been active for eight years and has been on my radar for a long time since long-term Rise Forums member Brian Jackson is the Director of Inbound Marketing for them (which is why the Kinsta blog … Read more
WordPress has just announced that WordPress.com business accounts now support third-party plugins and themes. This is a huge announcement that will completely redefine the way we look at the hosted service of WordPress. In the past, the general consensus was that the hosted service of WordPress was for beginners because the service was so limited. … Read more
HeroThemes are a WordPress company that offer a knowledge base WordPress theme and plugin. Their products aim to reduce the number of support tickets you receive by delivering a knowledge base full of common questions and answers. I met up with Chris Mooney and Richard Long who run Hero Themes whilst at WordCamp Edinburgh recently … Read more
Zero BullSh*t CRM is a customer relations manager for WordPress that promises a cheaper more flexible solution than alternatives such as Salesforce. I was lucky enough to meet the co-creator of the plugin Mike Stott at WordCamp Edinburgh last weekend. Mike is also known for his project Epic Plugins. At the conference Mike explained to … Read more
Is your website securely using HTTPS encryption? If it isn’t, it should be. HTTPS is the term used for Secure HTTP connections. It provides a safer and more secure connection for you and your website visitors. Each website that uses a HTTPS connection is issued an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate. If the website certificate … Read more
Keeping an eye on template market, it’s hard not to notice that templates are getting more and more feature-rich year after year. Thanks to new plugins that are created for WordPress, the templates of 2017 win the hearts of your site guests with unparalleled user experience, rich Parallax-powered visuals and revolutionary modules that stand for … Read more