So far I have attended three WordCamp conferences: Seville in 2015 and Vienna and Belfast in 2016. In all three conferences I have hung around with my friends Simon and Colm from CommerceGurus. CommerceGurus is a WordPress theme company that has released some amazing WooCommerce designs on ThemeForest. It’s always great catching up with Simon … Read more
Rise Forums is the internet community I launched in 2013. It focuses on many topics including affiliate marketing, WordPress, website development, hosting and domains, video and audio, and more. As with any website, over time that good looking website design you once loved will start to look old and dated. A redesign of Rise Forums … Read more
When considering the use of an Adobe product, one might immediately assume that you’re going to need complex skills such as coding or graphic design. However, Adobe Muse is a little different. Although Muse is generally utilized by web developers, it cuts out the need for coding, making it far more simple for the average … Read more
WordPress can be used to build any type of website. It’s a truly versatile solution and the platform I always turn to. I have used WordPress since it launched. Over the years, I have published thousands of guides on WordPress and regularly review useful WordPress products and services on this website and others. This page … Read more
Websites such as Groupon are quite popular nowadays as they provide a diverse range of deals and discounts. As such, there is good demand for Groupon clone scripts and themes. Such Groupon clone scripts can help you create your very own custom Groupon clone site with deals and discounts of products of your own choosing. … Read more
Showing related content to your readers is a great way to encourage user engagement and get more clicks for your blog. This is why related posts plugins seem to be rising in popularity with each passing day. Basically, such related posts plugins tend to showcase other relevant content from your site at the end of … Read more
The other day I shared with you 10 Ways to Lazy Load Images and Videos in WordPress. Using lazy load can drastically improve page loading times and reduce bandwidth. Another key aspect of reducing the weight of images and improving website performance is to optimise your images. I have always optimised images in Photoshop before … Read more
Website page loading times are greatly affected by the weight of images on a page since each image on a page has to be downloaded from your website server to the visitor’s computer. The more images there are on a page, the higher your total page size will be; which in turn means that your … Read more
I was lucky enough to meet a lot of interesting people in Vienna when I was there for WordCamp Europe 2016. One interesting person I met was Eugeniu Topolschi who works with the highly successful WordPress theme company Tesla Themes. Their latest Project is WPmatic. Launched today, WPmatic is a WordPress support service that offers … Read more
Reviews are vital to the success of a product or service. Good reviews encourage people to buy. Bad reviews discourage them from buying. In the WordPress world, reviews can make or break a developer’s product. Review ratings are prominently displayed next to themes and plugins on WordPress.org. They give website owners good feedback on the … Read more