WordPress is an amazing platform, it provides tons of features and flexibility, and gets better all the time. One area that lacks though is the search functionality, it works but barely. You see it will find a word or a phrase but it doesn’t do it intelligently like Google’s search would. If you want to […]
Sometimes you need to make some minor changes to your WordPress theme but you really don’t want to dig into the CSS and HTML of the theme to make those changes. Since WordPress version 3.4, there has been an additional link in the Themes page, below the currently active theme. This Customize link takes you […]
Social networks such as Facebook and Google Plus are the go to places in the modern day internet to find a crowd of people that share your own opinions, likes, dislikes and interests. They are also an extremely effective marketing tool for your website, if used correctly. I am going to outline some of the […]
Kick starting a series on WordPress e-commerce plugins, I have to start with what is undeniably the most popular one out there: WooCommerce. Designed and maintained by the increasingly popular WooThemes, WooCommerce is a powerful and flexible plugin which is available for free. In fact it is so powerful, that many themes actually integrate the […]
I just finished writing an article in my shiny new WordPress 3.6 and went to spell check it and my reaction was “Huh? Where has the WordPress spell check gone?”. Then of course I spent 10 minutes checking things out, wondering if it was my recent theme update before doing the sensible thing and Googling […]
There are seemingly a million and one different devices with which you can browse the internet. From gigantic TV’s and monitors, laptops, tablets, to a multitude of smart phones, each one having a different screen size. To keep up with the technology and the way that your visitors interact with your website, you must have […]
The What Web designers and developers often recommend caching your website in order to improve its speed and performance, but what is caching exactly? Caching is the act of storing a full web page or elements of a web page for use later. Browsers tend to do this automatically for most types of websites. The […]
I was testing out the next version of WordPress (3.6) to see what awesome things we have in store. With the removal of the Post Formats UI, the release is fairly standard, but one thing caught my eye: the improvements made to the Menus section. First off it has had a facelift with the different […]
Whether you use WordPress for your business or even just as blog or hobby site, one thing remains true, getting people to opt in to your mailing list or newsletter is essential. From a business standpoint it gives you a closed market that you can promote to, and from both perspectives it allows you to […]
I have been meaning to write this post for a while now. The original ApinaPress theme was one I custom coded, but recently when I decided that the site needed a facelift, I didn’t have time (and I’ll admit it, or inclination) to custom code something new. I needed a theme that looked great out […]