Running a successful online business requires a lot of different factors to come together and gel. Focusing on your customers is incredibly important, and actively engaging with them can go a long way to improving sales. Having a live chat system on your website can increase this engagement, as you will be able to help […]
There will come a time when you need some new and shiny feature added to your blog, but there isn’t a plugin for it. In fact all you have managed to find on the internet is a small function that will do the job nicely. The problem is, is that you add it to your […]
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 […]
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 […]
Figuring out how to install a WordPress plugin manually is one of the key learning steps any new WordPress user needs to learn. First off, what does a WordPress plugin do? A plugin is a modular piece of code that kind of slots into your site to add extra features, and it can be turned […]
The WordPress plugins menu contains everything you need to add and amend the plugins that you use on your site. A standard WordPress install only comes with two pre installed plugins, but neither are activated in case you don’t want to use them. These are: Akismet – a really good spam comment blocker. You need […]