Which is the Best eCommerce Plugin for WordPress?

If you want to start selling products on your existing WordPress site, or you are about to build an eCommerce store from scratch, then today’s post discussing the best eCommerce plugins for WordPress is just for you.

Before we get started, it’s important to know that there is no single best WordPress eCommerce plugin. Every store will have different needs and every store manager will have a preferred way of working. So while it is possible to make general recommendations, the features required by your store will largely dictate which the best plugin is for you.

Hopefully this guide will steer you in the right direction, and then after that you will have to do a bit of self-directed research before making a final decision. Continue

Tools to Optimize Images for WordPress sites

When it comes to improving site speed, what solutions you often think of? Optimize caching and efficient coding, remove sluggish plugins or rely on a good host. Very impressive! But chances are, you may forget about optimal image compression. Doing it the right way it will lower uploading time, reduce bandwidth usage and end up speeding up your site loading. Some may argue that compressing your images is a double-edged sword when it takes a toll on the image’s quality. But don’t get panic just yet. We are here to provide you some tips on how to balance between image size and quality. Continue

How to reduce bounce rate for your WordPress site

When we talk about web traffic analysis, we normally talk about Visitors, Pageview, Traffic sources then we talk about Conversion and how important it is to spend time and money on increasing it. Yet, we sometimes miss a metric called Bounce Rate.

Bounce rate or Exit rate is a metric in web analysis, showing the percentage of visitors entering your site and bouncing (or exiting) the site. Bounce rate can be interpreted and says a lot about your site. While other metrics like Visitors or Pageview say a lot about the quantity of traffic coming to your site, Bounce rate represents the quality of your site traffic. To illustrate, 100 people come to site A and site B at the same time while there are 30 people exit site B, there are 90 people exist your site A. Clearly that numbers tell something about the site quality that attracts more visitors to stay on site B than site A.

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Get Started with WordPress Plugin Development: Some Useful Resources for Beginners

In my last post I shared some resources that aspiring WordPress theme developers might find useful. Today it’s the turn of those of who want to get started with WordPress plugin development.

With around 20% of the websites that make up the internet powered by WordPress, creating plugins for this platform gives you a good chance of finding a problem to solve and ensuring your creations find an audience. While there are over 30,000 free plugins available at the WordPress.org plugin directory, many plugin developers have found financial success with their products. Sales of the most popular premium WordPress plugins often run into the thousands. Continue

Resources to Help You Get Started with WordPress Theme Development

If you are thinking of getting started with WordPress theme design and development, whether to customise an existing theme, or have a go at making your own creations from scratch, then the resources in this post should give you some good information to help you take those first steps.

With a mixture of advice, links to tools, tutorials, and other resources, there should be something to fill any knowledge gaps you may have in this key area of WordPress usage, and help you get started off on the right track.

Hopefully you will be able to save yourself some time and unnecessary effort by picking up some tips on good practice before getting started. You can also find a selection of resources that take care of the design initiation tasks for you, which aren’t always the best use of your time. Continue