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How to Build an Auction Site with WordPress and Start Selling Your Items to the Highest Bidder

By Joe - 1

Although I’ve been using and working with WordPress for a while now, it still amazes me the type of websites you can build with it, simply by installing a few plugins and picking the right theme.

One such type of website that surprised me with how easily it can be built using WordPress is an auction site. These main features of this type of site include the ability to list items for sale that visitors can bid on with the highest bidder able to purchase the item. However, there are many more features that can be added to such as site as we will find out shortly. Continue

Handy WordPress Image Plugins and Tools to Save You Time and Effort

By Joe - 4

Including images in your blog posts has many benefits including helping to break up the to text to make your content appear more inviting, allowing you to better illustrate the points are you making, show off a place or product, or simply give your blog a more professional look. After all, if a picture says a thousand words, you might as well spend a bit of time finding or crafting the right image for your posts. Continue

Make Your Website More Sociable with BuddyPress and bbPress for WordPress

By Joe - 2

BuddyPress and bbPress are two WordPress plugins that have been created by some of the same individuals who helped develop WordPress and make it what it is today. Both plugins are related in the sense that they can help you build a community around your website, giving you the ability to interact better with your visitors, while also letting them interact with each other. Of the two plugins, bbPress is responsible for adding discussion forums to WordPress sites, while BuddyPress has the ability to add social networking features. Continue

6 WordPress Support and Maintenance Services for Busy Bloggers and Business Owners

By Joe - 4

While WordPress is a great choice for most people who want to get a website online and have the freedom to publish their own content whenever they like, there are a lot of tasks that need to be taken care of to ensure your website runs smoothly and can survive on its own out in the wild.

With plugin conflicts, theme and software updates, hack attacks, data losses, comment spam floods, and much more to contend with, running a WordPress site isn’t for the feint hearted. This is especially true when the website is used to generate income and promote a business or service. Continue

How to protect your WordPress site against content theft

By Jin - 1

Digital piracy may be the most irritating thing every site owner has to face when people blatantly take away his/her content without asking permission or giving proper credit. After pouring much efforts in researching and bearing a quality write-up, what most bloggers expect is the amount of credibility, readers and traffic they are going to get; not yelling out something like “hey, it’s MY post!” Continue