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How to Use Custom Post Types and Taxonomies to Make WordPress Even More Useful

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Understanding custom post types and custom taxonomies can open up a whole new world of possibilities for WordPress users. However, as they can’t be created through the WordPress settings and admin pages, many users aren’t even aware of their power.

Whether you are totally new to custom post types and taxonomies, or you’ve heard of them but aren’t using them on your site yet, by the end of today’s post you will have been brought up to speed on this topic, have found out how they can help improve your website, and also have learned how to easily create them using a free plugin. Continue

Group Your Posts to Create a Series or Course in WordPress

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Today we are going to test three plugins that allow you to group a selection of your posts together in order to create a series or course.

While you can use the default WordPress categories or tags to organize your content, these plugins go a step further and add a new tag for your content which allows you to create a series. This approach helps your readers follow a sequence of posts on your site. Continue

DW Kido theme – New approach for a competent WordPress blog site

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Hi, I’m DW Kido. Do you fancy a WordPress blog where you can publish & edit content in a blink without any back-end hassle? Check me out. Can’t wait to see you say Wow.”

Guys, we have been nurturing this release for months and now I would love to present you our big reveal this September: DW Kido – The WordPress theme that helps you Blog way better – now hits the store. Continue

How to Create PDF and EPUB Ebooks from WordPress Posts and Pages

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In this post we will be taking a look at the best options for converting your WordPress posts and pages into ebooks and PDFs. Compiling some of the best content on your site into a single document is the perfect way to create an enticing lead magnet that can be given away to help encourage your readers to join your mailing list.

As you’ve already created the content as blog posts on your site, publishing it as a downloadable file is a great way to repurpose that content and gain more value from it, while also making it more accessible to your readers. Continue

Make Your Posts More User Friendly with Tabs, Accordions, Columns and More

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Sometimes a piece of well written content and one or two images can be enough to produce an effective post in WordPress that does a good job of engaging your audience and bringing in new readers, clients, or customers.

However, if you want to go beyond the standard post format of images and text, there is a lot you can do in WordPress to make your content easier to read, better organised, and more attractive. Continue

Rules for Making Your Content More Engaging and SEO-Friendly

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When it comes to producing written content for your website or blog, there are a number of rules and guidelines you can follow to ensure you get the biggest returns on your investment.

In this post we will take a look at some of those rules to show you how you can make your content more engaging, rank better in the search engines, and help grow your audience and build your brand. Continue

My road to WordPress started with a sport news portal site

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Hello WordPress builders,

I am Roberta Leone from northern Italy. Today I would love to share with you my story about how I came to know and love the WordPress platform. But first, let’s get to know about each other.

Over the last 30 years, I have been devoting most of my time as a graphic designer for the publishing industry. Ever since I started working on the first Apple computer, I’ve witnessed the growth and maturation of the early digital publishing in Italy and got the chance to cooperate with the most important publishers here, in both traditional and digital books.

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WordPress Child theme: say whaaat?

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To every WordPress site owner, holding a distinct web design not only leads to success but also helps sustain their solid position among a swarm of online rivals sprouting up every second. Being the best is great but being unique is greater. Instead of staying alike to other websites using a same popular theme, the urge to tailor-make that theme for a unique face put forward to the audience is understandable. Yet editing and customizing a WordPress theme can be quite scary. If not being done properly, you would open yourself up to the risk of vulnerable security or data loss. Continue

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

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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

Introducing DW Jason – A brand new responsive WordPress portfolio theme

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“Hello, I’m DW Jason. Are you having trouble building your showcasing site from scratch? Pay me a visit. It will save you a lot of time later.”

Over the past few months, we have seen lots of designers, photographers, web developers, even writers and other site builders coming to us for a solution of a decent portfolio WordPress theme to showcase their projects in a minimal yet professional style.

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Make Your Website More Sociable with BuddyPress and bbPress for WordPress

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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

WordPress Q&A plugin DW Question and Answer version 1.3.2 release

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WordPress Q&A plugin DW Question & Answer has been updated to the latest version 1.3.2 with regular bug fixes and improvements. If you missed our last release of 1.3.1 version, you can read about it at our blog.

Note: always remember to back-up your site and note down any custom code you have made before proceed to any update. If you face any difficulty, feel free to ask us for support at our Q&A support page.

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

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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

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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

Examples of Using WordPress to Power a Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Every day it seems more and more users are finding new and inventive ways of using the WordPress software to create something that pushes the boundaries of what can be done with our favourite content publishing platform.

While plugins are one key area where developers are using their skills to meet the needs of end-users and simultaneously expand the functionality of WordPress and the types of sites it can be used to build, another group of developers and entrepreneurs are using the platform for their own ends, in order to deliver their software service applications. Continue

Musician Valentin Guerin shows his web development skills with DW Timeline WordPress theme

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Bonjour!

My name is Valentin. I’m a French trombone player and fire artist living in Austin, Texas. Most of my time is spent travelling around for my concert in Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Finland and other countries.

You guys may be wondering what a musician would have anything to do with CMS, WordPress theme and those IT stuff. I can just say blogging and web development have become my second interest and sideline job as well.

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WordPress Q&A plugin DW Question & Answer v1.3.1 now available

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In the version 1.3.0 of DW Question & Answer plugin, we have announced a significant change in how the plugin could be integrated into your WordPress site and work well with any WordPress theme. Though it made life much easier, yet it was not a perfect solution yet. Now in this version 1.3.1, we have included a quick update for it: a setting for choosing template for Single Question page is supported.

Besides, routine bug fixes are released in this version of the plugin as well. Let’s scroll down for details. Continue