In Part I of our series tutorial blog “How to make your WordPress site more interactive with communication tools”, we have covered 3 available solutions including using Contact form, Q&A plugin and Live chat plugin.
Today’s blog is the second part of this series tutorial which will discuss 2 other options: Discussion Forum and Social Network. Just dive in.
If you want to really connect with your audience then finding new ways to make yourself available to them can really help you achieve your goals.
In this two-part series blog post we will look at 5 other ways you can make it easy for your visitors, readers, and potential or existing customers and clients, to get in touch with you beyond the standard post comments features of WordPress. Continue
Setting up a fully functioned WordPress site can be a daunting task. It goes from choosing the right web host to picking out a good theme, implementing the installation process, adding essential plugins then putting in your content. All things checked then your site is ready to be launched.
Thing, however, is far from stopping here. What goes beyond having your site up and running is another list of tasks you need to fulfill at a regular basis. This often involves your site’s security, maintenance, SEO and functions. Who would forget or ignore those such important things. I hope nobody does. Choose to ignore those if you like but that would cause you serious harms. In today tutorial blog, we have a checklist right here for you to make sure everything falls into place from the get-go. Continue
Just few days ago we have announced the release ofDW Question & Answer plugin version 1.2.10 for security update, and here we are again with our regular update for DW Question & Answer plugin. Yet the upgrade this time does not seem regular at all. In this latest version 1.3.0, you will see a significant improvement in the plugin-theme integration along with bug fixes and more languages supported. Continue
Thanks to the report from one of our users, we recently found out a security issue in the front-end of DW Question & Answer plugin. Upon receiving the feedback, our team has abruptly started working on this problem and quickly fixed it. Today, we would like announce the quick update for DW Question & Answer version 1.2.10 in that we have successfully fixed this security issue. Continue
WordPress built-in comment system is believed to deliver adequate features for your comment section to work. Yet it seems dull and plain in the eyes of demanding bloggers who always prefer coloring outside the lines. And for those who depend mostly on blogging to gain traffic and user engagement, keeping your blog conversations out of the bland monotony is a must.
As a follow-up post for the last article about The pros and cons of Using 3rd party comment system for WordPress, this write-up is going to focus on presenting top 4 external comment systems up to now. This is our attempt to give you more insight on how these platforms work and later on you can decide which one to implement for your WordPress site. Continue
DW Question and Answer has a brand new look and feel? Yes, you heard it right. For the last ten days since the release of DW Question and Answer version 1.2.8 featuring custom user roles support, our team has been striving nonstop to add more value into this popular WordPress plugin. Now here are, all eager to present you the latest version 1.2.9 with a totally fresh design in the single question page. Continue
When we build our blog site, obviously that integrating a commenting system for is a must to gain readers engagement. The question is which commenting system we should use and why?
If you build a WordPress blog site then WordPress already supports a commenting system at core that you can enable and use anytime you want to. Apart from WordPress’s native comment system at core, there is now a host of other 3rd party comment systems available, such as Disqus, LiveFyre, Facebook comment, CommentLuv, Intense Debate, etc. It is, therefore, unsurprising for any blogger, both amateur and expert, to find themselves get lost among the various options and wonder if they should stick to the built-in system or opt for an external one. Continue
Since Google introduced its latest search algorithm – Google Hummingbird in September 2013, long tail keywords optimization in SEO strategy has been of more importance than ever. Its search engine is said to be way smarter when shifting its focus to the whole query meaning and decipher users’ intent behind each question. Pages that satisfy the semantic search better would rank higher than pages only matching a few words in the query. This is when long tail keywords step up to the plate. Continue
Over the past two weeks, we are grateful enough to receive lots of thumbs-up for the anonymous feature in the last WordPress Q&A plugin DW Question & Answer version 1.2.6. Not intending to sleep on victory, we are now excited to come back with way cooler features in this 1.2.8 version.
In this version of the plugin, we now support custom user roles from third party plugins, change the way to order questions on the question list page. We also maintain routine bug fixes and add two more new languages. Scroll down for more details and again it’s time to upgrade your Q&A system. Continue
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
For many years we have been using WordPress to power personal blogs, portfolio sites, news sites and the like. However, WordPress has so much more to offer!
For example, it can be used while building an eCommerce site. Of course, you’ll also need a WordPress eCommerce plugin to make it work, but there are a lot of them on the net. If to speak about the most popular eCommerce plugins for WordPress, these are WooCommerce and Jigoshop. Both are well trusted and reliable. However, WooCommerce has a longer history than JigoShop, so it should come as no surprise that it has been downloaded more times than JigoShop, but in general, these are two very similar solutions. What’s also important to mention is that both of them are open source and therefore free. Continue
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
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
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
We have redesigned Everything! Yes you heard it right, we have spent months working on redesigning our site and refreshing our own image and brand. We’re aware that this revolution will take up all our time and resources, yet we believe it’s time to shake up and refresh ourselves. We took this chance and redesigned our custom WordPress theme.
So ladies and gentlemen, we are excited to introduce you our makeover website: DesignWall Evo.
The release of WordPress 3.9 “Smith” rolled out with a significant update of TinyMCE 4.0 or the live preview of Widget management and Gallery. After busy weeks, we have tailored and updated all our themes and plugins to be fully compatible with WordPress 3.9.
Besides, we also maintained routine bug fixes and improvements for some of the themes. So if you are using one of our themes, it’s time to upgrade your theme now for smooth functioning.
If you want to get a steady stream of free visitors to your site from search engines such as Google and Bing, then you will need to make sure that your content is optimized for those search engines.
However, as well as ensuring that your content is Search Engine Optimized (SEO), it’s also vital that the underlying structure of your website is also search engine friendly. If you are using WordPress as the publishing platform for your content, then a big part of your SEO duties are taken care for you already.
While this means WordPress users are usually starting out on the right footing when it comes to building an SEO friendly website, there is another issue they need to consider. With content playing such a massive role in how your site is ranked in the search engines, the role the design of a site can often be overlooked.
Ever since the early release of DW Question & Answer plugin, we have received lots of requests for the Anonymous question feature. It has always been a good debate and discussion whether or not should a user submit an anonymous question. Here we are! In an attempt to cater to our users’ every feedback, Q&A production team has worked hard since then to make sure that wish comes true. And now, the most wanted Anonymous question feature is finally supported in the latest version of DW Question & Answer 1.2.6. This release also comes with other exciting improvements as well.
As promised in our last WordPress showcase: beautiful Focus sites, we are now back with the second showcase blog dedicated to our WallPress theme – the free responsive WordPress theme for portfolio, news and eCommerce sites. For anyone still skeptical about its dynamic, let’s scroll down and see how WallPress adorns our users’ sites.