Sneak Peek: First screenshot of Our DW BrickStore WooCommerce Theme

DW BrickStore
UPDATE: DW BrickStore has been officially released: Demo | Feature Details

As stated in our May newsletter, this month you will see a new modern, clean and simple ecommerce theme called DW BrickStore to join our DesignWall portfolio. Here is a glimpse at things we are working on.

The DW BrickStore follows minimal design approach, this way makes it easy to display your product items in the forefront. It has flexible homepage layouts, cool slider, and many other features that will be introduced on the date of release. As can be seen in sneak peek below, DW BrickStore is perfect to set up clothing, shoes, jewelry etc. webshop on easy-to-handle WordPress CMS and WooCommerce.

Are you running a store using WooCommerce and WordPress? It is highly recommended to keep an eye on this upcoming premium theme. It’s perfect for your next WooCommerce project. Continue

The Whys and Hows of Creating a Mobile App for Your WordPress Website

Mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are now the most popular way to consume digital media, including websites and social networks. After years of predictions, the tipping point has finally been reached and smartphones and tablets are now responsible for 55 percent of the online activity in the US.

A lot of attention has been focussed on ensuring your website is responsive and adapts to the size of the screen it is being viewed on in order to cater to mobile users. However, there is another equally important statistic that doesn’t quite garner as much attention. Continue

Checklist for Choosing the Perfect WordPress Theme for Your Website

New WordPress themes are launched every day and the number of options on offer for giving your website a makeover shows no signs of slowing down.

While choice is a good thing, too much of it can lead to decision fatigue, increasing the chances of you making an impulse buy and ending up with the wrong choice for your project. With so many WordPress themes on offer, this could easily happen.

So to help you with the task of finding the prefect theme for your next project, use the advice and list of items to look for and consider below in order to filter out many of the themes vying for your attention. This should make the task in hand much more manageable and likely to have a satisfactory outcome. Continue

Boost Website Conversions by Implementing These Social Proof and Trust Signals Today

If you are selling products and services on your website, then conveying an air of authority and trust to your visitors is vital.

Even if you are just sharing your thoughts and offering advice via your blog, an inability to portray a level of credibility and trustworthiness can turn readers away before they’ve even read their first post on your website.

If you want to increase the chances of your visitors adding an item to the shopping cart, getting in touch to procure your services, or subscribe to your blog, using the tips and tools below to boost your credibility is a great place to start. Continue

How to Sell Digital Downloads with WordPress and Easy Digital Downloads

If you’d like to sell a digital product on your WordPress blog or website, or you need to build an online store to offer digital downloads from, then the Easy Digital Downloads plugin is a great choice.

By installing this free plugin on a WordPress website you can almost instantly start listing digital downloads for sale, with the ability to collect payments. If you are familiar with WordPress then you could have a product online and available for purchase within minutes, and even if you are new to WordPress, it won’t take you long to work out how to start listing digital files for sale online. Continue

The Cost of Building an Online Store with WordPress

If you are thinking of creating an ecommerce store to sell your products online, WordPress is a great option. By using WordPress, your chosen theme, an ecommerce plugin, and a selection of extensions, you should be able build an online shop that includes all the features you need to sell your products and offer a customer experience to match your brand.

However, while WordPress is free, not all of its themes, extensions, and plugins are. So in this post we will take a look at some of the expenses you may incur while building your online store with WordPress. Continue

Tools for Building a Money Making Affiliate Website with WordPress

Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to make money online: simply refer a visitor to a product or service, and then earn a percentage of any transactions that take place. While it’s not quite as simple as that, it is a way of generating an income online that has a very low barrier to entry, little technical knowledge needed to get started, and a minimal financial investment required.

When combined with WordPress, itself something that can be very easy to get started with, as well as requiring a very small financial outlay to begin using, affiliate marketing could be just the model you are looking for to supplement, or even replace your current income stream. Continue

Tools for Building an E-Learning Website with WordPress to Create an LMS

If you need to set up an e-learning environment or learning management system (LMS) to deliver online courses then WordPress could well be the perfect platform for your project.

Whether you want to build a website that solely focuses on delivering learning content, or you want to add an online course to an existing WordPress website, the e-learning tools we will be looking at in this post will allow you to do so with relative ease.

Frist you will get an overview of the three main options for turning WordPress into an LMS. Then we will take a look at some suitable themes you can use to transform the look and feel of your website in order to better suit your learning content. Continue

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

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

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

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

WordPress Child theme: say whaaat?

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

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

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

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

The Best WordPress Plugins for Bloggers

Due to WordPress being used to power so many different types of websites, it can be easy to overlook its more humble beginnings as a blogging platform. While WordPress is used increasingly as a CMS these days, with some predicting its eventual move towards being an app platform, for many bloggers it is and will always be their software of choice.

So with that in mind, it’s time to shift our focus away briefly from the eCommerce tools, and app themes that turn your WordPress site into a fully functioning business directories or social networks, and go back to the roots of WordPress with some great plugins targeted at bloggers that aim to help make them more productive, while also making managing their blogs an easier task. Continue

Gamify WordPress with these Points Management Plugins

Allowing your visitors to earn points in exchange for their interactions with your content is a great way to help a community to grow around your website. Points can be awarded for signing up, logging in, posting comments, and even when sharing your content on social networks.

The points system has been pioneered by discussion forums and question and answer websites, where users can earn points based on their levels of activity on the sites, and how useful their input is deemed to be by the community. Continue

10 WordPress Multisite Plugins you Shouldn’t Live Without

One of the very first posts I ever wrote about WordPress was on the topic of Multisite and how to go about setting up a Multisite network with WordPress. Now it’s time to take another look at this powerful feature of WordPress, and get to know some of the plugins that can help make managing your Multisite network a lot more efficient and effective.

While there are many regular WordPress plugins that work on Multisite installations, there are also a large number of plugins that have been created specifically for enhancing a network of this type. In this list we will take a look at a selection of plugins from both camps to help you make the most of this powerful feature of WordPress. Continue

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