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
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
Take a look at your site’s support system. Chances are you can be quite content with how it works. Your ticket system runs well, your forum gets vibrant discussions everyday and your contact form is beyond encouraging. But the thing is you might miss visitors who are in hurry, who have no time for submitting a ticket or searching through your document system. This is when live chat systems come in handy. That is exactly what a bypasser or potential customer look for when browsing your site: A real-time or instant conversation experience.
Your existing customers may wait several hours or a day for your solution feedback from forum or ticketing system. Yet any visitor can opt out anytime if they can not find what they are searching for after just a few minutes. Imaging how many leads you may lose just because your online salesperson or the direct line of contact is not right there to provide prompt and accurate answers. It’s time you seriously consider using a proper live chat tool. 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
Today we are going to take a look at some plugins for WordPress that enable your visitors to create accounts and login to your site, using their profiles at the popular (and some not so popular) social media platforms.
These plugins cover a range of uses, including letting visitors login with their social accounts to post comments, login to a site as a contributor, and even to create their accounts at an eCommerce store built on WordPress. Continue
Our Responsive WordPress news theme for online news and magazine sites DW Focus has been updated to the latest version 1.0.9 with bug fixes and exciting improvements.
This is a quick update for the theme based on all the feedback and bug reports from our users. Three new improvements lie in the 404 page, DW Latest News widget and the archive pages. Scroll down for more insights. Continue
Summer is the perfect time for vacations, and vacation often means traveling. So we’ve decided to make a list of free WordPress Themes that you can use to build new travel websites or edit the ones you already have.
Perhaps you or your client needs a travel blog, a hotel website, an online travel guide or any other website dedicated to travel and you want it to be built with WordPress. If this is the case, take a few minutes and check this article as it features 27 WordPress Themes, 25 of them are free and 2 of them are premium ones, but each theme is designed with travel business in mind. Who knows, maybe one of these travel WP themes is what you need for your or your client’s project. 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
If a picture speaks a thousand words, then a video tells a million more. Having videos shared and embedded on your content or site would make your content and site look lively and better present your messages. Youtube appears to be one of the most common sources (besides that we have Vimeo and other video links). In our Youtube video tutorial, we have showed you the 3 simple ways you can do to embed a Youtube video into your content. But there are a lot of things we can do more than just an embedded video. Think about all other options like a video playlist, video slider or video background. 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
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
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.
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.
Since we started calling out for WordPress site submission couple days ago, we are so glad to receive a lot of submissions from our users. We will check all the submitted sites and showcase them in our Blog section. This is not only about sharing, but learning as well. You or anyone can give honest feedback to sites’ author by leaving comments and we can all learn from that.
So here it is: our first showcase of WordPress sites and it goes for DW Focus theme.
Howdy guys, how is this year going for you so far?
Well, I guess the title of this article speaks for itself already. We are looking to feature and showcase beautiful WordPress sites using our WordPress themes, either free or premium. Using our themes for your sites or client’s site, I guess you have twisted it, broke it, customized it to meet your needs.
It’s awesome to do so and yes we are looking forward to showcasing your works. Let the community see what you have come up with based from our themes collection.
So, you’re here because you’re looking for some tips and advices on how to write the most popular articles? Sorry, you’re in the wrong place then. What we want to do now is to show you the most popular and most commented articles related to web design, and analyze what topics are of interest to web designers, developers, webmasters and bloggers.