In this post we are going to be taking a look at custom fields in order to help you get a good understanding how you can use this useful, but sometimes overlooked feature of WordPress, and also give you some advice on getting started with using them on your website.
In a recent post we looked at custom post types and taxonomies in WordPress, and while you don’t have to use them with custom fields; it’s not uncommon to see them used in tandem on a website. Continue
NOTE: This user no longer uses the DW Focus.
Greeting from Washington, D.C!
My name is Andy Lewandowski. I am from California and currently live in Washington, D.C. I am a news junkie and love politics. One day, I thought why not combine my interests in a new and interesting way by starting my own website on politics news. And that’s where my initial idea for Citizen Workshop came from. Continue
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
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
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.
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
Hello, guys!
My name is Afit Husni. I come from Indonesia, a beautiful country with thousands of islands and beaches to explore. I love blogging and devote most of my time as a hi-tech blogger, an apps reviewer and apps consultant for several websites.
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
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
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
Hello!
My name is Solo Ingz, a professional designer with 8 years of working experience based in England. For me, creating a website is not all about gaining audience and trying to earn a lot of traffic. I feel that every single website is a way we represent ourselves through creativity. That’s why I start off with the project: psdarchive.com.
Apart from designing, I also have great interest in social media, sports and apps. I love creating apps and coding games for smartphones. I tend to visit Starbucks everyday to get myself pumped off for all of my beloved projects.
It’s Chad Stembridge here. Glad to write a few words for DesignWall about my experience with their responsive one page WordPress theme – DW Page, which is used for my project: StembridgeMill.com.
Though much of my living now comes from website development, I’m a cinematic storyteller – an Indie filmmaker with a Christian worldview. Since 2007 I’ve been producing all kinds of media, including several books, documentaries and short films (four of which have been screened at film festivals). The longer I remain a creator, the more I come to appreciate the power of a story well-told.
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
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
Namaste everyone!
My name is Karan Chopra from New Delhi, India. I’m working as the CEO at G2One Network, an Internet Media Company specializing in advertising, content marketing and social media. I’m also the founder at 99DollarWebsite and editor/writer at I2Mag, JustWP.org, CodeAndMe.net, JustInfo.Graphics, HowToWebDesign.org, NextBigProduct , WPLove, GamingHQ, 99Books, HundredCoupons.
Greetings from Turkey, everyone!
My name is Murat Tekmen, a professional designer with 15 years of working experience based in Istanbul, Turkey. For me, working as a designer is not just a way to earn a living, but it’s the most enjoyable thing to do in the world.
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
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
Our Responsive timeline WordPress theme for blog and portfolio sites DW Timeline Pro has been updated to the latest version 1.0.6 with bug fixes and new improvement.
This is a quick update for the theme based on all the feedback and bug reports from our users. A new improvement lies in the Customize section where you can choose to enable or disable the front-end Post form. Check out the screenshot below.
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