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Using Third-party Comment Systems for WordPress: Pros and Cons

By Jin - 11

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

Which is the Best eCommerce Plugin for WordPress?

By Joe - 1

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

Tools to Optimize Images for WordPress sites

By Jin - 4

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

How to pick an SEO Friendly WordPress Theme

By Joe - 2

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.

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The Best Notification Bar Plugins for WordPress

By Joe - 1

Notification bars can be a powerful way to grab the attention of the visitors to your site and let them know about an offer you are running, a product you are promoting, or a key piece of content on your site. More advanced notification bar plugins can even allow you to display social media buttons, newsletter sign up forms, and RSS feed content to name just a few options. These plugins often give you a wealth of settings for customizing their appearance, and also how they function on your site, such as which pages they are displayed on and more.

Today we will take a look at some of the most well-known and popular options available, in order to help you decide which one best meets your needs.

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8 must-know free stock photo resources for your site

By Jin - 2

Oftenly I get attracted to websites and blog pages with beautiful demonstrated graphics and images. Guess I’m not the only one. Either you are a website builder or a theme/template developer or simply a blogger, it all comes the need to illustrate your artwork, themes or blog posts with impressive images.

Expensive commercial libraries like Bigstock, are always there to count on. Yet your wallet may not agree. To deal with restrained budget or unexpected copyright disputes, going for free services can do no harm. Woohoo! Free photos for both personal and commercial purposes, though commercial here doesn’t mean you are allow to resell those freebies.

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Heartbleed or Heartbreak: protect your WordPress site from the vulnerability

By Jin - 0
heartbleed bug in OpenSSL

If you’ve been following up tech news recently, you must hear about “Heartbleed” security vulnerability already. Million websites has been marked as vulnerable to the attack and as security expert Bruce Schneier said in his blog “On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11”.

Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL version 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 Beta, a serious security vulnerability in the Internet history.

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LESS with WordPress development

By Jin - 1

What is LESS? LESS is a “dynamic stylesheet language” or technically a CSS preprocessor. This means that LESS supports and extends the CSS language, makes CSS become more flexible using variables, functions and classes. LESS arises as one of the popular CSS preprocessors, along with two others: Sass and Stylus.

Why LESS?

We all have to agree that CSS is an easy to learn and use, especially when it comes to theme and web development. The introduction of CSS3 has made things better and greater. However, sometime we found ourselves repeat code over and over again all over the stylesheet, and this is not what we usually call “Don’t repeat yourself”. Thus, whenever a change needs to be done, it has to be done in different places.

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All you know about WordPress Text Widget

By Jin - 0

Working with WordPress, we all have to agree that Widgets, among other factors, are the key to make WordPress powerful. And among all those widgets, my favourite one is Text Widget. This is also one of the most commonly used WordPress widgets.

Text Widget is amazing in term of functionality: it supports HTML, shortcode, embeds & JavaScript, adds text, audio, video, images and a lot more. The widget can be placed anywhere on your site as long as that area allows widgets.

In this tutorial, I will walk you through all the main functions that you can do with Text Widget.

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How to handle a WordPress Security Attack

By Joe - 4

Today we will be taking a look at what steps you can take should you discover your WordPress site is undergoing a security attack, as well as how you can start the recovery process to bring your site back online and restore its content.

While no one who has suffered from forced downtime, or had their site hacked wants to hear that it could have been prevented, or at least had the effects mitigated with a few free plugins, we will also take this opportunity to highlight a few key steps that can be taken to prevent such an attack succeeding in the future.

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What’s new in WordPress 3.9?

By Jin - 3
Update on 29th March: WordPress 3.9 Beta 3 has been rolled out with more than 200 changes for Widget previews, UI refinement and media manager. Read the announcement for more details.
Update on 20th March: WordPress 3.9 Beta 2 has been out with tons of changes and updates from Beta 1, especially bug fixes for TinyMCE and Widget management. Read the announcement for more details.

Just by the end of last year, WordPress community welcomed the release of WordPress 3.8 Parker. Couple months later, once again we are expecting another milestone: WordPress 3.9 which is scheduled for the release in April.

Meanwhile, WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 has been released recently and this becomes a hot topic everywhere. We all know that WordPress 3.8 has been a great release with improvements in the UI. Now coming to WordPress 3.9, it is promising release with significant improvements and updates in the core as well as the user experience in which good becomes better.

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SEO for WordPress: all you need to know about WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast

By Jin - 2
SEO for WordPress

By far, WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the most well-known SEO plugin for WordPress. We ourselves, use this plugin on DesignWall.com also. If you have not known or used it before then you are missing out. Available for free, WordPress SEO by Yoast is a powerful tool and comes with a handful of features.

In this tutorial, I will talk about the settings of the plugin and our use case of the plugin.

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Empowered WordPress DW Question & Answer Plugin now got upgraded with bug fixes and improvements

By Jin - 18

DW Question & Answer is our free WordPress plugin to build up a powerful and engaging question & answer site. Since the release in November, we have received lots of good feedback as well as great idea suggestions for the plugin – 5 stars rated plugin on WordPress.org

It’s not only yours wish to have a better and feature-rich plugin, but that’s also our ambition. After weeks of research and development, we are delight to announce the release of DW Question & Answer version 1.0.3 with WordPress 3.8, features added, improvements in back-end and major bug fixes.

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Preview DW Page – Responsive One Page WordPress Theme

By Jackie Lord - 8

Good news for those who have been looking for a One Page WordPress theme with great looking design, simple to setup, and straight forward website, DW Page is your perfect fit. It’s an all-in-one solution powered by Bootstrap & LESS, comes with beautiful responsive design and built-in features that immediately make it stand out from the rest.

DW Page keeps your contents only in one page using sliders, infinite scrolling, popups and combination with other content presentation methods.

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