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How to Use Caching to Increase the Speed of Your WordPress Website

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When someone visits your website, you have mere seconds to grab their attention and keep them engaged in what your site has to offer. The faster your website loads when visitor arrives, the better. If your overall site performance is low however, you risk alienating a portion of the traffic your site receives.

Your WordPress website shuttles lots of information between many different computers, near and far, to deliver content to your readers. Would you like to know a great way to quicken the retrieval time of your content, increase your site’s overall speed and performance, and even lessen the traffic that flows around the internet on a consistent basis?

If so, you are in the right place. The fastest, most efficient way to optimize your WordPress website is through a concept called caching,  and in this article we will explain how you can make use of this to improve the speed of your website. Continue

Essential Plugins and Themes for Creating a WordPress Website That Isn’t a Blog

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It might seem strange to use WordPress to create a traditional type of website, one which has a fixed home page and doesn’t include a blog. However, if you are already familiar with WordPress, or you want to make use of the countless themes and plugins available for the software when creating a traditional non-blog website, we totally understand why you would want to use WordPress for this purpose.

Being able to tap into the shared knowledge of the large community of WordPress users and its burgeoning ecosystem is another benefit of using this software that can’t be overlooked.

So in today’s post we are going to look at some useful plugins and themes you can install on your brochureware or non-blog website, which will make it easier to manage, add some essential features, and generally look and work better. Continue

How to Make Your WordPress Blog Content More Socially Shareable

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We all know social media can be an effective way to get more traffic to your website and grow your audience. But with so many different options out there, it can be hard to know what we should be doing to make our website as social media-friendly and shareable as possible.

In this post you will find some actionable advice on using social media to promote your blog posts and other website content more effectively. While most of the content here is platform agnostic, WordPress users will get the most benefit from this article thanks to the wide range of social media integrations available for this platform. Continue

Improve Your WordPress Typography by Using These Free Tools

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In this post we will be taking a look at some tools and plugins that can make it easier for you to get typography right on your WordPress website. If you are looking for ways to optimize your content and improve the user experience on your website, typography could be one untapped area that could yield great results.

An understanding of the art of typography is a valuable skill to possess for anyone working in publishing, including bloggers and web designers. While it’s not something you can expect to master in a single blog post, by the end of this article you will have discovered some tools which can give you a shortcut to the end goal of having great looking written content on your website. Continue

Tools for Building a Money Making Affiliate Website with WordPress

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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

How to Create Charts and Graphs in WordPress to Visualize Your Data

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Adding images to your posts is an essential way to bring your content to life. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then adding a few relevant images to your posts can help win over your readers and get your message across in a more effective way than just a wall of text.

While screenshots are great for illustrating software related posts, and photographs can really enhance a travel blog, when it comes to illustrating data-focused content, the available options aren’t as obvious.

Screen grabbing charts and graphs from a spreadsheet is one option for visualizing your data, but if you are using WordPress then there are a few better options than that available to you. To find out the best way to add graphs and charts to your WordPress posts, read on for our guide to the best data visualization plugins for WordPress. Continue

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

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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

How to Create PDF and EPUB Ebooks from WordPress Posts and Pages

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In this post we will be taking a look at the best options for converting your WordPress posts and pages into ebooks and PDFs. Compiling some of the best content on your site into a single document is the perfect way to create an enticing lead magnet that can be given away to help encourage your readers to join your mailing list.

As you’ve already created the content as blog posts on your site, publishing it as a downloadable file is a great way to repurpose that content and gain more value from it, while also making it more accessible to your readers. Continue

Rules for Making Your Content More Engaging and SEO-Friendly

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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

Handy WordPress Image Plugins and Tools to Save You Time and Effort

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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

How to protect your WordPress site against content theft

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Digital piracy may be the most irritating thing every site owner has to face when people blatantly take away his/her content without asking permission or giving proper credit. After pouring much efforts in researching and bearing a quality write-up, what most bloggers expect is the amount of credibility, readers and traffic they are going to get; not yelling out something like “hey, it’s MY post!” Continue

Tweaking DW Minion WordPress blog theme with Karina Kudryavtseva

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Hi everyone,

My name is Karina Kudryavtseva. I come from one of the most beautiful places on earth called Vancouver Island in Canada.

For now, I am working mainly as a web designer for a design agency. Beside that, I also have several personal projects to tend to. One of them is Inspicafe – an inspiration online cafe for creative professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers, truth seekers and cat lovers. The site was created using DW Minion – a free WordPress theme for Blog.

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Musician Valentin Guerin shows his web development skills with DW Timeline WordPress theme

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Bonjour!

My name is Valentin. I’m a French trombone player and fire artist living in Austin, Texas. Most of my time is spent travelling around for my concert in Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Finland and other countries.

You guys may be wondering what a musician would have anything to do with CMS, WordPress theme and those IT stuff. I can just say blogging and web development have become my second interest and sideline job as well.

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The Best WordPress Plugins for Bloggers

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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

Chad Stembridge & his selected One page WordPress theme – DW Page

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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.

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Top 7 Best WordPress Video Plugins

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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

How to reduce bounce rate for your WordPress site

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When we talk about web traffic analysis, we normally talk about Visitors, Pageview, Traffic sources then we talk about Conversion and how important it is to spend time and money on increasing it. Yet, we sometimes miss a metric called Bounce Rate.

Bounce rate or Exit rate is a metric in web analysis, showing the percentage of visitors entering your site and bouncing (or exiting) the site. Bounce rate can be interpreted and says a lot about your site. While other metrics like Visitors or Pageview say a lot about the quantity of traffic coming to your site, Bounce rate represents the quality of your site traffic. To illustrate, 100 people come to site A and site B at the same time while there are 30 people exit site B, there are 90 people exist your site A. Clearly that numbers tell something about the site quality that attracts more visitors to stay on site B than site A.

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8 must-know free stock photo resources for your site

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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

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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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