Are you looking for an easy way to set up an online store, built into your WordPress website? One solution you may want to look into is Ecwid, an online shopping cart system. It provides you with a feature-rich store that you can easily add to WordPress.
Google recently announced that it will discontinue the official “AdSense for WordPress” plugin. In the announcement, the Google stated that will focus on “innovative features like our automatic ad formats and other upcoming initiatives.” What does that mean? Well, Google is now going to be recommending a solution called “Quickstart” for WordPress users.
Long, scrolling pages are really popular right now, which makes sense. They’re more mobile-friendly than oversized navigations. They allow you to present a lot of information in a cleaner fashion. They’re also great for taking visitors through a logical journey, starting with their pain all the way through to your solution. But just because visitors…
If you’re building WordPress sites seriously, you need a staging site. In a staging site, you can test your changes without risking your live site. It’s an exact copy of your live site, which is great. Some hosts, like GoDaddy, have a staging server feature available with the hosting plan. This is the best choice,…
If you haven’t heard the announcement, Disqus, is going to start charging $10 per month, per site. Disqus is one of the most popular commenting systems in the world. However, they have a terrible attitude towards customers. OSTraining covered the awful rollout of Disqus’ “Reveal” advertising platform. WPBeginner wrote a rundown of some major problems…
Every hosting company has slightly different ways for you to install software. Some hosts have fairly standard installation processes. Others go above-and-beyond to make life easy for you. GoDaddy is one of those companies. Rather than use the normal WordPress installation, they’ve built their own process with all sorts of added benefits. During the installation,…
One of the most important factors in your site’s speed is image size. Slow images can slow your site down, and they really won’t make your site look any better. In this video, you’ll learn how to optimize the file size of your images using WordPress only (avoiding external software such as Photoshop).
If you’re a musician or story-teller, you probably want to add audio files to your site. In this video, you’ll see how to create a WordPress post with an audio gallery inside. You’ll create a playlist with MP3 files
PublishPress is the WordPress cousin to Joomlashack, which has been around for 11 years now. We plan to release several plugins. The first is EmbedPress. WordPress supports around 35 media sources. The EmbedPress plugin adds support for over 40 more, including popular sources for social media, maps, video, audio, charts and documents. The long-term goal…