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Looking for some Facebook tips and tutorials for your WordPress site? With more than a billion active users, Facebook is the largest social media website in the world. No website owner can afford to ignore the potential of Facebook for the success of their business. In this article, we will show you some of the best Facebook tips and tutorials for WordPress users to help you maximize your reach.

Once purely known as a blogging platform, WordPress has developed in to a powerful and popular content management system, used by millions of websites worldwide. WordPress also has an active and loyal reader-base and this has led to a huge variety of themes and plugins that are available.

Membership plugins are popular for giving webmasters the chance offer subscription and membership to fans, providing them with premium content that is not available to those that are not signed up.

As membership sites become more popular, the number of available plugins grows, and there are now dozens of these add-ons, ranging from simple free plugins with limited support to premium professional plugins with numerous features. 

If you’re looking for the best WordPress membership plugin for your WordPress site, the following list may be of some benefit....

There are number of amazing social sharing WordPress plugins which can use to promote your website. There are also some social media plugins for WordPress which are created to integrate social media functionality in your site other than sharing your posts.

In this article we will try to cover the best social media plugins for WordPress from the lot. When we talk about effective social media integration, it’s not only about placing social sharing buttons in the site but you need to look at many other aspects such as where you are placing the buttons, the quality of the plugin, make sure it is not affecting the overall loading speed of your site and so on.

We’re quick to grab any and all WordPress plugins that can give the blog an extra edge or can wire up a feature we’d love to test. Whenever we dream something up to try on the blog, the first place we turn is WordPress plugins. We’ve collected quite the list of favorites. How about you?

As we’ve tried and tested new plugins on the blog, you’ve likely noticed new pieces and parts popping up on our pages—slideups, social share buttons, CTAs, and more. We get asked quite often about which plugins we use. So we thought we’d share!

Below is the list of plugins that power the Buffer blog, along with a handful of others that are on our to-try list....

There sure is a lot you need to remember when working with WordPress theme files.

From the names of basic template files to functions and how the WordPress Loop works, it’s next to impossible to remember every PHP tag or even how to define a new theme.

About 550 students enrolled in our Academy course, WordPress Development for Beginners, are in their final week, all tackling the final assignment – building a WordPress theme from scratch.

So to help you out, I thought I’d put together this handy cheat sheet, which includes all the files and functions you need to know (but not necessarily remember!) when working with themes. This is definitely one to bookmark and save for future reference!...

ThemeForest is an incredible repository of well developed themes. It’s probably my favorite website on the entire internet. There are other companies offering great themes, but I’ll focus on ThemeForest for this guide since it’s the most comprehensive and diverse library of themes.

If your website takes too long to load, it is costing you money.

That’s a fact.

Studies have shown that just a 1 second delay in loading time can cause a 7% loss of conversions.

Think about it like this:

If your website pulled in just under $3,300 per day, 1 second delay in loading time could be costing you over $90,000 per year.

3 seconds would be getting close to a loss of $300,000 per year.

WordPress powers over 150 million blogs online. It’s the fastest and easiest way to create your own website online. In fact, some of the biggest companies in the world use Wordress. Including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, People Magazine, and Yahoo.

Celebrities are doing the same. Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, Guy Kawasaki, Mark Cuban, and many others all run their blogs on WordPress.

WordPress has quickly become the industry standard. With thousands of themes to choose from, you can create a gorgeous blog in under 30 minutes.

But in this post, I want to show you how to power-up the engine with additional features. So without further ado, here are the Top 60 WordPress plugins (listed by Category)…