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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.
This year there were over 33,000 responses to the annual WordPress survey.
Only 23% of the survey respondents were from the United States — a 6% increase of international respondents. And for the first time ever, non-English downloads surpassed English downloads. This change is much due to the new internationalization tools in WordPress core itself.
A quarter of the respondents now make their living fully off of WordPress — 7,539 people from the survey pool. Matt estimates those people alone make up for more than a billion dollars of economic impact.
Of those people surveyed, they have between half a million and a million currently active websites they own or have developed. And 91% of those sites took less than 200 hours to make.
When you build a website or blog, populating it with content is just one step of the process. For some, it’s as simple as writing up a few basic content pages, writing blog posts on a regular schedule, and that’s it. For others—especially those working in complex industries, their content needs might be a little bit more demanding.
That’s when content starts to get lengthy. I’m talking 5,000+ word blog posts, here. The subject matter might totally lend itself to that many words but a careful balancing act must be accommodated for: what’s the right length to thoroughly cover the topic at hand without making your readers’ eyes glaze over?
Long content is what we’re going to talk about today. And as always, it’ll have a WordPress bent so all the organizational tips offered will be catered to fellow users and developers of this CMS. We’ll start with a discussion of how to determine if your content actually needs to be long then move into some actionable tips you can try out today. Happy organizing!...
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....
Have you had “update my blog” on your to-do list for awhile now? Are you afraid it will be overwhelming or expensive? Or both?
Here’s some good news: There are eight really simple things you can do to help you be a more efficient blogger and make your blog more effective at bringing in leads. And you can do them all in less than an hour by following the simple steps laid out in our new PDF.Intrigued?...
A common support question that’s been popping up on the web after WordPress users update to 3.9: What happened to the “Paste from Word” button in the visual editor? If you find that the button is missing, don’t worry – it’s not a bug. Prior to this update, the button was located in the kitchen sink of the visual editor:
WordPress 3.9, however, removes the “paste from word” button entirely. It includes TinyMCE 4.0 and has better built-in support for pasting in blocks of text for Microsoft Word. The better your software gets, the more the magic happens behind the scenes. WordPress now detects if the pasted text is coming from MS Word and makes the appropriate changes.
Until I saw the question on Reddit, indicating that the button had gone missing, I had no idea that anyone still used this feature. The missing button is actually an enhancement, not a bug. Hopefully this information has reached you before you started deactivating all your plugins.
These 43 Powerful Blog Marketing WordPress Plugins will get your blog ready for business
... Plugins make it possible to turn any WordPress blog into a serious ecommerce storefront, artist portfolio, personal blog, podcasting platform, and more. And like most bloggers, I’m addicted to plugin testing. At the moment, I have 45 installed. For the record, having this many plugins installed isn’t good. The geeks will tell you that each plugin slows down WordPress. I agree, but I’m hooked so I haven’t had fewer than 20 plugins installed since I started Pushing Social.
I thought you might like a peek at my plugin list. Every plugin on this list performs an important job for Pushing Social. I’ll give you a quick note about why I use the plugin and a link for you to check out the plugin for yourself....
WordPress can do nearly anything that can be done within a website. It is used by almost 19 percent of the top 10 million websites, including major brands such as Ben & Jerry, Best Buy, CNN, EBAY, Ford, GE, GM, New York Times, UPS, Wall Street Journal and Yahoo.
A feature that greatly adds to WordPress’ popularity is its plugin architecture. Plugins are pieces of code created with the purpose of offering custom functions and features so that you can tailor your site to your specific needs. They are very easy to install and keep updated. At this time, there are 28,956 WordPress plugins available to help you do everything on your site.I am showcasing some of my 10 favorite WordPress plugins...
A new blogging platform called Ghost is now available to the public. It was launched by former WordPress thought leader John O'Nolan and promises to be much easier to use the more complicated WordPress...
...when used wisely, color has the ability to affect the mood of your visitors. Makes people feel welcome, comfortable and relaxed with blue hues or sell your sales pitch with an aggressive shade of red.
Whatever color scheme you choose, a great deal of creativity goes into designing a bold and colorful theme.To get you inspired, I’ve gathered a collection of stunning WordPress themes that make great use of strong color. Many of the designs feature flat design and responsive layouts – both hot trends right now.---
Are you looking for the most effective SEO hacks to implement on your website? No need to look any further. They are all listed in this useful infographic.
Via Martin (Marty) Smith
In order to run your WordPress site like a pro, you are going to have to install certain plugins. There are plenty of awesome free plugins available for the platform. This infographic by WPtemplate.com shows 30 popular WordPress plugins you should be familiar with...
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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.
Finding the ideal theme for a business website can be tricky. There are countless themes available that market themselves as business themes, making it easy to just download the first one that looks about right so you can get on with setting it up. However, this is the quickest way to waste time and money.
Before setting out to find a theme, it’s important to work out what you need and even make a list of your requirements. If you’re setting up a website for a client who works in food and hospitality, you may need a website that offers online reservations. Hair salons may need a booking system, while online stores will need an eCommerce solution, such as MarketPress. For small business clients and consultants, their needs will be completely different.
The collection of themes below includes various themes designed especially for businesses, each offering different functionality such as booking forms, event managers, typography management, custom post types and sliders....
Are you ready to start a fundraising website for your non-profit clients?
We have collected some of the finest WordPress themes for charity and non-profit organizations that have been designed by a team of professionals with many years of experience in this field. This is the perfect time to launch a fundraising website with the year coming to an end.
These themes are designed to help non-profit organizations generate surplus revenue with easy-to-use customization features....
Gone are the days when you had to enroll in expensive computer training classes as now exist a plethora of web-based courses that will help you learn programming at your own pace in the comfort of your web browser.
The Best Sites to Learn Programming
If you are ready to take the plunge, here are some of the best websites that offer courses in a variety of programming languages for free. I have also added a list of companion ebooks that will give you a more in-depth understanding of the language and they don’t cost anything either....
WordPress maker Automattic’s acquisition spree to build out its platform continues apace. Today comes news that it has acquired Scroll Kit, a New York-based startup that had developed a platform for people to build websites without needing to know any code, or, in the words of co-founders Cody Brown and Kate Ray announcing the news, “a process for making the web that was more like drawing on a piece of paper.”
...For Automattic, Scroll Kit will give it some technology that can be used to enhance ways that people can use WordPress to create websites. While today there are thousands of ready-made themes that you can use for a WordPress-powered site, what Scroll Kit will do is give users the ability to add even more creativity to the process, if they so choose.
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)…
If you’re running a WordPress-powered website or blog, then you’re always searching for a way to innovate and make your site easier to use –for both you and your visitors. This is one reason why WordPress plugins are so unbelievably awesome, because they seem like quick little cheats and hacks that take little-to-no time to learn, install, and use.
One of the most important parts of the plugins we chose is that all ten of them can help just about any blog in some way. Also, we wanted high functionality, low cost, ease of use, popularity, and simple installation. To make the cut, they basically have to be foolproof and downright powerful.
Well, it is now the year 2014, and this top-10 list of the year’s best plugins has arrived. If you haven’t yet download these plugins, your life is about to get a whole lot easier.
Here are top 10 WordPress Plugins you should consider using in 2014...
The Aesop Story Engine is one of the most beautiful tools for WordPress that I’ve seen in a long time. Named for Aesop, the master story teller whose fables are woven into our cultural consciousness, this engine provides a powerful suite of multimedia storytelling tools. The Aesop Story Engine plugin was created to be a foundation for building feature-rich, interactive, long-form storytelling themes for WordPress.
The engine powers the Aesop Hosted Storytelling site where users can create stories for free. The Aesop development team has released it as an open source WordPress plugin, making it possible for you to add the same storytelling capabilities to your own website....
Tumblr or WordPress is one of the most frequently asked questions for people that are starting to get into blogging. Recently my opinion on this choice has changed to not being a choice at all. Instead of choosing one over the other, I now prefer to use both in a way that they compliment each other.
So how and why can we use both of them at the same time you may be asking. Use wordpress.org as your main blog that you completely control with your own domain name, nice design and all the other things that WordPress does very well. Many consider Tumblr not a blogging platform at all but more of a social network so in this case I aim to get the most out of Tumblr’s social properties. If you currently blog on Tumblr and are looking to switch to WordPress this is the guide that you need.
How to use TumblrInstead of using Tumblr as my main platform for a blog I only post excerpts, pics and links back to the main blog there. This is a nice way of keeping the benefits of Tumblr social network features to drive attention and traffic to your blog while getting all the good stuff from WordPress like complete ownership and control over the look and feel of your site....
Have you ever dreamed of running your WordPress based website or blog on Google app engine. If so then you have a chance to establish a website which will never go down, at least not due to server based problems. Google have officially declared support for world’s most famous open source web development language PHP. Now this means you can run and install WordPress on Google app engine along with partial preview of PHP runtime....
WordPress is the engine that drives over 150 million blogs on the World Wide Web. It is open source software that provides access for developers to create add on-ons (plugins) that increases its functionality for users with a few clicks. It was first released on May 27, 2003, by founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. At last count there were over 22,000 plugins available to download.
One of the reasons it is used by many people as a blogging platform is that it is easy to use without having to be a programmer....
...It is important for students to have an online portfolio that showcases their work and will pop up when a prospective employer searches for them online.
WordPress, the choice for many students, has just made it that much easier to create an elegant portfolio site. It has launched WordPress.com/portfolios with 30 dedicated portfolio themes to choose from....
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