Category: WordPress Plugin and Theme Reviews
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Google Tag Manager for WordPress: 6 Killer Reasons to Start Using It
If you’re looking for a better way to add and manage third party tags and scripts on your WordPress website, then the free Google Tag Manager service could be just what you are looking for. Whether you’re adding Google AdWords or Analytics tracking code to your site or third party SaaS scripts, the Google Tag…
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Easily Unpublish WordPress Posts with the Archived Post Status Plugin
Have you ever wanted to ‘unpublish’ WordPress posts on your blog, without having to take the drastic step of trashing or deleting those posts and pages? If so then your first port of call may well have been to look for a post status that would provide you with a simple solution for doing so.…
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Diagnose Slow Pages with these Tools and Techniques
On Tuesday, we posted an article that discussed the importance of monitoring and identifying speed bottlenecks on your web site using Google’s Pagespeed Insights Plugin. We touched on several reasons why you should consider your WordPress page load times to be a statistic worth monitoring, but in case you weren’t convinced, consider the following: In…
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Identify Slow Pages with Google Pagespeed Insights for WordPress
There are many well-documented benefits of having a fast-loading website including higher rankings in the search engines, better goal conversion rates and more return visits. Conversely, a website that loads slowly can cost you visitors and revenue due to diminished rank in search engine results pages and a higher rate of abandonment from those visitors…
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Google Places Reviews: Display User Generated Reviews and Feedback on Your WordPress Website
If you want a free and easy way to display Google reviews on your WordPress website, then the aptly named Google Places Reviews plugin could be just what you are looking for. With this plugin installed on your website, you can automatically pull in reviews from the Google service and then choose where to display…
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WP Job Manager: How to Easily Display Job Listings on Your WordPress Website
WP Job Manager is billed as a lightweight plugin for creating an online job board, or adding this type of functionality to an existing WordPress website. The core plugin is free to use and after installing it on your WordPress website, you can then begin publishing job listings on your website, as well as giving…
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Add Tooltips to Your WordPress Posts and Pages with the Simple Tooltips Plugin
Tooltips are bubbles that are displayed on a website when the cursor moves over a particular element on the page. These tooltips are used to display more information about a specific item on your page. This could include explaining the meaning of a word or term, displaying more information about a link, or sharing information…
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Add Live Chat Functionality to a WordPress Website with Pure Chat
Nothing enhances a brand more than a great customer experience. There are many ways to achieve this: a great product and eye-catching website for starters, but also an impeccable customer service — something that’s often overlooked. But how do you provide great customer service on a website? A responsive email team, perhaps, but nothing beats…
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View the Latest Activity on Your WordPress Website at a Glance with the Simple History Plugin
If you want to keep track of the changes that have taken place on your Hosted WordPress website, then the free Simple History plugin can help you do just that. After installing this plugin on your website, you can easily view the activity history of the logged in users on your website. Whether you want…
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How to Easily Create WordPress Child Themes with the One-Click Child Theme Plugin
Update: This plugin has been closed as of July 5, 2019 and is not available for download. Reason: Guideline Violation. If you want to make any changes to the underlying code of your chosen WordPress theme, then it’s highly recommended that you first create a child theme to store those changes. If you do for…