Category: WordPress Tutorials
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How to Create a WordPress Staging Site (and Why You Need One)
We’re currently updating this piece to be more accurate. In the mean time, check out this piece for current best practices from our Docs team. Have you ever updated a plugin on your WordPress site and had the screen go white? You didn’t change any code, but the site goes pear-shaped right in front of…
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A Quick Guide to Hiding the WordPress Login Page
Want to frustrate hackers with a good ‘ole fashioned game of hide and seek? If so, hiding your WordPress login page is a great way to secure your site from both targeted hacks and automated brute-force attacks. In this post, I’ll dig into two different ways to hide your login page: The easy way –…
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The WordPress Photo Gallery (and How to Nail It)
Photo galleries are an incredibly useful and versatile tool for WordPress websites. In this overview of the WordPress photo gallery, I’d like to talk about why you need them, how best to use them, and the WordPress tools you need to ensure they’re correctly integrated into your website. The WordPress Photo Gallery: Intro, Best Practices,…
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A Quick Help Guide to Setting Up WooCommerce
Convenient and easily customized, WooCommerce has become one of the mainstay contenders for eCommerce platforms. While you get what you put in with the design, you can still set up WooCommerce surprisingly easily, and in almost no time at all. We’ve already explained our reasons for supporting WooCommerce in our previous article Why Serious eCommerce…
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9 Easy Steps for Coding a Custom WordPress Landing Page
Thanks to landing page tools like Unbounce and LeadPages, creating a custom WordPress landing page is easy, fast, and fun. Since landing page tools are so efficient, they’re great if you have a large marketing campaign with many landing pages, or if you’re looking to save some time However, there are also many great benefits…
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How To Create A Child Theme
One of WordPress’ great advantages over other, non-open source CMS’ is the ability to edit any line of code. If you use a theme that doesn’t do exactly what you want, you can dig into the code and customize it. The issue, though, is that when the author publishes a theme update that includes a…
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The Pagely Content Marketing Process Part Three: Publishing, Promoting & Analyzing
If you haven’t already read Part I and Part II of this series. The third step in our content marketing process is arguably the most important. It’s one thing to create content, but without a systematic process to distribute, promote it and attract readers, it’s a “tree falls in the woods” scenario. If you’re looking…
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The Pagely Content Marketing Process Part One: Organization, Ideation and Research
In theory, maintaining a corporate blog seems like it would be a straightforward proposition. To the uninitiated, writing and publishing a few posts per month does not seem out of reach. It’s not as easy as it looks though. If you’re struggling to create, publish and promote content on a consistent basis, it’s likely because…
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How Thrive Leads Can Help You Improve Your Lifecycle Marketing
Not too long ago we published an article that covered the basics of lifecycle marketing. Understanding the different lifecycle stages is a great first step in the process of developing your sales funnel. Once you understand the stages, there still exists the challenge of creating a message that is appropriate for each phase of the…
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3 Tips For A Successful Membership Site
What follows is a guest vlog post from our friend Anthony at True Productions. Anthony has built many a successful membership site and is an authority on using video effectively and incorporating lessons of lifecycle marketing to move prospects through a funnel. In this video post, Anthony teaches three key lessons you can apply to…