Category: WordPress Tips
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Kiko Doran: The Jimmy Kimmel of WordPress
Kiko Doran is not a late-night talk show host, but like Jimmy Kimmel is one of those people that knows everyone, and everyone knows him. I recently met Kiko at WordCamp San Francisco and he connected me with a ton of great people and nearly everyone I met seemed to know who he was. Hence…
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Bidding Competitor’s Trademark in Adwords. Good Marketing or Shady Practice?
Update 9/2/2015: Sadly I thought we were done with this nonsense. However a new competitor (now the 3rd) has decided to take up this tactic even after we asked them politely to stop. Shame that their $20+ million in VC has done so little for them that they need to ride our coat tails. Adwords…
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TablePress: A Free and Easy Way to Add Tables to WordPress Posts
The WordPress post editor keeps on getting better and better, giving you a growing amount of control over how your post content is formatted and presented. However, one area where WordPress is lacking is adding tables to your posts and pages. While you can create a table using HTML and decorate it with CSS using…
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Add Attractive Email Sign up Forms to Your Site For Free with Optin Forms
If you want to give your readers the opportunity to subscribe to your email newsletter, or increase the subscriber numbers of your existing mailing list, then adding attractive sign up or optin forms to your site is a great way to do so. In this post we will be taking a look at a free…
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Pippin’s Plugins: Learn From a Prolific Plugin Publisher
Pippin Williamson is a WordPress plugin developer who has founded and created some of the most well-known and useful WordPress plugins available today. These plugins span many different categories, including eCommerce, membership access, and affiliate management. One of the keys to his success has been providing top notch support for both his free and premium…
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BobWP: There is More Than One Way to Learn WordPress
If you are a beginner or intermediate WordPress user and are looking to improve your WordPress skills, then Bob Dunn has been busy building just the resource you are looking for. With a passion for training and coaching, the BobWP website was born and quickly became a place where Bob has been able to help…
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The Matt Report: Podcast Interviews for Fine Tuning Your WordPress Business
Matt Medeiros is the brains behind the Matt Report, a WordPress business podcast for entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancers. In each episode, Matt interviews people working with WordPress to find out more about their business, services, or what they are up to in general. If you are working with WordPress in any way, or just enjoy…
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WPSessions: Upgrade your WordPress Skills by Learning from the Experts
WPSessions is an online training resource for WordPress developers that was launched in June 2013. The aim of the project is to help those working in the WordPress ecosystem gain time, skill, and efficiency, while also increasing the demand for their services. The highlight of WPSessions is that its training sessions are delivered by experts…
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WP101: Video Tutorials for Learning WordPress the Easy Way
The goal at WP101 is to teach the basics of WordPress and beyond in about one hour, all through a series of professionally shot video tutorials. The tutorial series covers everything you need to know in order to create and manage a WordPress site, with the lessons geared towards new users of WordPress who are…
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WP Tavern: Daily WordPress News from the Frontlines
The WordPress Tavern started off life in 2009 as an independent WordPress news blog. After its rise in popularity, which saw it become one of the go to sources of WordPress news on the web, the site was acquired in 2011 by the co-founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg. Although the ownership of WP Tavern changed…