April 4th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . The Headway theme is one of the most versatile WordPress frameworks we have tested. It has a drag & drop design interface and is highly customizable. It does take a bit of time to master but once you get there, the sky’s the limit with it. We haven’t been able to find too many Headway-specific plugins so far (not that you would need many). But these 4 scripts are more than helpful:
SEO Data Transporter: useful if you are moving from another framework or plugin to Headway. It takes care of your SEO data. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading April 3rd in Premium Themes, WordPress Themes by Wordpress Jedi . As the Internet gets more popular, people rely more on online travel sites and services to plan their trips and get the most out of them. If you happen to be in the hospitality business, you should have an online presence for your business establishment. That applies to hotels, inns, and food businesses. Welcome Inn is an attractive WordPress theme that lets you build a solid online presence for your business fast.
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Continue Reading April 2nd in Social Media, Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . Most of us love Pinterest. It is an addictive social network that could make you a whole lot less productive. Pinterest has the potential to drive you a ton of traffic if you implement the right strategy for it. There is nothing wrong with allowing certain photos on your site to get pinned by others on Pinterest. But what if you want to prevent some of your work from showing up on Pinterest? These 3 Pinterest Block plugins implement that option for you:
Pinterest Block: allows you to block Pinterest from certain sections of your site (e.g. pages, individual posts, blog homepage). It is simple but gets the job done. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading April 1st in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . In the past few weeks, we have been covering some of the ways you can use cloud-based storage services to store your backups and make your business more scalable. The Azure is a cloud-platform developed for established businesses. This may be an overkill for many bloggers. But you can use it to host your media or backup files. These 3 Azure plugins for WordPress let you do just that:
BackWPup: one of the most versatile backup plugins available for WordPress. It lets you automate backups and database maintenance on your site. It sends your backup files to Dropbox, S3, or Azure Blob storage. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading March 30th in Web Hosting by Wordpress Jedi . Choosing a web host for your WordPress website is not a decision you can take lightly. When you are getting started with your first WordPress site, you probably only afford to go with one of those cheap hosting plans (though I would not recommend it). Once you start getting more traffic, you are going to need a web host that can handle traffic spikes and heavy loads to keep your website up almost all the time (not too many web hosts offer 100% up-time). Nobody is going to be impressed by seeing your crashed website. If you intend to look credible to your visitors and leads as a business, you’ll have to invest in a decent hosting plan.
Finding the right WordPress web host
Many new publishers tend to go with web hosts that offer fancy promotions and cheap plans. You do get what you pay for though. A cheap hosting plan may save you money in the short term but it could slow down your site’s growth and cost you a ton of money in the long run. Having to deal with too many outages would be painful. Besides, cheap hosting plans are not flexible and limit you on things you can do to take your website to the next level.
You should never choose a web host without conducting a comprehensive background check. That includes comparing plans from multiple hosts and doing reputation research on Twitter, Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn. Using web hosting forums to ask for advice from people who may be more experienced than you is smart as well.
In the past few years, we have had the chance to work with a number of top web hosts. Our experience has not always been great. There are a number of advanced web hosts around these days. We can’t recommend all of them. But here are five hosting businesses that we, our clients and colleagues have found solid and reliable:
Wiredtree: some of our friends and colleagues in this space have been working with these guys for years. When it comes to customer service, Wiredtree has a superb reputation. They provide support for the LiteSpeed web server and have affordable managed hosting services. What I like about their plans is the fact that you can customize your server hardware to your heart’s content before ordering. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading March 29th in BuddyPress Themes by Wordpress Jedi . BuddyPress is a powerful solution for those who want to use WordPress to create social communities online. The sky’s the limit with BuddyPress. You can use it to start your own social network, education portal, news community, and other types of communities. These 10 BuddyPress themes help you bring your social community online faster:
Salutation: offers unlimited colors and has customizable layouts and page templates. It is ready to be localized. It has a drag and drop layout manager. [click to continue…]
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