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The Beginner’s Guide to Installing Social Media Plugins on a WordPress Site

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November 11, 2014

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There are numerous tools in a blogger’s arsenal, but when it comes to WordPress, the secret weapon has been and always will be plugins. These delicious little morsels of code and features can turn a boring old blog into a sparkling hub of information and connectivity. Of the 30,000 plugins and counting, the social media ones are always in demand. Why are they so important, you ask? Social media is a massive resource for bloggers to get their content out there, shared, linked, and promoted. Think of it like the world’s greatest smartphone that has everyone’s number, email, and Facebook […]

Improve Your Blog’s Design with These Style-Enhancing WordPress Plugins

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November 11, 2014

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When people ask me what the best thing about using WordPress is, I generally tell them that it’s the huge number of plugins available, which allows even programming-illiterate webmasters to add some awesome functionality to their website. Most WordPress users will choose an attractive theme to handle the design elements of their website. While this is encouraged — the theme provides the framework for your design, including layout, colors, and widget areas — there are also some fantastic plugins out there to make your website look pretty impressive. Today I want to introduce some of the best style-enhancing WordPress plugins […]

Write for Readers or Search Engines? Here’s How to Do Both

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November 10, 2014

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Sometimes it can be challenging to keep up with how the rules of the web are changing. Remember when SEO was just a competition on who can fit a keyword on their site more often? Or when many websites suddenly found themselves blacklisted from one day to the next? Or when “content is king” became the official motto of the Internet? Good times. While the rules might be constantly in motion, one thing that has continued to be true is that content is at the core of running a successful website. Yes, other elements of online marketing (such as social media […]

Interview with Mark Forrester, Co-Founder of WooThemes

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November 6, 2014

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WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugin, powering roughly 18%, or more than 380,000, of websites across the Internet. With this growing WooCommerce community in mind, the very first WooConf — a conference focused solely around WooCommerce — was held earlier this week in San Francisco. Just one week after WordCamp San Francisco, WooConf was a success, selling out with more than 300 attendees. In the past year or so WooCommerce has experienced unyielding growth. For some perspective, consider this: there have been more than 1 million downloads since August, and more than 40 thousand downloads in the past three days. During WooConf, […]

Setting Up a Node Server for a WordPress REST API-Powered Single Page Web App

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November 6, 2014

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Update: For more information, you can download our free ebook, The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress REST API. In my last article in this series, I discussed optimizing and preparing your site to serve as the content management system and REST API for a single page web app (SPA) that does not run inside of WordPress. I have packaged those optimizations into a WordPress plugin, called Josie-API, which you can install from WordPress.org. I have also put the complete code that I’ll be walking you through in this article and the next one in a GitHub project called Josie, so if […]

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