To find more great plugins, check out Torque’s free eBook, The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Plugins. Download it here. Tooltip plugins are generally some of the most underused and underrated plugins around. In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, a “tooltip” is a little popup that appears when a user hovers his or her cursor over or clicks on a particular icon or a highlighted word or phrase. They’re mainly used to display explanatory text that not every reader will need to go through (hence the name “tooltip”)—for example, to define a word of jargon or a little tip of basic information relevant […]
The Best Web Analytics Tools for WordPress
“What gets measured, gets managed.” -Peter Drucker Imagine you wanted to visit a new restaurant on the opposite side of town. Although it’s in an area of the city you haven’t visited before, you understand its location from the map. Getting there should be completely doable with some trial and error, and maybe asking for the way once of twice. No biggie. Now imagine when you leave the house, somebody blindfolded you, spun you around a few times and then wished you good luck before sending you off to find said restaurant. You’re left groping blindly through the streets trying to […]
6 Related Content Plugins to Boost Pageviews
The number of pageviews a website obtains is becoming increasingly more important to webmasters and marketers. Generally, the more pageviews your website gets, the higher the worth of your traffic, and the higher return on investment (ROI) you get on paid sources of traffic. Consequently, many different tools and WordPress plugins have stepped up to help satisfy this need for more pageviews. But no pageview-boosting plugin type is more popular than related content plugins. Related content plugins display links to related posts at the end of each post (or, in some cases, throughout the post). It encourages further browsing by users who came to your site […]
DradCast Episode 055: The Data Will Set You Free
[y=o2J-4ZUPPsw height=400] Show Notes Host Chuck Reynolds has been a hardcore WordPress user since before WordPress was WordPress. That’s a long time. Now he has turned his focus from the development side of things to the data driven analytical side of WordPress consulting. He is currently working on a predictive analytics platform called Levers. You can find him online and on Twitter @chuckreynolds. Sippin’ On Brad – Williams White Dre – Dos Equis Chuck – Sapporro Pressing Topics Audit WP is Now with WP Site Care With the hire of Rob Neu, Audit WP has now been integrated with WP Site Care. Underscore Announces Sass Support The core dev […]
Dre Armeda Joins WebDevStudios as Vice President of Operations
This morning, WebDevStudios announced Dre Armeda—co-host of DradCast and co-founder of the popular website security company, Sucuri—as their new Vice President of Operations. This is exciting news, and we’re eager to see what innovation and progress comes from it! I reached out to Dre directly to understand his motives for joining the WebDevStudios team, and how his new role will impact his positioning in the WordPress Space. When I asked Dre why he decided to make the move, he said: I get really excited about building and growing ideas into something real. WebDevStudios is very real and in a great place. . .It […]

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