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The WordPress themes market is huge. Big players such as StudioPress, Elegant Themes, ThemeFuse, and WooThemes, just to name a few, dominate as top premium theme sellers. Alongside these dedicated studios are thousands of independent designers developing themes for public release in WordPress theme marketplaces. In this post we’ll be looking at three of the most popular marketplaces for selling themes. We’ll discover more about how each of them work and what’s offered for buyers and sellers. ThemeForest From a buyer’s perspective, the choices of themes offered at ThemeForest are extensive. As of now, there are currently 4,399 WordPress themes to choose from. For perspective, […]

When we create websites with WordPress, it’s easy to get distracted by all of the amazing tools, plugins, and themes, and forget that the content is most important. If relevant information is difficult to find on your website, then all of the time you spent creating it will ultimately be overlooked. Naturally, the easier you make it for visitors to navigate to content that is both relevant and useful to them, the more time they’ll stay engaged with your site. Traditionally, WordPress sites have relied on a sidebar with a list of recent posts, categories, tags, and a search widget to keep users engaged. For […]

Sitemaps typically come in two formats: XML and HTML. Search engines use the former to quickly and easily find the content on your site, while webmasters and bloggers use the latter to help visitors find the pages and topics they’re interested in. Creating a sitemap for a WordPress site is as easy as installing and setting up a plugin. After the initial setup and creation, most sitemaps automatically update when you publish or remove content. In this article, I’ll be looking at 5 standalone sitemap-generating plugins currently available from the WordPress repository. 1. Google XML Sitemaps For a very long time […]