It’s Tuesday and I have some new plugins to share with you on today’s roundup. A special thanks to Feedly for making the formatting of these posts a heck of a lot easier. Have you started using it yet? Here’s the list of plugins:
My Experience of Squarespace [Screencast]
We’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about Squarespace and whether or not it’s a worthwhile investment of time and exploration – and a contender to WordPress blogging. Well, although I’ve known about Squarespace for quite some time and even though I’ve recommended to some customers that they take a look at it in earnest, I’ve never dived deeply into it myself since I’ve been so focused on WordPress. Well, when Squarespace announced their entry into eCommerce adding Stripe integration, a big love of ours here at 8BIT, I knew I had to check it out. Apparently Squarespace has some […]
Bloggers: Are you a Digital Nomad?
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the travel blogger who jets around the world in first class, writes little reviews, make explicitve loads of money and basically is on a constant holiday. For the most part it’s a big con with only a few select bloggers having that much financial security and even then they write a ton to finance it as well but digital nomadism is much more common. Perhaps I feel more connected to this idea having spent the last 3 years living in foreign countries and suddenly realising that I’ve been to over 10th of all the […]
ORBTR: A New Plugin for Marketing Automation
The other day I sent an email to the guys behind Gravity Forms. I was wondering about leveraging all my Gravity Forms for more than just data collection. The way I saw things, I was collecting demographic data (first name, last name, position title) in forms on my site. But I was also collecting behavioral data on my site (pages viewed, length of time on each page, enter and exit pages). So my email was simple: shouldn’t I be able to connect them?
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.18.2013
Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend! I am already missing our editorial office and my team. There is one thing that could cheer me up. Plugins! Here’s some new and updated plugins for you for today’s roundup. Get them while they’re hot!
Things Have Changed – St. Peter's Square
You have already seen this image perhaps, 1,000 times over, and so if you’ve already commented and shared it you can move along, but I have come back to this image more than a few times over the past few days – I can’t seem to “land” on what I really think about this comparison. The 8 years of difference, technologically, is obvious – the crowd in 2005 is waiting patiently with only a handful of mobile devices lit up (that we can see). The recent wait for the new Pope announcement (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) shows a very different crowd […]
Your Introduction to Genesis Hooks
The genesis framework is a robust and dynamic WordPress theming framework created by Brian Gardner at StudioPress. Some key features that the Genesis Framework offers is lightning speed, excellent security (audited by Mark Jaquith), and durability. Genesis Hooks one of the most useful features of this framework to extend your theme’s functionality. These hooks make development quicker and much more efficient. A hook is a snippet of code that is written into a theme or plugin that allows the insertion of content into the theme. This allows you to extend the functionality of your website by hooking code into your website […]
Q/A with theMOLITOR: ThemeForest and More
Chris Molitor, in his first official Seattle meetup, sat down in a Q/A session and shares his experience with finding the right “niche” and placement for his themes, or territory as well as getting exposure and growing a successful business in ThemeForest. He’s now one of the more successful theme developers and Envato authors – selling nearly 20,000 sales and ranking well beyond the $250,000 sales goal. He’s most likely on his way to have a “Molitor Day” – when you hit the $1MM mark! It’s well-worth a listen:
Why Personal Projects Matter
There are many things that I have always wanted to do with my life and I am glad I finally found to do something I love and get paid to do it. When it comes to personal projects, those things seem to get put on the back burner for many of us. I have found that those personal projects are more significant to us than any of our regular work. They really push us because we actually care about them. It doesn’t really matter what it is we do, whether we are athletes, engineers, photographers or bloggers, its about being […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.17.2013
First, I just want to say thanks to everyone who was able to come to our office during WordCamp Atlanta. It was great seeing all of you and I hope that you all had a safe travel home. Hopefully after learning a little bit more about WordPress for some of you, you may want to check out some new plugins! Here they are:
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