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Author: Alyona Galea

Alyona is a WordPress enthusiast, focused on sharing interesting things she comes across during her work with this great CMS. She loves exploring new destinations and maintains a travel blog at www.alyonatravels.com

Articles written by Alyona Galea

WordPress Migration Challenges and How to Overcome Them

In theory transferring a WordPress website should be a straightforward process that involves few well-defined steps like: export your database from the old host, import it on the new one, move your files, reconfigure WordPress and change the DNS records. Not much can go wrong you may think, but actually on each step things can occur causing trouble and preventing your successful transfer. In this post I will go through the most common of these issues and try to give you tips I learned from migrating hundreds of sites to SiteGround servers.

Introducing WPHelpDesk: A Help Desk Plugin Done Right

Whether you think it’s a good thing or a bad thing, not everyone is a computer nerd. To some, plugins are a pleasure; to others – they’re a pain… particularly if you have to use and interact with them every day. Often, the average employee isn’t accustomed to help desk software, and the experience can be annoying, time-consuming, and frustrating; no one, computer geek or not, wants to spend twenty minutes trying to figure out how to reply to a message.

One-Stop Shop for All WordPress Needs – WPEka Club

Hummingbird Web Solutions has been developing WordPress plugins and themes for a while now and has sold them under various brand names. Recently though, they decided to consolidate all their offerings under one umbrella –WPEka Club. This is fast-emerging as a one-stop shop for all WordPress needs and is continually adding new plugins and themes to its repository every month.

Introducing ContactUs.com: Five Types of Forms, Integrated Contact Management and More

We’ve built dozens of tools and plugins, modeled best practices from other form creation and conversion rate optimization companies, and focused on making enterprise tools available for everyone. We’ve spent a great deal of time to develop and regularly update 10 WordPress plugins that have cumulatively been downloaded over 100k times since launching last year.

Why a VPN Should Be in Your Marketing Research Toolkit

Have you ever wondered how to improve your company’s position in search engine results? Until recently, I wasn’t aware that a tool existed on the market that could help. Then I discovered that a VPN (Virtual Private Network) will help drive my ranking higher up the results page, and also circumvent a few other issues.

19 Plugins to Optimize WordPress

WordPress is the blog platform of choice for neophyte and advanced bloggers alike. Powering over 70 million blogs, this avant-garde Web technology allows anyone with a passion for self-expression to publish their thoughts, even if these folks think that CSS, PHP and Ruby on Rails are public transit networks.

Introducing Intagrate: Automatically Post Instagram Images to Your WordPress Site

Instagram has revolutionised mobile photography in recent years and even after being acquired by Facebook in 2012 its popularity and usage has continued to soar. The WordPress community loves to incorporate photography in their websites. The WordPress plugin repository is full of widgets for Flickr, Instagram and other services which are great for displaying recent images.

Getting Rid of your WordPress Passwords

How often do you forget your password? If you’re like the rest of us, it seems like it happens every other minute. Passwords are one of the worst parts of the web. They are a constant blockade between where we are and where we need to be, they waste billions of dollars worth of time every year, and creating a new one feels worse than cleaning a toilet. On top of all that, we have to remember more than 25 of them!

Introducing Codeable

Ever had one of those moments when you’d rather pay someone than try to debug a piece of your code on your own? Or had to change a small portion of your website but didn’t know how? Or had a template that needed modifications but you needed to focus on your business instead? These kind of problems are now over, because you can get help at Codeable!