Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.
This is the era of mobile devices and smartphones.
In many cases, almost half of your website traffic can come from users on tablets and smartphones, instead of full-fledged desktop computers.
Naturally, one needs to be prepared for such users, and the best way to be prepared is to ensure that your website looks awesome, irrespective of the device dimensions that your visitors employ.
We’ve been looking forward to WordCamp Europe for a long time now, and we’re sure it’s gonna be absolutely amazing, and probably the biggest WordCamp ever held in Europe.
Of course we’ll be there and we’d love to meet as many cool WordPress people as possible.
So if you’ll be in Amsterdam between Wednesday and Friday, or Leiden during the weekend, do come and say hello.
FAQ pages are ubiquitous on the web, and they are very convenient indeed. FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions, and by creating such a page, you have the opportunity to group all those add questions that customers ask over and over again.
Hopefully, new customers will then take a look at the FAQ page before emailing your support department. Even if they email you, you can quickly point them to the answered question on the FAQ page.
When building commercial plugins, I always include an FAQ page. I also recommend it to most of my business clients from any type of business sector.
So here’s a round up of the most popular and best FAQ plugins for WordPress.
I just came across an interesting post on WP White Hat Security, which says that 70% of the top 40,000 ranked WordPress websites are vulnerable to hacking attempts. Clearly there is not enough awareness or knowledge among WordPress site owners in this area.
WordPress is being used for almost any purpose imaginable these days, so it’s not hard to understand why it’s also being used for classifieds websites. In this post we’ll be taking a look at the best ways to create a WordPress classified website with WordPress, either using themes or plugins.
WordPress security is one of those very important topics that many people talk about but few actually take seriously.
I understand why, most users just can’t visualise things enough in order to comprehend the value of taking the necessary steps to secure their site.
In this article I’ll explain how easy it might be to hack your WordPress site.
Anybody can learn to write better Posts with WordPress and improve the size of their blog’s audience by following a few simple guidelines before you hit that Publish button. In this article, we’ll break down the structure of a Post for beginner bloggers, and help you improve your blog posts.
When it comes to building a multilingual site in WordPress, it’s necessary to turn to one of the third party plugins out there. Thankfully there are a couple of high quality options available, ranging from free offerings to premium plugins.
When it comes to creating a multilingual WordPress site there are two main approaches to consider. One is the creation of a partially multilingual site where either the published content is available in more than one language, or the WordPress admin dashboard is displayed in multiple languages. The other option is to create a site that is fully multilingual where both the published content and the admin area is available in more than one language.
Feedback plugins can be used to gather suggestions, feedback and feature requests from your users. Here are the best plugins for this purpose.
If you want to have parts of your website using a different theme, I just found a nifty little plugin that lets you do it.
Page Theme lets you specify the theme (not template, that is already taken care of by WordPress) you wish to use with each given page or blog post.
Two of the most popular WordPress projects on GitHub (besides WordPress itself) are Roots and Automattic’s _s. Both of these are share the same goal: give professional themers a clean slate to build a custom theme.
It make sense that they have thousands of forks and GH stars between them. Most of the other developers I talked to at WordCamp SF do this for a living: design unique sites for their clients and then build them in a custom WordPress theme.
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the Dynamik Theme for Genesis. It’s aptly described as a website builder because it’s basically a do-it-yourself Genesis child theme for non-developers. Cobalt Apps, the company behind this product, have just let us know that they will be dropping their own framework and focusing on Dynamik for Genesis solely from now on. Great move in my opinion.
Today though I want to talk about the Genesis Extender, which in my opinion is even more useful than the Dynamik Theme.
First of all, what’s the difference between these two products (both from the same company)?