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4 Top User Experience Tips for Improving Your WordPress Website

• May 22, 2013
• Tom Ewer
• 5 Comments

When it comes to creating a popular (and profitable) website, your primary focus should always be on the user experience. That should go without saying, and yet so many webmasters seem to ignore what I consider to be the golden rule of website creation. With the greatest of respect, if you're not putting your users first, you're crazy. And that leads me to the topic of this post: the myriad ways in which you can improve the user experience on your…

WordPress oEmbed: Embed (Almost) Everything Into Your Site

• May 18, 2013
• Peter Shilling
• 7 Comments

Placing videos, images, tweets and many other kinds of external media into your WordPress website is easy with oEmbed. WordPress plugins are the life of the system and in 2013 more than ever there is a plugin for almost everything but it is nice to be able to get jobs done without the use of extra plugins. Many of the tasks that WordPress oEmbed can do for you now, in the past would have been done with the help of…

A Beginners Guide to WordPress [How to Start Blogging in 6 Steps]

• May 16, 2013
• Tom Ewer
• 2 Comments

I'm not going to lie to you -- when I first started using WordPress it frightened the life out of me. Although I now know the user interface back to front, the learning curve can be relatively steep. That is, if you let it. In reality, anyone can start blogging with WordPress in a very short space of time -- the key is to focus on the absolute basics and work your way up to learning more advanced things when…

I Tested For You “VaultPress Lite”

• May 14, 2013
• Remi
• 2 Comments

Backups... that's the story of my life! I have always done everything to backup everything: my computers, my websites, important papers (that I scanned)... nearly everything. Why? Simply because if my computers crash I don't want to lose years of hard work, so if a fire burns my house I want to have a copy of my diploma. That's why backing up is so important. For my computers I use a combination of cloud storage (Dropbox, iCloud and some more)…

3 Things You May Not Know About The Gravity Forms Plugin

• May 11, 2013
• Peter Shilling
• 5 Comments

Gravity Forms is the WordPress plugin of choice for many power users and developers. In this post we uncover a group of lesser known but powerful features of this brilliant form building plugin. "Feature blindness" is a term that I use to describe how some users (including me!) work with software. It refers to the fact that when you use a piece of software or a plugin you will often user the features you know, leaving a world of functionality…

5+ Reasons Why You Should Try Jetpack (Again)

• May 6, 2013
• Tom Ewer
• 9 Comments

If you're a WordPress user you've probably heard of Jetpack -- when it was released to WordPress.org users just over two years ago it was greeted with a mix of delight and suspicion. For those of you who aren't familiar with Automattic's baby, Jetpack incorporates a number of different popular features (and some not-so-popular ones) into one neatly-tied package. Some people love it for that reason, others hate it. But I'm not here to hate on Jetpack -- after all, I…

How To Ban A WordPress User

• May 1, 2013
• Remi
• 4 Comments

I was asked a few days ago to create a system would ban a WordPress user from an install. So I created a simple plugin and I wanted to share with you the basics of this plugin. In this tutorial we will be covering WordPress filters, actions, users columns management and some more great things. Step 1: Create The Plugin Once again, here it's very complicated, all you have to do is to create a new folder with "wp-content/plugins" called…