What You’ll Be Creating There are a variety of ways of keeping in touch with people who visit your websites. You can encourage them to become subscribers by adding a Subscribe widget. You can use the Jetpack plugin to make it easier for existing WordPress.com users to keep up to date. Or you can encourage… Continue reading How to Link Your WordPress Site with Your MailChimp Mailing List and Get More Signups
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How to Code a Landing Page in Your WordPress Theme
What You’ll Be Creating If you’ve bought anything on the internet, you’ve probably come across a landing page. They’re a highly effective way of maximizing conversions from a website. But just what is a landing page, and how do you create one for your WordPress site? In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate what makes a landing… Continue reading How to Code a Landing Page in Your WordPress Theme
How to Set Up a Quiz on Your WordPress Website
Today, we’re going to explore the WP Quiz plugin which allows you to set up quizzes on your WordPress site. We’ll go through the details of this plugin and we’ll end the post with a real-world example. Setting up online quizzes is one of the best way to engage your visitors and it’s always fun… Continue reading How to Set Up a Quiz on Your WordPress Website
How to Create an Online Store with WordPress and BigCommerce
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a WordPress shopping cart, using the BigCommerce WordPress plugin. We’ll go over the following things (in both video and written format, choose whichever you prefer!): What is BigCommerce (and the concept of “headless”)? How to download the plugin and create an account Setting up… Continue reading How to Create an Online Store with WordPress and BigCommerce
20 Best WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Addons & Plugins of 2018
With over a million users worldwide, the popular drag-and-drop page builder, WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer), has inspired a legion of developers to create loads of cool and useful addons and extensions. These expand the functionality of WPBakery and provide virtually unlimited possibilities when it comes to creating the WordPress site of your dreams.… Continue reading 20 Best WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Addons & Plugins of 2018
Create a Contact Form in WordPress Using a Free Plugin
Today, we’re going to discuss the Formidable Forms plugin for WordPress, which allows you to create different kinds of forms easily. Specifically, we’ll look at how you could use this plugin to build a contact form for your site. We’ll start by exploring the basic settings provided by this plugin, and later on, we’ll go… Continue reading Create a Contact Form in WordPress Using a Free Plugin
Create Websites Fast With the Elements Plugin for WordPress
Envato Elements, as you may already know, is a massive repository of creative digital assets. By subscribing to it, you gain access—with unlimited downloads and commercial rights—to over a million premium themes, templates, plugins, and other handy items that facilitate website development. In an attempt to make this repository more accessible to WordPress users, Envato… Continue reading Create Websites Fast With the Elements Plugin for WordPress
Create an Animated SVG Logo for International Women’s Day 2019
To mark International Women’s Day 2019 we’ll be creating an animated SVG version of the event’s logo you can use along with this year’s hashtag #BalanceforBetter. In the process we’ll be learning about using Figma and its boolean operations, as well as inline SVG animation via the animateTransform element. This is what we’ll be creating:… Continue reading Create an Animated SVG Logo for International Women’s Day 2019
How to Make a Personal Resume Website: From a WordPress Theme
What You’ll Be Creating In the modern work world, a simple resume is often not enough. Sure, it’s imperative to send it along with any job application, but if you truly want to stand out you need to go a step further. And nothing makes you stand out more than a personal website that showcases your education… Continue reading How to Make a Personal Resume Website: From a WordPress Theme
GutenMag – Gutenberg WordPress Theme for Magazine and Blog
WordPress is changing the way that users write and publish content. But also, the way in which users can design their pages. Gutenberg is the all-new WordPress Content Editor that’s introducing a dynamic Blocks system. Blocks are reusable multimedia content elements that provide a new way to publish posts and design pages. Starting with WordPress… Continue reading GutenMag – Gutenberg WordPress Theme for Magazine and Blog
How to Create a WordPress Landing Page Template
What You’ll Be Creating One of the purposes of a website is to generate leads. This can happen in a number of ways: you might have a form for people to contact you for a specific quote, you might encourage people to create an account when buying goods on your site, or you might have… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Landing Page Template
4 Insider Secrets to Building Persuasion in Every Pixel
One of the fundamental mistakes you can make as a web designer is to divorce your designs from business goals. Few websites exist just for the sake of it. If you want to be a well-paid designer, you’ll have to align your work with your clients’ business demands. Most businesses have a simple goal for… Continue reading 4 Insider Secrets to Building Persuasion in Every Pixel
So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos
When you’re selling a theme, its demo is your sales pitch. If the demo falls short in some way, it’s doing a disservice to the theme and will lead to a loss of sales. If your theme includes hundreds of features, but buyers can’t see them in action, you may as well have no features… Continue reading So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos
Debugging Node Code in VS Code ― Scotch
Visual Studio Code has an amazing amount of functionality built in, including support for debugging applications. Although the functionality is there, it took me several tries to figure out how to get things configured to debug Node applications. It became even more tricky when using Nodemon, so I figured it was worth it to share… Continue reading Debugging Node Code in VS Code ― Scotch
Getting Started with Chrome Developer Tools: Advanced DevTools
The most common tool in Chrome Developer Tools is Inspect Element. As we’ve covered, this tool allows you to view the CSS and HTML associated with specific on-screen elements. But there’s more power than that within DevTools. You can also access additional tools to do far more. You can debug JavaScript, monitor network performance, preview… Continue reading Getting Started with Chrome Developer Tools: Advanced DevTools
Will the WordPress Gutenberg Editor Make Content Creation Better?
January 30, 2018 by Christopher Jan Benitez As always, WordPress is still on the run to provide better services to millions of its users. With the goal to make adding content enjoyable and straightforward, WordPress created Gutenberg Editor. Though still in the beta and testing phase, Gutenberg Editor indeed is to watch out for in… Continue reading Will the WordPress Gutenberg Editor Make Content Creation Better?
5 Tips to Help You Convert Visitors to Buyers on eCommerce Sites
Before even looking at why converting visitors to buyers is such an issue, you might want to look at some fairly revealing statistics on the explosive growth of eCommerce in recent years. Are you in a quandary as to whether or not you can build a successful website yourself, or if you need to hire… Continue reading 5 Tips to Help You Convert Visitors to Buyers on eCommerce Sites
How To Add A Navigation Menu To WordPress: Beginner’s Guide
Are you struggling with how to add a navigation menu to WordPress? WordPress actually includes a fairly user friendly interface to help you add menus to WordPress without needing to know any code. But unless you’re already familiar with WordPress, it can still be difficult to dive in and create your first menu. In this… Continue reading How To Add A Navigation Menu To WordPress: Beginner’s Guide
How to Develop a WordPress Theme from the Ground Up
Having your website is one thing. But developing a WordPress theme is another. Why? It’s because your site’s theme is the one which brings personality to your site. Not to mention, a WordPress theme optimized for performance like the ones seen here at Colorlib is what differentiates you from your competitors. It is what defines you… Continue reading How to Develop a WordPress Theme from the Ground Up
Starbis – All in 1 HTML5 Theme for Bloggers, Businesses & Web Stores
Bloggers, freelancers and web design studios are rapidly shifting towards building web resources on the basis of multi-purpose website templates. A broad spectrum of customization features, multiple ready-made layouts, child themes, and rich UI kits lure people’s attention, turning them into avid fans of fit-it-all designs. Today, we are going to bring your attention to… Continue reading Starbis – All in 1 HTML5 Theme for Bloggers, Businesses & Web Stores
Google Data Studio: a Nifty, Free, Easy-to-use Data Vis Tool
As a digital marketer, you can often be overwhelmed with the amount of information and data needed to be analyzed in order to evaluate your efforts. Traffic, conversion rate, user location, behavior and acquisitions — just to name a few — all have to be examined to define the progress of your digital marketing campaign.… Continue reading Google Data Studio: a Nifty, Free, Easy-to-use Data Vis Tool
Giveaway: Win One of Five Monstroid Licenses
Posted · Category: Announcement Do you remember Monstroid, a huge multipurpose WordPress theme we reviewed around a year ago? Since then, it’s grown even more as a result of multiple updates. Today, we’d like to review the latest one and give away 5 licenses for Monstroid. You can find a lot of WordPress themes designed… Continue reading Giveaway: Win One of Five Monstroid Licenses
9 Best WordPress Calendar Plugins
We all know very well that WordPress is the backbone of every website or blog. We cannot imagine any website or blog without WordPress. WordPress is easy to use and save time that’s why it is very popular among web developers. WordPress provides so many exciting and useful plugins calendar plugins are one of them.… Continue reading 9 Best WordPress Calendar Plugins
Meet “Intense” – A Revolutionary Multipurpose HTML5 Template
Posted · Category: Information The fastest way to build a website is to use a readymade website template, plus do some customization (depending on your requirements). And when a few years ago that was the choice of small companies and bloggers, today even the largest corporations opt for these tactics. Indeed, why reinvent the wheel… Continue reading Meet “Intense” – A Revolutionary Multipurpose HTML5 Template