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When I sat down to share my list of plugins, I only intended to write one post. Well, one post turned into 3 (well, 4 if you count the one on plugin pricing models). Turns out there were more plugins on my list than I anticipated, so I ended up breaking it up into parts.…
Previously I published my list of must-have plugins for every WordPress site that I work on. Continuing with my list of WordPress plugins, here’s the run down of my go-to plugins for specific functionality I need on a site. Sure, most sites will use many of them. However, I urge you to really evaluate what…
In writing down all the various WordPress Plugins that I use and love, I realized that there are several different pricing models used by plugins. Some of them are pretty obvious, but some maybe aren’t. To make sure you know what to expect when it comes to paying for (or not paying for) plugins, here’s…
Plugins are one of the main reasons that WordPress is such an amazingly powerful platform. There’s a plugin to do just about anything; they slice, they dice, they julienne fry. Seriously, there are nearly 36,000 plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory. Which is great… but also completely overwhelming. It’s a hugely daunting task to try…
WordPress 4.1 is slated to be released today, a Hanukkah gift, or early Christmas gift, from Automattic. One of the biggest features will help those that get easily distracted when creating their web content (oh, something shiny over there…) Here’s the rundown of new features available in WordPress 4.1 Improved “distraction-free” writing view In the…
It seems like everything you do these days requires an account. Email, calendar, files, phones, apps… the list goes on and on. For better or worse, Google owns many of the places you might need an account. If you use YouTube, Gmail, Google Docs, AdWords, Google+, Blogger, Picasa, Chrome or one of their other 49+…
Would you have an employee use their home address to receive customer payments? Probably not. Receiving payments is critical to the business. You don’t want payments going anywhere that doesn’t belong to you. Well, that is exactly what happens employees are allowed to use personal email addresses for company business. Business critical activities are happening somewhere you have…
Websites today are simply amazing. They are capable of so many different things: social media integration multi-media interactivity split testing and so much more. However, just because your website CAN do something, doesn’t mean that it SHOULD. This is especially true when it comes to video. Yes, your website is completely capable of hosting video…
If you have a website, there is no excuse why you shouldn’t be using Google Analytics to track your web traffic. Yes, there certainly are lots of other website traffic and analytics trackers out there. Google Analytics has risen to the top of the pack because it is free (and who doesn’t love free?) and…
If you use Gmail or Google Apps (now officially called Google Apps for Work), it can be really annoying when you try to share a web page and your computer opens Outlook, Live Mail or Mac Mail when you click on an email link. Doesn’t it know that you use Gmail? Well, maybe not. You can…