Who are you? You’re a WordPress Designer, or you want to be. You’ve fallen in love with WordPress and design in general. You’ve learned all about designing themes and are more than comfortable tweaking code, working with shortcodes, functions, and plugins. You’ve created a few sites for clients using WordPress because you know how powerful it can be, and yet how easy it is for your...
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Thanks to ThemeSpectrum.com for this excellent guest post.
A Dynamic Front Page
In the past a WordPress site could be spotted a mile away with 10 blog posts flowing down a front page and a sidebar. WordPress now functions more like a traditional CMS out of the box, but theme developers are creating WordPress themes with more dynamic and rich front pages. Below are 3 different approaches to creating a...
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Recently, on a forum I frequent, an old acquaintance asked how to convert one of his old Dreamweaver sites to WordPress, with the least amount of effort involved. At first, I thought it would be impossible to make it an easy task, but after seeing some other responses, I realized I was wrong. Although the process isn’t completely trivial, it can be done with a lot less effort than I’d...
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I love premium WordPress themes. Generally, they are well-designed and come with lots of great options. The drawback, of course, is that they cost money, and if you tend to create blogs often, that adds up pretty quickly. For those people who love to create new blogs, or are simply theme junkies, theme clubs/memberships or theme packages are great deals. With theme packages, you pay one price to download...
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A question I often get asked is along the lines of:
Donna, what would I need if I wanted to create a [fill in the blank] type of site, using WordPress to manage it? What tools would you recommend I use to make it quick, easy, and profitable, and how much will it cost me to get those tools?
To be honest, it usually takes a lot of time to boil down the numerous questions into those two concise questions,...
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You’ve written great content, socialized it like crazy, guest posted, generated backlinks, promote awesome products, and you’re now tearing your hair out trying to figure out how to get your blog to make more money. Instead of spending all your time trying to get more and more traffic to your blog, spend a little time increasing conversions on the traffic you already receive. As @GrowMap...
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How many times have you seen the panicked tweets of people who’ve had their blogs hacked? Ever wondered what you should do if it happened to you? Today, I’m talking to an expert in dealing with hacked WordPress blogs, Michael VanDeMar. Listen, learn, and then be careful out there!
How He Knows
Donna: I know you have a popular blog post that describes how to completely clean your hacked...
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At some point, I’d intended to write some reviews of the following five products designed to enhance WordPress and make it easier for you to create niche incomes. I’ll be honest and tell you that I actually thought I wrote them, but I realized that I didn’t. Whoops, my bad. However, each month, I’m notified of a special deal on each of them, so I figured I’d at least pass that...
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Imagine opening up a store in a mall somewhere, and just when the profits start rolling in, the mall decides to close down forever, but they don’t tell you. In fact, they not only fail to inform you, but they place tons of dynamite around the mall, and completely blow it to smithereens. Your store is gone in a flash, and no matter what you do, you cannot get your store and its inventory back, nor can...
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Wow, I’m not often this impressed, but when I see something that makes my jaw drop, I figure you should see it too. I downloaded and activated a plugin today, and in the options panel, I noticed a link to a premium themes site that I’d never heard of. Since I look at lots of themes, I was surprised to see a new one, so of course I checked it out. While all the premium themes look good, one in...
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