Category Archives: Open Source

Great WordPress Plugins: Videos

Videos bring a website to life. They’re way more engaging than still images, and like webpage sliders, videos can help you share information. For example, visitors to your website may be looking for a product review or a how-to tutorial. Or perhaps potential clients or employers are examining your work. Regardless, video is a powerful, [...]

WordPress Update 3.4

WordPress has just been upgraded to a new version—3.4. Every major update from WordPress has brought welcomed changes, but version 3.4 is definitely one worth noting. WordPress started off as just a simple tool to create blogs and has grown into a full flagship content management system for complete websites (and blogs).

Great WordPress Plugins: Photo galleries

As an avid photographer, I always look for a great tools to let me share my photos online. I’ve tried numerous methods over the years, including an attempt to code my own gallery using javascript and jQuery — which proved to be not only time consuming, but also confusing and frustrating. From all the options [...]

Great WordPress Plugins: Sliders

One of the reasons WordPress is such a powerful platform for building great blogs and websites is thanks to the large amount of available plugins. These make it easy to add a variety of elements to your site such as photo galleries, video players, calendars, social media tools, and much more. The best part? Usually [...]

Building a Better Website with WordPress Themes

WordPress is often promoted as a great tool to build blogs. But while there is no question that is how it got its start, WordPress is so much more than just a tool for creating great blogs. It is now equally great at creating websites! In fact, there are now 70 million sites built using [...]

Tips on How to Optimize WordPress Websites

One of the most crucial ingredients to a successful website is good performance. A truly well-designed website is optimized so it demands as few resources as possible of it’s host server. This helps your website load quickly for visitors even when receiving sudden increases in traffic and can even help with SEO! WordPress is very [...]