This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Need a great event calendar for your WordPress site. This post (don’t worry that it’s from 2017, it’s all good) reviews 9 top WordPress event calendar plugins, both free and commercial. I’m currently a fan of the free My Calendar plugin for its good looks and ease of […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. This week I added a new Resources page to WP Minder. Please let me know in the comments if you find this helpful, or how it can be made more useful… I always customize the WordPress login page for my design clients. It takes just a couple of […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. CRO (conversion rate optimization) is something I’m always trying to increase for my design clients. Here’s a great post showing how a few key small changes in design can have a huge impact on CRO – in this case increasing conversions by over 35%! Now, at the beginning […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Should you disable comments on your blog? That can be a big question for some – consider whether comments provide value to your site and readers or not. Is it mostly spam? A plugin can fix that. There are measures you can take that don’t require you get […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. How to keep Google from indexing your WordPress site for search… Wait! Why would you want to do that? Isn’t the whole point to get found in search? Normally, it is. But there are some situations when you might not want your pages indexed, including sites-in-development, private sites […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Grats – you just wrote a killer blog post. It took you hours, and it’s sure to be compelling reading for your customers – but how will you let them know about it? Check out these 13 ways to promote that blog post. For example: including a link […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. This question still comes up occasionally… if you want to display an email address on your website, can you keep it from being ‘harvested’ by spam bots? Yes, you can. The venerable Email Address Encoder plugin is perfect for this – just install it. That’s it, nothing else […]
This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Let’s start with something a bit unpleasant… Earlier this month it was reported that WooCommerce.com has dropped its customary 50% discount for renewals of its extensions. Instead, renewing customers will now be paying full price. This is likely to be especially irritating to customers who have set up […]
I was going through my business bookshelf last weekend and thought I would start sharing some of the best books that have helped me out as I grow my own company… Here we go. Good Reference Books for Bloggers Whether you’re an experienced blogger or just considering adding a blog to your business site to help […]
If you’re already using Mailchimp for your email newsletter, did you know you can also use it to send subscribers your latest blog posts in their email inbox? While there are a few WordPress plugins that manage email subscriptions, I like using Mailchimp so I have all my email campaign information – and mailing lists […]