Of all the thousands of WordPress themes out there, the Astra Theme is the market leader and industry standard for 1001 reasons! You can see all the features of Astra for yourself at wpastra.com or search Google for “Astra WordPress theme reviews” to read a wealth of independent reviews of the features and benefits that …
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Avoid forking out thousands for bespoke or custom-built themes, which often result in a worse website anyway. A good off-the-shelf premium theme can still be configured and customised as much as you want and can give you a perfect “million dollar website” for a tiny fraction of the price, even for free! Getting a bespoke …
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Review and compare the features, plans, packages and pricing of the leading WordPress Contact Form Plugins When building a WordPress website, it is vital to choose a suitable contact form plugin. You want to choose between the leading free, premium or “freemium” plugins. Obviously, the actual quality and selection of features they offer is crucial, …
The Genesis framework is the industry standard of WordPress themes and the Gutenberg-ready Corporate child theme that runs on Genesis, is proving to be one of the most popular Genesis child themes around. At WP Courses, we practise what we preach and so this very website uses it! Ignore the “Corporate” bit! Totally disregard the …
I’m a huge advocate for always using the Genesis framework for the vast majority of typical WordPress sites. Since Gutenberg was released last year, a few Genesis child themes have been released, re-released or updated to support Gutenberg and make the most of it’s brilliant features. I definitely recommend sticking to these child themes as …
Of all the thousands of WordPress themes out there, the Genesis framework is the market leader and industry standard for 1001 reasons! You can see all the features of Genesis for yourself at StudioPress.com or search Google for “Genesis WordPress theme reviews” to read a wealth of independent reviews of the features and benefits that …
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Parallax scrolling website designs are becoming increasingly popular and so more WordPress and Genesis theme designers are releasing them in order to cater to this extra demand. What is parallax scrolling? Parallax scrolling websites generally have a full width layout with a long scrolling homepage in which the background moves at a slower rate to …
In December 2018, WordPress released version 5.0 and with it, the much anticipated Gutenberg editor. It was controversial and split opinion throughout the WordPress community. Gutenberg is the biggest upgrade WordPress have ever made. Ultimately, it had to happen. Nobody likes change, but you cannot argue with progress! Gutenberg is undeniably a giant leap of …
(Sorry, that should be “problems”, but it doesn’t scan as well!) TL;DR & full disclosure on Page Builder Plugins While I know they were often popular and played a useful role for some people, I always hated page builders, for a thousand reasons. Now with the release of Gutenberg, there is even less reason to …
Genesis is the industry standard of WordPress theme frameworks and the Altitude child theme is proving to be one of the most popular Genesis child themes around. Just see the showcase of stunning sites built on Altitude here.[browser-shot target=”_blank” url=”http://demo.studiopress.com/altitude/” width=”700″] Like all current Genesis child themes, Altitude is fully mobile responsive, as well as being easy to …
Simply embed YouTube videos into your WordPress website It is so easy to “embed” videos into your WordPress site. How to embed a YouTube clip into any post or page:- Play then pause any YouTube clip Click the “Share” icon below the video Copy the share code URL that appears e.g. https://youtu.be/9cvb0 Paste into the content area …
In WordPress, you can write either pages and posts… Pages For permanent, static content – “timeless” Stick to convention and use short page titles – ideally one-word: “About”, “Services”, “Contact” Avoid gimmicky page titles e.g. “What we do”, “Who we are”, etc You can assign parent pages but not categories. Posts For articles, news and …
What is the difference? Which to choose? WordPress is a free publishing platform that makes it easy for anyone to publish online, and powers millions of websites. There are two versions of WordPress: the simple-to-use, but limited WordPress.com perfect for blogging hobbyists, and the full version, at WordPress.org, for “proper” websites. WordPress.com Limited Control No …
If you’re a good photographer try and take your website’s photos yourself, especially if they feature the people/places/products your site is about! If photos are important, consider investing in a professional photographer or a camera for yourself. Digital SLR cameras are the best. You can get some amazing deals on 2nd hand digital SLR’s on eBay. Otherwise, …
Compare plans, packages and pricing of the leading stock images and photo libraries ShutterStock vs iStock vs CanStockPhoto vs Fotolia When building a website, it is vital to choose great images. You want to choose between the leading stock photo libraries. Of course the actual quality and selection of images they offer is the important …
Use WordPress more efficiently and also enjoy a more productive working life in general by learning keyboard shortcuts! While using any computer, most commands are entered much faster using the keyboard and not the mouse. So if you use a computer for much of your working day, these will save you weeks of your life! …
To get around the front-end and back-end of a WordPress site as efficiently as possible, it helps to use “tabbed browsing” and “keyboard shortcuts”. It also helps to have a fast internet browser. The fastest internet browser is Google Chrome, but Mozilla Firefox and Safari for Macs are both good. If you are still using only …
One of the first things you will learn on our WordPress course is how to add pages to your new website. The basics of adding new pages can be as simple as sending an email:- Click “Add Page“ Enter a Title in the “Title” box Enter text/content for the page in the “Content” box. Click …
Assuming you have not been living actually ON a cloud for the last year, you will have heard a certain buzz word mentioned frequently in recent times, both the world of business and among the technology community. The word I refer to is of course “cloud”. There is cloud computing, cloud storage and cloud hosting. Just see the meteoric rise in …
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If WordPress is so easy to use, why do a training course? Good question! After all, you could just work out for yourself how to use WordPress. It is all a question of time and money How much of your own time and money are you prepared to spend and, more importantly, how much are …
