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CSSCasts; CSS libraries Plugins Tips & Tricks for Developers Created by Rahul GiriLast updated 7/2017EnglishWhat Will I Learn? Build sites based on latest and new tips trick with CSS Complete understanding of the particular topic i will cover on this course Able to use CSS libraries and plugins fluently Able …

In this article, you will find the best Elementor Add Ons that work in consonance with the most popular drag-and-drop page builder – Elementor. Additionally, You’ll find out how to maintain different website areas and stuff it with the custom content with no coding skills. The online space is drawing …

Our post on the best marketing WordPress themes lists many beautiful, well thought-out themes that are sure to capture the attention of any site visitor. The themes on the list are more than enough to help even the most novice marketer create an online presence that will have people talking. For those …

If you are building a website for the coin market, then you most certainly need a selection of cryptocurrency WordPress plugins. Maybe one is enough, but you might be in need of two or even three. While some cryptocurrency WordPress themes have loads of features and extensions, the others might …

Whether you are just starting out or have already gained some traction, with WordPress membership plugins, you can monetize your page and get it lucrative. Whether a blog with exclusive content, a course-oriented platform, or a subscription-based business, whatever your project is all about, with a proper plugin, you can …

Looking to translate your WordPress website into multiple languages? These WordPress translation plugins are here to help to do the task and make your website multilingual. People all over the world do not speak the same language. And so, it’s always a good thing to make your website available in …

Website design is largely about enhancing user experience. While it’s important for a website to be visually appealing, it’s even more important for the website to be efficient in receiving and directing Internet traffic. The numerous search engine optimization measures and SEO-friendly themes that we adopt help to attract and …

By picking any of the following free WordPress Instagram plugins, you can enhance your website with more awesome visuals. You can use your own profile or someone else’s as the source. Also, blending Instagram posts into your blog or website does not require much work. The question is: Are you …

After spending months of planning and weeks of preparation to set up a business, how exactly do you execute your business plan in the online ecosphere? The best way to sell products online is, of course, through e-commerce. As a business owner, you need to focus on delivering a smooth …

When you run a blog or a website, there likely will be many instances when you want to display PDF files on the web pages. By default, WordPress does not support the embedding of PDF files, and you can display PDF files only as links. Clicking on these links will …

Content is what keeps the web alive. Day by day, hundreds of thousands of content pieces make their way into the web. In recent years, protecting the content of websites has become much more popular not only because it helps to weed out low-quality users but also because it helps …

If you are coming up with solutions on how to monetize your website, these free WordPress affiliate plugins are a fantastic way to make it happen. While Amazon might be one of the most widely popular affiliates, there are a whole lot of other options available for every niche your …

Today we would like to present a list of the best job board WordPress themes. These themes can be used for general job listing websites, as well as some niche sites like freelancer job listings and even job boards for babysitters. These themes feature front-end submission, location-aware search, resume creators, …

To bring your photo content to an entirely new level, paid WordPress gallery plugins are the right way to go. So far, you were using a free gallery plugin for WordPress but you feel it is time to upgrade. In most of the cases, if you are satisfied with the …

Coming up with ideas, researching ideas, writing about ideas, and finally publishing ideas, each part of the content creation process is lengthy and requires a lot of energy. Exposing content to new eyes, though, is perhaps the part that takes up the most time and energy. Anyone who wants to …

Selling a product is never an easy task, and selling online is a great deal more difficult. When you sell a product online, it’s important to remember that your potential customers have many other options, and you need to convince them that your product is somehow a better fit for …

WordPress serves as a platform for many different kinds of websites, including social networking sites. A good number of these social networking websites rely on BuddyPress for building their community platform. This plugin adds a whole basket of features necessary for social networking capabilities like user registration and creation of profiles …

WordPress daily deals themes are fully functional themes that allow users to create, post, and release deals and products online. With the help of different management and design tools, you can customize the look of your site and plugin without difficulty. Every theme has a unique feature varying from designs, …

Whoever is looking for the best WordPress podcasting plugins, the search ends now. After going through a bunch of different solutions and tools, we picked only the best ones. A collection for you to benefit from is now ready and set for you and your business. With the popularity of …

List of the best coming soon WordPress themes that you can use as landing, under construction or coming soon pages. All these themes are packed with a progress bar and/or countdown timer to keep track of your progress. Themes are packed with custom subscription forms, contact forms and social media …

I’ve already discussed what causes unplanned downtime and what unplanned downtime might cost a business in a previous article. This post, on the other hand, looks at how you can tackle some planned downtime. Planned downtime may be due to various reasons, such as routine maintenance, the new website under …

Images are an integral part of most websites. No doubt, a striking image helps to attract viewers and hold their attention. Does this mean that you should go ahead and add as many images as you can? Sadly, that’s not the right way to go about it. Images should not …

No one can deny the fact that user experience and speed are a big deal on the Internet. Webmasters are continuously trying to improve the speed and the overall performance of websites. There are many ways to step up website speed, and one of the easiest methods is to remove …

Quite a number of people, such as top chefs, moms who cook four meals a day, bachelor boys who can cook up a basic meal, and anyone who can whip up a storm in the kitchen, want to share their cooking experience online. What better way to do it than …

Notification bars are the narrow strips that appear at the top of the screen. Generally they carry important announcements or messages, and a quick Call To Action button. They can be used for many purposes – recruiting new subscribers to a mailing list, offering discounts or linking to important content. …

Visitors are the most valuable asset to any blog. One way in which you can increase visitor count is by identifying the type of content that they favor and by providing it to them on a regular basis. However, how do we know what type of content they like? Simple—just …

If you’re not running a WordPress blog, then social sharing plugins might be out of your reach. While there’s plenty of those available for free download, there’s also plenty of jQuery plugins for social media sharing and social optimization. jQuery is best known as an animation framework for doing all …

Event calendars can be used to schedule and organize small or large events such as conferences, parties, family get togethers, sports events and more. You may have a website completely devoted to events and booking for events, or you can add a calendar to an existing website and schedule events …

Getting organic traffic to your blog is becoming more of a strategic game rather than a hit-and-miss opportunity. As content websites begin to embrace the inevitable change of having to create content for the people, which automatically weeds out spammy websites, it’s critical to study the workings of the latest …

BuiltWith reports that there are 6.9 million websites using Bootstrap in their design. That’s an insane number of websites, even more insane when we realize that as many as 10% of websites in the top 10,000 websites list are using Bootstrap for one purpose or another. The growth of this …

jQuery’s long-awaited version 3 has finally hit the shelves, and developers all across the globe are working towards using the new features, and transporting their existing libraries to the new code system. Devs who have been implementing jQuery for older versions of IE are going to be disappointed with lack …

Website navigation is going to be one of the most important features that you implement. It serves as the compass for what is to be found on your site. If there is no navigation to begin with, a huge mess establishes itself. Have you ever visited a website that had …

The websites we constantly interact with are a culmination of a variety of widgets, elements, libraries, plugins and code elements that together blossom into the web design experience that we encounter. HTML5 and CSS3 are the front-runners for creating such experiences, and we aren’t ever fully aware of the kind …

jQuery has been around for over a decade now. The platform enables front-end developers and general web developers to create dynamic, interactive and fun libraries for extending the functionality of their web projects. In more ways than one, jQuery has been a godsend for manipulating the browser DOM. It enables …

What’s more important than your business revenue? You guessed it right, it’s your customers. Without customers there are no steady revenue streams. The focus around customer happiness and satisfaction grows big and evident. Keeping customers happy means that they will want to come back and refer it to their friends. …

Do you want to make money by helping others save money on their deals and purchases? You can make this possible by setting up a coupon-based website or offering the best deals on the web. The following is the most comprehensive list of the best WordPress coupon themes and plugins …

Whether for a business or a personal blog, communication is an essential key in maintaining a steady flow of support, feedback, sales, and opportunities. However, WordPress, while used by millions of business people and bloggers all around the world, does not offer a direct communication method. So, bloggers need to …

Data visualization is the process of taking raw (usually numerical) data and converting them into a visual presentation. Techniques for converting raw data have existed for many decades already. However, we have only seen such a steady influx of functional data visualization tools, libraries, and WordPress plugins in the last five …

Website speed and page loading times are very important. Not only does a slow loading website negatively affect the user experience of your visitors, but it can also have a detrimental effect on how search engines like Google evaluate your website when deciding where to rank it in their results. …

Lossless image compression is a big deal, more often than not it is the actual image files that slow our site down significantly, and slow sites are known to cause much higher bounce rate, as well as much lower level of satisfaction. Although image compression technology is still being worked …

You have probably heard of Booking.com or TripAdvisor before, two of the most visited websites in the world that are related to the direct management of bookings for hotels and for many other activities. When you search for a hotel review or search to book a room, both platforms come …

Advertisers and the advertising industry, in general, are in quite a pickle right now. The number of AdBlock users is expected to grow by up to 40% in the coming two years. This means that advertisers will have to find new ways to promote and sell their products. For advertising platforms, …

A forum is a place where persons with similar interests meet up and and connect. With the growth of the Internet, it’s easy to have online forums that cost very little money to set up. They serve as a platform to share ideas and allow members to participate in a …

When visitors land on a web page, they may or may not notice the many calls to action on the page. If you want them to notice the “Sign Up” or “Contact Us” buttons, you’ve got to catch their eye with visually appealing buttons or popups. These buttons can find …

WordPress allows you to assign different user roles to the many members of your team. These roles include administrator, author, contributor, subscriber, and regular user. Each role comes with its own capabilities and restrictions. WordPress, by default, includes a built-in user management system, though it may not allow you full …

Collecting money for a good cause is not always an easy task. But you can make it a little easier for yourself by adding a prominent Donation button on your website. While a collection box placed near any street corner may not catch the attention of passers-by, an attractive Donate …

If your business depends on showcasing your abilities or your past work, then surely you need a portfolio-based website. Generally speaking, it’s easier to convince potential customers with a display of your past accomplishments. You can let images speak for you, and as we all know, a single image can …

A directory website is one where the names, addresses, contact and other details of like or similar individuals or organizations are grouped together, so that they can be accessed from one location. Examples would be a real estate listing directory, blood banks, restaurants and the like. Online directories make it …

The footer of any website is usually a very much neglected space. This is not a good practice especially when every bit of design effort is geared towards attracting and holding a viewer’s attention. In such a scenario, can you really afford to ignore any area of the screen space …

Any person who is marketing any product or service online understands the value of an email list. It refers to a list of potential consumers for your product or service collected diligently over a period of time. The marketing automation platform, MailChimp, is a great aid in building an email list, …

Where would the web be today without forms? We might as well ask where the world would be today without paper! Truly, web forms have helped to create the digital experience more dynamic. Back in the late ’90s, there weren’t that many ways to create dynamic content for websites. All …

You must be familiar with tabs. In a paper file, they refer to those colored strips that help you open to exactly the page you want. You’ll see a similar option in a browser as well, where they help you to get to the page or website you want to …

Marketing on social media has taken off in a big way, and Instagram is among the more popular platforms. With the average number of people active daily on Instagram exceeding 500 million, that’s a market that you really cannot afford to ignore. If you’re using WordPress for your business or …

Running an A/B test on your website can have incremental effects on your conversion rates, user engagement, and quality of design. The thing with web design is that you build a single design, and it works. However, even though it does work, there’s room for more. That usually translates into …

Nowadays, very few websites contain only text. A fair amount of screen space is devoted to images as well. Audio, video, and all combinations of media files are also included to reinforce text content. Media inserts, too, help break up long paragraphs of text. When it comes to websites, such …

In the early days of web design, there weren’t many great choices for fonts. However, with the increasing demand for custom designs and the ability to transport typography into a digital format, the number of typography fonts has risen from a few hundred to several tens of thousands. Now, there’s …

Affiliate marketing is a great way to monetize a blog. Many bloggers take on affiliate marketing as a means to establish either a primary or ancillary revenue stream. If affiliate marketing happens to be your cup of tea, you’ll surely know that Amazon runs the world’s most popular affiliate network. …

From the very same people that gave rise to ThemeForest, and the the community that brought us items such as Avada, WPBakery Page Builder and the X Theme, we now get unlimited WordPress downloads too thanks to their latest subscription-based product – Envato Elements! The subscription is currently priced at $29/m, and …

Advertising techniques continue to grow in diversity as bloggers find new ways to earn money from their content. Traditional AdSense ads have started to decline as bloggers find direct partnerships to be more rewarding and less obtrusive to the readers. Indeed, the traditional advertising landscape is changing. While content farm …

WordPress Multisite allows you to install WordPress just once and to add as many WordPress sites as you want. Manage your network from a single WordPress dashboard with the same username and password. Others can sign up and create their own blogs on your multisite. A multisite network requires a …

Monetizing is a big part of website management. While some bloggers keep their sites ad-free to retain focus on the content, many blogs and websites start as business ventures with profit as the goal. Space on the website is made available to advertisers, and the sale of ad space is …

Being a freelancer has huge benefits, but it also comes with a lot of challenges. Freelance offers you the freedom to work on any kind of projects that you prefer and earn as much as you prefer. It also allows you to choose your own workplace and work hours. Becoming …

WordPress plugins have a number of different purposes. WordPress is an easy-to-use, reasonably powerful content management system (CMS). A CMS is designed to act as a platform for every type of website, so it has to be a bit general in its approach. Assuming that you can code and add functions …

In the age of the Internet, you can buy literally anything you like online with a few clicks of a button. That’s amazing, but what about selling your own products? Selling online has become a business enterprise that many haven’t given up on mastering. What could be more joyous than …

How often have you felt the need to make improvements to your website? Perhaps you want to give it a brand-new look or feel? Ever felt like trying it out on your own? Is programming not on the list of your skill sets? If your answer to all these questions …

Your Internet experience is only as fast as the websites you visit. Typically, the best websites are also the ones with the quickest load times. A slow website makes for a terrible user experience, and let’s not forget the impact that it is likely to have on your search engine rankings. Google …

Basic WordPress Skills Basic HTML and CSS Basic PHP a plus, but not required Description Have you ever wanted to know the secrets behind all the cool things that WordPress plugins and themes can do? This course is offered by an instructor who has developed over 250 WordPress plugins for …

Where would the web be right now if it weren’t for the immense technological breakthroughs that jQuery brought to the table? As we slowly move into a more native JS environment, with the release of ES6 and the likes, we also learn how to use new and old jQuery techniques …

Many of us know Google by its benchmark products, like GMail, Google+, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Maps. These are among the many apps and products that have shaped the way we do work online, how we communicate, and how we conclude business. Right now, a single person could …

Online reviews have become one of the biggest monopolies of the modern technology era. The number of review sites has grown exponentially, but there is no way to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate reviews at any given time. Even sites like Amazon are known to be full of reviews from …

Photographers have a great advantage in displaying their work online. A simple blogging platform like WordPress can be quickly transformed into a powerhouse one for serving artwork, selling artwork, and simply promoting yourself as a professional photo artist. Creative digital artists can also use a photoblog to promote their graphic …

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last two years, you’ll know of the latest design and web development trends for an optimal user experience. WordPress continues to position itself as the number one choice for bloggers, writers, journalists, and brand owners who are passionate about having …

Why do we buy a WordPress theme? Because we don’t want our site to look like any other WordPress site out there. We want ours to be unique. If that’s the case with themes, then why not with the login page? Using a custom login page is one of the …

As a website owner, isn’t it exhilarating to see a growth in incoming traffic? Sure it is! We all have experienced it! However, when your site begins to gain traction, spam will be one of the most unpleasant things you must tend to. The moment your website starts getting a decent …

WooCommerce is a free plugin that teams up nicely with WordPress to help you sell anything online. This plugin can quickly convert your WordPress website into an e-commerce store. It’s popular not only with store owners but with developers as well, and it powers close to 30 million online stores. …