Creating Beautiful and Effective Landing Pages With WordPress

by Melissa Hill October 28^th, 2014 2 Responses

Third-party providers like Lead Pages and UnBounce offer a no-tech option for countless landing and sales page configurations. But you’re a WordPress savvy developer, you should be able to guide your clients through a landing page solution.

Today we’re going to look at resources, themes, and plugins you can use to create functional, professional looking, self-hosted sales and squeeze pages.

The Basics
It’s probably safe to bet that the overwhelming majority of WordPress developer and design clients are in business. And the entire point of creating a website presence for any business is conversion, that is, turning visitors into buyers.

WordPress Plugins, WPMU DEV

New Plugin: Jobs & Experts, More Than Just a Jobs Board

by Chris Knowles October 28^th, 2014 18 Responses

If your WordPress site sits at the heart of any community then it will benefit from WPMU Dev’s latest plugin, Jobs & Experts. How do we know? Because it’s based on our own Jobs & Pros feature on this very website.

Jobs & Experts makes it easy to connect members of your community who have a need with members who have the expertise. Not only will this benefit the community but it will also help cement your site as the go to destination.

Let’s take a closer look at Jobs & Experts: it’s more than just a jobs board.

WordPress Tutorials

Creating Custom Page Templates in WordPress

by Daniel Pataki October 27^th, 2014 Leave a comment

Page templates in WordPress are a great way to add structure variations or highly customized functionality to your website. They are easy to create so even newcomers can get started but they offer enough potential to keep seasoned professionals busy.

In this article we’ll take a look at some common uses for page templates and how to create a basic page template for your own site.

WordPress Tutorials

How to Customize the WordPress Post Editor

by Daniel Pataki October 26^th, 2014 2 Responses

Did you know you can easily modify the style of the WordPress post editor?

All it takes is a simple stylesheet to create a personalized editing experience. Editor styles are commonly added to make sure the style of the theme on the front-end is mirrored in the style of the editor in the backend. This helps users create content in a more familiar setting.

In this Weekend WordPress Project we’ll take a look at how this can be done and I’ll share some of my own tips and tricks in the process. Ready your favourite text editor and let’s dig in!

WordPress Tutorials

Customizing the WordPress Comment Form

by Daniel Pataki October 25^th, 2014 Leave a comment

The comment form is a great tool – it allows your readers to interact with your authors and vice versa. Engagement is extremely important for any website, such a direct line of communication should be fostered with care. In this article we’ll take a look at some of the options we have for bending the comment form to our will.

We will focus mostly on the arguments for the comment form generating function but we will touch on custom styles and plugins as well, let’s jump in!

Reviews, WordPress Plugins

Best WordPress Video Chat Plugins – Based on Your Needs

by Jenni McKinnon October 24^th, 2014 Leave a comment

There are many amazing video chat plugins for WordPress, but which one to choose? That’s the real question. It’s certainly a fantastic way to connect to your customers, audience, and team from around the world, all in the comfort of your own home, office, or both. I’ll show you which plugin is right for you based on how you want to interact with your clients, fans, co-workers, or employees — seeing them face to face right from your WordPress site.

Most of these plugins let you add video chats right to your site’s page so you also have the option of limiting access, or even adding video chats as a paid feature with WPMU Dev’s Membership Plugin. You’re definitely in for a whirlwind of fun with all the possibilities these plugins have to serve up.

Add Skype buttons to your WordPress site with Skype Master

WordPress Plugins

9 Plugins to Turn Your WordPress Site Into an Online Magazine

by Brenda Barron October 23^rd, 2014 4 Responses

Now is the best time to build a magazine on WordPress. Seriously. All the tools are there. And WordPress is getting more feature-rich by the day. So, you have a real opportunity to create something stellar.

We’ve already covered how to set up an issues-based magazine in the past using manual coding as well as how to create a magazine cover-style homepage, so we won’t rehash old material here.

WordPress Tutorials

How to Create WordPress Custom Post Types

by Daniel Pataki October 22^nd, 2014 7 Responses

The custom post type feature is what transforms WordPress from a blogging platform to a fully-fledged content management system.

Post types cannot be created and managed from the admin but can be exposed very easily using a little code.

In this article, I’ll show you how to create a custom post type for recipes and take you from the very basics to some more complex cases. Let’s begin.

What Is A Post?
Before getting into custom post types I think we should clarify some terminology since the naming convention results in a bit of confusion.

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Our 5% – Join WPMU DEV to Support WordPress.org

by James Farmer October 22^nd, 2014 2 Responses

About a month back, Matt Mullenweg proposed that companies directly involved in WordPress should contribute “Five for the Future,” specifically that they:
…Should dedicate 5% of their people to working on something to do with core — be it development, documentation, security, support forums, theme reviews, training, testing, translation or whatever it might be that helps move WordPress mission forward.
Well, for once, I find myself in total agreement, and here’s how we’d like to make that commitment.

Supporting the WordPress.org Support Forums

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Why You Shouldn’t Use functions.php (And What You Should Do Instead)

by Tom Ewer October 21^st, 2014 22 Responses

It may be easy to insert your custom code into functions.php, but it is almost always the wrong choice. Read on to find out why, and what you should do instead.

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