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A Vision for a Better and More Engaging WordPress Plugins Directory

Posted on October 3rd, 2012 by Editorial Staff
A Vision for a Better and More Engaging WordPress Plugins Directory

The best part about WordPress is the plugins. They give you the ability to extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. There are over 21,000 plugins in the WordPress plugins repository. Over the past few months, I (Syed) have been meaning to write… Read More »

5 Reasons Why We Use Sucuri to Improve Our WordPress Security

Posted on August 27th, 2012 by Editorial Staff
5 Reasons Why We Use Sucuri to Improve Our WordPress Security

About a month or so ago, we started seeing a huge number of failed attempts of reaching WPBeginner’s login page and wp-admin page. We got extremely cautious about that. From password protecting the wp-admin directory to adding two-step verification process, we tried to do everything… Read More »

6 Reasons Why We Switched Away from Livefyre

Posted on June 13th, 2012 by Editorial Staff
6 Reasons Why We Switched Away from Livefyre

Almost exactly a year from today, we decided to make a major switch in our site and ran Livefyre Commenting System to replace the default WordPress comments. It was a product that we fell in love with from the start, and we established great relationship… Read More »

Why WordPress Themes Should Not Have SEO Options and Why They Do?

Posted on May 22nd, 2012 by Editorial Staff
Why WordPress Themes Should Not Have SEO Options and Why They Do?

Ever hear people recommending themes because they are “SEO Friendly”? Yes, we have recommended quite a few themes on this blog labeling it “SEO Friendly”. But what does “SEO Friendly” really mean and what some people think it means? In this article we will share… Read More »

Is this the Future Product Placement Model in Free WordPress plugins?

Posted on April 13th, 2012 by Editorial Staff
Is this the Future Product Placement Model in Free WordPress plugins?

Up until recently, product placement in free WordPress plugins has always been a challenging task. We have seen numerous methods utilized by developers. Some included banner ads on the plugin options page, others released “lite” versions of the plugins, some used lightbox popups in the… Read More »

7 Commercial WordPress Plugins / Services that Helped Me Grow My Blogs

Posted on March 16th, 2012 by Editorial Staff
7 Commercial WordPress Plugins / Services that Helped Me Grow My Blogs

WordPress is a phenomenal platform. There are tons of free plugins, themes, resources out there that will help you grow your blog. There are also tons of commercial (paid) plugins / services that will help you grow your blog as well. Now how do you… Read More »

Gravity Forms vs. Wufoo (Which is a better form management solution?)

Posted on January 19th, 2012 by Editorial Staff
Gravity Forms vs. Wufoo (Which is a better form management solution?)

Recently one of our users asked us which is a better form plugin between Gravity Forms and Wufoo. In the past we have done a lot of posts about Gravity forms but none about Wufoo. We have used both form management softwares personally, so we… Read More »

Does WordPress Admin Bar Needs a More Dropdown?

Posted on November 16th, 2011 by Editorial Staff
Does WordPress Admin Bar Needs a More Dropdown?

If you have been playing around with WordPress 3.3 (Live Demo included) like us, then you have probably adapted to the new admin bar. Quite honestly, we love the new admin bar design. It is very clean looking (until plugin authors break it). As a… Read More »

Do we need a better 404 page for WordPress Plugins Repository?

Posted on October 10th, 2011 by Editorial Staff
Do we need a better 404 page for WordPress Plugins Repository?

Update: Our opinion was heard. The Plugins repository now has a 404 page Have you ever found an article about a WordPress plugin that you think might be the solution? You click on the link just to find out that you landed on the WordPress… Read More »

Should Blogroll “Links” be removed in favor of WordPress Menus?

Posted on September 28th, 2011 by Editorial Staff
Should Blogroll “Links” be removed in favor of WordPress Menus?

Yesterday, on our facebook page, we asked a question “If you could get rid of one feature or thing in WordPress, what would it be?”. Some folks from our community gave their opinion. We also asked the same question on twitter. One of our users… Read More »

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