WordPress

Protected Member Areas with WooCommerce Subscriptions & Notifications

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Are you running a WordPress site that requires a secure user area with protected content? Do you have private content that only members of your association can access? Do you provide a fee-based business that has need-to-know documentation for your clients? WordPress doesn’t provide this feature by default, but it does provide user role access … Read more

WordPress Menus: An Introduction to the Basics

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Many of our clients prefer a ‘hands-off’ approach to their websites and let us handle even small content updates, which we are always happy to do.  However, we encourage our clients to take advantage of the easy to use WordPress admin interface to manage their own content.  Creating and editing pages, posts, and media items is very … Read more

Expand WooCommerce Marketplace with WC Marketplace Plugin

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WooCommerce is the de facto standard in getting an eCommerce setup quickly with a WordPress environment. Like all eCommerce solutions, it does have it’s own learning curve, and for very specific customizations you will need a web developer to assist you with some heavy lifting. That’s why it is always impressive when a plugin comes … Read more

WordPress Learning Management Systems (LMS) – LearnDash and more…

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WordPress has evolved substantially from its early days as a simple and user friendly blogging platform.  Nowadays, WordPress sites account for about 28% of the web, and represent everything from powerful eCommerce platforms to complicated membership sites.  We’ve implemented user forums, location finder maps, location-specific multisites, events management, donation forms, image and video galleries, hundreds of … Read more

WordPress Plugin Development vs Third-Party Plugins – WordPress

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Do I Need A Custom Plugin Developer? Plugins make WordPress powerful and dynamic. Plugins add unique options and functionality that does not come standard with the WordPress CMS. They allow users to take what started as a blogging program and turn it into a platform capable of building a robust website. There are tens of … Read more

Staying One Step Ahead of WordPress Hackers

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The importance of keeping WordPress up to date On February 1, 2017 WordPress announced that the most recent version of the WordPress core included a security fix. Since WordPress is updated regularly and most updates contain some sort of security patch, very little attention was paid at first. However, within days the number of reported … Read more

Choosing the Best WordPress Website Layout Template

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The world of web design has become increasingly diverse. WordPress themes and plugins allow websites to change their layout and format with incredible ease compared to the web technologies of the past. The wide array of formatting options can be confusing when creating a new site, and often brings up several questions: What should my … Read more

Smart Mobile Navigation Design for WordPress Sites

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In April of 2015, Google made a huge decision to boost rankings for mobile friendly web sites. This meant that web designers and developers everywhere had even more pressure to adopt mobile friendly design practices, so that their web site deployments would meet this requirement and thus improve their clients’ web presence. Watermelon Web Works … Read more