WordPress Themes & Plugins Reviews

Most Useful WordPress Widgets

December 14, 2016/0 Comments/in Beginners, Plugins /by Wadim Skworzow

Widgets are the most simple and effective way to customize your website on WordPress. In fact, you can customize most parts of your website`s interface using only the widgets. Therefore, the understanding of the most popular and useful widgets is vital for each site administrator on WordPress. We will help you to orient in a huge variety of existing widgets, and you can select the most appropriate elements to optimize your site or blog.

All widgets can be divided into two large groups. The first group includes widgets that are available by default in the most themes for WordPress. The second group of widgets is implemented through specific plugins. We will briefly observe both groups of plugins because their functionality is too important to ignore it. Some participants of our list require the installation of simple and intuitive to configure plugins.

Tips to Run Your WordPress Site Automatically

December 12, 2016/0 Comments/in Plugins, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Holidays are just around the corner. This means that it is time to think about how your website will be updated during your holiday. Of course, no one will force you to be constantly be present in the web and to communicate with your target audience on Christmas Eve. However, constantly reminding about yourself is the thing you can perform even without your personal intervention.

In this article, we will discuss the most basic and vital techniques to maintain the most important features of a WordPress site during your vacation. Tools for automatic maintenance of a WordPress site activity are provided by the modern plugins and some basic features of the WordPress platform.

Our advice will be useful for WordPress administrators that promote their sites on their own or are planning to arrange a holiday for all the staff involved in the development of the site. Some of these tips will be useful not only during the holidays. After all, you do not devote your WordPress website or blog 24 hours a day. Consequently, the automatic monitoring tools will be useful in everyday life.

Now let us consistently analyze what plugins and capabilities will allow you to set up automatic operation of your WordPress site.

Best WordPress Themes Created in 2016

December 5, 2016/1 Comment/in Staff Picks, Themes /by Wadim Skworzow

Premium WordPress Themes are the first essential tool for creating a successful website or blog. The choice of a theme is the first important step on the way to the thrilling world of online projects in WordPress platform. But how to choose the best option for your project, if there is such a huge variety of themes?

In this article we will look at the best WordPress themes of 2016. An indicator of the quality will be seen by the number of satisfied customers, so in this list you will find only the best sellers. We have collected a variety of themes for you. There are multi-tasking themes, and themes designed for a particular industry. We believe that you will have the best opportunity to choose the appropriate theme from the given list. Let us go on an exciting journey to the Forest of WordPress Themes!

Best WordPress Plugins Created in 2016

December 1, 2016/0 Comments/in Plugins, Staff Picks /by Wadim Skworzow

This year is coming to an end and it is time to summarize things up. In this article we will look about the best plugins that were released in 2016. Determination of the best plugins occurs in accordance with most objective indicators – the number of purchased copies. This indicator is the only tangible proof of trust by users to a specific product in a large range of modern plugins for WordPress sites and blogs. Naturally, there are other factors, but we will not dwell our attention on them because of their small value.

The participants of our list of best sellers are here for a particular reason. These plugins combine the large variety of tools that can save a lot of money compared to purchasing each element individually, or represent a unique offer in the market of WordPress plugins in 2016. In both cases, these plugins are worth your attention. Perhaps, here you will find just the plugins that you should have bought for the successful development of your online project on the WordPress platform.

So, get ready for the journey, where we will see the most interesting specimens of Plugins` Canyon!

Improving Your WordPress Site for Free

November 29, 2016/0 Comments/in Beginners, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

We have previously written about, how much should you spend on a WordPress site. If you are already familiar with this information, you know that one should spend a lot of money for this purpose. Any internet project needs constant attention and updating. And sites on the platform WordPress are no exception. However, there are ways to improve your website or blog without any financial investments.

In this article, we will discuss a simple, effective, and (most importantly) free methods to improve the performance of your WordPress site and amaze its users. You can adopt them all or choose the most suitable to begin work on the optimization of your site. This process can occur gradually and do not affect all aspects of project activities at the same time. But in the end you will come to the knowing that the process of improvement never stops.

Tips to Improve Usability of WordPress Site

Tips to Improve Usability of a WordPress Site

November 18, 2016/0 Comments/in Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Usability is the key to keep your site visitors` attention. Usability determines the degree of comfort for users of the site on the WordPress platform and their chances to return to the pages of your web project. Of course, usability is not the only important part of your website or blog, but one can not develop any project without it.

Today we will talk about the basic methods of improving the usability of any WordPress site. The science of usability is much deeper than it may seem at first glance. But you can acquire the comprehensive knowledge about it only gradually, along with the acquisition of site management and experience on WordPress. So we start with the simple tips that can be applied even by novice website owners on WordPress site platform.

On the other hand, if you are an experienced administrator, but have not yet been taken these steps to improve usability of your site, then moving on does not make sense. Check how much does your internet project comply with the requirements and parameters, which we present below.

Connecting Your Instagram Account to WordPress Site

November 14, 2016/0 Comments/in Plugins, Themes /by Wadim Skworzow

Widely known fact says that the visual content attracts attention better than any text. This is the basis of popularity of the modern social network Instagram. Instagram is the most popular social platform for rapid posting of the images. Today the social network has more than 500 millions of subscribers. And this number is constantly growing.

Instagram attracts users with a simple possibility to instantly share bright moments of their lifes with friends. In the presence of the mobile internet, Instagram becomes your online album with photos that can be updated immediately after taking any shot with your smartphone.

Many site owners on the WordPress platform already appreciated the advantages of combining Instagram account with your internet project. Active account in Instagram can be interesting not only for personal blog, but also for the online store, which wants to ease and effectively communicate with its regular customers.

Let us look at the simplest and most effective ways to link Instagram account with your WordPress site. We will introduce you several themes that are adapted to connect the Instagram feed to your WordPress site. And also consider a way of manually adding the Instagram posts on your site and the possibilities of modern WordPress plugins designed specifically to optimize the Instagram-WordPress connection.

Showing Custom Menus Logged WordPress Users

Quick Tip: Showing Custom Menus to Logged In WordPress Users

November 13, 2016/0 Comments/in Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Experienced website owners on WordPress know how important it is to segment the audience of readers. This way you can provide the best content for each group of visitors and the better involvement for them in the commentary of interesting entries on the website or blog.

One tested method to segment the audience on WordPress website is to create a custom menu to show it only for the logged in users. In addition, this tool allows you to further motivate users to register on your site to see the hidden pages.

In this Quick Tip article we will analyze in detail how to quickly create a custom menu, which you will be able to show only for the logged in users of your site. To be effective, you need a premium WordPress plugin called Superfly.

Best Grid Building Plugins for WordPress

November 10, 2016/1 Comment/in Plugins /by Wadim Skworzow

Grid Building Plugins allow you to create a unique collection of pages, posts, social activities or products on one page of your website on WordPress platform. Grid pages show a high level of audience involvement. Users feel much more convenient and pleasant to interact with a collection on one page, instead of having to search for information in Google or to walk around the site for updates.

Providing your users with the convenience and constantly updated content is quite simply. We present a list of premium Grid Building Plugins, which will take care of all the hard work to build a special grid pages on your site on the WordPress platform. You can verify the simplicity and user-friendly interface of any plugin using the opportunity to live preview through the links that we provide in this article for each listed plugin.

Quick Tip: Finding IDs for a Page, Post, Category or Tag in WordPress

November 9, 2016/0 Comments/in Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

WordPress does not display ID of any page, post, category or tag on your Dashboard by default. ID may be required when you write your own code to customize a particular theme or plugin (or create them from scratch).

Today we share with you a simple and obvious way to find the ID for any page, post, category or tag on WordPress. This method does not assume installation of any additional plugins or extensions for WordPress and is based solely on default features of modern browsers.