WordPress Themes & Plugins Reviews

Cyber Monday and Black Friday 2018 on Envato Market for WordPress

November 19, 2018/0 Comments/in Plugins, Staff Picks, Themes /by Wadim Skworzow

Cyber Monday and Black Friday super deals are coming to Envato Market for all WordPress website owners who want to grab some hot premium plugins and themes at 50% off! This year`s campaign starts on Tuesday 20th November, 2 p.m. AEDT and ends on Tuesday 27th November, 8 p.m. AEDT. It means we should prepare ourselves for a whole week of amazing deals!

With this article we bring you the premium items from Envato Market chosen by the platform representatives: 5 best WordPress themes and 5 best WordPress plugins to purchase within Cyber Monday and Black Friday 2018 campaign. We will also provide you with the list of the best deals from Envato Market as soon as all competitors will announce their deals. Stay tuned to the important updates of this main topic for the year 2018!

Update: Top 100 WordPress items` list for from Envato Market is now available — 50 of the best selling WordPress plugins and themes at 50% off!

Cross Browser Testing: How to Perform on Your WordPress Website

November 17, 2018/0 Comments/in Beginners, Development, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Each change of design, interface, navigation or any other feature of your WordPress website might potentially cause some problems in performance. This is not a reason to decline any changes, rather to make them wisely and test the results before publishing them live. One of the most important challenge your changes should face is the cross browser testing.

You probably know that there are more than one popular browsers in the world. Although Google Chrome is the popularity leader among other browsers, it covers only 65% of desktop users and 57% of mobile platform users. Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge, and Safari are still strong and preferred by many people around the world. It means that you need to consider not only the most popular browser users but also other part of your potential audience. You would not decline of at least 35% op your visitors in a moment, would you?

Fortunately, WordPress platform can provide you with ample opportunities to test and optimize your website design, content and features throughout all of the popular browsers. Special plugins and services allow you to bring cross browser testing even without knowledge and skills in web development or design. In this article we will observe and analyze the main features and opportunities that some dedicated services can give to your WordPress project.

Best Premium WordPress Themes for Martial Arts Clubs and Schools

November 13, 2018/0 Comments/in Staff Picks, Themes /by Wadim Skworzow

Martial arts represent one of the most popular sport type among both children and adults. The popularity is based on the perfect conjunction of spiritual and physical training that brings self-confidence and lots of opportunities for self-protection against robbers and bandits. With the popularity of martial arts clubs and schools comes the inevitable growth of competition between them. Even different martial arts representatives are struggling for customers against each other.

WordPress platform opens up great opportunities for all kinds of business in internet to advertise themselves. Martial arts clubs and schools are not the exceptions — they also need a convenient and effective website to guide their potential and existing customers from first steps to mastery level in martial arts.

Fortunately, there are different option for each school or club to create free or premium level internet representation of their services. We have gathered the best selling premium WordPress themes in this article to save your money and time on choosing a theme for your martial arts club blindly. Open our list and find the premium WordPress theme that fits best for the demands of your business and its potential customers.

Quick Tip: When Premium WordPress Plugins Are Worth Their Price?

November 9, 2018/0 Comments/in Beginners, Plugins, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

There is always a kind of dilemma about choosing between free and premium plugins for your WordPress website or blog. There are lots of free plugins` examples which can serve you not worse than their premium competitors. On the other hand, premium plugins always have their advantages like professional customer support or guaranteed auto updates.

Unfortunately, there is no universal answer to the question whether premium plugins are worth their price. There are some strategies to estimate the value of premium plugins` purchase for the most popular cases of WordPress administrator`s practice. We will try to share the basic tips on such strategies with you through this article.

Comparing The Best WordPress Page Builders

November 7, 2018/10 Comments/in Reviews /by Adam Krieger

Drag-n-drop page builder is the most convenient way to create and customize website elements of any complexity within your WordPress project. This type tools is also known as WYSIWYG editors: “what you see is what you get”. The most important thing about WYSIWYG editors is that they allow you to create and edit your WordPress website without any special knowledge of HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript or other web development and design spheres.

We have gathered 4 of the best WordPress page builders to compare their features in this article. These well-known WYSIWYG editors are: WPBakery Page Builder (former Visual Composer), Fusion Builder by Avada, Divi Page Builder by Elegant Themes and Cornerstone Page Builder.

Easiest Ways to Convert Your WordPress Website into a Mobile Application

November 1, 2018/0 Comments/in Development, Plugins /by Wadim Skworzow

Mobile applications (or simply “apps”) represent the new way of user interaction with websites of all types. Any modern WordPress website should aim to have at least a mobile version of its content. The next step of involving users into your WordPress project is the creation and development of a mobile application.

There is a strong trend of modern users` transition from desktop devices to mobile ones. In other words, people are using their smartphones and tablets more and more often to visit websites, read news, estimate and buy products and services, leave their comments and testimonials, and much more. Modern mobile devices are already providing users with all corresponding opportunities according to their demands. However, not all web projects appear to be ready for such changes. Is your WordPress website ready for them?

Most beginners in the field of WordPress website administration delay the development of mobile application for their project. This is an awful mistake to make, because the share of mobile users is always growing. It means you will constantly loose audience without a proper mobile application for your project.

We will analyze the opportunities WordPress gives website owners to convert their projects into mobile applications. The process is not so complicated as many WordPress website owners imagine. Premium WordPress plugins and services are ready to make the most difficult parts of the work for you. We will observe some examples of such tools in this article to give you a sophisticated understanding on how to convert your WordPress project into a mobile application without special web development knowledge and skills.

Quick Tip: What is WordPress VIP

October 29, 2018/0 Comments/in Development, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Most website owners tend to consider WordPress platform as a cheap tool to build and customize web projects. We have already debunked this and other myths about WordPress but there is still a great opportunity for enterprise level web project that we did not mentioned and reviewed. We are now talking about WordPress VIP.

VIP (Very Important Person) relates to any sphere of products and services of a unique quality level. WordPress VIP is not an exception. This project is created especially for big web projects with extended budgets. What features does WordPress VIP actually have, how much does it cost and for whom specifically is it interesting — we will tell in this short overview article. The information will be useful not only for large projects but also for developing ones to estimate their future goals and ways of achieving them.

Ultimate Local SEO Guide for Your WordPress Website

October 24, 2018/0 Comments/in Beginners, SEO, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Local SEO is the best strategy to get your closest target audience representatives. Moreover, every modern search engine optimization strategy begins with local tactics. Google gets loyal to businesses in internet that try to represent and advertise themselves among the local audience. The reason is that Google encourages the step-by-step development of an internet marketing strategy rather than ambitions of top position among all competitors within the worldwide search.

Local SEO is the strategy that has the greatest potential for small businesses with physical locations. The most prominent examples of successful local optimization strategies can be seen for restaurants, barber shops, local stores, SPA salons and other representatives of small business which often have their websites based on WordPress platform.

How to start your successful local SEO campaign and develop your WordPress website in accordance to it further – this is the main question we will try to answer within this article. The content will be divided into two parts: common local SEO basics and specific tips for the implementation of the strategy within your WordPress website.

Quick Tip: How to Save Money on Premium WordPress Plugins and Themes

October 20, 2018/0 Comments/in Plugins, Themes, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Every beginner in the sphere of WordPress website development wants to save money on first projects. This is not even a question of greed, rather a deliberate approach to initial steps of your long road to become a successful WordPress website owner. Most WordPress newbies just prefer to select only free plugins and themes. However, there is a crucial mistake in denying all premium products at once. Mainly because there is a perfect way to use the great pool of WordPress tools with a relatively small monthly fee.

The way to save significant amount of money on premium WordPress plugins and themes is Envato Elements. This platform gathers a surprising amount of various items you may need for your WordPress website development. We will describe all the opportunities of Envato Elements service within this Quick Tip article. We believe it can change your approach to WordPress tools usage and upgrade your admin`s vision to a qualitative new level.

Best WordPress Appointment Booking Tool — Amelia Full Plugin Review

October 16, 2018/0 Comments/in Plugins, Reviews /by Wadim Skworzow

Nearly any type of business needs to deal with appointments. It is much easier to set up your calendar and give your potential customers their opportunities to pick the most convenient date and time, if you have a WordPress website with a proper toolkit. Online appointment booking became the most preferred one among all types of customers since it had been invented. The main reasons for such choice are the speed and the comfortable conditions for each user.

Such amazing feature as online appointment booking could not be ignored by WordPress platform. There are thousands of different free and premium plugins to set up your own appointment calendar within the WordPress website. These tools require no special web development skills or knowledge and serve as multipurpose tools for planning purposes. Premium tools of this category give even more opportunities towards automated planning and employees` control.

Amelia enterprise-level WordPress appointment booking plugin is one of such premium tool of the new generation. This plugin allows a WordPress administrator to maintain a big team of employees and great amount of customers with the help of the perfect automated assistant. Amelia`s features go far beyond planning and booking. We will consider and analyze all of the main features of Amelia in this review, for you to be well-informed about this product and meet your own thoughtful decision about purchasing it.