WordPress Themes & Plugins Reviews

Best WordPress Booking and Reservation Plugins

September 24, 2018/0 Comments/in Plugins /by Wadim Skworzow

Booking and reservation option are the most important features for any modern WordPress website that offers services in the sphere of tourism. Hotel or apartment reservation is one of the first steps each tourist makes while planning his vacation. That is why online services in this sphere are very popular and important.

WordPress offers the best conditions for the beginners in the sphere of website administration and hotel business is not an exception. Lots of dedicated plugins allow WordPress admins to easily get their customers` requests and handle them quickly and conveniently. Customers are happy to receive a good service and hotel owners are pleased with fast and secure booking process. This way WordPress opens opportunities for both sides to take advantage of online reservation and payment process.

We have decided to gather our list of best selling premium WordPress plugins for booking and reservation services. These plugins represent the modern opportunities of the WordPress platform and are available for website administrators without any special web development or design skills. Get acquainted with our list to pick your favorite booking plugin easily!

Why Should You Use Live Customer Chat on Your WordPress Website

September 19, 2018/0 Comments/in Beginners, Plugins, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

The importance of communication with your WordPress website`s users can not be overestimated. Quick and live feedback is crucial for any e-commerce project but also an important advantage for any other type of WordPress project — from a personal blog to a big company`s presentation website.

One of the most convenient ways to contact you for users is the live chat on your WordPress website. Live chat should offer the immediate connection with one of your managers or you personally (if you prefer to take control on any action done by user on your website). This feature also creates the effect of a full support for each of your users and customers because they always see the opportunity to contact you and get a quick answer. Even if you can not provide a 24/7 chat management, it can be helpful with automatic replies.

Fortunately, you do not need to develop your own live chat from scratch. Lots of free and premium WordPress plugins are at your disposal. In this article we want to underline the most important features of a common live customer chat plugin on the example of Facebook Customer Chat and show you the advantages of using this kind of tools within your WordPress project.

Email Marketing Mistakes To Avoid on Your WordPress Website

Which Email Marketing Mistakes Should Be Avoided on Your WordPress Website

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

The modern marketing reality does not allow to create any successful online project without being always in touch with your existing and potential audience. One of the most accessible and efficient way to communicate with your users comfortably is the email marketing.

Most of the beginners in the field of WordPress administration think about email marketing as a simple process of mailing with your website visitors or blog subscribers. But things are much more complicated when you look at them responsibly. Each of your subscribers has different set of demands, needs and wishes. To have an interesting and informative talk with each of them means to study analytics a lot and to experiment with different approaches to reach their attention.

There are thousands of email marketing techniques already. We will try to describe the most important things you need to know about email marketing from another point of view. Let us look at the list of the most common mistakes in email marketing campaigns a beginner can (and in most cases do) make.

10 Essential Action to Prevent Your WordPress Website Being Hacked

10 Essential Actions to Prevent Your WordPress Website Being Hacked

September 13, 2018/0 Comments/in Beginners, Security, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Despite of being well secured, WordPress website still risk to be hacked. Basically, hackers always find gaps in WordPress websites` defense only because of the human factor. It means that some of our actions can open doors for hackers and soon or later these doors will be used.

Beginners in the field of WordPress administration often make mistakes towards the security of their projects. Today we will analyze the main mistakes and proven ways to avoid them. Even if you are an experienced WordPress administrator, it would not be excessive to check all the items we will mention in this article.

If you only start your WordPress project, then it is crucial to pay attention to all of the listed actions. It would not protect your website for 100 percent rate but will cut off the most dangers your website can face from hackers. The listed actions are also important to get the overall understanding of how WordPress security works and how to avoid the unwanted hacker access to the heart of your project.

How to Create Before and After Image Slider on Your WordPress Website

September 7, 2018/0 Comments/in Plugins, Staff Picks /by Wadim Skworzow

Interactive elements are one of the most crucial parts of any modern WordPress website. Although it is often complicated to create some amazing interactive elements on your WordPress website, there is one popular and accessible way to diversify your content in such a direction. We are talking about before and after image sliders.

Before and after image sliders have a goal to show some difference between 2 images. These images are usually used to show a vision of an object or person before some action or event and after it. The immediate comparison is reinforced by a user`s interaction with your website interface: dragging or hovering over the first image shows the second one.

Such interactive comparison involves users and make your image content much more popular. Before and after images are used within various website topics: medical (for example, to show results of a plastic surgery), all types of designers, photographers and artists (to showcase the stages of their work process), newspapers and bloggers (to illustrate some changes brought by dedicated news and events), science projects (to view results or plans of a project) and much more.

Fortunately, WordPress platform offers easy and convenient ways to create before and after image sliders within your website or blog without any special knowledge in the sphere of web development or design. Lots of premium WordPress plugins were created to help reach this goal. Today we will observe the best of such plugins for the sake of your thoughtful and wise choice in terms of special demands of your website`s audience.

Initial Steps to Get Your WordPress Website Listed on Google

August 31, 2018/0 Comments/in Beginners, SEO, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Search engine optimization is known as one of the most important factors of any WordPress project`s success. Strictly saying, SEO is equal to your WordPress website`s popularity. That is why you should not miss any opportunity to improve your website due to the demands of search engines.

The main goal of search engine optimization is to cover all (or at least the majority of) demands of Google. We have recently shown the main share Google has in comparison with other worldwide search engines. There is no doubt that a beginner in the field of website administration should set up goals due to Google`s search engine demands.

It is also very important to take the right first steps after you install your WordPress website. One of such steps is the registration of your sitemap via Google Webmaster Console. In this article we will give you the detailed guide on how to make this first crucial step on your road to SEO success.

The Very First Steps After Installing Your WordPress Website

August 23, 2018/0 Comments/in Beginners, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

WordPress is the platform for any beginner in the sphere of website creation and management. Still there is a problem of getting into the process of setting up your first WordPress website or blog, if you have no access to any kind of advice or guide. The problem is usually met while entering your first pure WordPress project and not knowing where to start.

Although the sequence of the first actions is not very important, there is an approximate list of operations you need to do before launching your project live. The disregard of this list can cause severe consequences in form of poor rating among search engines, spam and brute force attacks risk, high bounce rates and other painful occasions.

To prevent the damage to your website and its reputation, there is a strong need to take complex actions before launching your website. We have gathered the most important steps you should take right after installing your WordPress website or blog and before launching it live. Some of this actions can be known even to beginners but they are worth remembering even in this case. Take this checklist to your WordPress website and compare the done and undone items.

Best Premium WordPress Themes for Yoga Websites

August 20, 2018/0 Comments/in Staff Picks, Themes /by Wadim Skworzow

Health and fitness have become the vital themes for the modern internet with the growing interest to self-recreation among the general public. This trends shows that people start to pay more attention to their health and beauty compared with the first ten years of the 21 century. This trend has positive consequences not only for the people who become healthier and prettier but also for WordPress websites` owners have received an additional strong impulse to create thematic projects.

Any WordPress project starts with the choice of the proper theme. The theme identifies the common mood of a project and gives the best motivation to create content in a certain style. This step is very important but usually underestimated by the beginners in the field of WordPress websites` administration.

We have gathered the best premium WordPress themes for websites dedicated to yoga in all its forms. Each of these themes allow you to create a yoga dedicated project in a matter of minutes by using prepared templates. On the other hand, these themes have nearly unlimited options to create and customize any elements of your yoga WordPress website. It gives you limitless opportunities to develop your WordPress project, make it better in accordance with new knowledge and skills you acquire during your WordPress administration experience.

Most Interesting Stats of Modern SEO

August 16, 2018/0 Comments/in Beginners, SEO /by Wadim Skworzow

Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) can be determined as one of the most important parameter of any website, including those who are based on WordPress platform. Understanding of the SEO rules and following them are crucial not only for the position of your website in search engine query but also for the sake of your users` experience. It happens because SEO demands exactly the same things most users are looking for: intuitive navigation, clean and useful content, wide social sharing opportunities and so on.

The main problem of search engine optimization is that it is very complex and lasts without end. Experienced website owners have already managed to find their golden mean between perfectionism and reality in terms of SEO. But if you are one of the beginners in this field, then you probably need the guiding light.

We have gathered the most interesting facts from history and modernity of Search Engine Optimization to guide you through the raging sea of subjective opinions and experience which always float somewhere near the SEO. These facts will allow you to understand SEO from the inside and determine the most suitable strategies of developing your own web project due to its requirements and suggestions. The data in this article are supported with the amazing infographic by SeoTribunal.

Configuration Tricks for Your WordPress Website

July 26, 2018/0 Comments/in Beginners, Development, Security, Tips /by Wadim Skworzow

Although WordPress is often considered as the website platform for beginners, it has lots of opportunities for advanced fine-tuning. These options are mostly hidden from a sight of most WordPress administrators just because a thoughtless manipulation with them can cause severe problems in the work of your website. There is no need to worry about your website safety, if you have done a back-up before customizing your WordPress configuration file.

Today we are talking about WP-Config file and its hidden opportunities to fine-tune your WordPress website. Most WordPress administrators had no experience with WP-Config because most hosting providers install it automatically to prevent any harm by inexperienced website owners to their own projects and to minimize the consequential damage.

The wp-config.php file has lots of opportunities not only for fine-tuning your WordPress options but also for troubleshooting and enchanting your website security. If you want to know more about WordPress platform from inside and seek to develop your website in a professional level, then this article will be very useful for you. Arm yourself with your website back-up and any of available FTP clients (FileZilla, for example) and hop into the world of extended WordPress configuration!