A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
Top 8 Best Ways to Set Up a Testing Environment for WordPress
There are many ways you can set up a test environment, but the easiest by far are localhost environments or cloning your site on your existing web hosting account.
In this post we’ve put together a collection of some of the best testing environments available for WordPress, including options for both Windows and OS X. Most of the options are for setting up a localhost, but there are also options for duplicating a live site.
Is There Really a Scarcity of WordPress Developers?
If you ask the question the right way, the answer is most assuredly yes. Is there a lack of existing resources that have years of high performance WordPress development (plugins, themes, integrations) who are sitting at home waiting for a phone call to join a company? Check Chris's article and find out the arguments to his answer and why is it so.
Before You Start A WordPress Web Design Business, Read This
Freelancing in WordPress can take many avenues. Some might seem easier than others. Certainly some are more lucrative than others. All of them require customer interaction of some sort. But they’re not all created equal. We're going to write about some of the stuff that might hit you like a deer in the headlights when you get started in WordPress web design as an income-generating, food-on-the-table type of business.
The Best Web Analytics for WordPress
The field of web analytics is broken down into two basic camps. On the one hand there are the proponents of quantitative analysis, who have a numbers-based approach. Think of page views, unique visits, etc.. On the other hand there are advocates who stress the importance of qualitative data and who like to look closer at visitor behavior.
In this article, we’ll look at both sides of the field, and review some of the available tools as well as their pros and cons.
Testimonials: Increase Your Visitor’s Trust
Yoast wrote another great article where he explains what he thinks are the most necessary and important steps you could take to find out how testimonials work for you.
WPChat Relaunches as a Forum Dedicated to WordPress
Discourse is a fresh take on using forums for community discussion. One of the unique attributes it has is a trust system. As members spend more time replying to and creating more threads, their trust level increases. Higher trust levels provide more capabilities to the user, allowing them to take on a larger role of moderating the forum.
Under the Hood of Semplice: A New Portfolio System Based on WordPress
Semplice has soft-launched its new WordPress-powered portfolio system. The commercial project popped up on our radar after debuting its extraordinary implementation of the WordPress content editor. Founded by German designers Michael Schmidt and Tobias van Schneider, Semplice is breaking onto the scene with high impact designs and its own radically simplified content editor.
