What Are Child Themes? A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme (called the parent theme). Creating a child theme is a good idea really a necessity if you want to make any modifications or changes to an existing WordPress theme. Instead of modifying the theme files directly, a child theme […]
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I had put it off long enough. The other day, as I logged in to another WordPress website to write a guest post, I discovered a slick looking login interface. After logging in, a clean, streamlined WordPress dashboard. “Duh,” I said. I was using WordPress 3.8 Beta to do my editing. After finishing the article,
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In a recent article, we looked at must have plugins when you have a fresh install of WordPress. One of the honorable mentions in the list should have been SEO plugins. WordPress SEO plugins are great because they automate SOME of the more troubling processes when setting up a new website. A lot of the
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In the world of marketing and web design, a lot of preemptive thought should go into every project. There would ideally be a wireframe concept, whether it be physical or mental. Upon careful consideration of all the available options, you would create the best website or sales pitch imaginable (MAYBE BOTH AT THE SAME TIME).
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The first step to increasing your conversions and lead generation is to setup a specific landing page. The concept is simple: Remove the distraction and focus the visitor of the page on your product and value proposition. However, there’s all of that distraction surrounding your content. This is going to hurt our chances to convert
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It is no secret that WordPress has become a platform capable of just about anything. While it initially started as a writing tool for website creators and bloggers, it has quickly expanded to encompass just about any web purpose. The sky is the limit. Whether the solution be a full e-Commerce system, a community based
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The Slocum team is happy to announce a new feature across our latest set of premium WordPress themes. One of our favorite contact form plugins is Gravity Forms and leveraging it’s easy to use MailChimp add-on. Since MailChimp is our favorite e-mail newsletter publishing platform we decided to bake in support for both in our
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Houston we have lift off! Jetpack 2.6 was released and it’s packed with a ton of new enhancements. If you want the full scoop, read the changelog. There’s a new feature in there that I’m particularly interested to see roll out and that’s the monitor feature. As of the launch, Monitor does what it promises,
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One of the very first plugins we enable when installing a new WordPress website is Yoast SEO. Because of that, we are baking in support for Yoast Breadcrumbs right into our themes. Why is that important? Well first off, not every theme is ready for the world’s most popular WordPress SEO plugin. We’re proud to
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Just over a year ago my team and I set out to offer our WordPress themes for sale through our parent site Slocum Studio. Today, I’m happy to announce we’re separating the two properties to better serve our client base. As we looked to build more WordPress products while offering the best premium service of
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