We have finally found a great WordPress plugin to display motivational quotes, testimonials, or taglines. Only problem is, the plugin is ancient (read: has not been updated since 2009). Good thing it still works with our themes! The name of the plugin is Advanced Tagline. It is a free plugin that can be found in […]
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A contact page is one of the very first things you add on your new WordPress blog or business site. There’s a bunch of contact form plugins out there, but one that we really love is Ninja Forms. The way we see it, each plugin can create a contact form, but they all have their
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Getting started with WordPress is never easy. There is a lot to learn and a lot of potential to royally mess up your website. That is why one of the first things you should do is have a WordPress backup regularly on your website. Once you continue using WordPress you will find new reasons to
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Some people are looking to manage a website on a limited budget, so finding decent free WordPress plugins is always good. One such plugin is BackWPup from MarketPress. While there is a premium version of the plugin that gives you other features like multisite support, even the free version is pretty fully featured for your
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A long time ago, our team compared two of the most popular plugins available for creating WordPress backups, BackupBuddy and BackWPup. While we decided they were both great plugins, we never truly taught people how to make a WordPress backup using BackupBuddy or BackWPup. We start here, with a look at how to create a
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Front-end editing in WordPress is picking up a lot of steam lately. The recent release of 3.8 brought us a fresh new admin interface and in my opinion, a better blogging experience. With all the new UI goodies, it has folks like me craving for more. Recent blogging competitors like Ghost and Medium, embrace a
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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 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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