The team at Slocum Themes has made it easier than ever before to create a WordPress child theme using our themes. Built right into the functionality of our clean and elegant themes in the theme options panel is a section to create a one-click child theme that is easy to manage. Read on to discover […]
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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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The team at Slocum Themes is very excited to announce our newest theme, Capture. Continue reading to find out what makes Capture the best WordPress photography theme on the market as well as great overall theme for your website. Also included is a video detailing what makes this new theme so great.
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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 BackupBuddy and BackWPup, two of the most popular plugins for creating WordPress backups. 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 by looking at how to create a WordPress backup on
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From the moment Windows 8 and Apple’s new iOS 7 launched to the marketplace, the buzzword in web and tech design has been “flat.” Fast forward to today, and even WordPress is utilizing flat design with the WordPress 3.8 dashboard UI and the newly released default theme, Twenty Fourteen. What is flat design?
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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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It feels like WordPress 3.7 just arrived, but here is WordPress 3.8 to make new waves across the WordPress community. We should look forward to seeing more frequent changes to WordPress, albeit smaller updates to compete with the increasingly saturated CMS market. Find out about some of the changes that have been made since the
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