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WordPress 3.8 release in 6,287 words

2 Comments / Blog, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

Yesterday marked the release of WordPress 3.8 as told by at least 9 blogs in my Feedly account. If you’re looking to play catch up with the news, I’ve gathered them here for you. Grab your favorite cup of java and load up on the release of WordPress 3.8 as told in 6,287 words. Enjoy! […]

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Clean and Lightweight Design

The Value in a Clean and Lightweight Website

Leave a Comment / Blog, Design / By Dan Zarzycki

We have been developing websites for years with the mentality that a landing page should be effective. Developers and designers put together complicated systems to add “value” to a website. But when that website was created to get somebody to find your product or to get somebody to perform one action, what is the point

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4 Ways to add color to your website

2 Comments / Blog, Design / By Dan Zarzycki

Changing the color of a Premium WordPress theme is easy; finding the inspiration is tricky. We pack our collection of themes with ten color choices, but what if we didn’t get that shade of blue you were looking for quite right? Perhaps your client needs to match a brand scheme that wasn’t included. Fear not. Here’s a

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How To Create A Child Theme

4 Comments / Blog, Development / By Dan Zarzycki

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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WordPress 3.8 RC1

Hands-on with WordPress 3.8 Release Candidate 1

Leave a Comment / Blog / By Dan Zarzycki

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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Free WordPress SEO Plugins

3 Free WordPress SEO Plugins

1 Comment / Blog, SEO / By Dan Zarzycki

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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Plugins for WordPress install

Our 5 favorite plugins for a new WordPress install

1 Comment / Blog, Plugins / By Dan Zarzycki

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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How to setup a landing page in WordPress

Leave a Comment / Blog, Web Marketing / By Dan Zarzycki

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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Sensei vs WP Courseware vs Train-Up

Sensei vs WP Courseware vs Train-up for WordPress

5 Comments / Blog / By Dan Zarzycki

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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Responsive MailChimp Signup Gravity Form

Leave a Comment / Blog, Plugins, Web Marketing / By Dan Zarzycki

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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