WordPress is not just a platform to publish blogs, or small business websites. It is powerful enough to be used by newspaper websites, magazine sites, universities and colleges. WordPress can also be used as a Learning Management System to sell online courses and offer online classes. Advantages of Using WordPress as a Learning Management System [...]

WordPress is an amazing product and a whole eco system has sprung up around this open source CMS – there are so many people and companies earning a living by working it that I thought it would be good to have a think about all the different ways you can use it to make money. [...]

A few years back a new breed of coding services appeared offering to convert your designs from a .PSD file to HTML and CSS for a reasonable fee. I have used them before myself in the past when my work-load was high and I had good results – the code was clean and well optimised. [...]

Responsive web design really took off in 2011 and I can see it becoming the standard by the end of 2012 – there really is no reason not to include it in your planning and build of new web sites these days. I have previsously looked at free responsive WordPress themes and Premium Responsive WordPress [...]

Setting up a website on WordPress is easy. The abundance of free and Premium WordPress themes has made it a lot easier for website owners to setup professional looking websites within minutes. However, even these professional looking themes need to be properly branded to represent a business. In this post we will discuss a few [...]

Post ratings are a great way to get feedback from your readers about your posts, you can see which ones are popular and tailor your content to include more of these types. Post ratings are also used for other purposes such as image galleries powered by WordPress, review blogs etc.  One of the best (and [...]

Jetpack is a fairly new plugin from Automattic that brings a number of features together which are available to WordPress.com users and supplies them to self-hosted WordPress users. It currently has 8 components with more to follow : WordPress.com Stats – Simple, concise site stats with no additional load on your server. Twitter Widget – [...]

bbPress has been around for ages, it was a standalone forum script from the creators of WordPress. The other day it took a big leap forward and became available as a standard plugin for WordPress so now you can use it to add-on a forum to your existing blog. It’s still currently in beta version [...]

There could be several reasons why you would need to install your very own WordPress blog, however, you may need to do this in a short space of time, and you don’t want to make any mistakes. Installing the WordPress platform is a lot easier than it seems. There are no long and tedious installation [...]

Adii Pienar, one of the founders of WooThemes posted an interesting post the other day, entitled WordPress + SAAS. He raises some great points about why we don’t see more companies working with WordPress in this way, he cites VaultPress as a successful example. This is a model I have been thinking about a lot [...]