Category: Marketing

Best Practices for Promoting and Growing Your bbPress Forum

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As the administrator of a bbPress forum on your WordPress website, you want to see your forum grow and thrive. One of the key ways to achieve this is by promoting your forum and attracting new users.

In this post, we’ll share some best practices for promoting and growing your bbPress forum.

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The Best WordPress Drag & Drop Visual Page Builders

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If you’ve spent any time with the WordPress trying to make your website look beautiful, you know how hard it can be!

The truth is, the old core of the WordPress content management system (the classic editor) was outdated.  It was really more like a word processor for the web.  That is precisely the reason why Automattic (the company behind WordPress) has been pouring their efforts into their next gen editor, Gutenberg, which is now the default editor in WordPress.

While Gutenberg can be done right, for the average WordPress site admin, it can still be very cumbersome to design an smooth, elegant website.

Fortunately, there are a plethora of visual page builder plugins available for WordPress. Continue reading The Best WordPress Drag & Drop Visual Page Builders

Recommended WordPress Tools & Resources

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The WordPress ecosystem of tools is huge!  That’s one of the biggest reasons most people go with WordPress.

But, do you find yourself feeling lost at sea with too many options to choose from?

In this post, I’m bringing together some of my favorite tools and resource that complement my WordPress websites (and would help yours too).

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Do Too Many WordPress Plugins Really Slow Down Your Website?

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I’ve heard it over and over… “Too many plugins will slow down your website.”  I’ve heard it in conference presentations, networking events, podcasts, blogs, YouTube videos, and even my old boss.  But, is it really true?

I’m a professional WordPress developer and have written several of my own plugins, so I have something to add to the conversation.

Honestly, it really bugs me when people ignorantly demonize plugins as the culprit of all their WordPress website problems… as if the number of plugins is slowing down their website.

In this article, let’s look at the facts around the topic of WordPress plugins slowing down your website.

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How to Install the Facebook Pixel on an AMP Website Using Google Tag Manager

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Are you working with a native AMP website or a website with AMP pages, but you need to integrate the Facebook Pixel?  To top it all off, you’re also using Google Tag Manager (because it’s awesome).  How to go about this?

Well, I’m here to help.  While this implementation is not documented very well, it’s actually very simple!

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How to Insert Amazon Affiliate Ads into AMP Website

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After redesigning my other blog’s theme using my own custom-built native AMP WordPress theme, I ran into one question that was hard get find an answer for…

How can I insert an Amazon Associates Affiliate Ad into my native AMP website?

Well, I eventually figured it out, and I’m here to share it with you.

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How to Start a Blog and Make Money in 2022 (Mine Made $15,000/month)

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Have you been thinking about making a little extra money by blogging?  Or, maybe you’ve been dreaming about what life would be like if you were making a living as a stay-at-home blogger?

After winning big with my first blog, I’m laying out the blueprint to my blogging success so that you can live the dream you never knew was possible.

In this guide, I will take you step by step through the process of starting a blog and making money. Continue reading How to Start a Blog and Make Money in 2022 (Mine Made $15,000/month)