Why WordPress Sites Must Upgrade Comments As a website designer and developer, I use WordPress for a variety of needs, including business websites, blogs, online shops, galleries, directories, events, and booking platforms. However, one area where WordPress has lagged is its default commenting system. While this feature was once popular, especially on blogs, many users […]
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WordPress sites do need routine maintenance. Like a car, regular monthly or quarterly updates are needed to keep the site fast, secure, reliable. But the one-click upgrades of WordPress alone is never enough. WordPress coding itself is seldom the security problem. It’s very robust, causing less than 1% of hacked sites. To keep the site
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When it comes to WordPress or WooCommerce shopping cart addons, it’s hard to know where to start. There’s thousands of them. But a standout we’re adding to more client shopping websites is from WPManageNinja with their FluentCRM plugin. Previously we’ve not been a fan of these tools on a website and advised clients to linkup
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Updated for 2019 – Marketing Automation is on the rise, helping companies large and small reduce their sales costs whilst building up their client base, automatically. Online success often starts with web subscribe forms to build up an email list, linked to an email marketing system like Mailchimp, Aweber etc. CampaignMonitor is the one we like,
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More bad news out this week for those needing a webhost. The infamous EIG group, which maintains dozens of brands, including Hostgator, Bluehost, Site5, Arvixe, Small Orange, are sacking staff. http://bit.ly/another-eig-nightmare Their press release on these layoffs states “… to enable greater efficiency across our family of Endurance brands” Yeh, right. It’s another way of saying ‘we
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“It’s like watching a train wreak happening… Very few business will not have been affected in some way by the internet, and they really need to look at their business model.” The words of technology commentator Nigel Horrocks in a Radio NZ interview back in 2011. (27th Jan). He talked of retailers here and in
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It’s a good question. After all, over 95% of search traffic comes via page one of a Google search result. And for most NZ websites, 50-70% of their new website traffic and subsequent business, comes from someone doing a Google search. If your website isn’t showing up on page one for multiple search terms, your
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Just having a pretty website today isn’t enough. Branding and good looks doesn’t get you much traffic, sales or help pay the bills. Websites need a reason to exist and should have a strong payback. Online shops are superb for selling both popular as well as those niche products. Every day people are using Google
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Here’s some great tips from our BIG Commerce partners on using social proof to boost your credibility, traffic and actually sales results. As always, words of wisdom…
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More people over the age of 55 use the internet now than people under 25, according to the latest research report from the British Population Survey. Even Bill Gates, who conceived the equipment we use, and Tim Berners-Lee, who conceived the Internet itself, are both now 55 and ‘Silver Surfers’ themselves. The under 25’s, the
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