038 – Enhance Your WordPress Site
Today’s show focuses on small enhancements to your WordPress website.- Highlights from State of the Word
– Theme sales
– A new plugin to buy
– And ways to bring new life to old blog posts
If you would like to be part of the show there are three ways you can contact me:
– Call and leave a message on the listener feedback line at 740-666-4865
– Use the contact form on YourWebsiteEngineer.com
– Email me at Dustin@YourWebsiteEngineer.com
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State of the Word
– Surveyed 18,000 developers
– #1 Feature – ease of use and community
– #1 Worst Feature – plugins
– 15,000 plugins
– two year cut off
– 92% of people who are using WordPress are using it as a CMS
– 2800 people are making a living developing WordPress
– 22 out of 100 new websites have WordPress installed
Themes
obox-design.com (Expires Aug 31) $14
Envato Birthday Bundle (Expires Aug 26) $20
WPLift 20 themes (free)
Plugins
Hellobar – hellobar.com
– $4.95 per month for premium
– Free version
– It’s too simple, only on message
– It’s branded
– Limited amounts of clicks
FooBar – Developer Brad Vincent from Episode #12
– Unlimited Messages
– Unlimited Styling
– Unlimited Clicks
– Easy to customize colors, fonts, links, social media
– One time $9 from CodeCayon.net
If you would like to be part of the show there are three ways you can contact me:
– Call and leave a message on the listener feedback line at 740-666-4865
– Use the contact form on YourWebsiteEngineer.com
– Email me at Dustin@YourWebsiteEngineer.com
Not sure if my comment went through last time – if your looking for something like the Hello Bar that is Free try the Easy Heads Up Bar @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-heads-up-bar/
Aug 31, 2011Hey Dustin,
Thanks for the plug in your show about our custom WordPress plugins. And yes, pun intended. 😉 Moreover, GREAT show as always. I’m having a lot of fun using the FREE myIPneighbors (i.e., http://www.myipneighbors.com/) you spoke of to see who is sharing the server Sean and I use for beAutomated.com as well as who’s sharing the various servers our clients use. Wow, what an eye opener, eh?!
Sincerely AND thanks again for hosting such a quality WordPress podcast,
Randy
Sep 24, 2011Hey Dustin,
I incorrectly pointed to myIPneighbors above, which is more of a paid service than a FREE one, rather than the one you pointed out (and I like a lot better) which is MyIPNeighbors (i.e., http://www.my-ip-neighbors.com/). Gotta love those folks who buy up URLs that are very similar to their competition’s! Sorry about any confusion this has caused.
Sep 24, 2011here is another great site to sell your scripts and plugins on too totally free http://scriptsbay.com
Jul 4, 2012@Scripts Bay Marketplace Nice! Thanks for posting that website!
Jul 4, 2012