"Every tool on this list fits the following criteria:

--Can be completely installed and running in under 30 mins
--Free or low-cost
--Compatible with WordPress websites
--Will significantly boost your conversion rate immediately upon install
Okay, time for your cheat sheet..."

To determine if a website builder or WordPress website is the best option for your website goals, you need to consider the following factors.

Ease of Use
Appearance
Functionality
Security
Website Control
Website Hosting
Price

New to Wordpress and building a site from scratch? With this step-by-step guide videos you’ll be up and running in no time.

All you need to know about optimizing your WordPress website for high Google rankings.

After choosing a theme, you may want to switch to a new one or preview potential options for a switch. Before you change your theme, be sure to follow these steps and backup or clone your existing site to ensure that your theme change goes smoothly.

Be careful when changing your theme. Most of your information will transfer, but not all of it. Your pages, posts, default WordPress settings, and media uploads will be unaffected. However, the change will affect the display of your information.

1. Choose a Theme

2. Keep Plugins Up-to-Date

3. Check for Better Plugins

4. Install the W3 Total Cache Plugin

5. Eliminate Unnecessary Plugins

6. Clean Up Your Database

7. Display Article Summaries

8. Display Fewer Blog Posts

9. Paginate Comments

10. Paginate Your Posts

What would you think if I told you that while using the most popular WordPress SEO plugin on one of the most popular WordPress hosting platforms you’d lose a blog post approximately every 30 days and be locked out of your account?  It’ll cost you the time it took to write the blog post plus the time to unsnarl things with the hoster each time.

Pretty ugly, right?

Well that’s exactly what can happen if you use WPEngine as your host and the Yoast SEO Plugin.  I’ve been around this track twice in the last 30 days.  Both times WordPress froze while I was editing a blog post.  Both times I lost the entire post with no backup.  I’m not sure why the normal incremental saves failed.  Both times I was completely locked out of my site–my IP address was blocked.  And both times I had to have my IP address white listed to get back in.

Starting a business using WordPress is an excellent idea. However, it may be best to opt-in to self-host your WordPress website, as you have complete contro

The gap that separates free and premium WordPress themes is surprisingly narrow, to be honest. The prevailing train of thought is that paid WordPress themes are far superior because they come at a price. This may be true to some extent, but it doesn't always apply.

Free themes that you can download straight from your dashboard undergo a rigid theme check from the WordPress team. Each theme is made sure to pass the coding and security standards before they are uploaded to the themes database for download. Even though they are free, these themes can still provide you the same quality that you can expect from a premium theme. Also, you can filter themes based on reviews and developer so you can be sure to view the best ones that will fit on your site.

For paid themes, I highly suggest that you look into frameworks like Genesis and Thesis. These offer the simplicity and elegance, not to mention the customization features that only free themes can dream of.

This ebook provides an overview of the best and most useful WordPress plugins based on personal experiences, research, stats and overall popularity within the WordPress Plugin directory. These reviews were written by numerous experts for Torque Magazine, and are compiled here for a handy one-stop-shop resource.

In this ebook, we'll explore the following categories of plugins:

Graph and chart plugins
Backup plugins
SEO plugins
Security plugins
Shortcode plugins
Tooltip plugins
User role plugins
Map plugins
Slideshow plugins
Audio player plugins
Lightbox (pop up) plugins
Live chat plugins
Contact form plugins
Ecommerce plugins
Ad management plugins
eLearning plugins

The number of solutions and complexity of integrated partners that extend WordPress is pretty amazing. Inbound Brew is a full-service digital marketing, web development, and software development firm, that helped small businesses utilize content marketing to drive engagement and leads. They’ve now published an inbound marketing plugin that provides all the tools necessary to do this – directly from WordPress!

#1: Social Profile Integration Plugins

#2: Social Sharing and Follow Plugins

#3: Administrative Plugins

#4: Comment and Discussion Plugins

#5: Bonus Plugins

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