So far in this series we’ve looked at a variety of ways to get increased exposure for your images, by putting them in front of an online audience. And as we’ve seen, there is more than one way of doing this, including using a website-builder service. Building a photography website is actually easier than you may initially think, so check out how to do it below.

But for those happy with the idea of going behind the curtain and spending time noodling around with the back end of a website, there is an alternative: build your photography site using a content management system (CMS). 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comm100, a global provider of omnichannel customer engagement solutions that connect brands with their customers, today announced major updates to its WordPress plug-in. These updates make it easier for businesses using WordPress to connect quickly and easily with their customers through Comm100’s digital customer engagement platform for free by enabling customer interactions via live chat, email, social media and mobile text messaging, in addition to supporting a self-serve knowledge base.

WordPress powers 40% of all the websites…

There are numerous different types of web hosting available today. A large percentage of providers offer managed and/or unmanaged WordPress hosting solutions, which are aimed specifically at those with WordPress websites. 

However, finding the best web hosting services for your needs isn’t always an easy task. For some people, standard shared hosting will be best, even if they do use WordPress. For others, managed WordPress hosting will be absolutely essential due to the time savings and other perks it comes with. 

WordPress users wanting to customize their websites can choose from a range of page builders whose intuitive, drag-and-drop nature means that no HTML or CSS coding knowledge is required – read our WordPress.com website builder review for more details on how the platform works.

To help you decide which WordPress page builder is best for you, we’ve listed eight of the top options on the market. For a run-down of non-WordPress options that you may wish to consider, check out our guide discussing the best website builders.

1. Elementor

It is easy to become jaded after reading the same old keyword-stuffed theme descriptions. After viewing the same hero-plus-three-boxes theme designs. After seeing another theme with “block editor styles” that utterly fails to deliver on its promise.

As I peruse the demo of Anders Norén’s latest WordPress theme, Eksell, I am reminded that artists still exist in the WordPress theming realm. For those familiar with his past theming work, this is not revelatory. Most of his 20+ free themes have 1,000s of active installations — Chaplin even became the base of the Twenty…

This past year has been a rollercoaster of emotions for many of us. Some were thriving while others were barely surviving.

One takeaway we can be proud of as a community is how most of us had to be even more creative than usual to get through 2020… With long hours, a lot of stress & uncertainty within our businesses. To have a better 2021 for you and your agency, keep learning and investing in yourself to ensure any situation that’s thrown your way can be dealt with, swiftly and with much less stress.

That’s why this year, we are supporting the biggest online event in the…

WordPress is an incredibly popular blogging and content management system (CMS). Nearly 40% of sites on the internet run on WordPress. After all, it’s free and open-source, and has a massive list of themes and plugins for customization. Though it started as a blogging service that you install on your own hosting platform, WordPress now has one of the best website builders available.

In this article, we show you how to build a website with WordPress on your own hosting.

How to build a website with WordPress: Your options

Yesterday, Happy Prime owner and engineer Jeremy Felt released Shortnotes, a plugin for writing notes from the WordPress editor. The intention is for users to create short pieces of content, such as that found on Twitter, Instagram, and similar social networks. However, it does not come with a front-end posting interface, at least not in version 1.0.

The plugin works just like the post and page editor. It should be straightforward for most users.

While the Shortnotes plugin is relatively bare-bones for now, it serves as a foundation of something that could be more. Part of what…

Microsoft sent me an email yesterday asking me to use the Bing URL Submissions Plugin for my WordPress site. No, this is not a WordPress site, but the intent was nice. Plus, this site already integrates with the URL submission API directly.

So I am not sure why I received the email but hey, I am happy Bing is notifying users of Webmaster Tools of this.

Here is what the email looks like:

Here is what it says:

We are reaching out to you on behalf of Bing Webmaster Tools to help maximize your search presence at Bing. Did you know that as owner of a WordPress site, you can have your…

It was 2003. I was just getting my first taste of blogging and similar experiments on the world wide web. Seemingly every blog I toured showcased a long list of the owner’s friends. These were all the other cool kids jumping onto this blogging bandwagon — the blogroll was almost a status symbol. You had a sense of belonging with your online clique.

Let’s face it. Many of the people blogging in that era were loners, geeks, nerds, artists, and people who generally did not feel they fit into groups of “normal” people. Perhaps that is overly stereotypical, but that was the…