New themes and plugins pop-up all the time, but when they don’t make the authors any money, they are abandoned, and so are the users. The big WordPress organization lets their vast number of users be sort of an animal testing ground. And if the themes or plugins kill a website because of bad code or lack of updates, no one seems to care.
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Crowd sourcing my website design
I am the first to admit that when it comes to designing my website I’m walking through a dark room with a blind fold over my eyes. Because I have gotten various critiques, both positive and negative, from professional website designers and visitors, I decided I would do a little crowd sourcing with designing my […]
WordPress text and image widgets call to action
As a novice WordPress user I have been relatively happy with the traffic my blog posts have generated. But as a commerce site the other measurement that my site is really connecting with my audience is the number of people who email or call with questions. I was able to generate more “person to person” interaction after I added some simple invitations to my website.
WordPress Plugins can cause 503 illnesses
It all melted down when I started getting the 503 message: “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable. The server may be down for maintenance or it has reached the maximum of concurrent users”. Once the 503 happens the website and the dashboard shuts down, locks up, or crashes.