Category: WordPress Guide

Image Slider Plugins for WordPress: Compare & Create
WordPress Gallery
Tam Vincent

Image Slider Plugins for WordPress: Compare & Create

Tired of bland, static images on your WordPress site? Captivate your audience with stunning, responsive image sliders instead. But how do you achieve this? You know that WordPress has a native gallery but there’s no default way to create image sliders.  This is a problem worth solving, though, because image

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High-Performance WordPress Portfolio Plugins to Showcase Your Work
WordPress Gallery
Tam Vincent

8 High-Performance WordPress Portfolio Plugins to Showcase Your Work

Are you an artist or creative looking for a high-performance solution to showcase your work on WordPress? Whether you’re a designer, artist, photographer, or creative freelancer, creating an online portfolio of work is likely to be a necessity for you. However, with so many available options for how to do

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The 6 Best WordPress Gallery Plugins in 2023 (+ How to Choose One)
WordPress Gallery
Tam Vincent

The 6 Best WordPress Gallery Plugins in 2025 (Comparative Overview)

WordPress’s built-in Gallery block offers basic image display functionality, but many websites need more advanced gallery features for optimal performance and user experience. From showcasing high-resolution photography to powering product catalogs, the right gallery plugin can make a significant difference in how your images are presented and managed. This comprehensive

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WordPress Plugins for GDPR-Compliant User Tracking
WordPress Conversion Tool
Tam Vincent

6 WordPress Plugins for GDPR-Compliant User Tracking

User tracking is an essential strategy for many ecommerce, business and other WordPress websites. But with tracking, comes the challenge of ensuring GDPR compliance.  While traditional tracking tools often fall short of compliance standards, there are certain WordPress plugins that allow you to get consent and gather necessary data only,

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10 WordPress Landing Pages With Step-by-Step Build Guides
WordPress Conversion Tool
Tam Vincent

10 WordPress Landing Pages With Step-by-Step Build Guides

Building landing pages without inspiration can be a challenge. Ideally, you want your landing pages to be a balance of compelling design, persuasive copy, and seamless functionality – all tailored to a specific audience and goal. Achieving this is not always easy.  However, by looking at examples that highlight specific

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High-Converting Social Proof Tools for WordPress
WordPress Conversion Tool
Tam Vincent

6 High-Converting Social Proof Tools for WordPress

In a world where trust drives conversions, the right social proof plugin can turn casual visitors into loyal customers. But there are countless options available, and choosing the best tool to showcase real-time engagement, reviews, and user activity could make all the difference when it comes to boosting your credibility

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Top 7 Countdown Plugins for WordPress to Create Urgency
WordPress Guide
Tam Vincent

Top 7 Countdown Plugins for WordPress to Create Urgency

Are you looking for a surefire way to boost conversions on your WordPress site? Any ecommerce (or WooCommerce) and WordPress sites selling services can benefit from an increase in conversions, which would result in greater profits.  Using countdown timers as an effective way of creating perceived scarcity, which influences buying

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Legal Requirements for Running an Ecommerce Store on WordPress
WordPress Guide
FooPlugins

Legal Requirements for Running an Ecommerce Store on WordPress

Starting an ecommerce store on WordPress is easier than ever, but staying legally compliant? That’s another story – and where things can get tricky. According to WordPress, over 40% of the Internet is powered by its platform, so it’s clear that many entrepreneurs turn to it for its flexibility and

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WordPress Lead Generation Plugins (With Conversion Analytics)
Ecommerce Strategies
Tam Vincent

WordPress Lead Generation Plugins (With Conversion Analytics)

Are you losing visitors on your WordPress site before they convert into leads? The average ecommerce site has a conversion rate of only 2.5 to 3%. But there are steps you can take to improve this! By employing different actionable strategies you can convert more visitors into leads. For example,

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The best slider revolution alternatives
WordPress Gallery
FooPlugins

The Five Best Slider Revolution Alternatives

Slider Revolution is undoubtedly popular and well-priced, especially for single-site use. However, it’s important to understand that it’s not just a slider plugin – it’s a comprehensive visual editor for WordPress that includes live editing capabilities, customizable templates, layers, and modules. While these features are powerful, there are several reasons

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Best Video Gallery Plugins for WordPress
WordPress Gallery
Tam Vincent

7 Video Gallery Plugins to Boost WordPress Performance

Want to create engaging video galleries on your WordPress website? While WordPress doesn’t offer this feature by default, the right plugin can make it simple.  We’ve tested and compared the top video gallery plugins to help you make an informed choice. Here’s an in-depth look at seven standout options, evaluated

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Top Bar WordPress Plugins in 2023: The 8 Best Options
WordPress Guide
FooPlugins

WordPress Notification Bar Plugin Comparison Guide

Want to alert your WordPress website visitors to new product launches, sales, or other important announcements? Then you need a WordPress notification bar plugin! A notification bar is an eye-catching, non-intrusive way to capture your audience’s attention at the top of your site, making it ideal for highlighting special promotions,

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5 Strategies for Making Passive Income with WordPress
Ecommerce Strategies
FooPlugins

5 Strategies for Making Passive Income With WordPress

Whether it’s a side hustle supporting your other business activities or your main source of income, WordPress websites have huge potential as a source of passive income. From premium content on the website itself to using your site as a platform to sell a variety of digital products, there’s countless

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9 UGC Ideas to Invigorate your WordPress Site
WordPress Gallery
Tam Vincent

9 UGC Ideas to Invigorate Your WordPress Site

What is user-generated content (UGC), and why is it so important? User-generated content is any form of content, such as text, videos, images, reviews, and so on, that users post online, especially on social media platforms and websites. Importantly, it is generated by real users — not AI or influencers. 

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Selling Scenic Nature Photography Online: A How-To
WordPress Gallery
Tam Vincent

Selling Scenic Nature Photography Online: A How-To

Selling nature photography can be a profitable profession for beginner enthusiasts and professional photographers alike. But to truly succeed, it’s crucial to know not only where to sell your images, but how to sell them in a way that maximizes your earnings and control in a crowded digital market. While

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FooPlugins Bot
WordPress Guide
Adam W. Warner

We Asked. You Answered. We Listened.

In our last post we asked the question “Should We Build an AdSense Extension for FooBox?” in the form of a user Poll. The answers were surprising at first, but after reading the helpful commentary from you, it became obvious that this was not only something the majority of you

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AWP Meetup
WordPress Guide
FooPlugins

Why You Should Join or Start a WordPress Meetup in Your Area

I’m really fortunate to have a really awesome WordPress Meetup in San Diego that I can attend every month. I’m also super fortunate that the folks who started the Meetup asked me to be one of the coordinators. These same people are the ones who started the amazing Advanced WordPress

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WordPress Pinback DDoS Prevention Plugin
WordPress Guide
Brad Vincent

Beware : Your Site Is Part of a WordPress Pingback DDoS Botnet

18 Mar 2014 Update : the plugin has been accepted and is now available on the WordPress.org plugin repo! Recently, Sucuri posted about 160,000 WordPress sites being used in a DDoS attack. This got me worried about my personal blog, as someone had emailed me last year, claiming that my

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FooCamp - How to Make a WordPress Plugin
WordPress Guide
Brad Vincent

Make A WordPress Plugin – Translations

Make Your Plugin Translation Ready WordPress provides us with all the tools (and functions) we need to make our plugins translatable or localizable. Why make your plugin translatable, you might ask? Well, to increase your plugin’s target audience by allowing any person, who speaks any language, the ability to understand and

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FooCamp - How to Make a WordPress Plugin
WordPress Guide
Brad Vincent

Make A WordPress Plugin – Readme.txt and Refactoring

In the previous post, we created our first plugin and also create a GitHub repo for it. So far so good, but now we need to take it a step further. In this lesson we will cover the following topics: Create a readme.txt file. Create a readme.md for GitHub. Refactor

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Time to make a WordPress plugin
WordPress Guide
Brad Vincent

Make A WordPress Plugin – Your First Plugin

FooCamp – How to Make a WordPress Plugin – Your Environment Now that you have your environment setup correctly, let’s start coding and make a WordPress plugin, your first! I think it will be easier to follow by example, so we will be creating the first version of our FooDocs

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make wordpress plugin environment
WordPress Guide
Brad Vincent

Make A WordPress Plugin – Your Environment

FooCamp – How to Make a WordPress Plugin – Your Environment As mentioned in the introduction post, before you write a single line of code to make a WordPress plugin, you need to prepare both your environment and yourself, to start writing code. A lot of tutorials just jump in and

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FooCamp - How to Make a WordPress Plugin
WordPress Guide
Brad Vincent

FooCamp – How to Make a WordPress Plugin Series

FooCamp – An Introduction Is this just another WordPress plugin tutorial? No way. There are plenty tutorials and blog series out there, but this will be different. A few days ago, I was wanting to teach our support guru Matt Cromwell how to write his own WordPress plugin. So instead

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