One very popular WordPress beginner question is "How do I create a contact form in WordPress?".
When you search for a contact form plugin in the WordPress directory, you get over 258 pages of entries returned.
So, the real question isn't so much "How do I create a contact form in WordPress?" but "Which plugin do I use?".
We have some recommendations for you:
In this exclusive tutorial, taken from WooCommerce Explained, we're going to show you how to create variations for your WooCommerce products.
Variations allow users to choose different options for a product. This means you can sell a T-Shirt in different sizes and colors.
However, variations can be complex to set up. Before you read this blog, I highly recommend you read "How to create WooCommerce attributes". Creating attributes is an essential first step before creating variations. The instructions in that post also follow on from that tutorial.
WooCommerce Explained is the best-selling book on WooCommerce. In this exclusive tutorial, taken from WooCommerce Explained, we're going to show you how to create attributes for your WooCommerce products.
Attributes are a key feature of most WooCommerce stores, but they are easily misunderstood. They're also often confused with WooCommerce variations.
So before we begin to show you how attributes work, let me take a couple of paragraphs to define them.
Andrew is the founder and CTO of Concrete5, an open source CMS that's comparable to WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and others.
Concrete5 has been around for over a decade and has introduced some innovations that other projects still haven't managed to equal. For example, for a long time now, Concrete5 users have been able to click on any part of the site to edit items, right there on the page.
I talk with Andrew about what it's like to run a large project for many years. He describes the ups-and-downs, including a major release that broke backwards compatability and frustrated some community members. Andrew also talks how he found a second wind, 10 years into building his project!
Some websites make it really hard to contact them. The "Contact Us" page is hidden in the footer. The social media icons, if there any, lead to accounts where no-one ever replies.
Why not make it as easy as possible to contact you?!?
One good idea is to place a "Contact Us" in your menu. As soon as people click on it, they'll get a pop-up box with a contact form. Your visitors don't even need to visit a different page. That's as easy as it gets.
We've just seen the launch of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) law in Europe.
If you need some general background on the GDPR itself, this podcast from a16z is a great introduction.
With the law in action, open source projects are finally talking more about how their getting ready for the new law. One thing most people can agree on is that compliance will not be easy and changes will be needed.
After looking into the approach of different projects, I can divide them into three different groups.
If you want to set up an online store, then Shopify is a great solution. It's one of the most popular eCommerce platforms in the world and has everything your store needs from products and variations to payments and shipping.
In this week's video release, Rod Martin shows you how to build a Shopify site in 1 hour. This 15 video class will help you get up-and-running with Shopify in just minutes.
This class adds to the eCommerce pathway, which now features classes on Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Easy Digital Downloads, Ecwid, Hikashop and more.
Adobe has just purchased Magento for $1.68 billion.
This deal is not a big surprise. People were predicting it a couple years ago, when Magento started partnering with Adobe. Karen Baker, a figurehead in the Magneto Community, wrote that the community had been expecting something like this.
This also isn't the first time Magento has been sold. Back in 2011, Magento was sold to eBay. That deal is generally considered to be a failure, and eBay sold Magento in 2015. Hopefully, Adobe will turn out to be better owners of Magento than eBay.
Let's look at this deal from several angles ...
When you build multilingual websites you will probably come across two keywords, "Internationalization" and "Localization".
These are complicated words for fairly straightforward ideas. In this guide, I'll explain what Internationalization and Localization are, and what you need to understand about them when building your multilingual site.
If you're building a multilingual WordPress site, there are four things you need to find translations for:
In a previous tutorial, we took a look at how to find a multilingual theme. In this guide, we're going to take a look at how to find multilingual plugins. Not every plugin has been translated or is capable of being translated.
Do you accept guest blog posts on your WordPress site?
It's a great way to drive traffic to your site, improve your SEO, and create connections with other bloggers.
However, by default, everyone who writes on your WordPress site has to have a user account. So to accept a guest author post, you need to create a user account that the author may never use.
PageSpeed Insights is a great website speed testing tool from Google.
Millions of webmasters across the globe use it on a daily basis to measure performance and loading speed of their sites.
When it comes to testing, you may want to diversify your toolset though.
In this blog post, you will look at the top eight alternatives to Google's PageSpeed Insights.
Drupal is having another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time.
Two new security issues, named "Drupalgeddon 2" and "Drupalgeddon 3", have resulted in widespread problems. These latest issues resulted in cryptocurrency mining hacks to a number of high-profile sites, including several run by US federal agencies.
WooCommerce is probably your best choice for eCommerce in WordPress.
WooCommerce is hugely popular and now powers over 40% of all online stores. It is so commonly used that WooCommerce was purchased by Automattic and Matt Mullenweg back in 2015. This might be controversial to say, but it is close to being the "official" WordPress eCommerce plugin.
In this week's video release, Rod Martin updates our WooCommerce class. This class is now over 30 videos long and covers every aspect of getting started with WooCommerce.
The lessons are based on the WooCommerce Explained book. Join OSTraining today and you'll get access to both the books and videos.
If you're building a multilingual WordPress site, you need a multilingual WordPress theme.
You don't necessarily need a theme that has been translated, but you do need a theme that can be translated.
Let me show you how you can find a translatable theme.
By default, a Drupal 8 user account collects only very basic information about the user.
And, most of that information is not visible to visitors or other users on the site.
Fortunately, Drupal makes it easy to modify and expand this profile so that people can add useful information about themselves such as their real name (versus a username), address, employer, URLs, biography, and more.
