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2 Ways To Sell Using PayPal and WordPress

There are many, many ways to sell things from your WordPress site, from physical products to digital downloads or access to content. The best solution will depend on your particular circumstance and needs. While WordPress can get quite sophisticated in the ecommerce department, a lot of folks just want to be able to sell a few items quickly and easily using PayPal.

In scenarios like this where the user wants the simplest possible solution and knows they want to use PayPal, a fully featured shopping cart / ecommerce solution such as WooCommerce might be overkill. Sometimes simple PayPal buttons will suffice.

The 7 Most Customizable, Free WordPress Themes

When building their site, many people want a beautiful design, and the ability to customize that design any way they would like.

Navigating the free themes in the WordPress directory can be a bit of a minefield and it’s hard to know what you’re actually getting. So here are 7 of my top picks for free themes that are solid choices with lots of flexibility.

How to Update Old Content on Your WordPress Site

Maintaining a steady flow of traffic to your WordPress site isn’t only dependent on constantly producing brand new content. Updating old content is a great practice to keep benefitting from the posts you’ve already worked on. It’s possible to take advantage of Google’s freshness algorithm and generate a new burst of traffic for the updated content, as well as provide a better user experience for visitors to your site ensuring they never find old or irrelevant information.

In this post I’ll cover:

The easiest way to update existing posts in WordPress
How to push your content to the top of your blog feed again
How to let Google know your content has been updated without pushing it to the top of your blog feed again

Help! My WordPress Site Looks Different! And other tales of upgrading to 5+

In the past few weeks, several people have emailed me in various stages of panic about the new look of their WordPress admin area. They had updated to WordPress 5+, which features the brand new Block Editor AKA Gutenberg, and were flummoxed by the new changes.

This guide introduces the new editor along with some of the common questions and issues.

How to Have Different Sidebar Content On Different Pages of Your WordPress Site

Not all WordPress themes provide a way to have totally different sidebar content on different pages of your site. Some may provide a little flexibility with, for example a sidebar for the blog and a different sidebar for static pages, but sometimes you need more comprehensive control. You may need an additional set of navigation on a certain set of sub-pages, or you may want to hide some widgets on mobile devices, or for other specific conditions.

There are several different plugins that help you gain this type of flexibility with your site.

Where To Find WordPress Themes – Free & Premium

Choosing the right WordPress theme is one of the hardest parts of setting up your site. The plethora of choices makes it harder, not easier, as most people are paralyzed by the options.

Not only that, but it’s like the Wild West out there, with all kinds of cowboys claiming they’ve got the best theme to beat all themes. Who can you believe?!

Here is a selection of trusted theme shops to choose from.

How To Go Beyond WordPress Basics

If you want to become more proficient with WordPress, and develop confidence with, and understanding of, the more technical aspects, this tutorial is for you. It explains some of the skills and knowledge you need to move from a beginner’s understanding of WordPress, to an intermediate level. We’ll look behind the scenes of your WordPress site, explain the file structure and more.

WordPress Black Friday Deals on Hosting, Plugins and Themes

Thanksgiving weekend in the US means that there are lots of deals to be had on WordPress treats! If you need web hosting, domain names, plugins etc, now’s the time to get the best discount of the year. Keep reading for my own recommendations on some juicy holiday deals. Most will expire after the weekend, so act quickly!

Holiday Discounts on WordPress Learning, Themes, Hosting & Plugins

It's Thanksgiving weekend here in the US which means retail craziness. Some of your favorite WordPress theme, plugin and hosting providers are getting in on the action and providing deep…

A Few of My Favorite WordPress Plugins

I gave a small talk on plugins at WordCamp LA recently and was inspired to start compiling a list of my most commonly recommended ones. I've also started collecting them…