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Expert and member directories are essential for WordPress sites, because they are excellent organization tools. Member directories allow users to build an extensive directory with detailed profiles and information on specific people. A member directory allows people to be organized and categorized for specific niches to better improve each WordPress site.

A calendar is a helpful feature for any WordPress site, but choosing the right calendar is easy said than done. Calendars are important but often overlooked elements of a website, but they are organization tools for online businesses. These Booking calendar plugins all offer a wide variety of interactive features and can meet your website’s calendar needs.

The new Locations Manager Addon for the PeepSo social network allows users to integrate locations and points of interest on their social network pages. When this addon is connected with PeepSo, users gain the ability to add and share Google maps with specific locations and points of interest on PeepSo social network.

It’s a good idea to add notifications to your WordPress site, so it’s easier to organize tasks for users on your site. There are many WordPress Notification Bar plugins available, and some of them have excellent custom features, are user friendly and reasonably priced. The following list of notification bar plugins are great options for any and all types of websites and businesses.

The new Routes Manager PeepSo addon allows users to integrate the Routes Manager plugin with their PeepSp social network. The Routes Manager plugin lets users create a catalog of map routes with various points of interest. This addon creates the ability for users to add map routes to their PeepSo social network and enhance their social community.

RSS feeds are an excellent way to share information from one website to another. RSS Post Importer WordPress plugins or the best plugins to accomplish this. The best RSS Post Importer plugins will import multiple RSS feeds and include the full post and image.

In the age of the Internet, people not only have the ability to buy and sell goods, but they have the ability to review and spread information about online products. Customer reviews are a major part of websites today, since they provide helpful feedback and information to consumers. Customer Review WordPress plugins are essential tools for ecommerce stores to be successful.

Anyone who schedules and manages appointments for a business knows how tedious it can be, especially when personnel have limited or irregular availability. Online appointment booking systems significantly reduce the tedious back and forth of setting and confirming appointments.

With a booking calendar, clients or co-workers can schedule appointments and meetings right on your WordPress website. It’s a self-service system that can make life a whole lot easier.

WordPress occupies the largest piece of the CMS market, powering over half of the entire internet. Although this is great for the platform and those who use it, it also makes WordPress an obvious target for hackers.

A compromised website is not only a pain to fix, it can also dramatically decrease revenue and damage your site’s reputation long-term.

As bad guys come up with more and more ways to wreak havoc, website owners must continue focusing on WordPress security in the new year. Here are five key security trends to pay attention to in 2017, in no particular order.

There are a hundred thousand free and premium WordPress plugins available for users online for a wide variety of reasons. These plugins can help improve functionality, security, organization, purchasing, design, seo and more. While there are many to choose from, there is a small list of truly essential WordPress plugins that every website should have.

Website speed is important. It not only matters for user experience, it matters for SEO. A slow website is a signal to Google that your site is not good. This can result in lower search rankings.

As part of our Performance and Speed Optimization Analysis Service, customers contact us with their website speed issues and ask for our help.

Recently, we received a message from someone who wanted to optimize their page load time from 5 seconds to 3 seconds or less. The website in question has about 2,500 sessions and 6,000 page views per day.

Documentation is a great way for users to better understand your content. Most documentation plugins exist to help users with customer support for various products or services quickly. This documentation can be through videos, lists or other media, and eliminates the need for contacting support personnel.

What are you an expert in? According to Oxford Dictionary, an expert is “a person who is very knowledgeable about or skillful in a particular area.”

We can’t all be experts in everything. That’s where the ability to ask experts questions comes in handy.

Footnotes are references or notes at the bottom of a page which help clarify the text on the page. The WordPress footnotes plugins on this list are great options for business professionals or WordPress users to easily and effectively add footnotes to their WordPress site. Footnotes are a quick and easy way to add footnotes to content and allow people to reference information in an orderly manner.

Ever wondered how to move your website URLs from HTTP to HTTPS?

Websites that display HTTPS have what is called an SSL certificate. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encrypts website information between a server and browser. This is what creates a HTTPS in the URL instead of HTTP.  This is a signal for visitors that a website page is secure.

The PeepSO – CM Answers Pro Integration Plugin is a new plugin add-on which supports a question and answer functionality to the PeepSo social network. This new add-on is an integration between CM Answers Pro and PeepSo, so having CM Answers Pro is a requirement for the add-on.

Tweets have the potential to share influential content and drive conversations. According to Statista, Twitter has 313 million monthly active users and this number will likely continue to rise.

There are millions of websites out there and just as many people using them, but there are also spammers. Email blacklist, site registration restrictions and comment spam WordPress Plugins are helpful tools to keep unwanted spammers out of your website. The following WordPress plugins and tools will ensure that these spammers won’t be able to register for your website or invite any unwanted users or viruses.

If someone wants to move past perusing your products or reading your blog posts, chances are they’ll have to register and log in to your WordPress website.

This makes login and registration important for many different types of WordPress websites, from a simple blog to a bustling ecommerce store.

User experience is key to a successful WordPress website and the registration process is no different. A good registration and login experience means people can quickly complete an action without barriers that discourage signup. It entices users to sign-up and engage with your site, whether that means leaving a comment or logging in to complete a purchase.