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Ten Ideas to Speed up and Optimize your WordPress Site

Ten Ideas to Speed up and Optimize your WordPress Site May 11, 2014

Optimizing a WordPress website can be a tedious process. To improve a website’s overall performance, there are several simple steps you can take. However, WordPress website optimization is a constantly changing process and it may take a few optimization cycles to see the desired results.

It is relatively easy to improve the website performance and change the overall rating from D or E, as measured by the GTmetrix level, to A or B. WordPress website optimization can include adding helpful plugins to track changes and improvements or more technical changes. The amount of time it takes to load the website is probably one of the most important metrics in the optimization process and once improved will be reflected in your overall SEO score as well.

Logs & Statistics AddOn for the Tooltip Glossary Plugin

Logs & Statistics AddOn for the Tooltip Glossary Plugin May 10, 2014

This is an overview of our Logs & Statistics AddOn for the Responsive Tooltip Glossary plugin for WordPress. This add-on works with any of the Tooltip Glossary editions including even the free version. This add-on works exclusively with the Tooltip Glossary plugin for WordPress.

This add-on adds a statistical layer to the Tooltip Glossary plugin, providing graphs and follow charts that help you monitor how your users are interacting with your glossary data. This data includes detailed logs of user activity for both logged-in and anonymous users, and their activity on your WordPress site.

Get Forum User Notifications With the Questions & Answers Plugin

Get Forum User Notifications With the Questions & Answers Plugin May 8, 2014

This is an overview of the notification system for the Questions and Answers WordPress plugin. This user notification feature allows users to follow threads and receive forum user notifications when new answers are posted. This forum user notifications feature allows users to better navigate the Q&A forums and get their answers quickly.

At first, only a user who has posted a question or an answer can follow a thread, but now following an discussion is available to anyone. Any user or admin can follow any thread, ask a question or post an answer. Forum user notifications are only available to people using the Questions & Answers plugin.

Questions & Answers Plugin Works as Replacement for WordPress Comments

Questions & Answers Plugin Works as Replacement for WordPress Comments May 7, 2014

This overview of our Questions and Answers plugin for WordPress focuses on the commenting aspect of the plugin. The commenting feature is an alternative to replace WordPress comments, with no third party involvement between questions and comments. This feature allows administrators to replace WordPress comments with a Q&A discussion forum on each page or post.

Track Q&A Logs With Our WordPress Forum Statistics Addon

Track Q&A Logs With Our WordPress Forum Statistics Addon May 5, 2014

This is an overview of the logs and statistics element of the Questions & Answers plugin for WordPress. The WordPress forum addon, or the logs and statistics system, for our very popular questions & answers plugin for WordPress will increase the ability to track questions and answers, votes, visits and much more.

The Logs and Statistics module records all of the activity related to the Questions & Answers plugin. This is done by tracking all user activity (including anonymous users). Anytime a user accesses the plugin all activity from asking or answering questions to voting for answers and more. Admin can then view this detailed log to view the activity of the plugin users.

Magento and WordPress Integration – Why Bother?

Magento and WordPress Integration – Why Bother? Mar 23, 2014

A lot of times before you finish developing your Magento store, it just so happens that you are already running a WordPress blog. This means that you actually have an online presence already established when you launch your new store. Having both a store and the blog is successful Magento and WordPress Integration.

Also, after your store is live and selling, you will still want to maintain your WordPress blog. This usually takes you to the point of decision: should I just leave it where it is, or should I integrate it as a blog inside my Magento store? This is not an easy answer, as the right answer as always, is that it depends.

WordPress Tooltip Ecommerce Plugin Now Supports Glossary WooCommerce Integration

WordPress Tooltip Ecommerce Plugin Now Supports Glossary WooCommerce Integration Feb 11, 2014

Our WordPress Tooltip Glossary plugin ecommerce edition has been rebuilt based on the Tooltip Glossary Pro+ edition, complete with Glossary WooCommerce Integration. With many new features and functions, this new edition provides a solid solution for a complete glossary WooCommerce integration, allowing you to display products inside hovering tooltips and link them to WooCommerce store pages!

Overview of Our WordPress Download Manager Plugin

Overview of Our WordPress Download Manager Plugin Dec 16, 2013

This is an overview of one of our most popular WordPress plugins, called the WordPress Download Manager Pro, our WordPress file sharing plugin. The WordPress download manager plugin supports the management of user groups, allowing for easier restriction and permitting of access to selected users. It’s an excellent file directory that lets users upload various types of files including images and videos.

WordPress Ad Changer Plugin Will Turn Your Site Into An Ad Server

WordPress Ad Changer Plugin Will Turn Your Site Into An Ad Server Nov 7, 2013

This is an overview of one of our popular plugins, called the WordPress Ad Changer. This WordPress advertising plugin turns your WordPress site into an ad server from which you can create and distribute ads across several client sites simultaneously. There is no limit to the number of banners, advertising campaigns and ad groups that can be created across all websites.

Overview of the Tooltip Glossary Premium Editions

Overview of the Tooltip Glossary Premium Editions Aug 29, 2013

This is an overview of the Tooltip Glossary Premium Editions for the CreativeMinds Tooltip Pro and Tooltip Pro+ plugins for WordPress. This is an excellent plugin choice for anyone who wants to add an interactive glossary to their WordPress site. The newest update includes some serious tweaking that makes the plugin load much faster.

Answers Plugin – What is the Forum Disclaimer Feature and How it Works

Answers Plugin – What is the Forum Disclaimer Feature and How it Works Aug 15, 2013

In the recent version updates of the Question and Answers plugin, a forum disclaimer functionality has been added. This forum disclaimer is an important addition, because it can disclose the rules and purpose of the forum to new visitors. In this post, we explain how the forum disclaimer feature works and the mechanisms behind it.

Controlling Access to Music Files with Our WordPress Download Manager

Controlling Access to Music Files with Our WordPress Download Manager Aug 13, 2013

The Download Manager Plugin for WordPress is an excellent file sharing plugin which includes images, videos and various other file types. Recently we have upgraded our WordPress Download Manager plugin to support music downloads. This feature is an exciting new functionality for the WordPress download manager, which also supports preview listening of music files before the user decides to download them.

Coming Soon – A New WordPress Translation Plugin based on CM Tooltip Glossary

Coming Soon – A New WordPress Translation Plugin based on CM Tooltip Glossary Aug 13, 2013

We are excited about a new WordPress translation plugin we’ve developed that is based on our Tooltip Pro, and is soon to be released.

This new plugin features multilingual support from sources such as Google Translate and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and Wikipedia.

How to Deal With WordPress Site Members When Working With the Wishlist Member Plugin

How to Deal With WordPress Site Members When Working With the Wishlist Member Plugin Mar 31, 2013

The Wishlist Member plugin is a very popular WordPress membership plugin. It is a high quality plugin with a great deal of functionality to support building and maintaining a membership site. However, the plugin lacks overall support and doesn’t haven enough documented tutorials. The current documentation is available here this page).

The following short instructions were prepared from our own experience after building several WordPress solutions using the Wishlist Member plugin. These instructions may answer some of the basic questions developers using Wishlist may have about dealing with users. The following should cover the basics of using the WordPress Wishlist Member plugin.

5 Ways to Speed up and Optimize your WordPress Site

5 Ways to Speed up and Optimize your WordPress Site Jan 31, 2013

Optimizing a WordPress site can be a tedious process that involves improving the overall performance in a few optimization cycles. As WordPress plugin developers, we have dealt with hounders of sites which included a large scale database with many installed WordPress plugins, and have managed to improve their performance as measured by the GTmetrix level.

After we were done, the overall rating had jumped from D to E or A to B. This was also reflected in the time it took to load the website, which we view as one of the most important metrics in the optimization process. Basically, any optimization will improve your site speed, but the more different tacos you use increases your chances of improving site speed exponentially.

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