The new version of the WordPress app for iOS is out! For those of you who have used the WordPress app before, you know it makes blogging on the go from your iPhone or iPad easier. The main aim of this newest version, 3.6, was to make the user experience better for those who are… Read more »
Posts Categorized: tips-and-tricks
Switch from Posterous to WordPress
On 30th April 2013, Posterous will be shutting down. This is a sad day for many bloggers, though ever since Posterous was acquired by Twitter, it’s not entirely surprising. What this does highlight, is the importance of owning your own data, and you can do just that with WordPress. This tutorial will walk you through… Read more »
How to push code changes from Github to WordPress
A lot of our customers take advantage of our free test sites, where they can show their clients changes they’ve been working on, once the client approves the changes, they need to push those changes from the test site to the live site. This post will show you and them, how they can automate the… Read more »
A basic guide on how to debug WordPress themes and plugins
This blog post is going to be slightly more technical than usual. It’s targeted towards developers/coders of WordPress websites. If you’re just installing a theme, adding some plugins from the repo, and configuring them, this post is not for you. If you write custom plugins, build your own child themes, or themes, or if you’re the… Read more »
Introducing Smushkid – optimize images to speed up your website.
A long time ago, I wrote an article talking about how to speed up your photography website by using the Smush.it plugin. This was literally a few months after the company had started and we were hosting less than a 100 websites. As we’ve grown, and as Yahoo! has declined, we started noticing a lot of… Read more »
How to connect to the Rackspace NextGen cloud via the command line
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post showing you how to connect to the Rackspace Control panel via the command line. Recently, Rackspace announced their NextGen Cloud, something we’ve been privately testing with them for the past 8 months. Now that it’s stable, and has been thoroughly tested, I wanted to share the… Read more »
Tracking Visitor Behavior with Google Analytics
Tracking visitor behavior in Google Analytics is more useful than you can imagine, essentially turning your users into sets of user group tests. However, to get the best insights you have to tell it what to test for. Here we’ll be showing you how to track visitor behavior in Google Analytics. An Overview of Customer… Read more »
Setting up MixPanel Functionality in WordPress
Having covered some of the basics of a MixPanel install on a WordPress site, we can now show you some simple ways to improve functionality for multiple pages with minimal coding involved. MixPanel documentation does a great job of helping you get up and running with MixPanel on nearly any platform. To really take advantage… Read more »
How to Set Up Funnels and Event Tracking in Google Analytics and MixPanel
Funnel analytics show your website’s ability to accomplish the goals that matter to your business. If you’re using your site to drive some activity (i.e. signups, pageviews, completing a survey, etc.), you need to make sure you have the right funnels in place. First we have a brief overview of event tracking and funnel analysis,… Read more »
WordPress Retina Display: Get Your Site Ready
If you’re as big an Apple fan as I am (like most of the ZippyKid team), you were probably excited to hear about the latest announcement from WWDC bringing the retina display to the MacBook Pro. Vid, our fearless founder and Apple fanboy, even picked up a retina capable MBP the day after the announcement…. Read more »
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