The Author

Alyona Galea

Alyona is a WordPress enthusiast, focused on sharing interesting things she comes across during her work with this great CMS. She loves exploring new destinations and maintains a travel blog at www.alyonatravels.com

Articles written by Alyona Galea

9 of the Very Best WordPress Themes for Hotels

Whether you’re designing a site for a client or building your very own business website, one thing is for sure, WordPress theme options are almost always overwhelming. To lighten the load, we’ve scoured the web for some of the very best hotel, motel, inn, and bed and breakfast themes available. Take a break from searching, kick back, grab a cup of tea, and enjoy. If you’re looking to really knock the socks off of a customer or potential guest, here’s where to start

WordPress Widgets: Why to Use?

In WordPress development widgets help developers create functionality within a website. For instance developers can easily add content and features to the sidebars. Now widgets can be used in different parts of a website and these are popularly known as the wigetised area.

Your WordPress Skills Can Change The World

You’re a talented WordPress developer or designer. Let’s be honest, you’re pretty popular these days. You’ve got skills that are needed far and wide. The only question is: How will you use them?

Create Legal Policy Pages for your WordPress Website with WPLegalPages

Most affiliate programs and Advertiser Networks like Google AdSense, ClickBank and the like, have very stringent norms about the policies that need to be unambiguously displayed on affiliate or partner websites. While most of these programs highlight the key mandatory points that need to be part of the policies – the exact wording stumps most website owners who lack the legal know – how to put it together.

5 Ways to Use Email Pop Ups That Don’t Suck

Nothing divides an audience quite like the mention of email pop up forms. Many opinions lean towards hating pop ups for being intrusive, rude and a place to lose your soul. There are however those who swear that pop up forms are super effective for increasing email signups.

Squarespace vs WordPress – Which is the Best?

Squarespace and WordPress are two of the most popular Content Management Systems. Each has its own share of merits and demerits, and each serves different usages. While Squarespace is an entirely hosted and managed platform, WordPress is a self-hosted software that you can run and manage yourself

How to Double Your WordPress Development Rates

Do you build websites for clients using WordPress as a content management system? Have you ever worked on a project you didn’t care about, bored you to death or you just knew was doomed for failure?  Have you ever been to coffee, or even worse, lunch to listen to someone’s

Secure Your WordPress Site, Lock Stock and Barrel

There is no point in having an array of locks at your disposal, if you do not use them, or don’t know how to use them to safeguard your property. In the case of information, especially your private information, a heavy duty lock is what you need at all times. To protect, in this case, a repository of valuable information, it is important to have a good lock and ensure that it is fixed strongly to the door.

Try Out Real-Time Commenting on Your Website with Barc Chat

Barc Chat, is a new Wordpress plugin that allows you to easily add real-time commenting to your site! Barc’s simple tool combines social networking, instant messaging and customer support – and it’s all completely free without any ads!

Set Up a Multilingual WordPress Site and Break Your Language Barrier

The Internet has opened the doors for blog owners to do business and connect with people overseas. Distance is no longer a barrier, but language is. If you want to connect with people in different countries, you can tear down the language barrier by creating a multilingual WordPress blog. You won’t have to translate the blog on your own. Instead, you will install a plugin that will translate the blog for you.

What to Do When a WordPress Plugin Causes Your Website to Crash

It doesn’t matter how careful you are. At some point of another, a plugin is going to cause your WordPress website to crash. The only way to avoid a crash is to have a test area that is an exact clone of your live website; with the same plugins, posts, pages and theme. Whilst I am a strong advocate of actively using a test area to try out new plugins and changes, I do not believe it is practical to keep an exact duplicate of your live website, particularly if that website has a lot of content. So realistically, you’re going to have to deal with a problematic plugin in the future.

Simple Tweaks to Optimize Conversions on a WordPress Blog

One thing I noticed when running a small web design business was that a number of beginner designers that we (me and my friend) were trying to hire didn’t have a grasp on the design-business connection, so to speak. What I mean is that design was always a tool (a method) to achieve a specific business goal … at least from a website owner’s perspective. Designers who considered themselves artists had big problems abandoning some beautiful design tweaks even once they realized that these tweaks were bringing nothing in terms of the ultimate business goal, or even made it harder to achieve.

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