How To Make Your WordPress Site Conversion Friendly: Part 2 – Effective WordPress Sidebars Sidebars are one of the best places to put your calls to action. Widgets make your life easy and almost every theme has ’em! But we need…
I wrote a post for Torque Mag ( an excellent WordPress news resource ) recently on the nature of the relationship between WordPress developers – those who create themes and plugins, and users of WordPress – those regular folks who…
Andrew Youderian • September 9, 2013 Sadly, Google’s infamous Keyword Tool is no more. It was…
WordCamp Los Angeles is taking place September 21st & 22nd – two days of awesome WordPress fun, learning and connecting. If you haven’t bought your ticket yet, I recommend you do so ASAP since they are likely to sell out.…
Coloft is an awesome co-working space in Santa Monica. In addition to providing the physical space where entrepreneurs can work together, they also foster community and creativity. One of the value-adds they provide is Coloft Academy – an ongoing series…
Andrew Youderian • August 23, 2013 I know the products and the market I sell in…
Part 1 – Defining Your Conversions and Calls To Action Mastering the use of WordPress is just one step in making your online presence effective and successful. Your website is going to be in a state of refinement until you’ve…
Andrew Youderian • July 30, 2013 I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the eCommerceFuel podcast!…
Doing the rounds on the interwebs lately is a lot of talk about the new feature Gmail is launching in their interface – tabs. It’s going to make life harder for those of us that send out email newsletters and…
Andrew Youderian • July 22, 2013 A few months ago, I shared our plan to implement…
If you’ve used WordPress even just a little bit, you’ve probably come up against the fact that it’s really hard to add extra space into the editor. You can only hit “return” a couple of times before it starts eating…
The Google Keyword tool which is an essential tool for researching keywords – finding search volume and related phrases etc is shutting down and is going to be replaced with their new tool called Keyword Planner. It will still be…
I recently had the honor of presenting at WordCamp Orange County 2013. I was asked to give a “WordPress 101” talk which may sound simple, but is deceptively so! It’s actually quite a challenge. I teach WordPress every day so…
You may have noticed your Twitter feed stopped showing up on your WordPress site just recently. This is because Twitter changed their API. An API is something that various web services like Twitter provide in order to allow developers to…
Andrew Youderian • June 30, 2013 Ten years ago you could get a basic store online,…
WordPress shortcodes are a powerful feature that theme and plugin developers use to give users advanced tools at their disposal, but they continually confuse people. They are infinitely easier than writing actual HTML and CSS but can still freak out…
Andrew Youderian • June 13, 2013 Deciding if and how to offer phone support is one…
Andrew Youderian • May 30, 2013 Today I’m thrilled to announce The Insider’s Guide to Building…
UPDATE: Donna Fontenot is the lucky winner of a Developer account at Elegant Themes! Looking for a fancy new theme for your WordPress site? Today might be your lucky day. Elegant Themes has been kind enough to let me give…
Andrew Youderian • May 15, 2013 It’s really hard to find quality eCommerce content with the…
Just recently I’ve worked on two sites that needed a way to display testimonials and a way to collect them from clients via the website itself. With WordPress there are several ways you could achieve this, this is just the…
