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How To Set Up a Free Download with Email Capture in your WooCommerce Shop

Web Monkey8 years ago011 mins

How To Set Up a Free Download with Email Capture in your WooCommerce Shop

I’ve had some clients in the past who wanted to set up a free download in their WooCommerce store, as an email list building strategy.

In reality it can be a little cumbersome to do a free download in exchange for an email address within a store context because it takes several more clicks on the part of the user, than it would for a typical opt-in form. The steps I provide here will significantly streamline the process. I wouldn’t recommend it as your only opt-in process, but if you really want/need to use your WooCommerce store for this, the method in this tutorial will certainly ease the main pain points.

The 15 Skills You Need to Be a Successful Designer

Web Monkey8 years ago015 mins

Web designers (and related jobs like visual designer, user interface designer, and user experience designer) create the designs for the websites and web apps that we all use on a daily basis. Whether it’s the website for your favorite local restaurant or a huge site like Facebook, a designer decided how the site looks. On…

Techno Babble

How to Market Your Brand with Video Content Effectively

Web Monkey8 years ago013 mins

Depending on your niche and company image, some forms of content will be far more effective than others. Video content, however, is increasingly valuable to marketers in all industries. The immense power of video to reach a wider audience is no longer debated – it’s a fact. Consumers view companies that post video content as…

Field Notes: An Event Apart Boston 2016

Web Monkey8 years ago08 mins

Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do in the community. This week, designers Kjell Reigstad and Mel Choyce and code wrangler Kelly Dwan attended An Event Apart in Boston, Massachusetts. An Event Apart is a tech…

WordPress

New Theme: Rebalance

Web Monkey8 years ago01 mins

It’s Theme Thursday again, and we have a brand-new free theme called Rebalance to share with you! Rebalance Rebalance is an elegantly simple portfolio theme for photographers, artists, and graphic designers looking to showcase their work. It was designed by Automattic’s very own Mel Choyce and inspired by the classic Imbalance 2 theme for WordPress.org. Read moreHow To Create a…

Launch a Design Career Webinar Summit

Web Monkey8 years ago09 mins

When I was growing up, I loved doodling with neon gel pens, creating trifold poster board projects (glue sticks, for the win!), and outlining my friends’ names with Mr. Sketch scented markers to pass to them in class. And as I got older, I let some of that creativity fall to the wayside. But that doesn’t mean I lost my…

2 Ways To Safely Customize Your WordPress Site Without A Child Theme

Web Monkey8 years ago08 mins

2 Ways To Safely Customize Your WordPress Site Without A Child Theme

Here are 2 ways to safely make modifications to your site’s CSS and PHP functions, without creating a child theme. It’s based on my recent talk at WordCamp San Diego. This year (2016) I gave a talk at WordCamp San Diego as part of the Beginners’ Bootcamp, entitled “Customizing Without Hacking”. It was an introduction to best practices for customizing WordPress without doing anything that will break your site or make it a nightmare to maintain. Learning from the beginning how to customize the right way will make your future-self’s life much easier.

15 Things You Should Know Before Learning to Code Online

Web Monkey8 years ago023 mins

One of the coolest things about tech skills is that you can learn them from just about anywhere, from weekend workshops to online coding bootcamps. What you don’t need is to sit in a classroom for 3+ hours every week (per class!), listening to a professor who may or may not have actually worked in…

Improve Customer Service with a Powerful Knowledge Base

Web Monkey8 years ago012 mins

Customer service is at the forefront of your company. By providing a medium for your customers to interact with your brand, you put yourself in a position that necessitates extra attention and dedication – customer service can be a double-edged sword. On one hand you have the opportunity to demonstrate the technical competence, expertise and creative…

Resources

15 Reasons Your Career is Stalling Out

Web Monkey8 years ago015 mins

You were on track. You landed that entry-level job, a couple years later you got a promotion, and then…nothing. Your career just stalled. It leaves you feeling totally stranded. Do you wait it out and hope things get going again? Look for another job? Lock yourself in a closet and cry? (That last one, while…

WordPress

Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites

Web Monkey8 years ago04 mins

For more than a decade, the word “blog” has been synonymous with “your home on the web.” And since 2005, WordPress.com has been proud to help you create a unique space that is all yours. Now we’re excited to announce a brand new way to create a unique identity for your website: .blog, a top-level domain extension that…

Two New WordPress.com Bloggers on ‘Diving into the Giant Pool of the Blogosphere’

Web Monkey8 years ago011 mins

Every day, people from across the globe start their own websites on WordPress.com to share everything from their latest thoughts on current events to family recipes passed down through several generations. Among this group are Grace and Georgie, who started their blog Attempting Vogue a few weeks ago to share their thoughts on a variety…

Quick Start Guide to Site Publisher Templates | For Hosting Providers and Resellers | cPanel Blog

Web Monkey8 years ago08 mins

Many end-users are looking for a simple way of getting a functional site online as quickly as possible. In our latest release we introduced Site Publisher, a tool that can give your customers a live site in just a few clicks. As a designer and hosting reseller, I decided to take stab at creating my…

13 Common Fears of Tech Beginners, and How to Overcome Them

Web Monkey8 years ago024 mins

Transitioning careers can be scary. Okay, terrifying. When I—a liberal arts major—started teaching myself how to code, I fully expected that I wouldn’t be good at it. When I found out I enjoyed coding, I worried that I wouldn’t be able to get a job with it. When I got my first development job, I…

Find Free Advice for Your Cash-Strapped Startup With These 7 Techniques

Web Monkey8 years ago013 mins

When you’re starting a business, every penny counts. Stretching your venture capital effectively can mean the difference between success and failure during those critical first years. It’s always wise to ask for advice, but when you’re starting out, you may not have the funds for a business coach. Luckily, you can find quality startup advice…

Error Pages, A Hidden Branding Opportunity | cPanel Blog

Web Monkey8 years ago03 mins

Let’s face it, links break, servers go down, pages go MIA and somehow all your web visitors manage to land on the dreaded error page. Eek! While there’s no full-proof way to ensure you will never have to serve up an error page, with cPanel you can, at the very least, make it a page…

WordPress

Four Tips From Seasoned Bloggers

Web Monkey8 years ago011 mins

Some of the best blogging advice we hear is from you. On Discover, we publish interviews and profiles of bloggers around the world, who also impart their own tips on how they’ve gotten the most out of WordPress.com. If you’ve missed these interviews, not to worry — we’ve compiled some of the best bits of blogging wisdom here. Join…

Infographic: 23 Quick and Easy LinkedIn Updates to Get Hired Now!

Web Monkey8 years ago019 mins

Employers in many industries (including tech) are suspicious of people who have limited professional presence online. Think about it—if I’m hiring to fill a tech role but a quick Google search reveals nothing but a locked-down, completely private Facebook profile, am I really going to consider the applicant an expert? Probably not. If you’re looking…

New Themes: Affinity and Shoreditch

Web Monkey8 years ago02 mins

I’m happy to introduce two new themes in our collection: Affinity and Shoreditch. Affinity Affinity, designed by yours truly, is a classic one-page theme designed with weddings and family announcements in mind. Read moreHow To Create a Multilingual Online Store with WordPressCollect everything you need for your big day on one easy-to-customize site — add an R.S.V.P….

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¿Habla Español? Love Helping Others? Apply to Work with Us!

Web Monkey8 years ago07 mins

Karen Arnold, Deborah Beckett, Erica Varlese, and Pam Kocke work on the Happiness Hiring team at Automattic. They hire new Happiness Engineers who support users on WordPress.com and Automattic products. In May and June, they’ll visit WordPress and WooCommerce events in Argentina, Spain, and Austria to meet local WordPress enthusiasts and encourage people to apply…