I’ve just completed a client project where I built an app from a client’s WordPress site, in this case study I will show you how to make an app for a WordPress website. My client runs the website skopemag.com and he wanted an app for his audience.  His tag line says “Diverse Music Media For The Digital Age” and has has a wide range of stories about new music. His site (and now the app) is a multi media combination of news stories, video and of course audio files for the new music he features. His content is an ideal candidate for an app, it is for peoples entertainment, they don’t  want to be ..read more

The primary job of your website is to sell your products or services to potential customer or clients. The secondary job of your site is to educate people with your content, none of these can be done when your site is down, in this post I will teach you how to monitor your WordPress site for uptime. People should not be contacting you saying your site is down, you should be the first to know, the first to react What Is Uptime? Uptime is a measure of the availability of your website for customers / clients to browse and engage with your content. No site is going to be at 100% uptime or availab ..read more

We store our maintenance clients’ backups in secure offsite cloud storage, in this post I want to explain why we store backups offsite and why you should too. The Problem That Makes Us Store offsite A lot of the backup plugins available take a backup and then create an archive in the wp-content directory.  The backup is stored in the same place as your website. If the disk your website is stored on crashes, the archive is gone and you cannot recover. If some mischievous hackers gets in and plans to deface your site and spots your backup archives, guess what, they will be deleted, I’ve seen it ..read more

As my agency grows at WP Dude, I’m finding I have to get out of my own way a lot. We have too many moving parts for me to touch everything that comes through my business. It’s like a plate juggling act, if I try to control everything eventually plates will begin to drop and smash on the floor. I’ve recruited a team who can deliver, so I need to pass the work onto them and trust them to get things done without me having to be part of the process. My Inner Control Freak At first the inner control freak was melting down, the big vein in his forehead was throbbing.  I was worried that things woul ..read more

In this video walk-through I’ll take you through a password protected podcast setup I created for a client in WordPress. The site is Qiological.com owned by Michael Max Plugins / Extensions Used Here is a list of the plugins / extensions used in this project. WooCommerce WooCommerce Subscriptions WooCommerce Membership PowerPress Photo Credit: seefit Flickr via Compfight cc Wrap Up – Password Protected Podcast If you need  help building a Password Protected Podcast get a quote The post Case Study: Password Protected Podcast appeared first on iBrain ..read more