Category: WordPress

Default 404 in WordPress Have you visited a dead link OR had a typo in URL and were taken to page with 404 error ? This is standard error code on web if you are trying to access something that does not exists. If it is standard, then why do you want to customise it ? Most of the times, default 404 page looks like some variation of the following in WordPress Where does user go from here ? Most of the time user is lost. and would just go back to another search result in Google. What would be the logical next steps in this case ? User might want to search the site further OR might want to check the archives OR might just want to look at latest…

Why integrate SendinBlue with WordPress ? MailChimp was the de-facto alternative for anyone starting out with email marketing to get started free, and later upgrading to paid plans as required. Hence we had integrated MailChimp with WordPress umpteen times. You might wonder if that is so, why am I writing about how to integrate SendinBlue with WordPress. Recently MailChimp changed its pricing strategy, many clients started asking for more economical alternatives to MailChimp. Hence I started looking for one which is cost effective and integrates well with WordPress. After combing through various discussions on quora and similar forums, narrowed down on these three Sendy : their home page shows cost comparison with MailChimp Mailerlite : cost comparison with MailChimp SendinBlue: cost comparison with MailChimp Sendy is available for one time payment of…

Evaluate WordPress plugin fit without looking at the code in 8 steps You have a WordPress site up and running and you need to add new functionality. Simple, add a plugin right ? Right. However how do you search for right plugin from 47,748 plugins on WordPress repository ? This is just the official repository, for simplicity, I am leaving out other sites and plugin vendors. Back to our question, how do we find a plugin, simple search for the keyword. So you go ahead and do that and find 1000+ results sorted alphabetically ! This is where it gets interesting (and sometimes daunting) for a non-technical user.  How do you find and evaluate a WordPress plugin without looking at the code ? Let me give you simple steps to find and evaluate…