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In these blog posts you can read about SEO for Wordpress and form building tools for WordPress as well as other advice (shortcut: just buy Gravity Forms) from a WordPress expert.

April’s war on WordPress security

By Ari Salomon | Published: April 12, 2013
This is a month that will go down in infamy. Well, at least as far as WordPress security goes. There is a massive worldwide “brute force” attack going on and servers far and wide are experiencing slowdowns and lockouts. There is not alot of information yet.  The attack is known to be using forged or spoofed IP addresses. [...]
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GigPress vs “All in one event calendar”

By Ari Salomon | Published: February 5, 2013
  AI1EC has many more features than GigPress—so I’ll start with a list of the advantages of  the “All in one event calendar” (aka AI1EC) vs GigPress: More layouts: gigpress has just a list view; AI1EC has poster board and many more (daily, weekly, monthly and list/agenda) and allows user to switch between them Categories: in any layout [...]
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Gravity Forms for Ecommerce with tax and shipping options

By Ari Salomon | Published: December 21, 2012
I love Gravity Forms. It’s the best form building tool for WordPress and now it offers a new feature that allows more complex calculations between fields. Combine that with the PayPal Payments Pro and you have a really fast, simple and powerful ecommerce option for those times when a full WordPress ecommerce system/plugin is not [...]
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WordPress security plugins: Wordfence

By Ari Salomon | Published: October 9, 2012
Anyone who has had their site hacked or blacklisted knows how important it is to stay on top of WordPress Security. Yes, you should use the lastest versions of WordPress core and for the most part the latest version of plugins. But of course incompatibilities arise so be careful when updating. The #1 security measure [...]
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Crafty Cart WPEC theme

By Ari Salomon | Published: July 21, 2012
Crafty Cart was a great free WPEC (WordPress e-Commerce plugin) theme that I customized for a couple sites. But the developers seem to have disappeared so I’ve moved on to other WordPress ecommerce starter themes like those from Storefront Themes. What I like about Crafty Cart is the playful design. It also features: Simple product [...]
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PayPal, Square and Strip: more online payment options

By Ari Salomon | Published: July 18, 2012
A great new payment option is Stripe – it is a Payment Gateway which means you can sell stuff online, take credit cards on your site yet avoid any recuring monthly fees. I have not used it but hope to try it soon. Has anyone out there used it with WordPress? WPEC is oftem set [...]
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PayPal Payments Pro vs PayPal Payments Advanced for WPEC

By Ari Salomon | Published: June 18, 2012
  There is a new, lower-cost option coming for the WP e-Commerce Plugin. It launched in April 2012 and is called: “PayPal Payments Advanced” and it will soon be a great option for WordPress ecommerce. Up till now you had to pay the full “PayPal Payments Pro” $30/month fee. But soon this new $5/month option will give [...]
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Flickr widgets for WordPress

By Ari Salomon | Published: June 14, 2012
many of these plugins need your Flickr API to work. It will look something like this: Slickr Flickr This is my favorite—very fully featured for the active Flickr user or just someone who wants to embed Flickr into WordPress. Displays Flickr photos as a gallery or a slideshow that is NOT the Flickr slideshow widget. [...]
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New Site: Greenbelt Alliance

By Ari Salomon | Published: March 18, 2012
Last week I launched a new client project – rebuilding a large site for  the Greenbelt Alliance. It was a complex project that spanned the last 8 months or so and included alot of stakeholders and a complex planning process that intersected with a revamp of their long term strategies. We used WordPress (of course [...]
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ManageWP vs the rest: remote WordPress site management

By Ari Salomon | Published: March 9, 2012
Some great new tools out there to monitor and update a number of WordPress sites from one central place. Here’s some notes I’ve gathered – please share your experiences in  the comments. WHY REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF WORDPRESS SITES? As part of my services as a web developer and WordPress expert, I have to manage many websites [...]
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