Tag: wordpress

The #1 Secret Tool The Pro Bloggers Use

What is the number one secret tool that almost all pro bloggers and developers use?

It’s not a plugin… it’s not a theme… and it’s not some fancy curation software either.

What they all have in common is that they run WordPress on a local server for testing and backup purposes. Here at IM Wealth Builders we have been doing the same for years – in fact every single plugin and theme we have ever built, has been developed on localhost first.

But using localhost is not just for developers – it’s something all WordPress bloggers can benefit from doing.

Essentially using your own development server means running a fully functional version of WordPress on your own computer – offline (ie. not published/live on the internet).

There are a number of very good reasons for doing this…

  • Testing if new themes and plugins work with your current setup before messing up your live blogs.
  • Testing changes you would like to make in your theme before messing with the files on your real blogs
  • Testing stuff on localhost is super fast compared to live blogs
  • It’s great if you are a developer building plugins and themes (or want to check work your outsourcers have done).’
  • Testing new WordPress, theme and plugin updates before you add them to your site
  • Quickly fixing bugs and problems on your live blogs
  • And much more… you can read more about it here

The problem is that running WordPress on a local server is a very difficult and time consuming thing to set up – previously it has been reserved for the real tech heads and developers.

But our very good friend Matt Garrett has just released a great product called WP Simulator

It shows you step-by-step how you can start using localhost for WordPress today and all the ways you can benefit from it – and it does so using free resources.

It’s geared to help you transform the way you build, test and repair WordPress sites faster than normally possible. If like me you find WordPress development slow then you should take a look this.

Matt Garrett, a pro blogger of some 10 years & his techies have found an easy way to run a rapid test version of WordPress on any PC or MAC. The traditional way of doing this involves editing complex server files and following multi-step install procedures…

Matt doesn’t release many products, the last 3 have all been top sellers – I have no doubt this one will be too.

It’s one of those products that won’t immediately put dollars in your pocket but it’s one you’ll wish you knew about years earlier as it will make your life a whole lot easier…

We highly recommend WP Simulator – so click on the banner below to have a look and grab a copy for yourself, before the price goes up.

The Best Way To Use Youtube With WordPress

Video is becoming increasingly important online. With broadband speeds going up all around the world more and more people are preferring video as their content format of choice – Both for recreational and educational use.

Just take a look at these jaw dropping stats from Youtube…

This was the reason why we developed our Covert Video Press theme – and the popularity of video is reflected in the fact that it’s still our all time best seller among all our WordPress Themes & Plugins.

You could upload videos to Youtube as part of your marketing strategy (and you should).

But there are some problems…

  • You have to create your own videos – which takes a lot of time and quite frankly can be a huge pain in the butt.
  • You are competing with the other 800,000 videos uploaded the same day as your video – and if you don’t have your own traffic to bring to the mix you are going to be one of the many videos stuck on 10 views (9 of them your own).
  • Every video you upload is just building up Youtube/Google’s content portfolio and real estate – and the end of the day they are the ones profiting from your hard work.
  • If you’re lucky (and that is a big “if”), you might get invited to their partner program so you can earn a few pennies from Adsense.

Now I’m not knocking Youtube as a marketing platform – it has it’s uses

But there is a better way!

A way to turn the tables and make Youtube and Google do the hard work for you – while you stay in control and reap all the benefits!

So even though it does not make sense to try and compete directly with Youtube

Making your site look, feel and work like Youtube and feeding off all their content does make a lot of sense!

As you already know we do most of our stuff on WordPress – so we naturally set out to create a theme that would do just that…

  • Mimic Youtube and other big video sites, and serve up videos in the highly addictive tube format, well known and loved by billions of people around the world.
  • Legally piggy back of other people’s work and let you build huge video sites without ever creating a single video yourself.
  • Stay in complete control over what content is being showed on your site – and more importantly over the ads… with you pocketing 100% of the revenue instead of sharing the scraps from the big Google table.

And after 3 months of hard work and endless testing – the result was our Covert Video Press theme.

We tested it on our own sites and the results where through the roof!

And now you can cash in on the video craze too – just click the banner below to see everything Covert Video Press can do for you…

What 90% Don’t Know About WordPress (But Should Know)

As you know we develop and market a lot of cool WordPress plugins & themes. With such a portfolio of WordPress products we of course also answer a lot of support questions daily – and in doing so we discovered an interesting trend…

The majority of the support questions we receive are not actually about our products themselves, rather they are about WordPress is general.

I guess is makes sense – WordPress is massively popular with over 64 millions blogs using the software. It’s free. it’s fairly easy to use and install and the fact that you can use 3rd party plugins and themes makes it insanely flexible.

This means that virtually anyone trying to start an internet business is going to use WP somewhere in their setup. Resulting in a lot of newcomers to WordPress daily and of course some of those find their way to our WordPress plugins & themes too.

Now we are obviously happy to help and answer any support questions we get!

But we also believe that our customers will be much more successful using our products if they know their way around the basic blogging system that powers them.

And in our opinion the best way of learning how to master WordPress is to watch over the shoulders of someone actually doing it, while explaining it all step by step.

That’s why we have put together the WordPress Video Tutorials – it consists of 2 info-packed modules and 23 step-by-step training videos, showing you how to easily transform your WordPress blog into a lean, mean marketing machine.

You can Grab 5 Free Sample Videos Here!

These 5 free videos cover some of the most frequently asked questions we get, like:

  • How to install WordPress plugins
  • How to install WordPress themes
  • How to use widgets on WordPress
  • How to control comments on WordPress
  • And how to write good blog post titles

Grab 5 Free Sample Videos Here!

The full tutorial videos in the full course span from the very basics instructions all the way to the more advanced WordPress customization – so no matter what level you’re at, I’m positive that these videos will help you become even more successful with WordPress.

And right now you can get the entire WordPress Video Tutorials course at a huge 75% discount – just click on the banner below to grab your 5 free videos and you will see how you can claim your discount on the full course.