Hiring: Tutorial Video Casting Call!

Hiring: Tutorial Video Casting Call!

We are excited to announce an opportunity for someone to help us create tutorial videos for the Themify YouTube channel! We want to grow our reach with our online community, and ensure we are providing the best instructional videos in the form of screen recordings with voice overs. This will help us create clarity and awareness of all the features and elements our themes and framework offer.

If you’re someone with fluency in English, and possess a clear and professional voice, this may be the right opportunity for you. Please see the following for a list of requirements for this position.

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How to Add SSL to Your WordPress Site

How to Add SSL to Your WordPress Site

What is SSL and why do you need it? On today's tutorial series, we'll focus on getting down to the bottom this small but mighty detail. SSL (Secure Sockets Layers) is a set of encryption protocols used to secure users' information and ensures that the data transmitted to a website remains encrypted. Major search engines (such as Google) recommend all sites to have an SSL certificate and favours sites that do by ranking them higher in searches. Now you can probably imagine just how beneficial having an SSL certificate on your site is. Not only would it increase the security on your site, but it would potentially create more visitors because of your higher Google search listing.

On top of this, providing visitors and customers peace of mind when submitting personal information and buying products on your site allows for more trust, less buyer's remorse, and happier clientele. If you have a website that accepts payments, such as an online store, then having an SSL certificate is an absolute must. Typically, you can purchase an SSL certificate via your host provider or from an SSL authority. Here are a few options that you can use to get you started: Symantec, Comodo, and Let’s Encrypt.

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New! Ultra Horizontal Skin for City & Travel Photography Bloggers

New! Ultra Horizontal Skin for City & Travel Photography Bloggers

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Calling all city and travel photography bloggers and influencers… please help us welcome the Ultra Horizontal skin! Using vivid colours, horizontal scrolling, and big visual imagery, allow the reader to step into your memories with your breathtaking travel photos.

This is the perfect skin to showcase your landscapes and detail shots all at once, using the section scrolling with fancy parallax scrolling effect. The Ultra Horizontal also makes it easy for you to keep yourself afloat during your travels by using the built-in Portfolio and Shop section. Simply insert your products or Amazon Affiliate product links in your shop with the free WooCommerce plugin and use our specially pre-designed layout for it. Or feature your professional skills and services by displaying your best pictures in the Portfolio section using our free Themify Portfolio Plugin!

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New! Ultra eBook Skin for Writers, Authors, and Poets

New! Ultra eBook Skin for Writers, Authors, and Poets

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We hope we’re setting some sort of record with the number of Ultra Skins we’re launching (two in one month!). The best news? We’re nowhere near done. Our brand-new skin is the Ultra eBook, a classy and stylish book & author WordPress theme that is dedicated to promoting and selling your latest book release!

The Ultra eBook skin is a bold yet elegant design that truly expresses a writer’s style. With floral decorative elements and free-flowing strokes in the background, it’s a perfect fit for our one-page site design with scroll-to-row anchor. (This basically means, that when you click on a menu link, it scrolls to where you want to go immediately).

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How I Create Invaluable eCommerce Profits for My Clients with Themify – Tanner Rankin

How I Create Invaluable eCommerce Profits for My Clients with Themify – Tanner Rankin

Welcome back to a new edition of our Customer Stories. To kick off the new year, it’s time to refocus your website’s eCommerce and marketing strategies to be more profitable and successful. To provide us insight into this vast world is business maven, Tanner Rankin, who’s appeared on the likes of Forbes, MSNBC, and Entrepreneur. Read on to see how Tanner uses WordPress themes to stay current in the ever-changing eCommerce world.

About Me

My name’s Tanner Rankin and I am a top-rated eCommerce and Amazon consultant, as well as an eCommerce website designer. For 10 years, as an author, speaker, and founder of The Source Approach, I’ve helped brands, startups, and retailers get to where they want to go quicker and easier through eCommerce & Amazon marketing. I focus on lending a hand to help businesses and my own companies grow in the eCommerce and SaaS (Software as a Service) spaces.

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How to Fix WordPress Stuck in Maintenance Mode

How to Fix WordPress Stuck in Maintenance Mode

As part of our on-going foundational tutorials, we'll be explaining how to manually get out of WordPress' maintenance mode in the event that your site gets stuck in it. You may be wondering what it is and why it happens. Well anytime you update your themes or plugins, WordPress' maintenance mode kicks in, displaying a message that your site is briefly unavailable. Usually the updates only take a few seconds and are too brief to even notice.

But sometimes the process gets interrupted midway. The hiccup can come from server connection errors, or perhaps a browser or page was accidentally closed during the updating process. Whatever the case, there is usually an easy fix for it, and we have 2 possible solutions for you to get rid of that pesky message fast.

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