We’re launching a new interview series called WordPress Heroes featuring your friendly, neighbourhood WordPress community leaders!
If you’ve ever wanted to go for coffee with a SaaS founder or a WordPress company leader to pick their brain and glean some helpful advice, this is a great opportunity to do just that. So grab your cup of coffee, tea, or wine, and settle in to see just how far they’ve come and what they’ve learned in the process.
For our first interview, we’re excited to be featuring Syed Balkhi, a successful and young entrepreneur creating company after company in the WordPress environment and beyond. He’s been featured in the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by the United Nations and he’s also been quite involved in philanthropic work. Without any further ado, let’s hear from Syed himself in our first ever WordPress Heroes series.
We’re excited to announce that the Themify Builder 4.5 has officially launched! Our entire Builder has basically been recoded to now use Javascript, so everyone will now experience a new lightning fast Builder! Thank you for all of your feedback on the beta version of the Builder and for your support. We’ve been able to incorporate your recommendations and polish our latest update to a high shine. We’ve even added some new additions to this update, not yet seen on the Beta version – you can see these new features and more below!
Please update your theme to the latest version, with the Themify Updater plugin, to start using the new and improved Builder. If you're new to Themify or need to renew your membership, read more for details about our most popular Master Club!
Highlights
Faster performance
New interface on both frontend and backend
New Optin Form module
New Login Form module
Bing Maps
Many new styling options (hover styling, height, rounded corners, text shadow, shadow, and blend mode)
One look at this month’s Customer Story agency website will have you fascinated as to how he created it all on his own, with the help of a Themify theme! Let’s dive in and hear Lester’s best tips and tricks on using Themify and WordPress to create his own digital marketing agency site, and for all the sites of his clients.
About Me
My name is Kart Lester Balangue, I currently run my own digital marketing agency with the goal to help businesses grow and eventually be the authority in their field. Hence the name, Eminence Digital Media.
Originally, I started doing web design in school when one of our main assignments was to design a recycling website. Back then I had a little bit of CSS and html knowledge due to an old social media platform that allowed you to customise every aspect of your personal page, which I spent plenty of time doing. I enjoyed designing and building that recycling website and it ended up being one of the best websites in my class.
UPDATE: We've released the pagespeed framework (Themify v5) that can achieve 90+ score on Google Pagespeed Insights without using any third party plugins. If you are using the latest Themify themes, please skip this post.
Ranking higher on Google searches likely means the number of visitors crossing your page will increase as well. But how do you ensure you make it to the top of the Google search list? Well, there are a variety of factors that play into how high your website ranks.
You can improve your Google search ranking by adding an SSL certificate to your site, translate your site to be multi-lingual, or you can ensure your site loads super quickly! That's what we'll look at in this foundational tutorial, and we'll show you just how to achieve a powerfully fast WordPress site!
Sticky scrolling is a cool way to grab a reader’s attention as it makes your web page feel animated with various elements sticking to the forefront, then disappearing. It hasn’t yet been a year since we’ve launched the Builder’s sticky scrolling, but we’ve been receiving great feedback on it, and have noticed parallax layout sites having a bit of a resurgence as well.
To see what goes into creating a sticky scrolling layout, we’ll be breaking it all down and explaining it to you in this foundational tutorial. Take a look at the Sticky Scrolling demo below to see it in action.
We’re excited to be sharing a new tutorial from a guest, Dr. Arnold Robinson III. We’ve previously featured him in a Customer Story, and as a Digital Marketing professor and expert, he's a great resource we can all learn from. For this tutorial, we’ll be learning how to optimize your photos for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes.
This is important because search engines, like Google, use the keywords you include on a blog post to find and rank your content on the internet. If you optimize your site for better SEO, you will be ranked higher, and receive more organic traffic from search engines. More traffic to your site means more visitors reading your content, and could result in more sales or advertisement profits.
