Blog
HotThemes Blog is a place where we publish news articles, product updates, and tutorials for WordPress users.
February 22, 2019 3:09 pm 7 Reasons Why You Should Choose Premium Theme Over Free Theme
When you are starting out as a blogger or starting a new website for your business, you might have stumbled upon many Premium themes.
Read more
February 17, 2019 8:46 am How To Start Your First WordPress Blog At Less Than $30
(Write Your First Post In Less Than 15 Minutes) If you are wondering how to start your first blog at less then $30 and that too quickly (less than 15 minutes) then you are at the right place.
Read more
February 12, 2019 5:11 pm Are You Making The Most Out Of Your Website?
For a modern-day business, there is nothing more important than the company website. It is often the first point of contact for the target audience, and this means that it needs to engage the visitor, provide value and convert them into a customer. This is no easy feat, and many businesses are not making the most out of their website, which will hold them back and stop them from reaching their potential. Fortunately, it can be relatively simple and straightforward to make a few changes to ensure that you are getting the most out of your website and you will soon notice the impact that this has on your company.
Read more
February 12, 2019 2:33 pm 5 Great WordPress Theme Frameworks for Theme Developers For 2019
WordPress platform hosts some of the best websites. So, considering the functionality and usability of WordPress in mind, it is only understandable that designers still want to work with WP theme frameworks even in 2019.
Read more
February 12, 2019 2:07 pm How Your Mobile Phone Can Help You Run A Better Business
Your mobile phone isn’t just for personal use any longer and can actually help you to run a better business. If you want to quickly advance your company, then it’s in your best interest to learn more about this topic and commit to using your mobile phone more often for keeping your company running smoothly.
Read more
February 12, 2019 1:59 pm Habits That Will Make You A Better Graphic Designer
Becoming a better graphic designer isn’t necessarily an easy task, but is doable with the right attitude and approach. The following suggestions will give you a good idea of what habits you need to be focusing on as you try to improve your skills.
Read more
February 8, 2019 6:02 pm 7 Ways To Improve Your Company Website
In today’s digital age, every business needs to have a high-quality website. This is how you present your brand to the world, so the website needs to paint the company in a positive light and have value. It can also be hard to develop a website which stands out from the crowd and is memorable which can hold a business back. Therefore, it can be helpful to know a few tricks which will help to improve your company website and make sure that it wins over visitors and turns them into customers. Read on for a few different ideas which should help.
Read more
February 6, 2019 2:28 pm Optimizing Your WordPress in 4 Simple Steps
Optimizing your WordPress site should be one of your top priorities if you are planning to use it as a marketing tool, either for yourself or your business. This means ensuring that it is quick and easy to use for all those that access that, that it is engaging for all that may stumble across it, and that it resonates with your target audience. In order to optimize your site, you’re going to have to take the four simple steps laid out below.
Read more
January 25, 2019 8:27 am How to Identify and Address CMS Vulnerabilities
Have you ever stopped to consider just how many websites there are around the globe? You may be surprised to learn just how many there are and how fast the rate of growth truly is. Let the following information sink in for just a moment. In 2014, there were approximately one billion active websites.
Read more
January 22, 2019 8:39 am Developer’s Guide: How to Contribute to WordPress Core
WordPress being an open-source project enables anyone to contribute to it. If you are a developer or an enthusiast who is looking to contribute to the WordPress core, you are in the right place.
Read more
January 18, 2019 2:50 pm How You Can Use Technology Innovation to Create a Successful Website for Your Needs
There are a number of reasons it is important to create your very own website. Whether it’s for business or personal purposes, this site can help you boost your brand awareness and thus improve your online presence.
Read more
January 16, 2019 8:24 am 10 Powerful Community WordPress Themes
In the past 10 years or so, social media has been gaining more and more power with each passing day. It should be acknowledged that there is no stopping of the force that made these social media sites must-have tools. The best plan of action at this point is to use social media to one’s full benefit. Budding businesses should make it a point to build a community of followers, which can soon be turned into paying customers. This post reviews powerful community WordPress themes.
Read more
January 9, 2019 3:01 pm How To Save Time By Automating WordPress Tasks
Automation might sound scary for businesses who take pride in their ability to create and nourish a more personal relationship with their clients and customers. But when it comes to running a successful WordPress website, automation can streamline your workflow and save valuable time and resources you would otherwise be wasting doing the same thing over and over again.
Read more
January 9, 2019 2:23 pm How WordPress Can Make Your Business Website Easier to Manage
For most businesses, creating a website is usually part of the package. In this digital age, it’s important as it gives you a home online as well as a base where people can find you. Most websites contain valuable information about who your company is and what services they offer. There is also a range of other details that you can include to engage customers and keep them interested and updated. Having said that, if you haven’t yet created a website for your company or are thinking of starting over, here’s how WordPress can make your site easier to manage.
Read more
December 27, 2018 3:15 pm How Using WordPress Will Benefit Your Website
A website is incredibly useful for companies and people alike. It’s easier than ever to create one, and this is particularly due to the programs and tools available at your disposal. Take the example of WordPress, and the countless benefits that using this software will bring to your website. It allows you to find unique themes, and there are hundreds that you can choose from.
Read more
December 8, 2018 9:33 am 3 Ways to Ensure Every Consumer is Fully Satisfied
If you want to stand any chance whatsoever of drawing custom out of your consumers, then you need to satisfy them. This means doing more than making sure they are satisfied with what they’ve paid for, too. You have to go out of your way to build a relationship with your consumer base on a deeper level, and you have to make it clear to them that, whether they purchase a product from you or not, they are still of importance to you.
Read more
December 6, 2018 2:36 pm How to Match Your Photography and Your WordPress Theme
For photography bloggers, choosing what theme to use for their blog is almost as important as deciding what platform to use! There are over 3000 WordPress themes to choose from on the basic website and thousands more when you include themes downloaded from exterior sources.
Read more
November 21, 2018 2:13 pm 3 Ingredients of a Great Website
Much like your favorite cake, a website needs to consist of well-researched ingredients to make the perfect product. You may have the core ingredients, but if you forget to add one, the quality can be compromised. To help you avoid cooking up a disaster, here are the 3 ingredients of a great website.
Read more
November 15, 2018 10:35 am The Benefits of a Business Website
A business without a website is not credible. A strong online presence can make the world of a difference to companies, due to the long list of benefits that it provides. For example, after you started the website, you can better grow your audience. Remember, in this case; more people can mean more potential customers and higher profit making. Moreover, it is incredibly important to have an online presence for the sake of being found. If someone wants to learn more about who your company is and what they do, how can they do it? People use search engines to answer most of their questions nowadays, and you need to answer this demand by having the necessary platform set up online.
Read more
November 13, 2018 10:23 am 5 Innovative Methods to Market Your Business
Quite simply: marketing and business growth go hand-in-hand. If you want to boost your brand, increase your sales and develop a solid customer base, you must embrace powerful promotional strategies that will help you to take over an industry and jump ahead of your competitors.
Read more
October 15, 2018 1:23 pm Can’t Install WordPress Plugins or Themes?
WordPress plugins and themes help you provide extensive features on your website for your visitors. You might need one theme at a time but there are so many plugins that have become a necessity in order to keep everything under control. Users do keep a lot of themes in their WordPress site’s database and they are free to uninstall and remove them at will; plugins have a different story. However, both these WordPress components together make your websites vibrant and functioning. But, all of us face issues quite a lot of times when it comes to installing these plugins/themes.
Read more
October 12, 2018 1:29 pm 5 Important Features to Consider for Your WordPress Online Store
You decided a long time ago that you wanted to run your own online store and you know what you’re going to sell. The next important step to take is to design your store. This is quite possibly one of the most difficult stages you’re going to need to deal with, and it’s likely to take up a lot of your time, for the next few months at least. More than a quarter of the web runs on WordPress, and there are plenty of good reasons why. For the complete novice there is a heap of free information, and it’s relatively easy to get a site up and running. Before you get started, here are five of the most important features you need to include.
Read more
October 11, 2018 8:19 am Guide To Clean An Infected WordPress Site
One day you might discover that in the search results there are references on your website to pharmaceutical products. You check the content and find external links to websites that should not be there. To make matters worse, your site is listed as dangerous by Google, and then you ask yourself, what can I do?
Read more
October 9, 2018 8:01 am Savvy Tips To Choose WordPress Theme According To Your Website Niche
This may sound very basic but knowing your niche is very important when choosing a WordPress theme for your website. With WordPress, you are covered as regards speed and support. However, WordPress will not protect your website from looking awkward and out of place.
Read more
October 5, 2018 1:08 pm The Very Best Website Themes
There are thousands of website themes to choose from online. Choosing a theme for your website is a difficult task because it can be a challenge to visualize how your content can be adapted to make way for a shiny new theme. However, themes are the perfect solution to help make any content come together to appear like a professional website. They’re an incredible tool for short-cutting towards visual brilliance. Listed below are some of the most flawless, fun and contemporary themes that will make your website irresistible.
Read more
September 26, 2018 8:10 am Explore Great Possibilities If You Pursue a Career in Graphic Design
Graphic designers are responsible for creating visual concepts with the use of computer software for communicating ideas that inform, inspire, captivate, and even motivate consumers. They are responsible for developing the overall layout and generating designs for a wide variety of applications like websites, brochures, advertisements, corporate reports, and magazines. Graphic designers also work on movies, games, and product packaging, etc.
Read more
September 21, 2018 8:00 am The Checklist of Best Instagram Style WordPress Themes
This post reviews some of the best Instagram styles of WordPress Themes. Social media is an integral part of online marketing and as per reports, there is a more than 70 percent probability that your online business cannot fare as expected if it is not visible on the top social media channels.
Read more
September 18, 2018 7:56 am Carousel Settings from the Hot Golf Theme
This tutorial explains how to set up the Hot Full Carousel plugin and widget for the Hot Gold theme and make it look as on our demo.
Read more
August 29, 2018 1:45 pm Three Things to Consider When You Start a Blog for Your Business
Blogs are so much a part of internet marketing for businesses now that if you don’t have one yet, you are probably very well aware of the benefits you will gain by adding one. The ability to have a platform for content marketing, a way to boost your SEO by adding more useful and regular content, and the new ways to engage with your target audience are all good reasons why having a blog on your business site is a good idea.
Read more
August 27, 2018 8:18 am 3 Areas of Your Business to Automate
Managing a business is something that has to be done around the clock. You’ve got to show up every single day if you want to increase your chances of your business being a success. It is also important that to increase your output you put in as much as possible. One of the ways that you can maximize the time and efforts of your employees is through the power of automation. This makes it possible for technology to step in and take over all of those repetitive and time-consuming tasks that take hours of time. On those premises, you’re going to find three areas of business that you should think about automating.
Read more
August 18, 2018 8:12 am How to Maximize Business Control
Taking better control of your business is not just essential, it will also be the test that you need to make sure your company is running at optimal efficiency and productivity. Knowing how to be a better manager whilst also ensuring that your business strategy is moving forward as planned can be very challenging. When it comes to being more in control of your business, there are three main areas where you should be concentrating your efforts, and having an ongoing strategy within each category will ensure that you are in control of your business at the maximum levels. Here are the best ways to ensure that you are maximizing the control that you have over every area of your business.
Read more
August 11, 2018 10:08 am 7 Best WordPress Security Authentication Plugins (Free)
WordPress is one of the finest content management systems out there. It is extremely popular and holds the number one position. This also makes it a prime target for hackers and other types of malicious actors.
Read more
August 11, 2018 8:50 am How to Conduct a Marketing Audit
When attempting to improve your company’s standings in the public eye, it’s best to know where exactly you stand, and this is what a marketing audit achieves. Before enacting any major marketing campaigns, SEO improvements, or PR objectives, you’ll want to know the strong and weak spots in your company. You need to know the areas that can be improved and optimized to bring your website more traffic, your store more sales, and your business higher profits. This article takes you through the stages necessary to conduct a sweeping marketing audit that’ll put you in the best position to enact positive change for your brand exposure.
Read more
July 9, 2018 3:10 pm How To Get Your Website Working For You
If you’re the main contributor to your website or blog, then you have to engage with your content; it needs to interest you. You want others to enjoy it, so it makes sense to ensure that it maintains your interest before getting properly started. If you’re unsure as to what others think of your material, then ask them. Conduct polls and ask visitors to leave feedback. Consider what users stand to gain from visiting your site, and how you’re going to use the data you collect to impact your website positively.
Read more
July 9, 2018 8:27 am How to Perform a Security Scan on WordPress Website
Do you know there are 7.5 million attacks happen on WordPress sites every hour? It shows that no site on the internet is safe and should scan for vulnerabilities on a frequent basis. Scanning your site will allow you to check how vulnerable your site is and does need any particular actions for eliminating those security issues or not?
Read more
July 2, 2018 1:05 pm How You Can Run Your WordPress Like a Pro
You might feel that launching your WordPress account was the hard part, and now it’s time to relax. Unfortunately, while setting up and launching your WordPress site can take a lot of time, energy and thought, the work is simply just beginning. If you want your site to look and run like a professional website, then you need to put more time and more work into it. In order to achieve both success and growth, then you need to keep consistent and always focused on improvement. Ideally, you want to create a website management strategy that will make the process of running your WordPress site much easier and much more professional.
Read more
June 28, 2018 2:48 pm Top 7 WordPress Testimonials Plugins to Prove Credibility
Consumers spend their hard-earned money after weighing all the benefits and costs associated with different available options. And, before making a final decision to buy any product or service, they would like to have proof that their spending is fruitful. Providing your customers with social proof is always a good idea to gain their credibility and it can be done with WordPress testimonials plugins. It can be achieved by showing the customers that others have bought your products/services and they had a good experience. Not only does this encourage new customers but it also creates trust among them.
Read more
June 26, 2018 9:12 am Top 15 Dentist WordPress Themes
No one is ready to trust his or her health to a non-professional. Wanna make people believe in your team and its power to provide them with perfect dental services? In this case, this article was created exactly to make your dream come true. With the help of these eye-catching and professionally-looking dentist WordPress themes, you can be sure that your future online-project will turn out to be a huge attention-grabber for your customers.
Read more
June 8, 2018 8:15 am How to Secure Your Website Against Vulnerable Plugins
WordPress has recently deleted 10 highly insecure plugins from its plugin repository. These plugins were developed for the WooCommerce e-commerce platform and have already been uploaded to approximately 20,000 WordPress installations. While these plugins can no longer be downloaded from the repository, they are not automatically disabled and are most likely still running on all the aforementioned WordPress installations.
Read more
May 22, 2018 9:31 am How Jetpack Helps You To Protect Against Brute Force Attack
WordPress has provided a great start to many business ventures in setting up their business websites and also to the youth to start their own blog for free. WordPress development is rapidly increasing day by day as many companies have started hosting their websites on this platform. Many free and excellent features have been provided by WordPress in building the websites and many additional features can be installed as per the requirement of the user.
Read more
May 18, 2018 1:47 pm WordPress Ecommerce Plugins Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Science fiction is a powerful mechanism that provokes the human mind’s ability to imagine the unimaginable. For what started off as an abstract concept in sci-fi movies. Today, Artificial Intelligence has successfully emerged out as one of the most powerful technologies gradually filtering into all aspects of our everyday lives.
Read more
May 17, 2018 2:11 pm Real Estate WP templates
To excel in today’s online world a real property agency needs a powerful fully-fledged theme with specialized functionality, newest features, and powerful tools. Such solutions are available nowadays thanks to real estate WordPress themes. Let’s find out how WordPress themes can take care of your online presence.
Read more
May 1, 2018 8:49 am A Quick Look To Real Estate WordPress Themes You Must Have
Whether you wish to launch a website for your real estate venture or list down some of your properties online, there is a great selection of purposely built WordPress themes to pick the best from. By integrating these themes, you will immediately avail of a website that is dressed to kill the audiences with its great features.
Read more
April 19, 2018 8:21 am Stunning Collection of 10 Beautiful Sport & Healthy Lifestyle WordPress Themes
Sports is for ambitious, energetic people who are ready to face any challenges. If you’re about to run a digital business dedicated to the sports industry, it should have an impressive look, smooth performance, and extensive functionality. Thanks to WordPress CMS and affordable ready-made website templates, it can be accomplished without effort. The process of building a sports website can be engaging, easy and fast.
Read more
April 10, 2018 8:09 am 8 Must Have Web Pages For Your WordPress Blogs
WordPress blogging has gained momentum these days. Millions of tech-savvy people are running successful WordPress blogs in different streams and making money out of that. There are many individuals who start their blogging journey with great enthusiasm, but they relinquish their blogging activities sooner or later after seeing so sing of bread and butter. Always keep in mind that success and recognition in WordPress blogging are impossible if your blog doesn’t have the basic pages that reveal the subject, idea, and mission of the blog to the targeted audience. So, what are those pages? Let’s find out.
Read more
March 21, 2018 10:29 am 10 Premium WordPress Templates for Web Design Studios
Web design studios need to have a remarkable online presence in order to attract more clients and build a reputable brand image. When looking for the best studio that can make a client’s ideas make a reality, people are likely to be looking for the portfolios of works from different agencies in order to make the best decision.
Read more
March 20, 2018 2:32 pm Hentry Errors In Google Search Console For WordPress Website
Do you often work on Google Search Console? Have you ever notice the option Structured Data in Search Appearance? There is one more option in Structured Data. It is “hentry (markup: microformats.org)”. This section shows the list of errors associated with the hentry data structure.
Read more
March 14, 2018 11:51 am 10 Free Responsive WordPress Themes for the Year 2018
WordPress is the best blogging platform and content management system for today’s era. WordPress offers unlimited free resources such as awesome free theme templates and plugin, widget, etc. Choosing the best theme for your website, it can be confusing and Painstaking task, you might be confused that which one is better and how many WordPress themes there.
Read more
March 2, 2018 10:13 am Self Hosted vs. Hosted Ecommerce: Which is right for you?
Do you want to create an online store where you can display both physical and digital goods? Perhaps you already have a physical store and would like to showcase your products online so that you can reach a wider market.
Read more
March 1, 2018 9:35 am Should You Use a Monochromatic Colour Scheme for Your Website?
A monochromatic color scheme is based entirely on a single color tint, using only different shades of the same hue. The resulting variations are achieved by adjusting the brightness and saturation of the base color.
Read more