WordPress Theme for Business – Serving Businesses and Agencies Serving Businesses

Are you ready for an easy-to-manage WordPress Theme for Business or Website Conversion for your business website?

WordPress Design Shop has been working with businesses of all kinds for more than 20 years. We make it easy for you to take your existing business website and create a professional presence online using a WordPress Theme for Business.

The WordPress platform is easy-to-use and all content changes can easily be handled within your business by your marketing team or an administrative person. Our goal is to create a website that wows your clients while making it easy for you to wow them. You can easily add articles written to your prospective clients, and we set up each WordPress theme with tools that make SEO easier. With a targeted approach to Business Marketing, WordPress makes it easy for your prospects to find you because Google easily can read sites written in WordPress. You can optimize your website presence and so much more. WordPress is one of the easiest platforms to use for running a business.

What comes with a WordPress Theme for Business or Website Conversion?

• You get help picking a domain name for your WordPress site
• You get help setting up your hosting
• You get WordPress installation
• You get a WordPress Theme for Business that meets your business’s unique needs and requirements
• You get base navigation structure setup
• You get any custom images you may need at our wholesale cost
• You get base WordPress SEO training
• You get base site use training (you can send as many people as you want to this training – it is conducted over the phone/web)
• You get our WordPress Business Base Plus Set-up, including SEO plugins, contact forms, site map and other plug-ins installed
• You receive Suggestions on How to Write Your Copy
• If you need a shopping cart, we will tell you where to get the software and then set it up for you
• And much more through working with our technology and business strategists!

Often, business owners believe that purchasing a WordPress Theme for Business is all it takes to convert an existing website, but rarely can non-technical people set up a WordPress Theme for Business without some level of customization. Each WordPress Theme for Business is different because each theme is created by individual theme developers from different companies. This means that one theme may work one way and another may work completely different. Think of themes like types of software you use every day. Just because you know how to use Microsoft Word doesn’t mean you know how to use every other word processing software. Themes all offer you ways to customize your site, but how to do this is different in every single one of them. We are experts at being able to quickly use our knowledge of how systems and software works to expertly learn any new theme and customize it to your business. We help you choose the WordPress Theme for business that will enable you to create a professional website and also keep costs manageable compared to creating a custom website.

We’ve worked with the following types of businesses needing wordpress theme for business:

• Professional services, including accounting, medical, real estate, law [link to law page], architecture, consulting,
• Energy companies, including petrochemical, energy optimization
• Specialty organizations, including historical societies
• Local government, including cities, villages and town
• Retail businesses, including high-end tailors and direct to consumer goods such as florists
• Wholesales businesses, including global companies that work B2B
• Industrial companies
• Pharmaceutical companies
• Design and fashion companies, including retail/wholesale
• Entertainment, including film-makers
• Financial services, including banking and investment
• Leadership, training and coaching organizations
• Health and fitness
• Authors and book sites
• Not-for-profit organizations

If you are ready to reduce your WordPress website development or website conversion related costs and enjoy the ease of management that comes with a WordPress Design shop custom business site, contact us today for your complimentary 30-minute WordPress Theme for Business or website design consultation 424-234-8528.

Wordpess design shop is your resource for WordPress Theme for Business , Business WordPress Websites, and agencies that serve Businesses and who want a reliable WordPress | Web Development partner. 

How to put a wordpress comment form in your website Sidebar

Have you ever wondered how to put a comment form in your wordpress sidebar?

NO…. Well to be honest, we hadn’t really thought about that either! That is until we had a client with an interactive book site ask for one.

You would think with the way wordpress is built it would be easy do something as simple as putting a comment form in a sidebar. We searched high and low and found every kind of widget you could image to put a contact form, and every other kind of form in wordpress widgets and sidebars. Everything except for a comment form for a particular post.

We even searched forums and found other people looking for the same thing for years with no luck. Luckily we are business and technology strategiests so we always know there is a way!

How to put a wordpress comment form in your sidebar and have it work and link to the post you are on.

1. The first thing you need to do is install this plug-in in your wordpress site.

WP PHP widget –You can install the plug-in from your wordpress dashboard or you can ftp it up from your site.  Download WP PHP Widget Here.

2. Second you need to go to your page sidebar under appearance then widgets and add The php widget to your page or post widget area.

3. Past in the following code to add the comment form to your wordpress sidebar php widget and then click save

<?php echo $post->ID; ?>
<?php comment_form( $args, $post_id ); ?>

4. Now if you don’t want to have the text below the wordpress comment sidebar widget to show you need to goto appearance then editor in the wordpress dashboard then find on your right the functions.php file and add the following code to the bottom of it.

/**
* Remove the text – ‘You may use these <abbr title=”HyperText Markup
* Language”>HTML</abbr> tags …’
* from below the comment entry box.
*/

add_filter(‘comment_form_defaults’, ‘remove_comment_styling_prompt’);

function remove_comment_styling_prompt($defaults) {
$defaults['comment_notes_after'] = ”;
return $defaults;
}

It was that easy to add a simple wordpress sidebar post comment form to your client website.

If you are ready to have an easy to manage wordpress website contact wordpress design shop today.

WordPress Training for Only $99.00

WordPress design shop is now offering wordpress training for your site.

If you are like most people you have heard that wordpress is the platform of choice for your new website. However it is not easy to find wordpress training on what wordpress is and how to use it for the new or average website user. Here at WordPress Design Shop we know what it is like to not be a hugely technical person and to deal with how most technical people treat beginners. How do we know this? Because we specialize in working with small business users and individual new to the platform.

In our new wordpress training sessions starting at just $99.00 we will go over:

• Setting up the wordpress core
• Finding the right wordpress host for your needs
• Navigation Structure
• Finding the right wordpress theme
• Working with WordPress posts
• Working with WordPress pages
• Working with WordPress links
• Base SEO structure
• Comments
• Archives
• Contact Pages
• Using Images
• Hyperlinks
• Visual Editor
• Code Editor
• Plug-ins
• Backing up WordPress
• and much more.

We only show you what you need to know in our wordpress training.

Why would you spend hours and hours of your time looking at a bunch of ads and so on just to find out simple things you want to do in wordpress. Remember our wordpress training is designed to answer questions that matter to you for your online business. Here at wordpress design shop our goal is for you to spend most of your time doing what is related to your online business and not trying to figure something out.

If you are ready to start learning the ins and outs of setting up your own wordpress site so it is successful and easy to manage contact us today about setting up a wordpress training session.

Do it yourself wordpress training.

* All of our wordpress training is handled remotely for this current special. If you are in the local Dallas Ft. Worth Texas area and would like personal one on one wordpress training please give us a call to discuss rates and specials in our home city area.

Catablog – Easy Plug-in to list Products in WordPress without needing a store

Catablog catalog system.

Have you ever wanted to list or show your products or information in wordpress without the need for a complicated store?

Here at wordpress design shop we have had several requests for this type of feature with no luck finding a system that would work that way. We searched for quiet some time and had no luck, until one day we came across a plug-in called Catablog.

CataBlog is a WordPress Plugin that allows you to easily create online catalogs in your blog. CataBlog is designed to be simple and easy to use, not requiring any understanding of html or css, but if you have even the most basic knowledge of these technologies you will be able to do so much more. Please read their Catablog documentation thoroughly to gain a better understanding of CataBlog and its features.

So what can you do with Catablog?

1. You can list products and organize them by category and easily insert theme into pages with shortcodes.
2. You can sell the products if you like with simple buy now options
3. You can create custom display templates for the products to make products display in the order you like with information relevant to your business.
4. You can upload many images at one time into a product category.
5. You can dynamically set the size of the product images and change them as you see fit.
6. You can organize your products into galleries.
7. You have many shortcode options for displaying products on pages and posts and much more.

Category: show specific items in your catalog

The category shortcode option lets you choose which catalog items to show. You may specify one category, multiple categories or even categories to not show.
Example: [catablog category="dogs,cats"]
Default: if omitted all categories will be displayed.

Sort: sort your catalog by a specific field
The sort option lets you set the order your catalog items will be displayed, particularly which field they will be sorted by. This value should be one of these four values: title, date, menu_order or rand. Currently non of the other catalog item values can be used to sort, this may change in a future version.
Example: [catablog sort="title"]
Default: if omitted your catalog will be sorted by the order value.
To sort your catalog randomly set the sort value to "rand", [catablog sort="rand"]

Order: choose which direction to sort your catalog
The order option lets you set the direction your catalog items will be sorted in. There are two acceptable values for this option are asc and desc, ascending and descending respectively.
Example: [catablog sort="date" order="desc"]
Default: if omitted your catalog will be ordered in an ascending manner.

Limit: how many catalog items to display
The limit option lets you control how many catalog items are displayed on a page. If the limit is less than the total number of catalog items to be displayed then some simple navigation controls will be rendered below your catalog.
Example: [catablog limit="10"]
Default: if omitted all catalog items will be displayed.

Navigation: choose to hide catalog navigation
You may decide to hide the simple navigation controls created by the limit option with the navigation option. Simple set the option to ‘no’ or ‘disable’. This can be useful if you want to display a subset of random catalog items without any pagination.
Example: [catablog limit="7" navigation="disable" sort="rand"]
Default: if omitted navigation will be displayed when the limit is less than the total number of catalog items.

Template: choose which template to use while rendering your catalog
You may override the main template code with this shortcode option. It should be the name of a template file in the /plugins/catablog/templates/views/ folder, omitting the file extension.
Example: [catablog template="gallery"]
Default: if omitted your catalog will be rendered with the system template.

Operator: set how the categories filter your catalog
The operator option lets you control how the categories you set will be used to filter your catalog. There are three acceptable values: ‘IN’, ‘NOT IN’ and ‘AND’.
Example: [catablog category="cats,dogs" operator="and"]
Default: if omitted the 'IN' operator will be used.

You can see catablog in action on one of our client sites.

Ready to try catablog yourself? Download Catablog Here.

Catablog is one of the easiest ways we have found to list products without needing a full store.

Our Favorite WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast

Are you ready to do seo for your next wordpress project?

Here at wordpress design shop we get emails often that ask, “what is the best way to setup wordpress for seo?” Our answer is really simple and confuses most people, Know who you are serving and install the yoast SEO plugin. In the old days many of us web developers would have 5, 6, 7 different plug-ins to do SEO for our client websites, but after the penguin update we pretty much only use one.

Is yoast seo the right wordpress plug-in for me?

Yoast WordPress SEO Features:

Installing WordPress With CPANEL and Fantastico

Getting started with wordpress is easy when you use a host that supports cpanel and fantastico.

WordPress installation using cpanel and fantastico is the quickest way to get WordPress up and running on your website.

1. Step one is logging in to your webhosting account and then your domains cpanel.
2. Next from CPANEL you need to select the Fantastico ICON. This can be found under names and links in the cpanel. In our site5 hosting account it is under webapps on the left menu.
3. From the Fantastico interface, on the left scroll down until you see the Blogs section and just below it, you should see WordPress in the list. Click on the WordPress link.
4. To the right, you will be provided with some information about the version of WordPress you will be able to install. Take a moment to ensure that it’s up to date. If all is well, click on New Installation.
5. Next you will be presented with all the fields required for your new wordpress website.
• If you have multiple domains you can select the domain first from the dropdown menu.
• Installation Location. If you want your blog to be your website’s homepage, ensure that you leave the space blank, otherwise type in the name of the folder you want WordPress installed to (make sure it doesn’t already exist).
• Admin access data. Choose the username and password you’d like to use in order to access the WordPress admin panel after installation is completed.
• Base configuration. Type a nickname you’d like to use throughout the blog. By default, the nickname is used whenever you leave comments or write an entry on the blog, so choose something you don’t mind the world seeing. The admin e-mail address is where notices, passwords, and other information about the administration of the blog is sent. Your blog’s name and description should be self-explanatory.
• E-mail account configuration. You only need to worry about this if you plan to blog via e-mail. If you’ve set up a special e-mail account that you’ll use for blogging via e-mail, then enter the settings where applicable. (Bear in mind, you will need to enter an e-mail account password in order to proceed with the installation, simply use a false one if you don’t plan to blog via e-mail.)
• When your blog information is complete, click on the Install WordPress button at the bottom.
6. Verify that the information you provided is correct and click on Finish installation. Fantastico will create a brand new database for you and create the necessary WordPress files.
7. When the process is complete, you will receive a confirmation notice with the details of the installation. If you’d like a copy of the report for your records, you’ll have the option to send an e-mail to an account of your choosing.

Installing WordPress with cpanel and fantastico is very easy and can help you save money if you are looking for a new wordpress driven website.

Need a host that has great support and supports both cpanel and fantastico?

WordPress Design Rates – How Much Do WordPress Services Cost?

Here at wordpress design shop we get lots of calls just wondering what typical wordpress design rates are. We thought it sounded like a fair question so we looked around the internet to see what people are actually charging for different wordpress design services. Remember here at wordpress design shop we charge $99 dollars and hour with a minimum 30 minute charge for our one off wordpress services. We have found that charging for services this way helps us work faster and gets you the best overall price. We also suggest you bundle changes to get the best number of wordpress modifications for the cheapest rate. You will notice from the rates below that it can get really expensive if you pick wordpress design services individually.

1. Complete Custom WordPress Website Rate

Complete wordpress design rate packages were probably the one WordPress Design Rate that was all over the place. At large design houses the price ranged from $5000 to $30,000+ dollars. It included custom design, graphics, 2 revisions, and all files in a Photoshop or illustrator format. That did not include any marketing, concept, or copywriting. Here at wordpress design shop our complete custom packages start at around $1500 and go up to an average $2200.00 and then $12-15,000 if you need Marketing Concept, Validation, Copy Writing Help, etc.

General pricing for wordpress site design around the web.

*Pricing is not from overseas folks that for for less than a dollar an hour.

*please note that these wordpress design rates are from what we have found searching around the internet and from our own experience. They are not necessarily the rate that you will receive when you find a wordpress service provider. We will add more wordpress design rates as we come across them on the internet. Our number one recommendation to most people that are wanting wordpress help is to call the company you are wanting to work with and discuss what wordpress service you need and always ask if that is the best price you can do.

Need a wordpress design rate for your next project?

Keys to Hiring the Right WordPress Developer For Your Project

Hiring the right wordpress developer is the key to your business success!

WordPress is an easy to use platform. In fact, this is the main reason for its popularity amongst bloggers and more recently small business owners. It can be easily customized according to your needs and many of its enhanced features and functionalities are often just a click away.

However, did you ever stop to think that customizing your website can be a daunting and time consuming process? And with so many wordpress developers, too many in fact, it can be downright frustrating to choose the best one for your project.

That’s where an experienced WordPress developer steps in.

Hiring the right developer is key to achieving the best website to suit your business and business needs. But how do you know which one is right for you?

Whilst the WordPress developer can take care of your WordPress customization woes, you still need own up to the ones you face when choosing the right developer for you. With all else in life, only you know what’s rights for you and you’re going to need to learn to trust your gut with this one. Of course, I won’t just end it here and leave you hanging with your gut.

The Following are some keys to consider when hiring the right wordpress developer for you.

• Hiring a WordPress Developer Key 1 – Portfolio

A WordPress developer’s portfolio is worth studying. Before hiring one, look at the past projects he’s undertaken. This will help you understand his level of skills and expertise. It also gives you a glimpse of his WordPress style and if it ties in well with yours. A developer’s style and level of expertise is reflected on his projects. Additionally, the number of projects he’s completed will translate to the level of knowledge, experience and efficiency you’ll get.

• Hiring a WordPress Developer Key 2 – Reputation

Hire a WordPress developer from a reputable company. You can rest assure that you’ll be receiving the best level of services at affordable rates in a short span of time when you deal with developers from credible companies. Besides, they have their good name to upkeep and your satisfaction matters to them.

• Hiring a WordPress Developer Key 3 – Services

Once you’ve found a reputable professional, go through what services they include. It is better to be clear rather to stay in confusion and risk misunderstanding in what particular services, charges and any extra charges for additional services the company entitles you to. Finding out how they operate is also key. How you’ll be communicating with each other, how often, if there is a fixed process that they follow, a timeline that they follow by and will there be more than one person involved in your WordPress development, are just some of the operational details you might want to know about.

• Hiring a WordPress Developer Key 4 – Cost

Cost is also an essential factor and will determine just how far you can go with the customization of your WordPress website. Most companies offer packages but we all know that no one person is the same nor have the same needs. So although you initially pay for a set price of a particular package, be aware of any additional charges that may occur when additional customization is done to further suit your needs.

• Hiring a WordPress Developer Key 5 – Contract

Having things written in black and white is also important these days. A contract not only protects you but also the company from related issues that may arise later on. Make sure you read your contract thoroughly and make adjustments where you’re not happy. By going through the terms and conditions you’ll find out, amongst other things, what your rights are over the content of the website. Ideally, you’ll want full rights over everything.

So there you go.

In a nutshell, when looking for the right WordPress developer for you, it’s key to consider their skill set, credibility, services offered, package cost and your rights.

One more thing, I haven’t mentioned but is worth including is support and training. The best WordPress developers will offer training and support in the maintenance and upkeep of your website to ensure that it will continue to perform at its best.

Hire the right wordpress developer and you’ll be on the road to success in no time!

Starting a Simple Online Business Using WordPress

If you’re toying with the idea of creating a small online business, allow me to stop you in your thoughts for a moment.

You’ve obviously reached the conclusion that an online business can be profitable and the potential to grow is endless. Your customer base is well… the whole world really.

If you haven’t put much thought about how to get your business online yet, then I can tell you that hiring a website designer to create, maintain and update your site, is one obvious method to consider. A good one, I admit, but costly too. As a small business, one of your goals is to keep costs as low as possible. Therefore, alternative options are worth looking at.

One particular option I have to bring to your attention is WordPress. For many years now, WordPress has allowed almost complete amateurs to run their own personal blogs. Many have discovered its ability to support small online businesses as well and taken advantage of this very powerful and flexible platform. With WordPress, you can start your own simple online business, without having to invest a lot of money.

WordPress is a great tool and a highly flexible content management system that can serve as the foundation for blogs, as we all know it, or a fully fledged small business website.

No knowledge of web designing is ever required and it’s really easy to use. Best of all, it’s completely free and customizable to your business needs, giving you a totally unique website. The coding and structure of WordPress are also search engine friendly from the get go. Using any one of their built-in SEO plug-ins, you’ll be able to optimize each page to boost its rankings. With their easy-to-use interface, you can start building a simple online business for under $50.

You can choose to create a WordPress account in around 5 minutes or have WordPress host your site for free.

As always, when going for a free option you get restricted access. Although hosting may cost some $7 a month, you can get your hands on to countless more website templates and plug-ins that are key to generating traffic to your website. Your own domain name also makes you look professional to clients.

WordPress offers literally thousands of free themes and it would be impossible not to find one that fits your business needs. These themes are made ready for you to populate with your products. Setup time will be minimal and the end result is visually stunning. It’s simply a matter of finding one that best suits you, downloading it and then uploading it to your hosting service. No design experience necessary.

Using WordPress to start a simple online business can save you a lot valuable time, effort, and money. And now that I’ve said all that I needed to, I can leave you in peace with your business thoughts which I hope now includes using WordPress to begin your online ventures.

WordPress Support – Get The WordPress Help You Need

Have you ever needed wordpress support?

Small business owners in a cash crunch typically want to convert to wordpress so they can save some money. While you can save some of the hardware, and development costs converting to wordpress it helps to know who to call in an emergency or to help you get off to a good start. Here at wordpress design shop we strive to be your go to partner when you need wordpress help?

Here are the typical things we can do to give you the wordpress support you need:

1. Installing the wordpress core, domain, and email setup:

For as little as $99.00 we can install wordpress, setup a base theme, and email address. When many people try to set this up themselves they will spend an average of $400.00 worth of time or more just doing the basics.

2. Custom wordpress theme development help.

We offer custom theme packages starting at $797.00. A typical agency will charge more than $5000.00 just for the first phase of a theme development project.

3. WordPress help and technical support.

If your site is down and you don’t know where to turn we can help. From update issues, broken applications, and theme issues we can help on many issues for only 30 minutes of time which translates to $50.00

Want to do some of the wordpress help and support on your own?

Here are some resources that can help you on your wordpress site.

• One great help is the WordPress forums
• The WordPress FAQ provides extensive answers to frequently asked questions.
• You can add the wordpress  Codex Searcher Plugin to your site. This will allow you to find answers to your questions in the WordPress Administration Panels.
• Carrington – A free WP CMS theme framework that includes two browser versions and a mobile version.
• WordPress help beginners guide – http://www.wpbeginner.com/
• WordPress Garage
• WordPress plug-ins directory WordPress › WordPress Plugins

Ready for wordpress help and to get your site up and running fast? – Contact wordpress design shop and get the wordpress support you need today!