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Introducing the Premium WordPress Toolkit for ClickAssist customers

January 29, 2012 · Comments { 0 }
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Over $1000 of premium WordPress themes and plugins available for free to ClickAssist support plan customers.

We’re very excited to announce our Premium WordPress Toolkit, and we think it’s something you’ll love as well.

ClickWP has many premium WordPress themes and plugins in our toolkit. Because we own developer licenses for them, we are able to use them on customers sites. That means you are able to make use of the themes and plugins in our toolkit, without having to purchase a license for them yourself.

Today we are introducing a formal program for you to access our toolkit for your own site. Let us know which theme or plugin you’d like to use on your site by creating a ticket in the Client Area. We will then install it for you. Continue Reading →

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We’ve got your back with our new WordPress support plans (with 20% launch discount)

January 9, 2012 · Comments { 0 }
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ClickWP introduces professional WordPress support plans for bloggers, small businesses and web publishers, simplifying the chore of running and maintaining a WordPress website without paying high hourly fees.

Managing a website is hard work. It’s even harder when you’ve got to run a business, deal with customers and do the laundry all at the same time. And why does adding something new in WordPress always seem so hard?

Or maybe you have a blog. You love writing it, your audience is growing but gosh if you could only figure out how to add a newsletter opt-in, or tweak the header design it would be perfect.

You may also need help with lots of small details that doesn’t warrant hiring an expensive designer. So you try to figure it out through Google, support forums and tutorials… and end up wasting hours of time.

Sound familiar? These are the reasons why ClickWP is launching our new WordPress support plans.

Our goal is to provide first class support from people who truly understand WordPress at affordable rates for bloggers and small business owners. In other words, we want to make sure we’ve got your back whenever you need us. Continue Reading →

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WordPress is more than blogging software: How we built our Client Area with WordPress

January 9, 2012 · Comments { 0 }
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WordPress has evolved from its roots as a blogging tool into a powerful platform that can build almost any kind of site imaginable. It’s powerful, but it’s also more accessible than many people think and you can build pretty complex sites without needing to be a hardcore developer.

Case in point – our new ClickWP Client Area. I built it over the last 2–3 weeks and was pleasantly surprised at how little actual coding I had to do.

Client Area Features

Client Area Dashboard

Client Area Dashboard

Add a Ticket

Add a Ticket

Watch Tickets

Watch Tickets

Agent Dashboard

Agent Dashboard

Agent Tickets

Agent Tickets

Organized communication

Organized communication

Knowledgebase

Knowledgebase

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Top new features in WordPress 3.3 to improve your web publishing workflow

December 9, 2011 · Comments { 2 }
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A new version of WordPress is heading our way in a few weeks (or days)! WordPress 3.3 is now in the release candidate stage, meaning that all features are fully baked and is just going through some final checks to make sure everything works on launch day. I’ve been playing with the beta versions on ClickWP for some time now, and have found it to have increased my productivity. Here’s a quick overview of how WordPress 3.3 is going to improve your web publishing workflow.

Less Clutter, More Focus

The admin screens have been updated in WordPress 3.3, with a focus on streamlining the layout and reducing clutter. The first thing you’ll probably notice are the new Pointers, a new feature that is being introduced in this version.

Pointers function to highlight and explain new changes, like the redesigned Dashboard. Plugin authors can also take advantage of this feature to quickly walk you through important details and changes.

The next thing you’ll notice is the new Toolbar, which is a consolidation of the Admin bar and old header. Hovering over the toolbar items will reveal submenus, when available, for quick access.

Like the new Toolbar, the redesigned navigation also helps to reduce clutter by making use of flyout menus.

I took a day or two to adjust to having menus fly out whenever I moved my mouse over the left side of the screen, but now I love it because it hides all the additional submenus and reduces visual clutter in the admin screens. Continue Reading →

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Quick and Easy WordPress Caching with W3 Total Cache

November 28, 2011 · Comments { 0 }
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In our last article we gave you an introduction to caching is and how it could benefit your WordPress site. In this follow up article, we’ll show you how to optimize and speed up your WordPress site in just a few clicks using the W3 Total Cache plugin.

The W3 Total Cache plugin, or W3TC, is a powerful caching plugin used by top sites like Mashable, Smashing Magazine and MakeUseOf.com. W3TC can help your site pages load quicker, help withstand traffic spikes and provides loads more features. Best of all, W3TC is free.

To measure the performance increase when using W3TC, let’s start by performing a Page Speed Test at https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/. Here are the results of The ClickStarter before we activated W3TC.

Before Caching — 71/100

Let’s see if we can do better with W3TC. Continue Reading →

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Website Caching Basics For Non-Geeks

November 8, 2011 · Comments { 0 }
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No one likes a slow website. People take it as a sign that the website is neglected or low quality. On the other hand, fast and responsive pages are a signal of higher relevance and quality for a website. Even Google is ranking faster websites higher in search results.

One of the most powerful things that you can do to speed up your WordPress site is to cache it. In this article, we’ll explain what caching is and why you should consider implementing it.

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Caching Explained

What can a fast food restaurant teach website owners? Continue Reading →

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The Biggest WordPress Screw Up You Don’t Want To Make

October 25, 2011 · Comments { 0 }
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If your computer tells you that updates are available, you should install them quick or risk getting infected with viruses and all sorts of nasties. When a security exploit is detected by Microsoft, the advice they generally give is to check for updates and install them immediately.

It’s the same for WordPress or any other web application you may use for your business — install updates immediately or you will be exposed to hackers, viruses and malware.

I’ve worked on almost a hundred WordPress sites and the mistake I see over and over again is not updating WordPress. This oversight is the single biggest screw up that site owners can make.

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Hello world!

October 20, 2011 · Comments { 0 }
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Welcome to ClickWP. Our goal is to provide answers and direction for making better use of WordPress for your website of business. Learn more about us »

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