XSitePro WordPress Blogs Links

Caching Plugin comparisons for WordPress - You must have caching setup and running, or you are likely to run into big problems with your host. While this comparison is good, after further study, I chose a free Caching Plugin: Hyper Cache based on WordPress Speed Test WP Super Cache vs Hyper Cache.  The primary 4 cache plugins (as I see it) are: 1.) Hyper Cache, 2.) W3 Total Cache, 3.) WP Super Cache, and 4.) WP-FFPC (WordPress Fast Full Page Cache) which includes APC APCu and PHP Memcache integration built in.  For Minifying, use the original Minify, see the comments on this article for more: WordPress Speed Test WP Super Cache vs Hyper Cache. The original author's page for Hyper Cache is here.

XSitePro To WordPress - The definitive book on converting your X Site Pro template into a WordPress theme.  Some parts are left out, and it's required that you have a good understanding of CSS and working with HTML, but overall a great job of describing it.

StudioPress Accelerator - From the makers of all good things WordPress, come a new Cloud Based service to help you increase the speed of your blogs, all for about $8/month, amazing! Here are details on how Accelerator works.

CloudFlare - You do need to consider cloud based services that can speed up your blog tremendously. This one has a great reputation and multiple servers around the world.  It's about double though what the StudioPress network is, so check that above as well, here are the CloudFlare pricing plans.

OpenTickets Community Edition - A free plugin (requires WooCommerce) that allows you to sell/print tickets for events that you setup on your blog. A gret free plugin, from the author of WP Slimstat.

Tips and Tricks HQ - Amazing collection of plugins to handle online sellings, affiliate networks, landing pages, and membership website.

WP Quick Review - Setup a review site in minutes with this amazing Review plugin.

Copyblogger - Always a good read, and free eBooks to help you along the way too.

Monkey Marketing Plugins - These Monkey Marketing Plugins are really great and they work on mobile devices too (phones and tablets), though they are quite expensive. You will not find a better way to get more engagement and interaction with your website.  Your best bet is to buy the VIP access, which is unlimited use.  Check out: Popup Monkey (popups galore), Social Share Monkey (request social shares), Attention Monkey (for attention getting notification bars), Countdown Monkey (add countdown timers anywhere), Catcha Monkey (for exit pops).

InfiniteWP - All the tools you need for backing up, restoring and maintaining your blog. Excellent software with many available options for backing up to the cloud, Google Webmaster crawling, Google Analytics, etc. Recommended.

SecureScanPro - The absolute best security method for your blog. Scans WordPress code for intrusion, prevents unauthorized logins, stops bots. Highly recommended.

WPEka - Premium WordPress themes and plugins available in a yearly membership. Includes Backup Plugin as well as Survey Funnel, and Affiliate management plugin.  The themes include several WooTheme and WooCommerce compatible themes.

MyMail - The first scalable WordPress mail plugin, supports Mandrill, Amazon SES, and other email providers. Ties in beautifully with your blog, sold through CodeCanyon.  Large list sending will be tested soon, and reported here.  Also see IMSC Rapid Mailer (below).

IMSC Rapid Mailer - A new WordPress enabled mailer that also features paid list signups.  I will be doing a full review of this mailer soon. It does work, but only for smaller lists, and is not recommended for large-scale emailing. Also see MyMail (above).

WP Engine - The best WordPress hosting period. Optimized page load times, reliability and security. Fast, Secure and Scalable.

AZon Stock Checker - Amazon Stock Checker that runs on any WordPress Blog, great.

Web Dimensions - This article is an excellent explanation of how to create a fully responsive Video Player container for your blog.  You can join their Unlimited Software Membership (or for 1 year, or for a Lifetime) to get their excellent tools such as: ICC Keyworks, Viral Video Creator, Viral Image Curator, VVC Syndicator, Members area and Facebook Support Group.

Debug My Plugin with Debug Bar - The best plugin for locating errors and problems with plugins on your WordPress website.

BlackBox Debug Bar - Another great plugin for debugging what is going on with your WordPress site when things are not working properly.  A must have for identifying low level issues.

WordPress SMS Notifications - Details on setting up SMS notifications from Wordpress, and other very useful articles.

WordPress Popup Windows Plugin - an interesting Popup plugin that can handle just about anything: exit pops, video popups, and more.

Video on DKIM/SMTP with Amazon SES - Excellent instructional video on setting up DKIM with SMTP mailing using Amazon SES for your WordPress Blog.

Clever YouTube Plugin - Very slick YouTube video plugin for your blog. Custom backgrounds, thumbnails and more, highly recommended.

Page Layout Builder Plugins - When it comes to laying out a page in WordPress, things can get mucky real fast, unless you use this tool, or one of these: Visual Composer for WordPress (more details on Visual Composer),  SiteOrigin's Page Builder.

Build a Better Blog - Excellent video series with no-nonsense guide on how to get response from your blog and accomplish what you wanted all along (monetize and make more money from your blog). Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, or signup here for the series.

Lock In Traffic - Blur parts of your blog's text or images and require a social share before the content can be seen. Neat plugin.

Auto Traffic Trends plugin - Blows away anything I've seen for building trend content around a topic. Links in Amazon, YouTube and Google Adsense automatically.

Top WordPress Backup Plugins - Your blog is only secure if you have a full backup to keep it intact. This page reviews the top plugins for creating backups of all kinds in WordPress.

WordPress Learning Complete - A great WordPress class (WordPress course) that covers everything.  Also includes free themes and other goodies. Learn all you need to know about WordPress from this course.

WordPress Blog Open Source - This is the one blogging platform that is taking over the world. It is available for free under GNU GPL General Public License.

WordPress Plugins Search - You can do anything with a plugin for your blog. Search through thousands of them and find what you are looking for here.

Gravity Forms - The top form developer plugin for WordPress. You really have only 3 choices when it comes to forms (this one, cforms II from Delicious Days and Contact Form7 - see below).  This one offers features the others do not have, but it does require purchase while the other 2 are free.

cformsII - The best free form designer for WordPress. If you really enjoy it please consider a donation as this forms designer is top notch.  This offers one valuable feature over Contact Form 7 (see below): the ability to redirect form submission to a URL (and catch Google Analytics data).

Contact Form 7 - A great forms handler for WordPress, one of my favorites, if you do not need a redirect on form submission this is an excellent choice.

7 Essential WordPress Plugins - A great list by Neil Patel founder of Crazy Egg.

The WordPress Wizard - Looking to get a better grasp of WordPress? This site has marketing tips and tricks.

PluginBuddy- These plugins are configurable and they cover backups, autoresponder/email and much more.

WP Twin/Bundle - Get a great course on how to turn static websites into WordPress sites (excellent for converting an XSitePro website into a WordPress blog) and a copy of WP Twin - the number one software for making a copy, backing up, or saving any WordPress Blog (in 60 seconds) together for a less than the normal price of WP Twin.

wpCyteClone- Clone a WordPress site to any other location, even a MultiBlog. Comparable to WP Twin.

XCloner - A great free utility for backing up and restoring an entire WordPress Blog.

Free Instructions on Cloning a WP Blog - Clone a WP blog for free, just follow these simple instructions.

WPClone - An inexpensive way to clone your WP Blog.

BackWPUp - A lightweight backup solution for WordPress that is free.

All In One WordPress Security and Firewall - A lightweight backup solution for WordPress that is free.

WordPress eStore Plugin - A simple and light ecommerce plugin for WordPress (limited to PayPal, Authorize.net, and a few other processors).

Plagiarism Pal - Check that you have unique content while you are adding/editing it on your WordPress blog.

PHPurchase/Cart 66 - This is likely the easiest way to add payment processing and a affiliate system to your blog.  Excellent work, accepts PayPal and credit cards.

GetShopped.org - Home of the WP e-Commerce Plugin. One of the best supported eCommerce plugin for WordPress. Integrates perfectly, many plugins/add-ons available as well as community/forum support, etc.  Also check out the Piggy web-app for your iPhone (it integrates with WP e-Commerce letting you get updates on sales/statistics live from your WordPress shopping website).

OrderStorm - WordPress eCommerce - One of the most feature rich and sophisticated eCommerce options for WordPress.

Easy Digital Downloads - An interesting free WordPress plugin shop for digital products. Unfortunately many add-ons are required to get the shop to it's full potential at considerable cost.  This is similar and trying to compete with WooPress eCommerce which is a better and older platform for WordPress.

Why search engines love WordPress Blogs - An interesting post about why search engines love to slurp up WordPress blog content.

WP Lockdown - Secure your WordPress Blog.

Premium Content Lock - Lock down any of your WordPress blog content: pages or posts, or partial content. Require subscription signup, or Facebook Like, Google+, or Twitter share.  Works perfectly.

Turn Your Blog Into a PDF File - A free plugin that does exactly what it says. It does a nice job of converting your WordPress site into a PDF document.

Social Share Monkey - Setup social sharing sliders on your websites.

Instant WordPress - A small, portable version of WordPress you can install anywhere, even on a flash drive! Great for development work, wherever you go.

XSitePro WordPress Themes Links

WordPress Themes - Find a theme here and change the look of your entire blog. To make it unique you are going to want to do some customization.

Catch Themes - Some really nice responsive themes that are free or low cost. Nice and without clutter or distractions.

WooThemes - Tons of incredible WordPress themes, including Canvas which is recognized as one of the most flexible themes available.  Or, this Canvas which is available from ThemeForest.

Web2Feel - Free WordPress themes for everyone. An amazing resource for free themes. You can find many great links here such as: 10 Cool New Free WordPress Themes - Early 2014, 45 Free Genesis Framework WordPress Theme Download)

Daily News Company.com - Technology News, Social Media Stories, Wallpapers and Free WordPress Themes, amazing resource.

Weelii.com - Creative Web Design - Another great resource for free WordPress themes and news such as: 33 Best One Page WordPress Themes, 24 Best Premium Shopify Themes).

Atahualpa - The most popular free theme for WordPress, lets you customize many aspects, and with a great support forum.

Mimbo Pro - A great Magazine / Newspaper style WordPress theme.

WP Sales Engine - A plugin that lets you generate sales pages, opt-ins, upsells, and all associated pages to create a sales letter. It runs as a plugin so it will not interfer with your theme, powerful and well worth it.

WP Nexus - Run a WordPress theme inside of your Facebook page, fantastic!

DailyBlogTips - 16 clean themes available for free just for signing up. 

Thesis Theme - A great configuratble theme for WordPress.

CTR Theme - Prevent ad blindness when running your AdSense blog, use CTR Theme. Features rotating ad layouts and easy updating of Adsense blocks.

Flexibility Theme - Home of the FlexSqueeze theme, but also the Flexibility platform.  Flexibility is now free and you can buy skins for the theme for around $10.00, well worth it.  If you need more customization FlexSqueeze is available.

ProSense - A basic Adsense ready WordPress theme that some internet marketers say works because of its' simplicity.

iThemes- Great business and CMS WordPress themes that are highly configurable.

EvoLve Theme - A flexible and free theme for WordPress.

Catalyst Theme - This used to be the 'Frugal' theme, but you can now get frugal theme variations and complete configuration of any blog from Catalyst.  Perhaps the most configurable WordPress theme 'out of the box'.

Socrates Theme - You really cannot go wrong with Socrates. An excellent theme for setting up and providing a marketing platform.

Studio Press - Home of the Genesis Framework, an excellent WordPress theme framework with multiple theme options.

Ink Themes - A nice collection of various themes from business to fashion, photography and many other niches. Also a nice Parallax theme (Business Grow), pick up all the themes, or just one.

XSitePro WordPress Theme Frameworks Links

ThemeFrame.com - A truly customizable theme framework based on the very popular Atahualpa theme for WordPress.

Genesis Framework - Start with Genesis and build up a great template.

Weaver Theme - A free theme framework that focuses on mobile support and totally customizable headers, pages, posts and just about everything else. Supported by a forum here, and the Weaver II Theme Extras and Weaver II Pro (which opens everything up).  Also authors of the Aspen Theme (with Aspen Extras)and the Aspen Pro plugin, find Aspen and Weaver Themes at the ThemeWorks.  See Weaver theme and subtheme demos here.

Headway Drag and Drop WordPress Theme - Build a theme the drag and drop way, with WYSIWYG customization.

Flexibility Theme - Home of the FlexSqueeze theme, but also the Flexibility platform.  Flexibility is now free and you can buy skins for the theme for around $10.00, well worth it.  If you need more customization FlexSqueeze is available.

Theme Hybrid - A WordPress Theme club based on the hybrid core.

Artisteer - A one of kind desktop WordPress theme builder (also builds Joomla, Drupal, Blogger and DotNetNuke).  Point and click, change, let it start with a suggestion and change as required, brilliant.

XSitePro WordPress Page Builder Links

ImImpact - Read their Page Builder Reviews for: LeadPages or OptimizePress 2, Visual Editors for WordPress, and Turning WordPress into a Sales Machine review posts for up to the minute reviews on the most recent builders and their advantages / disadvantages.  Also read the comments posted there for further reviews from other people who are using the page builders.

Optimize Press - A great builder that recently was released as version 2. Unique iPad and iPhone support for videos make this worthwhile.

The Good Designer - Awesome design work in all areas. Worthy to have a look and see what she can do for you. Highly recommended.

LeadPages - A lead page builder (landing pages, sales page, squeeze pages, thank you page, upsell page, welcome gates) and about any other type of pages can be built, and they can also be included in FaceBook. They share landing page conversion rates so you can use the highest converting pages.

PT Instant - A nice builder from the authors of Profits Theme, as well as Premium List Magnet.  Build responsive pages (they work on all devices) quickly and easily from WordPress: squeeze pages, sales pages, evergreen launch pages, you name it, this builder will do it. Also includes a split-testing option, split-test all of your pages that you build.

1 Minute Sites - A new builder from Profits Theme team which lets you build pages in 1 minute and host them on their website guaranteeing very fast page loading.  A yearly subscription fee ($67) is required, but well worth it if you can build pages quickly and get them to display very fast as well - this is sure to increase your revenue.

Authority Pro 3 - Use building blocks to build up any page. Includes pre-set blocks for sales pages, landing pages, and just about anything else you would want to do on a WordPress page or post.

WP Profit Builder - Another WYSIWYG WordPress builder from Sean Donahoe. I've not tested this yet, but it looks good. However, there have been other products by this company that were not bug-free, and working correctly for at least a few months, but Sean seems to be on top of crushing any bugs in this one right away.

InstaBuilder - A great page builder that is loaded with features and is all WYSIWYG.

Visual Composer - Excellent visual WordPress builder that is inexpensive ($28 at the moment), and has many features and add-ons.

Flexibility Theme - Home of the FlexSqueeze theme, but also the Flexibility platform.  Flexibility is now free and you can buy skins for the theme for around $10.00, well worth it.  If you need more customization FlexSqueeze is available.

Artisteer - A one of kind desktop WordPress theme builder (also builds Joomla, Drupal, Blogger and DotNetNuke).  Point and click, change, let it start with a suggestion and change as required, brilliant.

RainMaker Platform - A hosted environment WordPress Blog which is managed for you. Sell products, split-test sales, offer memberships, and more all from the platform. Quite expensive at $95/month for 1 site. Here's a list of What Do You Get With Rainmaker.

XSitePro WordPress Training

The sites below offer training options for learning how to work with WordPress: how to setup a WordPress site, use SEO to rank it, and how to maintain your own website using WordPress.

WP Website Creator - Jim Edwards excellent Word Press building and a lifetime membership to all future training that he will provide.  If you're new to WordPress and want to get a site up, and learn how quickly, this is the place to start. Highly recommended.

Ultimate Guide To WordPress - Webinar Alchemy has put together a nice set of webinars covering all aspects of working with and using WordPress. Good stuff, though not as all-encompassing as WP Website Creator.

XSitePro WordPress Amazon Affiliate Linking

The sites below offer options for linking directly to your Amazon affiliate account and selling Amazon products as an Amazon Affiliate.

Woo Commerce Amazon Affiliates - by AA-Team - A fantastic plugin for WordPress that will update your blog and allow for adding to cart and checkout from your website, eventually leading to purchase through Amazon and affiliate commissions for you. See this excellent review video by Matt Barby. They also sell: Amazon eStore Affiliates, WP e-Commerce Amazon Affiliates, and JigoShop Amazon Affiliates. Highly Recommended. 

XSitePro WordPress Sales Themes

The themes, or plugins below were created with one goal in mind. Letting you create and manage a sales page, members area, and everything required to build one: opt-in pages, squeeze pages, download pages, privacy, contact us, etc.  They all do a great job.

WP Website Creator - Jim Edwards excellent Word Press building and a lifetime membership to all future training that he will provide.  If you're new to WordPress and want to get a site up, and learn how quickly, this is the place to start. Highly recommended.

PROFITS Theme - I've been experimenting with this as a replacement for Optimize Press. It does a great job of doing everything the others can do, and even more. Build a complete membership website in minutes. Excellent!

Optimize Press - It has become a bit of a standard lately and does a great job of letting you build out sales pages, and everything else required for a membership website too. Initially developed to compete with Kajabi which is a little bit expensive (in my opinion).  Unique iPad and iPhone support for videos make this worthwhile.

WP Sales Engine - A plugin that lets you generate sales pages, opt-ins, upsells, and all associated pages to create a sales letter. It runs as a plugin so it will not interfer with your theme, powerful and well worth it.

Online Business Ideas - Darren Monroe's blog that reviews PROFITS Theme and compares it to Optimize Press, Thesis and Headway themes.