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How to Automatically Share Content on Social Media The Right Way

If you’re publishing new content on the regular, I’m betting you want people to actually see it, right?

Ok, that’s a silly question. Unless you’re a unicorn – you probably created a website because you wanted to get it in front of the world’s collective eyeballs.

Well, in addition to a bunch of other methods, sharing your content on social media is one of the best ways to do just that.

But here’s the rub:

Most people are so busy actually creating content, that the last thing they want to do is spend even more time sharing that content on social media.

So, to help you out, I’m going to dedicate this post to showing you how to automatically share content on social media. Then, to stop you from becoming the social media equivalent of a robot, I’ll share some tips to automate without annoying your followers.

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60+ Best Free WordPress Themes – 2020

By Douglas James1 Comment

You know what’s better than stuff? Free stuff.

If you’ve followed us so far, you know that we hunt down some of the best WordPress themes around, fitting any category. Hopefully, we’ve helped businesses and individuals along the way. But today we’ve got something a little special: free WordPress themes. No, this isn’t a dream! Typically, themes cost a fair amount of money, since they’re made and used by professionals. But maybe you don’t have the cash, don’t want a pricey theme, or just want to learn how themes work. Well, whatever the reason, we’ve got you covered.

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15 Examples of Highly Successful WordPress Businesses

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Do you hear those rumblings? That’s the sound of the slow shifting of the WordPress economy…

In the past few months, Automattic has made forays into areas they’ve traditionally left to others with the addition of themes in Jetpack and third-party plugins for WordPress.com Business plans. In both cases, those changes caused consternation among existing WordPress businesses worried about Automattic’s encroachment into niches previously left untapped.

Tack on debate over how the new Gutenberg Editor will handle existing plugin and theme functionality and there’s no doubt that there are tectonic shifts going on underneath the WordPress economy.

But while that may be the case, there are still plenty of healthy, vibrant businesses that are built on WordPress. And in this post, we want to share some of our favorites to remind everyone that you can still build a successful business in WordPress.

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30+ Best WordPress Technology Themes for Startups, App developers and hosting companies

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In this weeks collection we take a look at the Best WordPress Technology themes! A company start-up is the first step on the path to success. Or at least, that’s the hope of any owner. Indeed, taking one’s first leap into the business world takes a lot of gumption, resources, and luck. But there’s no reason you can’t go into it without a few advantages, right?

Once I’ll be bringing you some choice WordPress themes, but this time around it’s a little different. Business startups are the primary focus, but tagging along with this category are themes for software, apps, and business hosting. These branch off from the company start-up theme, giving users lots of flexibility and choices. The idea is to give you a polished, professional template for your website in order to potentially attract a healthy client base, transforming the “start-up” into a recognized brand.

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Smart Slider Review: Build Beautiful Sliders With Drag and Drop

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If there’s one thing that WordPress users seem to universally love, it’s WordPress slider plugins. Two of the top four best-selling plugins at Code Canyon are, you guessed it, slider plugins.

This fascination has led to the bundling of Slider Revolution with pretty much every theme for sale at Theme Forest. But Slider Revolution and Layer Slider (#4 at Code Canyon), are far from your only options for creating sliders for your WordPress site.

Smart Slider offers a user friendly, well-designed slider experience. And in my Smart Slider review, I’ll take a deeper look at this freemium slider plugin and see if it can go toe-to-toe with the big names.

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