How to Create a Law Firm Website in Under An Hour – Step-by-Step

By Colin NewcomerLeave a comment

You’re here because you need to create a law firm website. And you know what that means…heaps of research, long talks with developers, and a $5-10k bill to top it all off. Right?

Ehh, maybe not. See, there’s this thing called WordPress that makes it easy for you to create a website, even if you don’t know the first thing about code. WordPress now powers over 27% of websites. It’s the real deal.

And here’s the cool thing:

WordPress can help you create a website for your law firm in an afternoon, not a month. And best of all? It won’t even cost you a hundred dollars.

Don’t believe me? I’m going to show you how in this post.

All you’ll need is web hosting, a domain name, WordPress, and our free Judgement WordPress theme.

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How to Update Bundled Plugins that come with ThemeForest WordPress Themes

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If you’ve purchased a WordPress theme from one of the big marketplaces like ThemeForest in the past few years there’s a good chance the theme came with extended licenses for one or more of the really popular Commercial WordPress plugins that are not available for download directly from the WordPress.org plugin repository. This includes popular plugins like Visual Composer, Layer Slider and Slider Revolution (and many more commercial plugins typically sold via CodeCanyon.

Most ThemeForest theme authors will typically use the TGM plugin activation class (TGMPA class) to make it reasonably straightforward to install these plugins upon first use. The TGMPA class also makes it straightforward for theme authors to provide plugin updates via their theme updates.

Yet despite this, thousands of WordPress websites are not running the latest versions of commercial plugins bundled via ThemeForest themes. This is a pretty big problem as all it takes is one major security vulnerability in one of these plugins (like that which happened with Slider Revolution a couple of years ago) and we immediately have thousands of exposed WordPress websites that can’t be easily fixed.

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StartRight – the new free WordPress theme for business websites

By Colm Troy1 Comment

StartRight is a high quality, free business WordPress theme designed to provide a superior foundation for creating world class business websites with WordPress.

StartRight is the first WordPress theme from Create and Code, a brand new theme shop created by veteran WordPress experts Simon Tomkins and Colm Troy who also run the highly successful CommerceGurus, the first theme shop dedicated to WooCommerce themes.

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