Oct
6
2017

Movavi Video Editor Review

Movavi Video Editor is a powerful video software that lets you edit your videos very easily. It has many amazing tools to edit any video format available in the market.

This excellent program can not only edit your videos, but also record video directly from your webcam, split a movie into clips, or extract and edit the audio source of a video.

You will be able to make movies with special effects, split videos into multiple clips or join clips into a single video. You can add filters and titles to the videos. You can choose to adjust colors manually or use the Magic Enhance option to automatically fix the brightness, contrast, and saturation of the video or photo.

Movavi is also a great split screen video maker that lets you combine two videos on your monitor to create an amazing split-screen movie.

The visual interface of Movavi is very well designed and very intuitive and friendly. It is available in many languages. You will get used to the software very quickly. The video converter supports the most popular video formats and has a built-in video player that lets you preview and watch the video while you are editing and working on it. You can browse the movie in detail and navigate frame by frame. Movavi has some powerful tools that let you crop the image, add watermarks to the video or save a specific frame.

If you like adding videos to your WordPress posts, Movavi is perfect to edit and prepare the videos for your WordPress blog. It is a great tool to create and edit your original videos and have them ready for upload to sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or your own WordPress blog.

You can add videos directly from your computer and then upload them directly to YouTube using the export window. With Movavi you can edit HD Videos, Full HD Videos, and even Ultra HD Videos. Ultra HD is also known as 4K and is becoming very popular lately.

With Movavi Video Editor you can easily create slideshows with music and transitions. The software has also an excellent video stabilization tool to remove camera shake from your video.

May
17
2017

WordPress 4.7.5 Security Release

WordPress 4.7.5 Security Release is now available. This is an update for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

WordPress versions 4.7.4 and earlier are affected by six security issues:

Insufficient redirect validation in the HTTP class.
Improper handling of post meta data values in the XML-RPC API.
Lack of capability checks for post meta data in the XML-RPC API.
A Cross Site Request Forgery (CRSF) vulnerability was discovered in the filesystem credentials dialog.
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered when attempting to upload very large files.
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered related to the Customizer.

In addition to the security issues above, WordPress 4.7.5 contains 3 maintenance fixes to the 4.7 release series.

Download WordPress 4.7.5 or just enter your Dashboard and go to “Updates”, then simply click “Update Now.” Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update to WordPress 4.7.5.

Oct
20
2016

5 Steps to Build A Powerful Digital Marketing Dashboard

These days, marketing is highly complicated. This is contrast to several decades ago when a good gut feel was accepted standard marketing practice. The more accurate your gut feeling was, the bigger your annual bonus would be. Now, to come up with a winning marketing strategy, it comes down precise analysis of data. But, in today’s age of big data where we have tools at our disposal that can collect an amazing amount of data from customers and potential customers, analyzing that data has become a science on its own.

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Just look at all the tools you need to work with in order to organize and compile your marketing data. If it’s an email campaign, you need to work with an email marketing tool. If you use Google Adwords, you need an Adwords account. For web analytics, you have Google Analytics and a host of other commercial solutions. Business dashboards can assist with tracking social media marketing campaigns.

Get it? There are so many different tools to track different facets of your marketing campaign. You could spend a whole day just logging into different accounts to check reports and gain insights. To avoid this, it is best to use an integrated marketing dashboard that consolidates all your metrics into one dashboard. There are many commercial solutions that do this and you can even build your own custom solution.

But, even doing this is only solving half the problem. To maximize the benefits of your marketing dashboard, you need to first organize it. You need to decide what should go into it and what shouldn’t.

The following are five steps you should follow in order to build a powerful digital marketing dashboard.

1. Identify the Reports Needed

People process and communicate information differently. There are people who are good with words and completely terrible with numbers and vice versa. So consider who the audience will be. Identify the story that needs to be told and numbers needed to tell the story. Decide on the type of reports needed, for example; an executive summary, an awareness report, an engagement report or even ROI report. Once you know what kind of reports are needed, the marketing dashboard will be much easier to organize.

2. Focus on KPIs Only

There are many metrics you can include on a marketing dashboard but the only one’s that you should include are those that relate to key performance indicators. When choosing KPIs, consider the following questions:
• What objectives does the marketing team want to meet?
• What metrics demonstrate progress towards these objectives?
• How is campaign success of failure measured?
• How will the reports be enhanced by this metric?
• Does the metric relate to a key business question?

3. Integrate all your Analytics Applications

To get the entire picture of your marketing campaigns integrate all of your analytics accounts into one dashboard. As mentioned earlier, there are many commercial applications that already do this or you can hire a developer to have one custom built for you. Having all your marketing analytics, Google, social media, Mozetc in one place will save you a lot of time. The only heavy lifting you will do is at set-up but once you set it, you will be able get a big picture view of your entire marketing campaign. No more having to log into several different applications to see the analytics.

4. Make Use of Visuals

One of the greatest strengths of marketing dashboards is that they are meant to be visually appealing. Graphs, charts, images and infographics are much easier to digest than rows of data on a spreadsheet. Everyone appreciates visuals so you can’t go wrong.

5. Make it Interactive & Accessible

Don’t build a static dashboard. Users should be able to select the data, filter it, sort it, arrange it and manipulate it as much as possible so that they can get further insights. The dashboard should come with this functionality built-in. For example, a user should be able to change the view from daily, to weekly, monthly or whatever other time period they want. Also, the marketing dashboard should be accessible using different types of hardware, that is, tablets, smartphones, computers and anything else that people are using on a large scale.

Conclusion

Data analytics is integral to the success of businesses today. In the absence of analytics, it would be a herculean task deciphering what today’s discerning customers want and need, and the decision one needs to make in order to better utilize scarce marketing resources to meet business objectives.

Apr
15
2016

WordPress 4.5 Coleman Released

Version 4.5 of WordPress has been released. It is named “Coleman” in honor of jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. As always it is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.5 help streamline your workflow, whether you’re writing or building your site.

Inline Linking

Stay focused on your writing with a less distracting interface that keeps you in place and allows you to easily link to your content.

 

Formatting Shortcuts

Do you enjoy using formatting shortcuts for lists and headings? Now they’re even more useful, with horizontal lines and code.

 

Live Responsive Previews

Make sure your site looks great on all screens! Preview mobile, tablet, and desktop views directly in the customizer.

 

Custom Logos

Themes can now support logos for your business or brand. Try it out with Twenty Sixteen and Twenty Fifteen in the Site Identity section of the customizer.

Apr
6
2015

A Brand New Classifieds Plugin For WordPress—Adverts

One of the best ways to make money off your website is to use automation. By automation I mean use a process or a system that will generate money even while you are sleeping.

Selling an e-book is one such example. You write it then upload it onto your website and put a system in place to manage transactions.

Then even while you are away, even when you are not actively working on your website, people will purchase and download the book and the money will be deposited automatically into your bank account.

As I said this is just one example. The most popular method of money making automation for websites is ads.

So let me introduce you to Adverts, which is a brand new classifieds plugin for WordPress.

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This WordPress classified ads plugin is light weight and developer friendly. Building any kind of classifieds or business directory site has never been easier.

This plugin is easily extendible with bundled modules. To do that just go to Wp­admin/Classifieds/Options panel, select the modules you want to use and build a unique website for yourself.

Adverts allows you to create a number of different kinds of websites:

  • Website, where you allow your visitors to post ads for free. They can register for an account and then you can grant them access to post ads using Adverts.
  • They can either publish ads for free or you can charge them by PayPal or bank transfer or you can use a combination of both.
  • Websites where only you—the administrator can publish ads.

Free Demo

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You can try and use Adverts for a free trial. Just go to their website and click on the “View Online Demo” button. You will be taken to a new page where you should click on “Open Admin Demo.”

You will be shown the login page of WordPress dashboard. Enter the user name and password both as “user” and you will be logged in.

Then you can use Adverts, play around with the settings, or do whatever you want to do with it and see how the changes take place in the preview.

Thus you don’t even need to install the plugin on your WordPress website to try it out.

 

Important Plugin Highlights

Some of the important features of this plugin are discussed below.

One click installation: I described above that you can use the demo version straight from their website. However if you want to install Adverts on your own WordPress website you can do that with just a one click install.

Great support: Although the plugin is quite intuitive and easy to use, if at any time you face a problem, you can always contact their support system. You will get a reply within 24 hrs.

Compatible with any WordPress theme: Unlike many other plugins, the Adverts plugin is designed to work and blend in smoothly with any kind of properly coded WordPress theme.

SEO ready: Not only is this plugin compatible with all WordPress themes, it is also developed to work properly with all major WordPress SEO plugins.

 

Go check out their website and use the free trial version of the plugin. I truly hope you won’t be disappointed.

Then drop in a comment below letting me know what you think of Adverts.

Sep
12
2014

WordPress 4.0 Benny Released

Version 4.0 of WordPress, named “Benny” in honor of jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. While 4.0 is just another number for us after 3.9 and before 4.1, we feel we’ve put a little extra polish into it. This release brings you a smoother writing and management experience we think you’ll enjoy.

Media LibraryExplore your uploads in a beautiful, endless grid. A new details preview makes viewing and editing any amount of media in sequence a snap.

Paste in a YouTube URL on a new line, and watch it magically become an embedded video. Now try it with a tweet. Oh yeah — embedding has become a visual experience. The editor shows a true preview of your embedded content, saving you time and giving you confidence.

You can embed videos from CollegeHumor, playlists from YouTube, and talks from TED. Check out all of the embeds that WordPress supports.

There are more than 30,000 free and open source plugins in the WordPress plugin directory. WordPress 4.0 makes it easier to find the right one for your needs, with new metrics, improved search, and a more visual browsing experience.

Apr
17
2014

New WordPress Release: 3.9 “Smith”

Version 3.9 of WordPress, named “Smith” in honor of jazz organist Jimmy Smith, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. This release features a number of refinements that we hope you’ll love.

Improved visual editing

The updated visual editor has improved speed, accessibility, and mobile support. You can paste into the visual editor from your word processor without wasting time to clean up messy styling. (Yeah, we’re talking about you, Microsoft Word.)

Edit images easily

With quicker access to crop and rotation tools, it’s now much easier to edit your images while editing posts. You can also scale images directly in the editor to find just the right fit.

Drag and drop your images

Uploading your images is easier than ever. Just grab them from your desktop and drop them in the editor.

 

Gallery previews

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Stunning new theme browser

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