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The Difference Between WordPress and WordPress Dot Com Accounts Explained

Jul 21 by Polaris Marketing and Creative • 0 Comments

There are some very important difference between your self-hosted WordPress and WordPress.com accounts of which many are unaware. Here’s a brief rundown of these differences, and how to connect your various accounts. Read More

The Awesome Simplicity of oEmbed and WordPress: Embedding Content Made Easy

Apr 19 by Polaris Marketing and Creative • 0 Comments

oEmbed and WordPress are awesome and make things so simple. With the simple act of pasting a link in WordPress’ visual editor, the content is automatically embedded and responsive. Read More

Premium WordPress Theme or Custom Design: Which To Choose?

Apr 13 by Polaris Marketing and Creative • 0 Comments

You are about to launch a website or you want to give your current website a new face; make it all shiny and sparkly and using current design standards. You are faced with some choices: 1) A free WordPress theme found in the WordPress repository; 2) A premium (paid) WordPress theme; or 3) Hire someone to design and develop a theme from scratch. You may have already eliminated the free theme because you’re already using one and it is limited. So the question becomes: Premium WordPress theme or custom design? The answer depends on a lot of variables. Security should always play a factor in your decision. Read More

22 Things To Do When Installing WordPress via Softaculous

Apr 12 by Polaris Marketing and Creative • 3 Comments

Skookum Monkey hosting plans come with Softaculous, which allows people to easily install 394 different commercial and open source web applications. While this process is easy, there are some hidden gems in the WordPress auto-installer you should know about. Here are 22 things to do when installing WordPress via Softaculous. Read More

Etsy or WooCommerce: Which Is Better for Your eCommerce Site

Feb 8 by Polaris Marketing and Creative • 0 Comments

Etsy or WooCommerce? This is a question that we recently faced with one of our clients. The answer we came up with was Etsy, but getting there wasn’t straightfoward. Using this client as a case study, we’ll walk through how we came up with an e-commerce solution to fit this client’s needs and how you can decide for yourself whether to choose Etsy or WooCommerce. Read More