Siempre he sido un fanático de las cosas increíbles que puede hacer WordPress. En casi todas las compañías en línea que emprendí, usé WordPress a ciegas como mi solución número uno. Así que echemos un vistazo a algunas de las muchas cosas que WordPress puede hacer por usted (y sus clientes).
1. Create an online store with WordPress
Una vez que un client preguntó: «Oye, no necesito WordPress, ¿por qué no utilizo un software de comercio electrónico dedicado?» My client (a skeptical gentleman) was not very aware of WordPress. Taking advantage of this situation, I quickly opened WooCommerce and asked, "How about this, do you think it will work?"
"It is perfect! How much is this?" So I replied, "Nothing!”(Well, excluding accommodation fees, of course!)
WooCommerce is one of the major players in the WordPress eCommerce industry. Its main plugin is free and comes with the essential basic features to maintain an entry-level ecommerce store. It would be a mistake to think that, like most "free" WordPress plugins, WooCommerce keeps the must-have features locked behind a "premium" closet.
In fact, there is no premium version of the plugin. They have a variety of really impressive plugins, through which they generate income. At the same time they are compatible with WooCommerce plugins. You can even hire a developer to create a company-specific WooCommerce plugin for you.
Other awesome ecommerce plugins include iThemes Exchange, MarketPress, and Easy Digital Downloads. For a comprehensive list, check out Freddy's post on the best WordPress plugins for ecommerce.
2. Create a job board
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One of the most memorable speeches from the university went something like this: "You must aspire to be job generators and not seekers." It unleashed the entrepreneurial fire that burned within us.
Ahora que lo pienso, persons como nosotros: autónomos, blogueros, diseñadores, redactores publicitarios, etc., son todos emprendedores individuales. ¿Alguna vez has querido crear una bolsa de trabajo real en tu Blog? Como el de ProBlogger Aquí hay una lista de WordPress Job Board Themes which will get you up and running in a few hours:
- Jobify ($ 55)
- Job Bank ($ 79)
- JobRoller ($ 99)
- Templatic Job Board ($ 65)
- JobEngine ($ 89)
- Hire Bee ($ 99)
If you are looking for a plugin-based approach, check out WP job manager. There are tons of great plugins for even more job board options, like the WooCommerce onboarding for paid listings, a resume manager for easy cv uploads, daily or weekly new job alerts, and more.
General tips:
- Make sure you've built a significant audience for your genre before launching your job board. ProBlogger is one of the most popular "blog" blogs on the planet. If you think you can get a couple thousand visitors a month and start your job board, you will be disappointed.
- Apart from this, these job board plugins can be very useful when posting jobs for your own blog (such as paid editors, copywriters, designers, etc.)
- Muchas compañías prefieren mantener sus carteras y puestos vacantes separados. Publican un link en su pie de página o en la parte superior en algún lugar anunciando que tienen una vacante.
- La página de trabajo real se subcontrata a algún software de bolsa de trabajo como Resumator, o se configura como una bolsa de trabajo «interna» en una Url or subdomain diferente. Algo como jobs.company.com.
- For this approach, a WordPress job board-based theme works best, but they're a bit pricey due to all the complex post types and all.
- However, if you don't want a separate installation, you can go for a plug-in-based solution.
3. WordPress Multisite
WordPress Multisite is one of the best (if not he mejor) características de WordPress, nunca. En pocas palabras, le posibilita crear una red de sitios Web de WordPress a partir de una única instalación maestra de WordPress. La idea se originó a partir del concepto de blogs en red. Aquí tienes un ejemplo rápido:
Let's say you want to start a blog that covers three main categories: books, comics, and poems. But his team has very different ideas for the structure, layout, and layout of each of those sites. However, other aspects, such as general policies and security measures for the entire site, are common. In such a case, your best solution would be to create three different websites, in other words, three different WordPress installations, hosted on a single WordPress site. That gives you administrative control over your site, while maintaining discretion.
You can activate WordPress multisite by adding the following line to your wp-config.php proceedings:
/ * Multisite * / define ('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
From now on, follow our WordPress multi-site setup guide, or the codex instructions to settle.
4. Crea un forum
With the bbPress The WordPress plugin for creating a fully featured and integrated WordPress forum is a simple task. The plugin is developed and maintained by Automatic - the company behind WordPress. So in terms of reliability and security, you are pretty sure. Here's a quick look at the features of bbPress:
features:
- Create multiple forum categories
- Answers to individual topics
- Soporte para códigos cortos y widgets específicos de bbPress
- Increase user engagement with extensions like bbPress Notify that sends email notifications to users when new topics and / or responses are posted; Y
- GD bbPress tools que agrega soporte BBCode, firmas de Username, citas en respuesta y algunas otras características, como un software de foro completo.
Oh, and it supports the mighty Total WordPress theme - so you can create custom pages for your awesome forum. Other plugins that help you create a forum using WordPress include CM responses and AnsPress.
5. Crea una social network
Si está buscando crear el próximo Facebook usando WordPress como plataforma, probablemente debería ver a un médico. Es una broma. Pero en serio, admiro tus aspiraciones, pero tu esfuerzo sería a lot of more effective if you contemplate an alternative framework to build the next Facebook.
For those who want to create an "internal" social network for their university groups, teams or company: BuddyPress is your answer. At the same time, there is even a section dedicated to Themeforest for BuddyPress themes.
6. Create DIY landing pages
Las páginas de destino, como ya sabrá, son esenciales para el crecimiento empresarial, especialmente las compañías en línea. Las páginas de destino bien diseñadas pueden transformar a un visitante ocasional en un cliente que paga. Pero eso no es tan fácil como parece. La creación de una página de destino is a evolving process. You need to take care of multiple functions and track how your visitor reacts to them.
Dado que la mayoría de los blogs en Internet usan WordPress, diseñar hermosas páginas de destino nunca ha sido tan fácil con complementos como OptimizePress, Parallax Gravity y Thrive Content Builder. Con un buen complemento de página de destino de WordPress, puede crear y realizar un seguimiento de varias páginas de destino para su sitio web.
7. Create a multilingual website
WordPress lo ayuda a crear y administrar versiones multilingües del contents de su sitio web. Esto es especialmente útil para las compañías globales que han elegido WordPress como su plataforma CMS. Hay dos formas distintas de traducir WordPress y crear un sitio web multilingüe.
7.1 Hire a translator
This is the most expensive method, but it almost always guarantees better quality compared to machine translation. To do this, you can use the following plugins:
I would recommend the Polylang WordPress plugin as it manages multilingual versions of your posts and pages and other items, including regional date and time formats, categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
7.2 Machine translation
Este método es más rápido y no le cuesta ni un centavo. No obstante, en el lado negativo, la calidad del texto traducido es peor de lo que obtendría cuando contrata a un traductor. No obstante, eso podría cambiar en la próxima década gracias a la intimidante investigación sobre procesamiento del lenguaje natural (PNL) de Google.
Accessories:
Estos complementos se conectan a la API del traductor de idiomas de Google / Bing para convertir los artículos de su sitio. Si está ejecutando una configuración multisitio de WordPress y lo necesita para cada sitio, WPML es el complemento para usted. Es un complemento obligatorio que admite funciones básicas de traducción, traducción de comercio electrónico y administra distintos archivos adjuntos para cada idioma.
8. Top-notch security
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I've always had a rule of thumb with safety: prevention is better than cure. For those of you who are too late, you will have to spend a significant amount to recover from a hacked site. I would recommend that you don't take this as a DIY project and seek professional help as there are countless ways to go wrong.
- WordPress es un ardiente follower de la primera regla. Es es por ello que que implementa varias medidas de seguridad y lanza actualizaciones de seguridad importantes y críticas de vez en cuando. Es por ello que rule 1 Is for Always update to the latest version of WordPress.
- Most WordPress sites (including managed ones) automatically update to the latest version thanks to its "auto update" feature. The rest must be manually updated by the administrator.
- When you are in a shared hosting environment, you are surrounded by various unknown security flaws. As a countermeasure, you need to install a security plugin such as iThemes Security or Sucuri.
- In conclusion, if you want to get rid of the security and hosting headache, you should consider managed WordPress hosting like WPEngine.
9. Advanced email marketing
El marketing por correo electrónico, como lo conocemos, es una de las formas imperecederas de generación de traffic. Es como una fuente de tráfico a pedido que se ha sintonizado específicamente con su sitio, ansiosa por saber de usted. No obstante, para que el marketing por correo electrónico funcione, primero debe recopilar los correos electrónicos. Ahí es donde WordPress es útil.
Con complementos como OptinMonster y Bloom, puede disparar su base de suscriptores. OptinMonster muestra un cuadro emergente de subscription al boletín en la pantalla de su visitante, tal como:
- Enter your site
- Exit Your Site - This is called 'exit intent' technology.
At the same time you can place email subscription boxes in various places on your site, including the sidebar, after each post or the simple pop-up window. If you want to know more about OptinMonster and how it evolved over the years, be sure to check out our OptinMonster review. WordPress.com at the same time enables you to collect email addresses of your users. Once you publish a new post, an email will be sent to all of your subscribers.
10. Flexibility in website design
By far this WordPress property is my favorite. You can really create anything with WordPress. No matter what you need, there is a plugin or theme to help you get started. Do you want to create a complete directory listing for your city? Take a look at the appropriately named directory topic. Do you need to add recipes to your blog? Simple - Cooked Recipe Maker is just the add-on for you.
And if you don't know what you want, at the same time there are themes for that! Just take what we think is the the best WordPress theme ever - Total, or any of the other popular multipurpose themes that come with a powerful page builder. With these, you can create uniquely designed websites, all from one theme.
conclusion
I hope you enjoyed this list of 10 (awesome) things you can do with WordPress. What have you used WordPress for? If you have anything that you think should be on this list, please let us know!
