I came across this useful looking plugin today and wondered if anyone here has any experience with it. It's free with some premium upsells and interests me as a way of adding premium features to my free WP theme.https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/There seem to be plenty of installs, favorable comments, and lots of features. I'm guessing it works OK, but are there any downsides, like slowing your site for example?

A rather interesting article from Softpedia told me something else I didn't know (one more drop from the ocean of my ignorance). It seems, although the practice is allegedly no longer common, that some theme developers embedded plugins within the code for their themes.This, of course, makes the usual method of updating plugins unworkable. And any users of those themes in ignorance, presumably. Responsible developers mentioned in the article include ThemeForest and Mojo Themes, although there ar

I guess there will always be folk around who think that 150% return is what they've been waiting for all their lives, and no-one has told them "if it sounds too good to be true there's a good chance that it is".Hence the latest Ponzi type scheme that is sweeping through Facebook (but gathering grumbles already). I've written about Ponzi and other scams before on my website and my cynicism knows no bounds, but you might want to avoid being tempted by this one. Here's a link to a Daily Telegraph

I've only recently got into Pinterest and, as yet, have no idea what I'm doing there! However, I came across this article, which may interest those who are more advanced than me.http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/2757...I recall they killed off third party affiliate links earlier this year, because spammers were climbing in, and I wonder if they lost a heap of traffic as a result. Perhaps this is an attempt to generate more activity.Let me know in the comments what you think.

Who invented the intensely irritating pop-up CTA?There you are, reading something you find interesting, you reach a certain point on the page and, BAM, a shouty pop-up appears wanting you do something.Well, I was already doing something. I was engaging with your content, and I was getting quite interested in reading more of your stuff, but you have intruded on my train of thought and, frankly, p....d me off.There's really no need to slap me in the face with your CTA. If your content is good eno