Category: Blog

  • Featured User, Kate Williams: Weddings, Portraits and Double Exposure

    Featured User, Kate Williams: Weddings, Portraits and Double Exposure

    Wedding Photography is a tough business. You collaborate with people who are expecting to see passion and love reflected in your work, people who want to see every precious moment captured beautifully. There are no do-overs on wedding day, and the pressure can be enormous. Kate Williams, who works primarily a wedding photographer but also does stunning portraiture,…

  • Composition: The Multipurpose WordPress Theme for Every Site

    Composition: The Multipurpose WordPress Theme for Every Site

    Say hello to Composition, our new multipurpose WordPress theme that has all the right ingredients for building any kind of website. What is a Multipurpose WordPress Theme? Simply put, a multipurpose WordPress theme is designed with maximum flexibility in mind. This means that you can use Composition for a wide range of websites including ones for Businesses, Portfolios,…

  • Create and Grow an Engaged Audience

    Create and Grow an Engaged Audience

    Converting website visitors into subscribers may be even harder than getting traffic in the first place. The key to customer retention is the ability to grow an engaged audience. It’s a constant struggle to maintain interest, and if you can’t convert casual visitors into loyal customers you may as well close the virtual shutters. If you’re…

  • How to Set Up Test Purchases Using PayPal on Your Sell Media Powered Website

    How to Set Up Test Purchases Using PayPal on Your Sell Media Powered Website

    Setting up a trouble-free payment process can be nerve-wracking. It must be completely secure and fully tested before going live in order to give the customer zero problems and total confidence in their purchase. Any issues with the checkout process, and it could end up with a potential refund to the customer, or no sale at all. Sell Media incorporates a testing…

  • 5 Tips to Increase Checkout Conversions on Your Site

    5 Tips to Increase Checkout Conversions on Your Site

    Arguably the most important part of your website is your store’s checkout page. This is where potential customers become buyers, but if your checkout page isn’t optimized correctly, they could end up abandoning their cart and spending their money elsewhere. While increasing checkout conversions is a worthy goal, it may seem like a lost cause because of a phenomenon…

  • Minimalist Web Design Trends

    Minimalist Web Design Trends

    Like any creative medium, web design passes through fashionable design trends that make their mark before slowly fading back into obscurity. However, there’s one design trend (much like a little black dress or wayfarer sunglasses) that never goes out of style: minimalism. Rather than distract users by bombarding them with flashy animations and eye-catching designs,…

  • Subscription Plans are Coming to Sell Media

    Subscription Plans are Coming to Sell Media

    Wouldn’t it be nice if you could sell photo subscription plans to your own stock website, just like the big boys at iStockPhoto? In less than one month, you’ll be able to do just that! Our new subscription extension for Sell Media will allow you to: Create up to 10 monthly and yearly subscription plans. Set download limits…

  • How to Sell Videos Online Using the Sell Media Plugin on Your WordPress Site

    How to Sell Videos Online Using the Sell Media Plugin on Your WordPress Site

    Are you one of the 55% of people globally who watch online videos every single day? Video has become an incredibly popular format for consuming content, and it’s now as ubiquitous as images within our social media news feeds and timelines. Despite this, the ability to sell videos online is difficult than many other forms of static media –…

  • How to Set Up the Sell Media S3 Extension with WordPress

    How to Set Up the Sell Media S3 Extension with WordPress

    Cloud storage has become immensely popular, especially for hosting hefty files such as images and video. There are numerous benefits to storing your content on a dedicated server, and for offering downloads that are both consistently quick and secure, cloud storage is vital. We’ve developed our Sell Media plugin to help you sell images and video on your WordPress website – and by…

  • Easily Organize Your Photos with Post Order

    Easily Organize Your Photos with Post Order

    There are many reasons why you may want to organize WordPress photos, or change the order of your photography store’s products. You can attention to older products, or increase conversions by showcasing popular items more prominently. Unfortunately, by default, changing the published date of each product is the only way to adjust the order of products in…