Top 10 WordPress CMS Alternatives for Blogging

We know that most of the people use WordPress for the Blogging, but there are also many other popular CMS which is known as popular blogging tool.

CMS means Content Management System – It is an application which allows us to publish, editing, modify, deleting and organizing a content. Raxix Technologies also provides CMS development services.

Here we are going to share with you Top 10 WordPress CMS Alternatives for Blogging, which is also heavily used by user at the present time.

List of Top 10 WordPress CMS Alternatives for Blogging

• Drupal: Drupal is the biggest competitor of WordPress in Blogging Filed and many user uses this CMS for Blogging as well as for other things, like for ecommerce websites. The latest version of Drupal comes with WYSIWYG editor which is very good for blogging.

• Movable Type: Movable Type CMS is written in Perl. This CMS is mostly used by the blog and magazine type websites. This CMS is also a very good choice for the blogging, but you also use it for open source and for commercial.

• Textpattern: This is also a very good tool for blogging. Textpattern is best known for the ideal balance between usability and extendability. This is very safe as compare to other CMS.

• Expression Engine: Tag line of this CMS is – Publish Your Universe. This CMS provides you all features for blogging and Expression Engine also provides you amazing support. But the disadvantage of this CMS is, it is not free.

• Habari: Habari CMS provides you an advance level of features. You can also use different kind of themes and extensions like WordPress. This CMS is considered as the best alternative of WP.

• WolfCMS: WolfCMS is PHP based open source CMS. We don’t use this CMS for the large websites. This CMS is easy to use for bloggers and as well as users. You can only use this CMS for small blog and for the portfolio.

• B2Evolution: Many People do not known that WordPress is developed from B2Evolution. This CMS is also known as long-lost Cousin of WordPress. This CMS provides one amazing feature and that is you can install more then one blog with one installation click. This CMS have almost all feature of WordPress, but it has limited directory of plugins.

• Geeklog: This blogging CMS provides different features as compare to other CMS, like multiple syndication formats, trackbacks. This CMS also has all features like WordPress, For Example:- themes, extensions and plugins. This CMS is also very secure and user friendly.

• Concrete5: Concrete5 is the best alternative of Joomla CMS in terms of usages, features and applications. This CMS comes with dedicated settings for a blog like RSS Feeds, Sitemaps and scheduled posts. This CMS is also has lots of option of the plugin and extensions.

• Zazavi: This is new CMS is blogging filed and most of the feature of this blogging tool is very similar WYSIWYG. It is very easy to use, you can simply type your post in it and easily edit it. You don’t have to worry about any coding skills.

These are the one of the best alternatives of WordPress CMS.  You can also check this article “Top 7 Plugins for New WordPress Blog” for improving SEO of your blog. Different people have different choice and needs and according to their need, they use a different CMS for blogging. WordPress is only CMS which is widely used for blogging, big websites, eCommerce and for small level websites. This CMS has different choices in terms of themes, plugins and extension. You can also make a blog on self-hosted WordPress and also on the cloud-host WordPress (wordpress.com).

Top 7 Plugins for New WordPress Blog

Beginners easily get confused when trying to choose WordPress plugins for their new blog, as they available easily. Then a question arises “what are the best plugins for my New WordPress Blog”.

Plugins are good to use because it provides ease to work. Use of more plugins, will have a chance of getting in trouble.

We are having two type of plugins first one is going to provide a new height to your blog and another one can break your blog.

Why some plugins shouldn’t be used !

WordPress is very popular CMS and you can also install these 7 plugins can kill your blog, so we have to pay attention while choosing plugins for WordPress Services Blog. 

• There are some plugins which are poorly coded and makes it easy for hackers to crack your blog.
• Some of plugins are very annoying as showing pop up again and again, which is not like by readers.
• There are some plugins which are very heavy and going to affect your new WordPress blog and hence affect your search engine optimization.
• But still some plugins prove very useful and works great as per user expectation, having not any negative impact on blogs.
• WordPress gives maximum functionality like Magento too. With the help of some tips and tricks of Magento you can enjoy it easily.

Necessary plugins for new WordPress Blogs

Plugins for better performance:-

Performance of your blog matters a lot, many bloggers forget about this factor, which is not good. Google algorithm gives priority to those blogs who have less loading time. So all WordPress users should use W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin, it is one of the best plugin for better performance as well as to improve SEO also.

Raxix Technologies also use Smush. it plugin to optimize your blog images, as images play a vital role to get organic traffic to your blog.

Plugins for SEO:-

If you don’t have good SEO of your blog, then there is no worth of it, as SEO plays an important role in having a traffic to your blog, so for making your Blog SEO friendly you can use these plugins:

• Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin
• Broken Link Checker
• Yet Another Related Post Plugin

Plugins for commenting:-

Commenting is a great way of interacting between blog audience and owner which help to turn a blog into the blogging community.

You can use the CommentLuv Premium plugin in WordPress which is one of the best plugin I have seen.

This plugin has many features like ReplyME, GASP, KeywordLUV which make it all in one plugin.

Plugins for Security:-

Security is very important for any website/blog, WordPress is platform from where you can create a blog/website. so after the creation of blog main focus is on security and you can use the Better WP security plugin for providing security

In future you can use other security plugins according to the choice and niche of your blog.

Plugins for Social Media:-

Social media is a place from where you can generate as much traffic as you can by connecting social network. Now social media plays a key role in increasing your blog/site traffic,so I will suggest you to use JETPACK plugin, It is kind of plugins, have various features which is going to help you.

How to Integrate a Payment Gateway Into a Website ?

Before going deep with “ How to Integrate a Payment Gateway Into a Website” we are going to share with you about the eCommerce Website Development. In eCommerce Website Development many types of things comes like: Shopping cart development, Secure Payment Gateway Integration, eCommerce application Development, B2B as well as B2C eCommerce Solutions, E-Bay Integration, Configuration & Installation of Shopping Cart Software, Adding Functionality in an Existing Online Store and Maintenance & Support. Without these features, your website will not become an eCommerce website, so it is necessary.

Raxix Technologies is a leading eCommerce Web Development Company and provides all services at affordable prices. Below we describe step by step guide on How to Integrate a Payment Gateway Into a Website.

This article is divided in two sections 1) How to Choose a Payment Gateway 2) Integrating the Payment Gateway into a Website.

How to Choose a Payment Gateway

1. Understanding Working of Gateway: Payment Gateway sends the customer’s credit card information to the web server, after that an eCommerce website able to make a sale and then it sends the confirmation back to the website. You can also integrate your website with payment gateway by installing Shopping cart Software.
2. Payment Gateway Option: Your online shopping software provides payment gateway. You can go to your website’s control panel or shopping software admin page and check payment gateway option.
3. Browse Payment Options: Check out how much payment option is supported by your shopping cart software. If your shopping cart software having more payment gateway option, then it is good for your website and your customers. Most using payment options are: PayPal, Payza, Perfect Money, Egopay, SecurePay, Authorize.net, Verify, Braintree and SecurePay.
4. Fees and Conditions: You can check fee conditions of payment gateway, how much they charge for a one time setup.
5. Choose Between External or a Direct Gateway: External gateway sends your customers to another website to payment process and direct gateway do all process in your own website. So you can choose these options according to your choice.
6. Merchant Account: You can also create a merchant account and they charge for you for every single transaction, but with the help of this method you can get all transactions direct into your account.
7. Sign Up: Now after checking all above criteria, you can sign up for your gateway and you have to provide the necessary information like: login name, password, authorization file or ID.

Integrating The Payment Gateway into a Website

1. WebShop Setup: Most of the retailers use software for to create a web shop for their customers. This software is able to handle code of transferring payment information to the gateway and creation of ordering page.
2. Add Payment Methods: You can add your payment method from online store admin page. This process is very from service to service, generally you have your put credit card details in a payment gateway.
3. Test Gateway: Now you can test your gateway working, is it working properly or not. For testing your gateway you can take the help of eBay website.

Most of the developers use WordPress to make informational websites and some developers use other WordPress alternatives CMS for blogging as well as eCommerce website.

Tips and Tricks for Magento Development

Before going into details with Tips and Tricks for Magento Development, we are going to be introducing you with Magento. Magento is an open-source content management system for eCommerce Websites. This CMS is developed by the Varien Inc (US private company in California). Magento CMS is written in PHP. The Launch date of Magento is 31^st March 2008.

Raxix Technologies is a Leading IT Outsourcing company and also provides the affordable services of Magento Development. Sometime, Users ask that how to become Joomla, Magento, WordPress Developers easily. 

After the launch of this CMS growth of ecommerce website in Magento is increasing in rapidity. Magento is very easy to use and Search Engine Optimization of the Magento website is also very good as compare to others. Here, we are going to share with you some Tips and Tricks regarding Magento Development.

1. Generic Magento CSS Classes: Magento is famous for its extension and plugin, because of you can get every plugin and extension according to your requirement in Magento. Default Magento installation is defined within in thousands of classes of CSS. You must use generic Magento CSS classes because they never give compatibility issue, which is best for your extension and plugins.
2. Save your codes into Document: Whenever you write any code, you must save all that codes into a document file or in a notepad. That saved codes provides you backup for the future.
3. Using app/code/local/mage to Override Core Files: Never override Magento Core Files in app/code/local/mage, because it causes problem in the future when you upgrade your theme or version of Magento.
4. Logging Behavior of Extension: If you want to get the benefits of Magento Extension you need to log its behavior. You can do this by enabling logging in the admin>system>configuration>developer>debug and you can own your log with code. This feature also allows you to get faster speed.
5. Admin Session Lifetime: Most of the time when you spend time in editing a product description and when you click on the save button your time is out. This happens due because your admin session is too low. You can fix it by following these steps: go to system>config>admin>security>session lifetime. Then set a value above than 3600 second, so you don’t get logged out of the admin every 60 minutes.
6. Nested Static Blocks: Static blocks are useful for dividing up different types of data blocks and also helping to simplify content updates. Nest several static blocks into one block with the help of widgets and that called category or product page.
7. Admin Actions Log: This feature is very helpful in diagnosing any issue and it also allow you to choose which action you want to record in the log files as they happen. You can also do this: go to system>admin action log, then select the check boxes next to any actions you want to log.
8. Customer Group Pricing: This feature allows to you to set different price of the product for different type of customers (Retails, VIP, Wholesale and staff group).
9. Product Alerts Notification: This feature helps the customers to get each and every information about the product. You get notification like, which product comes back in stocks or which product goes on sale and which product have more discounts.

10. Manage Rating: This feature of Magento allows you to add reviews and rating feature in the product. This thing increase the sale of the product. It can done by, go to catalog>reviews &rating>manage rating, then add/enable star rating criteria.

WordPress, Drupal, Joomla these CMS is also very good, but Magneto is especially design for the eCommerce Websites.

Top 5 Tips of Internet Marketing in 2015 to Rank Better in Google

In the present scenario of Search Engine Market, It is very tough to get high ranking on Search Engine. Everyone wants to rank their website on top of the SERP, but only few of them rank better. Here, we are going to discuss some tips of Internet Marketing which help to rank better in SERP.

     In 2015, Google is changing in their algorithms to improve the search results which affect the traffic as well as the ranking of a website on search engine. These are the following internet marketing factors-

Top – 5 Tips of Internet Marketing in 2015

1. Mobile Friendly Website: After the launch of Google’s Mobile Friendly Algorithms, ranking and traffic of many websites goes down, because those websites was not mobile friendly. If your website is mobile friendly and responsive in nature then you have a better chance to rank higher in mobile search. According to Google, most of mobile users run back if they found any trouble to access your website on cell phones. So make your website mobile friendly.

2. Build a Highly Functional Website: Most of users love new features and functions updated websites. This thing help to increase your website traffic and search engine presence. Sometimes, many features and functions slow down the speed of website. You have to maintain high speed of the website which affect the ranking and traffic.

3. App Traffic: This tip is for the eCommerce website. We know that most of internet users use the internet from their smartphones or mobile phones. According to a survey, 60% users buy product online with the help of eCommerce mobile app. If you have an eCommerce website, then you can also build a mobile app for your website and you can also get traffic and sales from mobile users.

4. Social Media Marketing: Nowadays, most of people use social media websites for the communicating with friends. Traffic on the social media websites is increasing drastically. If you want to increase sales and traffic to your website, then you can advertise your product on social media website and you get amazing results.

5. Content is King: Write high quality and relevant content according to the niche of your website and you can rank easily in search engine. You can use the semantically comprehensive wording, length of the article should be long, use of multiple media (images, video, info-graphics). You can also put a balanced number of internet links and external link in your articles. Write proper title, keywords and meta description in the article. These are the best practices to boost your business through PPC using quality content.  

   Many companies are providing the services of Online Marketing and SEO. But Raxix Technologies offers affordable Internet Marketing Services for our customers. That is why, Raxix technologies is also known as the Best Internet Marketing Service Provider Company at a globe.

We hope that you love Top 5 Tips of Internet Marketing in 2015. If you have any question regarding this article you can ask in the comment box.