Just a friendly reminder that our landmark hometown WordPress event is this weekend at the Phoenix Convention Center!  WordCamp Phoenix is an event usually hosted one time a year that brings together a fantastic amount of knowledge from the WordPress community!  The event begins this Saturday October 1st and kicks off in the morning at…

This post is a video walkthrough of our post on optimizing your WooCommerce store for customers who’ve already bought from you.  As you likely know it’s easier to sell more products to your current customer base than to try and convince people who are unfamiliar with your brand. Here’s an excerpt of the post we…

The fine folks at Godaddy had a chance to sit down with our founder Cody Landefeld recently.  The topic of discussion was about how Mode Effect came to be and how we’re continuing to determine our customer focus.  There’s also some great tips for up and coming freelancers about challenges we’ve faced and how to be…

eCommerce website design is a fast-changing landscape. At Mode Effect, we specialize in designing eCommerce websites on the WordPress WooCommerce platform, which we’ll talk a bit more about later. To help keep you up-to-date on the latest trends that have a powerful impact on an eCommerce store and its success, we’ve rounded up four design…

WordPress is the most widely used content management system worldwide and powers nearly 27% of the top 10 million sites on the web. Automattic, the company that created and continues to own and operate WordPress, launched WordPress VIP program as a hosting solution for enterprise WordPress clients. Since its launch, the program has become a…

You might not actually know that Mode Effect is based in Phoenix, Arizona.  Most of our team is based in Phoenix and why the heck not?  You know we also love WordPress and want to help businesses grow using WordPress.  So we’re very involved in the local WordPress community. In fact one of our founders…

I hear Los Angeles is nice this time of year.  Why is that?  Because we’ll be there for WordCamp!  What is WordCamp? WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress, the free and open source personal publishing software that powers over 75 million sites on the web. WordCamps come in all different flavors, based on…

Not every URL you visit can be classified as a website.  So your business needs to know exactly what this means for you and your customers.  Today you’ll learn some of the differences between a website and a web application.