Gravity Forms is the best Premium form building Plugin for WordPress out there! Developed by Rocketgenius, Inc., out of the box it gives you the ability to create everything from the simplest of Contact forms, to complex multi-field forms with conditional logic.

With Gravity Forms add-ons, you can quickly and easily integrate with a variety of third party services to provide even deeper integration with WordPress. Connect your Newsletter signup form to your MailChimp account to automatically build your email marketing list. Use Gravity Forms to collect payments for products and services with Stripe and PayPal integration. You can even create surveys, polls and quizzes. The possibilities are endless!

We invite you to visit Gravity Forms to learn more about their products.

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Founder of Current Photographer, co-host of The Digital Photography Cafe Show, Designer, Photographer, and overall tech geek.

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WPMUDEV are the developers of the Premium Upfront theme framework, a visual drag and drop WordPress website builder. They have 8 Upfront starter Themes available including Luke + Sara designed specifically for photographers and cinematographers.

Where WPMUDEV really shines is with their 100+ Premium Plugins. They have created some of the best back-end management plugins out there (some of which we use on our Client websites). Their website performance plugins, Hummingbird and WP Smush Pro, greatly increase website loading speeds which is a key factor that Google uses in its ranking algorithm.

One of their latest plugins, Hustle, is perfect for sales lead capture and email opt-ins. Its flexible design templates, visitor targeting, metrics, and integration with third party mail service providers, makes it a great choice for your marketing needs.

We invite you to visit WPMUDEV to learn more about their products.

Trevor Current

Founder of Current Photographer, co-host of The Digital Photography Cafe Show, Designer, Photographer, and overall tech geek.

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Imagely makes beautiful Premium Themes designed specifically for photographers. Their Child Themes are built on the Genesis Framework and have a modern, clean design to make your photography stand out! There are 16 Themes available and you can view demos of each on their website.

Imagely is also the developer of NextGEN Gallery, the most popular photo gallery plugin for WordPress. Their Premium extensions allow you to display your photography through modern designed slideshows and galleries, provide client proofing, and product sales.

We invite you to visit Imagely to learn more about their products.

Trevor Current

Founder of Current Photographer, co-host of The Digital Photography Cafe Show, Designer, Photographer, and overall tech geek.

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Elegant Themes was founded 10 years ago by Nick Roach. What started out as a one-man operation in Nick’s college apartment, has grown into a diverse and distributed team of 50 WordPress enthusiasts from all around the world.

As the company name suggests, they hold elegance at their core and create simple and beautifully designed Themes and Plugins.

Leading their product line is Divi, the most popular Premium WordPress Theme in the world. Its visual drag & drop page builder makes it easy to create the website of your dreams without writing having to write a line of code. Here’s a short video that shows how their inline visual editor works:

Extra is their latest magazine style Theme powered by their Divi Builder plugin. If you’re a Photographer looking to build your presence in the photo community by sharing your knowledge and expertise through blogging and video, this may be the perfect theme for you.

Two additional Plugins you’ll also want to check out are Monarch, for social media sharing, and Bloom, for email opt-in and sales lead capture.

Elegant Themes has 87 Premium Themes and 5 Premium Plugins the choose from. We invite you to visit their website to learn more about their products.

Trevor Current

Founder of Current Photographer, co-host of The Digital Photography Cafe Show, Designer, Photographer, and overall tech geek.

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After many months of planning and building, we’re excited to announce that the Current Photographer Client Portal is now live!

The Client Portal was designed to make working together even easier. You’ll be able to request Support, view our Support Garage knowledge base, watch our WordPress Training videos, and review your monthly contract work.

Once logged in to the Client Portal, click on the Support button in the navigation. You’ll be able to review our Support Garage articles, click to Submit a Ticket, and View Your Tickets. Our new Support Ticketing system will help us help you better, by keeping all requests and conversations in one convenient location.  If you’ve previously submitted a Support Ticket, you’ll see it listed on the page. You can click on each Ticket to read the threaded conversation and reply to the previous message. If you need to submit a new Support Ticket, just click the big orange button.

Are you new to WordPress, or maybe just need a little brushing up on how to use the WordPress Admin? Our WordPress Basic Training contains a library of 50 video tutorials to help get you up to speed fast! We have plans to add more Advanced Training videos covering some of the most popular plugins used in WordPress websites today.

If you’re a Priority Support client, or have a custom monthly support contract with us, you’ll find reports in your Client Portal that provide real-time details and time tracking for your project requests. As we complete a task, the report is automatically updated so you’ll always know the status of your project and your support contract.

Be sure to check the System Status and News & Updates sections for all the latest information about your managed WordPress hosting and support account!

Trevor Current

Founder of Current Photographer, co-host of The Digital Photography Cafe Show, Designer, Photographer, and overall tech geek.

currentphotographer.com