Attention auctioneers: interested in ditching the third party marketplace and hosting your own bidding site?
You can use your WordPress blog to create an eBay-style environment, where you advertise goods for sale and flog them off to the highest bidder.
Using WordPress as an auction platform is an easy way to avoid paying seller fees and commissions to third party sites. Selling from your own website gives you full control over how you run your auction.
Need to outsource some work to contractors? If so, it’s fairly simple to create a job bidding site for freelancers, using WordPress as your CMS.
The ‘reverse auctioning’ model of outsourcing has surged in popularity over the last decade. Most of us will be familiar with sites like Elance, OzLance, Freelancer, oDesk, Guru – the list goes on.
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, freelance bidding sites are the easiest and cheapest way to outsource work these days.
A few weeks ago I looked at some of the fantastic themes out there that are doing amazing things with WordPress. This week I thought I’d take a look at some of the plugins that you can use to transform your WordPress website. Themes are great if you want to transform your whole WordPress installation into something else, but you can use plugins to just transform one aspect (or lots of different aspects) of your website, maintaining the rest. This means you can use whatever theme that you want.
Let’s get started!
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