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22 Mar 2024

Maximizing Business Growth with Open-Source Software: A Comprehensive Guide to OSS Advantages

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the strategic selection of technology underpinning your business operations can significantly influence your competitive edge, growth trajectory, and innovation capabilities. At the heart of this technological crossroads stands open-source software (OSS) – a paradigm that has reshaped software development, deployment, and utilisation across industries. Understanding open-source software, however, necessitates …

Business & MarketingOpen-source

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16 Jan 2024

Leveraging WordPress for Content Marketing Success

WordPress has grown far beyond blogging into a full content marketing platform. Here is a practical guide to using its themes, plugins, and built-in tools to plan, publish, optimise, and measure content that drives real business results.

Content MarketingDigital MarketingMarketing

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8 Jan 2024

Introduction to Creative Digital Marketing

In the digital realm, where every click can lead to a new discovery, and every impression could turn into a lasting relationship, creative digital marketing stands as a cornerstone for businesses aiming to not just survive but thrive in the long term. It’s a blend of art and science, requiring a deft touch of creativity …

Content MarketingDigital MarketingMarketing

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19 May 2020

Web Monetization Plugin from Pragmatic and Coil Announced

Monetizing website has always been a big conversation among WordPress users. How do you get paid for your content without alienating readers? San Francisco based company Coil and WordPress agency Pragmatic, have come together to answer that question. Introducing the Coil Web Monetization. Once a reader has set up a Coil subscription, they can enable …

News

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19 May 2020

Your Guide to Using WebP Images On WordPress Sites

We all love high-quality, crisp visuals. They’re a big part of what makes modern websites so enjoyable. The problem is, these files can weigh a lot. Depending on the formats you use and whether you optimize them or not, images can significantly impact your site’s performance. Most websites rely on common formats, such as JPEG …

Development

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15 May 2020

How to Fix the Most Common WordPress HTTP Error Codes

When a page on your site, or your entire website, is unreachable due to HTTP error codes, it can be quite frustrating. Beyond causing general annoyance, it can also contribute to higher bounce rates and poor User Experience (UX). Fortunately, you can fix many of the most common HTTP error codes for WordPress users without …

Development

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14 May 2020

Torque’s Social Hour: May 13th with Ricky Blacker

Continuing our weekly series of live conversations, we hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Torque’s Social Hour. This week’s video features Ricky Blacker, a WordPress evangelist and pre-sales engineer at WP Engine. Ricky is deeply involved with the WordPress community in Australia and tells us about what makes it so unique. Be sure to …

CommunityTorque talks

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13 May 2020

9 Ways to Take Care of Your Mental Health During the Coronavirus Lockdown

Preserving your sanity during the coronavirus lockdown poses a challenge for many people. Staying inside for a prolonged amount of time can take a toll on your mental health. And why wouldn’t it? It has all the ingredients for that: Social isolation and lack of person-to-person interaction Loss of structure and routine Lack of exercise, …

Community

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12 May 2020

Running a business during Covid 19

Amazon informed its workers that they would be out until October 2020, nearly five months from today. Captial one told 40,000 workers that they will be out through Labor day, possibly longer. Running a business during COVID 19 this way doesn’t seem possible. Google and Facebook told their employees on Thursday that they could stay …

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12 May 2020

What’s New in WordPress 5.4

As you probably know, WordPress regularly updates its platform to incorporate new features and functionality. While using the latest version is recommended, you may feel reluctant to change. Whether you embraced Gutenberg from the get-go or still prefer the Classic Editor, it’s smart to familiarize yourself with the next version of WordPress’ Block Editor. Not …

News

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8 May 2020

6 Common Landing Page Mistakes Sabotaging Your Conversion Rate

Landing pages are integral to increasing your conversion rates. If you are not investing much time in developing your landing page, you may be missing out on a lot of conversions. On average, the conversion rate for a B2B landing page is 13.28%. It is important to test and optimize your landing pages to see …

Virtual Assistant Business

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7 May 2020

How to Prevent Your Clients From Accidentally Deactivating Plugins

You spend a lot of time and effort creating beautiful, powerful websites for your WordPress clients. It can be incredibly frustrating when a well-meaning customer accidentally messes with something critical to their site’s functionality. Fortunately, there is a way you can reduce the risk of this happening. Hiding the relevant link in WordPress can prevent …

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