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26 Jul 2019

How to Recognize Scams Targeting Your Website

One of the downsides to owning your own website or domain is that you have to register, mostly using personal information, in a public directory of sorts. Anyone can look up a URL or site and immediately see the owner, as well as their related contact information. It’s not a big deal until marketers and …

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24 Jul 2019

6 Tips From Experts on Optimizing Websites for Google’s Lighthouse 3.0 Speed Tests

So much SEO advice focuses on aspects of optimization around content strategy, outreach, and competitor tracking. But even the best backlinks can’t replace a fast and easy-to-use website. Even though site speed has been considered a ranking factor for nearly a decade, the technical side of SEO tends to get ignored. While WordPress does have …

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24 Jul 2019

Torque Toons: Is this a bug?

Feature or a bug? That is the question. Doc Pop Doctor Popular is an artist and musician living in San Francisco. As a full disclaimer, he is neither a doctor nor popular. The post Torque Toons: Is this a bug? appeared first on Torque.

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23 Jul 2019

9 Ways to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment in WordPress

Finding ways to reduce shopping cart abandonment is one of the main challenges in running an e-commerce site. Research suggests that up to 75 percent of all online shopping carts are abandoned before making a purchase. Of course, this phenomenon has serious consequences for your bottom line. Because of that, in this post, we will …

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22 Jul 2019

How to Convince Your Clients to Upgrade Their Hosting

Sometimes, part of working as a developer is advising clients on the more technical aspects of running their websites. This can get tricky when you have to convince clients to spend more money on aspects of their sites that they may not fully understand, such as hosting. However, by carefully explaining the benefits of investing …

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19 Jul 2019

How to Build a Real Estate Website on WordPress

Buying or renting a property is stressful. One of the hardest parts is finding the best one for you. A real estate website which makes it easy for you to discover your dream home will make things a lot easier. The good news is that building a real estate website which not only looks good …

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18 Jul 2019

Torque Toons: The Crop Circle Block

With all the recent talk about Area 51, we thought it would be fun to see a new Gutenberg block just for aliens. Doc Pop Doctor Popular is an artist and musician living in San Francisco. As a full disclaimer, he is neither a doctor nor popular. The post Torque Toons: The Crop Circle Block …

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17 Jul 2019

Code Formatting and Code Comments – A Beginner’s Guide to Do It Right

Code formatting and comments are one of those things that you only notice once they are absent. If used to properly display and document code, you only notice their existence the first time you are confronted with a block of code where they are missing. Most people who run or own a website sooner or …

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16 Jul 2019

4 Reasons to Offer Maintenance Services to Your Clients

There are many challenges that come with working as a professional developer. Navigating a variable income, fielding support requests from current clients, and sourcing new work can all take up a lot of time and energy. Offering more services than you do now may just sound like piling extra work onto your plate. However, providing …

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11 Jul 2019

How to Effectively Customize Your WooCommerce-Powered Website

By default, WooCommerce’s design probably won’t integrate with the rest of your site as much as you’d like. This means you may want to tweak its appearance to better suit your needs, or explore other ways of making it fit seamlessly alongside your other content. Fortunately, this isn’t difficult to do. With a little work …

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10 Jul 2019

The Complete Guide to Google My Business for Website Owners

When trying to do local SEO and increase the visibility of your local business, learning how to use Google My Business (GMB) is a good step. The service helps you stand out in (local) searches, is a great inbound marketing measure and can bring in more business. After all, 50 percent of consumers who do …

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9 Jul 2019

Should You Use WordPress to Build Your Web App?

Providing an amazing experience for mobile users is becoming more and more vital. Ideally, every WordPress website you build should be mobile-friendly from the start. However, you can also go a step further, and use WordPress to create web apps that provide a more native mobile experience. When you think about WordPress, web apps probably …

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