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25 Apr 2019

How to Become a More Customer-Centric Agency in 2019

Offering great customer experience has been a focal point for companies for a long time, but today it’s all about being customer-centric. It’s a subtle shift in emphasis, but it needs to encompass your entire business – from the way you find prospects, to how you onboard clients, to the way you deliver mockups and …

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23 Apr 2019

Content Promotion – 9 Excellent Strategies to Get Your Content Read Now

When it comes to blogging and content marketing, most people focus their efforts on the production side. While content creation matters, getting it in front of other people is just as important (if not more). Derek Halpern actually does an 80/20 split, with the majority of time spent on content promotion. The Internet is a …

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22 Apr 2019

How WordPress Licensing Works (And Its Role In the Platform’s Success)

Most people with an interest in WordPress know about the GNU Public License (GPL). However, few understand exactly what it means and why it matters. While this knowledge isn’t pertinent to your day-to-day work in most cases, it can help to shape your overall mindset and approach to WordPress development. What’s more, the GPL is more central …

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19 Apr 2019

Trending Cybercrime: Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) vs Decryptors

This past Valentine’s Day, millions of friendly and romantic email messages were exchanged around the world. Unfortunately, some of them were exploited by cybercrime groups aiming to infect personal computing devices and networks with GandCrab ransomware. Information security researchers at Mimecast Threat Labs noticed a considerable uptick of activity in the world of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), …

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18 Apr 2019

Elementor vs. Thrive vs. Gutenberg – Page Speed Comparison

The advent of WordPress has pretty much ended all the hassles of creating beautiful websites, and page builders made the entire process easy for those without the gift of code. WordPress page builders are plugins that allow users to make edits in the page via a simple drag and drop method. Those, who don’t want …

Tutorials & Guides

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18 Apr 2019

Twitter vs Facebook – Which is Better for Your Website or Business?

The question of Twitter vs Facebook can be complex. Which is better for your site or business to be on? And do you even have to make a decision? The two social networks each offer lots of opportunities to connect with your audience and drive traffic to your site. However, they are also very different …

Tutorials & Guides

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17 Apr 2019

Doc Pop’s News Drop: The Plugin Madness 2019 Finalists

Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. It is the final week of Torque’s Plugin Madness 2019 and we are down to our two finalists. Be sure to vote today for your …

PluginsInterviews & FeaturesWordPress

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16 Apr 2019

25 Best WordPress Plugins for 2019

With more than 50,000 plugins to choose from, it can be difficult to decide which will be most beneficial to your WordPress site and which you don’t truly need. When you’re just starting your WordPress blog or website, you need to have a game plan of which plugins you’ll need to create a website that’ll …

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15 Apr 2019

Back to Reality: 4 Things to Expect from WordPress in 2019

2018 is over – in fact, we’re nearly to May already. After the big WordPress 5.0 launch around Christmas, coupled with a quick break to recharge, the focus is now on how the platform will develop during the next year. As with previous years, there are some exciting developments in the pipeline. Some you could …

WordPress

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11 Apr 2019

How to Use WooCommerce Shipping Options

With so many customization options, it’s easy to set it up to suit your business needs. Often, something that can be difficult for small businesses is shipping. It can be difficult to organize and execute all on your own. Luckily, there’s WooCommerce. WooCommerce is a fantastic WordPress ecommerce solution. Given there are so many options …

Tutorials & Guides

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11 Apr 2019

Torque Toons: No Spoilers

Who needs crime novels when researchers at Wordfence keep sharing nail biting articles like this. 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: No Spoilers appeared first on Torque.

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10 Apr 2019

How to Get Featured Snippets for your Blog Posts

When you first started a blog you may not have realized how hard it would be to get traffic. Google’s search results page is a busy location with ads, carousels, knowledge panels, and featured snippets all working to push results down the page. Unlike the rest, featured snippets are available to any site with great …

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