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3 Apr 2019

Torque Toons: The Day After April Fool’s Day

That feeling when you forgot to check the date before ordering that GutenBrain Starter Kit. 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 Day After April Fool’s Day appeared first on Torque.

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1 Apr 2019

How to Create an Effective One-Page Website

Sometimes, one page is all your website really needs. However, designing an effective one-page site requires special considerations – not least of which is deciding whether you should actually create one in the first place. Of course, no one format is perfect for every website, and one-page sites have many pros and cons. However, they can …

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1 Apr 2019

Use Your Mind to Control Gutenberg with 93digital’s GutenBrain

One of the biggest things to happen to WordPress last year was the launch of 5.0 and Gutenberg. Since then, the community has created plugins, themes, and libraries all optimized for the new editor. London-based agency, 93digital is adding to the fray with GutenBrain. A plugin that allows you to control Gutenberg with your mind. …

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30 Mar 2019

Doc Pop’s News Drop: WCEU 2019 and Plugin Madness

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. In this week’s episode we talk about Think Like A Hacker, the new podcast from Wordfence.com and the newest results from our Plugin Madness competition. …

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29 Mar 2019

5 Best Practices for Managing Open Source Components

In today’s fast-paced software development environment, it is nearly impossible to keep up without using open source components, and it is estimated that 96.8 percent of developers rely on them. As agile and DevOps increasingly dominate the tech world, software development lifecycles (SDLC) are shortening. Open source libraries offer a wide range of ready-made components …

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27 Mar 2019

How to Secure a Website With the ‘Holy Trinity’ of Site Security

No matter how large or small your site is, or what niche it occupies, it’s likely to be the target for at least a few attacks over its lifespan. Protecting it is essential if you want to avoid losing data or seeing part of your site break. This means putting some careful thought into your …

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27 Mar 2019

Torque Toons: Office Bracket

What are your predictions for our Plugin Madness competition? 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: Office Bracket appeared first on Torque.

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26 Mar 2019

How to Speed Test Your Website (Metrics, Tools, Optimization Tips)

As a site owner, it’s important that you learn how to speed test your website. Page loading speed influences many things, from user experience over conversions to SEO. That’s why we have already covered how to improve it in these posts: 14 Ways To Speed Up WordPress And Decrease Page Load Time 10 Easy Ways …

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25 Mar 2019

An Introduction to Headless E-Commerce (And Why It’s Worth Your Time)

As you may know, WordPress doesn’t include e-commerce functionality out of the box. Fortunately, it’s easy enough to add the required features to this Content Management System (CMS) using plugins. However, that’s not the only approach you can take to set up your online store. A better approach would be to combine WordPress with a …

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21 Mar 2019

7 Tools How to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites from One Dashboard

Are you a business owner who has multiple websites for different aspects of their marketing campaign? Maybe you own an assignment writing agency, so you have a home website that explains your business. Then you have another site that teaches students how to write, and on top of that, you decide to start a blog with …

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20 Mar 2019

A Request For Content: How to Get Usable Information When Beginning a Design Project

A key part of any design project is to eventually strip away the dummy data and populate it with client-specific information. This can be difficult, however – especially if you’re relying on the client to provide content. The broad answer to this problem is to put a solid plan into place beforehand. This involves having a …

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19 Mar 2019

5 Plugins that will Skyrocket your Email List

Email marketing is one of the most successful, cost-effective ways to get in touch with consumers and increase conversions. For every dollar spent on email marketing, businesses get back a $38 ROI. If one of the goals for your business this year is to boost your list of subscribers, it’s important to figure out which …

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