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6 Feb 2019

Why Generation Z is the Most Entrepreneurial Generation

The Internet plays a huge part in everyone’s lives. We use it to shop, connect to people, and be entertained. However there is a group of people utilizing the Internet like never before, and in fact, planning their lives around it, Generation Z. Generation Z consists of anyone born after 1995 and makes up about …

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5 Feb 2019

Online Marketing Strategy 2019 – Use These Statistics to Plan Your Year

Did you formulate your online marketing strategy 2019? If so, what did you base it on? Last years results? Your Google Analytics reports? The predictions of a soothsayer? What I’m trying to get at is that it can be difficult to plan your next steps without anything to base them on. Preparation is always better …

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4 Feb 2019

Why Chatbots Are Not a Dying Trend (And What That Means for You)

Are chatbots on the way out? Some seem to think so, declaring the concept a passing fad that never lived up to its potential. However, while it’s true that chatbots have seen a slump in popularity over the past few years, they’re not even close to going away. Given the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), …

DevelopmentMarketing & Business

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1 Feb 2019

Nominate Your Favorite Plugins for Plugin Madness 2019

Is there a WordPress plugin you can’t live without? An awesome tool that helps you promote your site or optimize images? Perhaps there’s an administrative plugin that’s saved you hours of work? Now is the time to say thanks! Torque’s Plugin Madness 2018 is taking nominations from now until March 1st. Nominate your favorite plugins …

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31 Jan 2019

Your USP: What it is and How to Make it Stand Out

Unique selling propositions, or USPs, are the way companies show how they are better than their competition. In the past, businesses would do this by advertising on television or the radio with the hope of convincing the viewer to choose them. In 2018, the majority of businesses are online. There is serious competition in this area, …

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30 Jan 2019

How to Test Usability of a Website Before Launch

Websites have become more important than ever as the Internet has continued to play an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. One of the biggest mistakes companies make when it comes to using a website is failing to conduct adequate usability tests before launching. Conducting tests to figure out where you’re having problems You …

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29 Jan 2019

Using the WP Queue to Copy REST API Data to Files

Recently Matt Shaw from Delicious Brains published a post about a new library they created to help in one of their products. This library WP_Queue provides a Laravel-like Job management system for WordPress. A job queue is a system that allows you to schedule jobs to run in the future. We tend to use jobs …

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28 Jan 2019

How to Keep Your Site Secure Using a Web Application Firewall (WAF)

If there’s one phrase more prevalent than ‘website security‘ in the conversations about running a WordPress site, we’re yet to find it. You may already know the ins and outs of protecting your site using security plugins. However, that’s not the only step you can take, especially if you want to leave no stone unturned …

Security & Privacy

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25 Jan 2019

How to Choose the Best Color Palette For Your Blog

Have you ever wondered why many blogs struggle to get traffic while others just go with the flow and end up attracting more shoppers? Surprisingly a lot of it has to do with the color you use. It is important to note that every color has a meaning behind it and generates a certain emotion. …

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24 Jan 2019

Adopting TDD for an Existing Plugin

Test-driven development (TDD) is a philosophy of software development that is based on writing tests before writing a feature or bug fix. This is a big difference in terms of how you think about development. I find it to be very hard to move to TDD, both because it’s a different mental model and because …

Development

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24 Jan 2019

How to Monitor User Activity in WordPress

Running a multi-author blog is quite challenging when it comes to WordPress security. Every time users make changes, publish new content, change settings of your site, moderate comments etc. How can you know the behavior of your users? By default, WordPress doesn’t come up with a function that allows you to monitor user activities and …

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24 Jan 2019

Tips to Make WordPress Web Design Mobile-Friendly

For some time, people who owned and ran WordPress websites thought of being mobile-friendly as more than an option than a necessity. That changed a couple of years ago when the mobile user population surpassed the number of desktop users. With the gap widening with each passing year, it would seem foolhardy for webmasters to …

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