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12 Nov 2018

How to Care For Your Client After Delivering Their Project (In 3 Steps)

It’s tempting to think that once a project has been delivered, the relationship with your client is over. However, nothing could be further from the truth. If you don’t incorporate a post-project ‘customer aftercare‘ phase, you could end up facing ongoing and constant support requests for the smallest of queries. Fortunately, creating a solid process …

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12 Nov 2018

Using the Command Line for Automation – Part I Remote Control WordPress with WP-CLI Aliases

WP-CLI is a tool that allows commands to be run in WordPress from the command line or terminal. One of the reasons why developers love WP-CLI is that it provides a way to automate WordPress and common operations that otherwise require navigating through the WordPress Dashboard in order to execute. There can be many clicks to …

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9 Nov 2018

How to Evolve Your Blog with the Help of Artificial Intelligence

Out of all the buzzwords being used AI causes the most stir nowadays. Artificial Intelligence or AI is a separate branch of computer science, and it deals with the development of complex computer systems to aid humans. By taking over repetitive, dull or grueling tasks, humans have more time to focus on more important endeavors. …

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9 Nov 2018

Top Sources For Web Design Inspiration

Finding inspiration is not as easy as people think. It takes time to find out what you actually want to do with a website and which design would work for what kind of business. If you are running short on time and you are in desperate need for inspiration, here are some of the best …

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8 Nov 2018

3 Reasons Your Bad Website is Killing Your Brand

Let’s face it. Your website is a big deal. Your website represents you, but when a prospective customer is on your website, simply put, you’re not there. You’re not sitting with you customer seeing their interactions. You’re not seeing their frustrations and disappointments. And certainly – calling you and telling you about their experience isn’t …

Beginners

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8 Nov 2018

Small is the New Big: An Interview with Paul Jarvis

If our server can’t keep up with the number of requests its getting, we have two basic options; scale up, add more servers or server resources, or make the program more efficient. A perfectly-optimized program would never run out of server resources. That’s a great ideal, but its hard and processing power is cheap, so …

Interviews

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7 Nov 2018

Testing Nested Components In A React App

This post is part of a series on React development for WordPress developers. In my last post, I covered unit testing React components using Jest. Jest, when used for basic assertions and snapshot tests can cover a lot of the functionality of a React component. The “React Way” of developing interfaces calls for composing interfaces, …

Developers

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7 Nov 2018

Why you can’t trust website analytics

Data is a huge part of any website. It’s important to know exactly who is reading your content and which topics are getting read the most. These numbers help you plan your content. However, how much can you really trust your website stats, e.g. Google Analytics? The answer should be not that much. Data from …

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6 Nov 2018

Should You Pay for WordPress Security? 8 Factors to Consider

Should you pay for WordPress security? That’s probably a question a lot of website owners ask themselves. After all, much of the allure of the WordPress platform is its price tag: zero. It’s one of its many benefits and probably among the main factors WordPress has become the most popular content management system in the …

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5 Nov 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Why is Marcel Bootsman going to Walk to WCEU?

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 News Drop we talk to Marcel Bootsman about his “Walk To WCEU” project, which will help raise money for DonateWC. Marcel will …

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5 Nov 2018

Error Establishing a Database Connection: What It Is and How to Fix It

As we’ve established before, WordPress is an inherently secure platform. However, that doesn’t make it free from problems. You may sometimes come across issues that can be frustrating to deal with, especially if they don’t give you a lot of information about their causes. The Error Establishing a Database Connection issue is a perfect example. …

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2 Nov 2018

Speed up Your Website Now

Page speed is something that every website owner needs to be concerned with today. Google uses page speed as one of their signals when determining where to rank your website. If your website is quick to load, you will not only offer viewers an excellent user experience but you will also climb up the search …

Beginners

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