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16 Nov 2018

6 Ways to Make Your Blog Stand Out

These days, every person you meet has a blog. Be it for sharing their personal thoughts and feelings or to promote a business or company, blogs have become more and more popular in the last decade and they are a great way to get your message, whatever that may be, out to the community. Although …

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15 Nov 2018

7 Ways To Truly Understand Your Target Audience

As a marketer or blogger, one of the most important factors to your success is how well you understand your target audience. They have all this data and metrics that give them data on their audience. They don’t, however, truly know their target audience. They don’t know what makes them tick. They don’t know what …

Development

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15 Nov 2018

Why You Should Hire a WordPress Developer For Your Business

Of all the web platforms available today, WordPress is one of the fastest and easiest tools for creating a functional website in minutes. All you have to do is install the CMS and start adjusting your look to fit your needs. It plays a key role in the effectiveness of your Internet marketing and the …

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14 Nov 2018

Testing React Components With Enzyme

So far in my series of posts on React development for WordPress, I’ve covered React basics, create-react-app and testing with Jest. Jest is useful for testing the rendering of React components. There are a few big buckets of functionality we have not looked at testing yet. Specifically how the internal state of stateful component changes, …

Development

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13 Nov 2018

Deadline to Enter Automattic Design Awards Ends Friday

At WordCamp Europe this year, Automattician John Maeda, shared his idea for the Automattic Design Awards. The crowd cheered and thus the idea was born. Maeda teamed up with Simon Cooke from Pragmatic shortly to create a way to recognize amazing designs made with WordPress. Maeda and Cooke gathered a jury of digital agency and design …

Community & EventsInterviews & Features

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13 Nov 2018

How to Think like an Agency to Become a Better Developer

My company, Hallam, attended a whole company outing to the Google HQ in Dublin last year, and part of that involved a talk about the “Agency of the Future.” The talk focused on how changes in the labor market and the evolution of technology will require the development community (and other related digital communities) need …

Marketing & Business

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13 Nov 2018

Torque Toons: The Path To Gutenberg

Prepare to be a-maze-d! Can you find the proper path to Gutenberg? spoiler alert: 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 Path To Gutenberg appeared first on Torque.

Community & EventsGutenberg

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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 …

Development

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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 …

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