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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 …

Tutorials & Guides

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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 …

Tutorials & Guides

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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 & Features

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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, …

Development

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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 …

Community & Events

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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 …

Community & Events

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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 …

GutenbergJavaScript & FrontendWordPress

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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. …

DevelopmentTutorials & Guides

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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 …

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2 Nov 2018

Why WordPress is the Most Adaptable and Inventive Platform Out There

When it comes to Content Management Systems, nothing can be more versatile than WordPress. That is the reason why almost 30 percent of all the sites on the web are powered by WordPress. Ever since it began in 2003, WordPress has become the go-to platform for bloggers and businesses of every size. In this post, we are …

Tutorials & Guides

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1 Nov 2018

Tips to Set Up WooCommerce on WordPress

Ecommerce has redefined the shopping experiences of people and has offered an abundance of convenience to select and buy a product. Because it’s so easy to use, more and more ecommerce businesses are choosing to set up their online store on WordPress. Setting up your own store is as easy as downloading the WooCommerce plugin. In …

Development

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1 Nov 2018

Top 5 Email Scams For 2018: Gullible People Beware

For as long as email has existed, email scams have also existed. But that being said, email scams have hardly remained the same, because as internet scams, in general, have become more sophisticated with each passing year so have email scams as well. Today, email scams are more deceptive and advanced, and unfortunately also more …

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