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6 Sept 2018

Top Reasons Web Designers Should Consider WordPress

When web designers take up projects, they have the option of choosing from a number of platforms like Drupal, Joomla, Weebly, Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, etc. While all of them have proved to be popular with website developers for a variety of reasons, WordPress has emerged as the contentment management system of preference because of its …

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4 Sept 2018

Actionable Ways to Drive Conversions to Your WordPress Website

Most website owners understand the importance of driving traffic to a website. It’s the metric that quickly gets webmasters excited as they imagine all those site visitors turning into profit. But the truth is traffic on its own doesn’t really mean much. If it doesn’t convert, then it won’t matter whether the number of monthly …

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3 Sept 2018

How to Use the Gutenberg Migration Guide to Deliver Modern WordPress Plugins

Love it or loathe it, Gutenberg is here to stay. As such, getting your WordPress themes and plugins to work with the new editor should be a primary concern. Truth be told, if you’re only just thinking about this aspect now, you’re cutting things pretty close. However, there’s still enough time to prepare your products, …

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31 Aug 2018

How to Strengthen Your WordPress Brand With Your Blog

In today’s digital world, your online appearance can make or break your business. For most people, social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are the perfect platforms to market their brands and interact with customers. However, if you are serious about developing a good reputation online, social sites are not the best option for …

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31 Aug 2018

How to Switch Your Website Hosting Without Affecting Your SEO

If you have put in a lot of effort into your search engine optimization, you might be afraid that your efforts will go down the drain if you switch hosts. So does hosting affect SEO? Yes, it does. Web hosting for SEO is a critical factor for your rankings as it affects essential attributes such …

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30 Aug 2018

10 Recommendations for Creating Best Welcome Emails

On the Internet, there are loads of welcome email examples that might inspire you. Yet, you need to learn the basic tips on how to create effective messages by using welcome email templates. You, certainly, know that welcome emails, or onboarding emails, are the first messages customers receive from a company. So, they need to …

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30 Aug 2018

Step-by-Step Guide to Make Your WordPress Content Worth Sharing

Starting a blog is exciting. You’ve already come up with your list of keywords and created some excellent blog topics, but what’s next? Well, it’s now time to shape that content. First, you’ll need to look for your targeted readers, ask yourself, “Who will benefit from this post?” Remember that content which suits …

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29 Aug 2018

Doc Pop News Drop: Morten Rand-Hendriksen talks about the future of Gutenberg

Doc’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 talked with Morten Rand-Hendriksen, a WordPress expert at LinkedIn Learning, about the future of WordPress post 5.0. This video is …

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29 Aug 2018

How To Drop Legacy PHP Support In WordPress Plugins

In March of this year, Iain Poulson published a post on the Delicious Brains blog called “Hey WordPress Plugin Developers, Stop Supporting Legacy PHP Versions In Your Plugins.” I agreed, and am a WordPress plugin author, so I read it and wished people would listen and moved on with my day without taking any action. …

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28 Aug 2018

How Smart Developers Are Using AI To Power Their Sites

The world is in the early stage of the so-called ‘fourth industrial revolution’, a time when technology is changing at a pace never before experienced. In the last decade, we have moved from mobile phones to smartphones and from virtual assistants to digital assistants, not to mention everything in between. As things progress in the …

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27 Aug 2018

How to Create a Compelling Image Gallery for Your WordPress Site

If you want to show off a collection of images on your website, a gallery is the ideal solution. Fortunately, WordPress makes it simple to put together a basic image gallery, but if you really want yours to stand out you may need to go beyond the basic option. To do that, you can install …

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24 Aug 2018

How To Accept Bitcoin Payments in WordPress

It’s possible to get an ecommerce operation up and running in minutes on WordPress with the aid of plugins like WooCommerce. From there you can start accepting online payments using Stripe, PayPal, 2Checkout, and a myriad of other payment gateway services, some of which don’t even require shopping carts. One drawback, however, is that not …

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