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26 Jun 2018

The Google Mobile First Index and What It Means for Your WordPress Site

The Google mobile first index is upon us and it will further change the way we optimize our sites. Since mobile devices have surpassed desktop computers as the dominant Internet devices in 2016, the search giant has increasingly put emphasis on mobile friendliness. These days, if you don’t know how to make your WordPress website …

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25 Jun 2018

A First-Time Developer’s Guide for Contributing to WordPress

WordPress is huge, and so is its community. What’s more, WordPress was built on collaboration and has always been welcome to new developers contributing to the project. However, while you may want to help the platform grow even further, it can be hard to know where you could apply your skills. Fortunately, getting started with …

DevelopmentWordPress

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22 Jun 2018

7 Steps to Start Your Online Business

Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, anyone can become an entrepreneur with a WordPress site. In fact, following the recession that began 10 years ago, entrepreneurial activity has picked up rapidly. There are numerous benefits to starting your business online — one of the major ones being a low startup cost. Many digital startup …

Tutorials & Guides

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21 Jun 2018

10 Free & Premium Cryptocurrency WordPress Themes: Features to Look For

The demand for the professional cryptocurrency WordPress templates is on the rise. It is unsurprising as the sheer idea of decentralized currency (without a governmental or banking control) is really tempting to many of us worldwide. Although the concept of digital money may look tricky at first, it is gaining popularity impressively fast. So, if you also …

Marketing & BusinessInterviews & FeaturesDesign & UX

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19 Jun 2018

How to Improve Organic CTR (Click-through Rate) in WordPress

Search engines remain one of the most important traffic sources for websites. Learning to improve organic CTR (click-through rate) is crucial for taking advantage of them. When it comes to SEO, many website owners simply focus on ranking. They think that as long as they make it to the first page of Google, traffic will …

Development

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18 Jun 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Live Recap from WordCamp Europe 2018

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. After months of talking about it, it was great to finally be at WordCamp Europe in Belgrade, Serbia. We had an amazing time and will be …

WordPressInterviews & FeaturesCommunity & Events

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18 Jun 2018

How to Help Gutenberg Become a Success

As practically everyone connected with WordPress knows, Gutenberg has been big news in 2018. While it hasn’t been met with universal adulation, the project is still moving forward. This means it needs the community to pull together, in order to ensure its success. There are plenty of ways to contribute to Gutenberg, including fixing bugs …

Community & Events

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15 Jun 2018

Matt Mullenweg Delivers WordCamp Europe 2018 Keynote

Co-founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg took the stage in Belgrade to give a mid-year update on where the CMS has been and where it is going. He referred to this as a “summertime update.” Over the past six years, Mullenweg has held a Town Hall during WordCamp Europe, but this year he decided to present …

Community & EventsInterviews & Features

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15 Jun 2018

Understanding Churn Rate and Five Tips to Retain Engagement

Customer acquisition is one of the most important components of a successful business. Finding and attracting new customers is the only reliable way to sustain and expand a business’ performance. But what happens to customers after you have made a successful sale? Customer retention is the second half of business success. Being able to retain …

Marketing & BusinessTutorials & Guides

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14 Jun 2018

Questions to Ask a WordPress Developer You Want to Hire

It’s been 15 years since WordPress first launched. Back then, there were limited demands and limited choices when it came to WordPress development services. Since then, the CMS has grown to power over 30 percent of the web and there are a lot more developers to choose from. Because WordPress is so customizable, it can …

Tutorials & GuidesVirtual Assistants

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13 Jun 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 6: Continuous Integration For WordPress Plugins

This article is a part of a series on writing object-oriented PHP for WordPress development. So far, we’ve spent two articles on writing the code and now we will test the code and systems. It takes an enormous amount of tooling to write code and back in my day I walked uphill both ways, in …

Development

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12 Jun 2018

Want A Boost In Organic Traffic? Optimize and Relaunch Your Old Content

Content marketing is not a tactic born of the online era. You can go back as far as 1895 to find John Deere producing a magazine called ‘The Furrow’ that featured content promoting the company’s range of farming equipment. But unfortunately, the catalyst or the driver for the recent wave of content marketing was not …

Marketing & BusinessTutorials & Guides

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