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22 May 2018

5 Artificial Intelligence Tools for Content Marketing

Content discovery, writing, editing, SEO, content distribution, and data analysis are some of the operations that you can automate with AI. Find out five great tools to improve and speed-up your content marketing workflow. How can you automate and scale-up your content marketing operations with artificial intelligence? What can you do today? In this article, …

Interviews & FeaturesTutorials & Guides

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22 May 2018

A Comprehensive List of GDPR-Related Resources

There’s been a lot of talk about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) so far this year. In fact, there’s been so much talk that it’s easy to lose track of what’s most important to understand. Given the penalties imposed for non-compliance, this could be catastrophic. While there are a wide array of articles on …

Interviews & Features

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22 May 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Mass Deletion of Unused WordPress Plugins

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. There are over 9,000 plugins that have been approved, but the developers never uploaded the code. It’s believed that many of these developers submitted their plugins …

Interviews & FeaturesPluginsWordPress

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22 May 2018

Making your WordPress Database HEART Healthy

If your WordPress site was analogous to the human body, the core code would be the brain and your plugins and theme would be the rest of the central nervous system that makes the site do what you tell it to do. However, in the Information Age, where data is currency and the lifeblood of …

Tutorials & GuidesDevelopmentInterviews & Features

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21 May 2018

5 Key Elements of a One-Page Website

One-page sites are becoming popular in 2018, mainly due to the rise in mobile device browsing and the subsequent need for short, impactful information. They’re also perfect for developers who need to offer a summary of their services to potential clients. However, knowing what to include on a one-page site isn’t always easy. One-page sites …

DevelopmentDesign & UX

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17 May 2018

Plugin Review Team to Close Unused Plugins

The thousands of plugins in the repository are what make WordPress so powerful. With these plugins, you can mold the CMS into anything you need; finding and downloading any capability you might need to make your site work for you. However, not all of these plugins are being used. The WordPress.org Plugin Review Team announced …

Interviews & Features

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17 May 2018

What You Should Do Before Changing Your Theme

One of the benefits of WordPress is the ability to change themes as often as you want. You can use themes and plugins to extend the functionality of your website so that you can get the site of your dreams, and with thousands of themes in the WordPress repository and elsewhere, there is practically no …

Tutorials & GuidesDesign & UX

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16 May 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Pt. 4: Setting Up With WordPress Test Suite For Integration Testing

In my previous articles in this series, I showed how to structure a WordPress plugin using object-oriented PHP. Then I covered unit testing. Unit tests cover each component, totally isolated from all other parts of the system. Unit tests should not be concerned with how the object interacts with any dependencies including the database and …

Development

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16 May 2018

Designing Swappable Search Request Implementations – Code Review Part 4

In the last article, we identified that the task of generating posts, albeit arbitrary, is just one possible implementation of getting content for a search query. As such, we split the tasks of “getting content” and “generating posts” into separate methods. This design sets us up for a discussion about designing swappable search request implementations. …

Tutorials & GuidesDevelopment

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16 May 2018

Torque Toons: How To Prep Your WordPress Site for GDPR

4 easy steps to GDPR compliance. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons! 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: How To Prep Your WordPress Site for GDPR appeared first on Torque.

Community & EventsSecurity & PrivacyInterviews & Features

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15 May 2018

How to Use Blogging to Drive More Traffic to Your Site

Blogging is arguably the most effective way to drive continuous organic traffic to a website for a long period of time. It’s why every business from big brands such as Virgin and Starbucks to even the smallest retail stores and startups create a business blog from the very first day of the launch of their …

Marketing & BusinessTutorials & Guides

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14 May 2018

A Breakdown of the OWASP Top 10 Application Security Risks for 2017/18

Website security: two words that should be of paramount importance for all site owners. Security is big business online, mainly because it’s so vital that to ignore it can mean catastrophic consequences for your website and its user base. However, some security issues are more pertinent than others – and figuring out what’s most important …

Development

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