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9 May 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress 4.9.6 Adds Privacy and GDPR Features

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. The GDPR Compliance team has been working hard on adding new privacy tools to WordPress. The current beta release for 4.9.6 has many of these features …

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9 May 2018

Torque Toons: Cookie Optin Monster

With the wave of new GDPR privacy policies and cookie opt-in requests, it’s hard not to think about poor cookie monster surfing the web. 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 …

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8 May 2018

The Decline of Social Traffic and the SEO Renaissance

Recent trends show why SEO should always be the cornerstone of your WordPress traffic acquisition strategy. Everyone wants traffic, and there was a time when one of the best ways to grow it was through social media. However, that particular party may be over. Twitter accounts for less than 2.5 percent of traffic to publishers, …

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8 May 2018

Using the WordPress Desktop App with Self-hosted WordPress – A Review

There are many tools to help you take care of your WordPress website. We have talked about some of them in the past in this post. Aside from them, there are also the official WordPress mobile apps. Although it has been around for a while, a lesser-known example is the WordPress desktop app named Calypso. …

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7 May 2018

How to Translate Your WordPress Website Using the Weglot Translate Plugin

Translating your WordPress website into other languages is a smart way to reach a wider audience and increase your traffic. If your site is only available in a single language, you could be losing out on a lot of potential leads and conversions. Fortunately, you don’t need to speak multiple languages to translate your site …

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4 May 2018

Instagram Insights to Enhance Your Web Design Acceptance and Reach

Instagram is admired worldwide as being synonymous with online imagery. It was a fresh new concept in social networking when it was introduced, and it also changed the way businesses approach the internet, and in turn their target audience. This innovative image-based social network platform has shared many valuable lessons regarding how companies need to …

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3 May 2018

Torque Toons: WordPressFreedomDay

Did anyone else get excited when they thought WordPress Freedom Day was a thing? The real thing, World Press Freedom Day sounds pretty awesome though. 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 …

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3 May 2018

Using WordPress To Create Awesome Promo Code Websites

Even though it’s one of the most popular platforms on the web, there are still a lot of people who are unsure about using WordPress. For some, it’s because they feel intimidated by the prospect of using it, while others simply think that it wouldn’t fulfill what they are trying to achieve. For those who …

Beginners

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2 May 2018

Code Review Part 3 – Building & Refactoring the Posts Generator

In the last article, I walked you through a code review and refactoring process for the FilterWPQuery class in Josh Pollock’s plugin. We made his class more readable and performant. But we did not cover the posts generator code in the getPosts() method; rather, I left that review for this article. Why? There are two reasons. First, …

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1 May 2018

How to Optimize and Increase Email Subscriptions on Your WordPress Site

If you’re not collecting emails on your website, you should be. If you’re currently collecting emails on your site, you could be collecting more. We all could be. That’s where conversion optimization comes in. Email list building is important for any website, but particularly for those publishing content (no matter what business type). If email …

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30 Apr 2018

A Simple Guide to WordPress Starter Themes

Starting completely from scratch when developing themes naturally means that you are free to do anything you’d like. This opens up plenty of room for creative freedom, but getting started can take up a lot of time. Many of the initial tasks you’ll carry out are necessary, yet time-intensive. The good news is that WordPress …

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30 Apr 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: How To Make Your WordPress Site GDPR Compliant

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 talk about the best WordPress plugins to help you reach GDPR compliance by the May 25th deadline as well as …

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