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27 Apr 2018

Are WordPress Developers Really Cheaper to Hire?

One of the arguments for using WordPress is that affordable help for the platform is easy to find. It’s something I have seen claimed around the web a lot of times and I have made this argument myself, repeatedly. It seems simple enough: WordPress has less of an entry barrier for developers, meaning it’s easier …

Developers

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26 Apr 2018

Is That Plugin Reliable? How to Test WordPress Plugins

There are over 50,000 plugins in the official directory, with new ones added daily. Having so many alternatives is a great thing indeed, but the dilemma is which one to choose when you find several solutions serving the same purpose. How do you know what’s the best choice for your site? You don’t. You just …

BeginnersPlugins

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25 Apr 2018

Code Review Part 2: Improving Readability and Performance of the FilterWPQuery Class

In the last article, I walked you through the problem of letting “no go” conditions flow through your code. I showed you how to refactor the code to solve the problem and make the code more readable. In this article, you and I will continue doing a code review and refactoring of the FilterWPQuery in Josh …

Best PracticesDevelopers

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24 Apr 2018

How Your WordPress Security and Activity Log Can Help You Move Towards GDPR Compliance

Keeping an activity log of everything that happens on your WordPress websites and multisite networks is a vital security measure. As such, it’s important to understand how the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will impact the way you use your security and activity log. With the GDPR set to roll out soon, you’ll want …

Customer DataDataData Protection

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24 Apr 2018

Preparing your content for the Extended Reality (XR) Future

You’ve probably heard rumblings in the tech industry around the innovations in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. These mediums can broadly be defined as Extended Reality or XR. My first venture into development in XR was in 2010 when I was exploring Flash development. My application was straightforward; show the webcam a Quick …

Developers

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23 Apr 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: 5 Ways You Are Breaking Accessibility On Your Site

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. On this week’s News Drop video, we talk about 5 ways you may accidentally be breaking your site for some users. Love WordPress news, but hate …

AccessibilityNewsWCEU 2018

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23 Apr 2018

Improving Native WordPress Search

If you have ever worked on a WordPress site with a massive amount of posts and pages, you might have noticed something about the WordPress search: it doesn’t perform well. In this article, we dive into why the default WordPress search doesn’t scale and some ways to make it better. How WordPress Searches By default, …

DevelopersTips & Tools

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20 Apr 2018

How to Learn Design From Competitor Websites

Creating ideal web designs for a site is not an easy task. Different types of websites have different goals, and you need to work accordingly. For instance, if you are working on a lifestyle blog, graphical images and white space are the norm. That said, for an educational website, a simpler design would work fine. …

Developers

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20 Apr 2018

How to make your WordPress Posts go Viral

An awesome blog is a sure-fire way to bring attention to what you’re doing, share your experience and expertise with others, and, of course, make a living. All these goals cannot be reached unless your posts are super popular. Getting the word out is the biggest challenge every beginner blogger faces, and often it becomes …

Beginners

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19 Apr 2018

Small Businesses Need to Get Ready for AI

From self-driving cars to stores with no checkout stations, AI is changing our world. The business world is jumping aboard the AI train. Their eyes are focused on big profits. With its potential to reduce labor costs, provide marketing information, and reach new heights in data management, artificial intelligence stands poised to change business just …

Developers

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18 Apr 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 3: Unit Testing For WordPress REST API Plugins

This post is part of a series of posts on extending the WordPress REST API using advanced object-oriented PHP. In the first post, I showed you how to use three filters to modify the schema of any post type route. Using an object-oriented approach is more complex, and takes more work than using functional programming …

Developers

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18 Apr 2018

Torque Toons: Pre-Post-Retro-Futurism Party

Needless to say, we got really excited when we heard that the theme for this year’s WordCamp Europe after party is “retro-futurism“. 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: Pre-Post-Retro-Futurism Party appeared first on …

CommunityTorquetoonsWCEU 2018

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