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13 Mar 2018

Voice Search Optimization – How to Do WordPress SEO for Voice Search

Voice search optimization is something every WordPress website owner will need to deal with. It will be an important part of SEO in 2018 and beyond. The emergence of artificial intelligence and improvements in voice recognition are changing the way we interact with (mobile) devices. Speaking is more convenient than typing. For that reason, voice-controlled …

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12 Mar 2018

How to Add RTL Support to Your Custom WordPress Theme

About 75% of the internet speaks a language other than English. Some of these other languages read Right-to-Left (RTL), which can completely ruin the layout of many English-only designs. Thankfully, having a theme that flows well for RTL languages (such as Arabic) is largely a matter of updating your CSS. With a few design considerations …

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12 Mar 2018

WordCamp Europe 2018 Announces Speakers

WordCamp Europe, the biggest WordCamp in the world, is just around the corner in Belgrade, Serbia. Users gather from all over to celebrate the CMS. Organizers have started announcing speakers in groups based on the topic they’re talking about. Group One: Open Source and the Web The first group was announced last week and revolves …

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9 Mar 2018

How To Accelerate Your Conversion Process On Your WordPress Site

You may have an amazing product to sell or a great service to offer but if your website cannot convince web users to stay then it is bound to fail. SEO can bring in traffic but it cannot convert users into potential customers. This article will provide you essential tips to accelerate your conversion process. …

BeginnersVirtual Assistant Business

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8 Mar 2018

5 Things To Consider Before Choosing A Theme

Many people strive to launch their blog with WordPress platform. A huge part of creating an impactful digital experience is choosing a beautiful theme. Many new site owners can get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of themes in the repository. Especially when each of them looks better than other. When choosing the most appropriate theme, …

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8 Mar 2018

Why Your eCommerce Store Needs AMPs ASAP

As you probably already know, mobile usage is on the rise. From checking the news to online shopping, mobile has become the easiest and most accessible way to get things done—partly because users can rely on their mobile devices to be available anytime and anywhere, which makes it convenient with our on-the-go lifestyles. People are …

Best PracticesDevelopers

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7 Mar 2018

Things You Should Know As A Freelancer WordPress Developer In 2018

There are many ways to improve freelance web developer revenue. The holy grail may be hidden somewhere between sales process improvements, creating better proposals, and changing the pitch. Sometimes the key is actually to offer products that do not require pitching at all. Let’s go through a few ways to get noticed and start making …

Best PracticesDevelopers

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7 Mar 2018

Torque Toons: What Makes Up The Other 70%?

It seems like it was only yesterday that the WC3 announced that 26% of all websites were powered by WordPress. That number has recently gone up to 30%, so we decided to find out what the rest of the internet is made of. The post Torque Toons: What Makes Up The Other 70%? appeared first …

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7 Mar 2018

Using the Symfony Options Resolver in WordPress

I’ve written a lot about object-oriented PHP and more specifically dependency injection and using classes to encapsulate functionality with a simple public API. By using the object-oriented programming features of PHP this way, you can write unit and integration tests so that you whenever you make changes to the class, you know that given the …

Developers

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6 Mar 2018

7 Web Development Trends to Take Notice of in 2018

It’s safe to assume that every new year will bring major advancements in web development. Not only that, but the various platforms, languages, and other cogs that make up the web are also constantly evolving. Keeping on top of these developments can be a potential time sink. For example, you may be wondering where WordPress …

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5 Mar 2018

Voting for Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness Now Open

Let the madness begin! Voting for Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness is now open. Modeled after the NCAA college basketball tournament March Madness, we use a bracket-based voting system to pit plugins against one another each week. This year we asked you to nominate your favorite plugins, and today we’re happy to kick things off with …

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5 Mar 2018

WordPress Now Powers 30 Percent Of The Internet

What began as a blogging platform nearly 15 years ago is one step closer to taking control of the entire web. WordPress officially powers 30 percent of the Internet according to W3Techs. It is also the fastest growing CMS by far, with Squarespace and Wix barely coming close. These numbers are a huge victory for WordPress …

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