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21 Mar 2018

Torque Toons: The Most Ambitious Crossover Event In History

Marvel: ‘Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history’ Me: Let’s Encrypt has now issued over 50 million active certificates. The post Torque Toons: The Most Ambitious Crossover Event In History appeared first on Torque.

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21 Mar 2018

Why and How to Increase Dwell Time on Your WordPress Website

Dwell time and how to increase dwell time are often neglected elements of search engine optimization. You, too, probably mostly concentrate on how to get visitors on your site and rarely give a thought about how to keep them there. However, dwell time, the amount of time visitors spend on your site, is an important …

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20 Mar 2018

8 Ways You’re Wasting Money As A Web Developer

Picture the emotions that come to your mind when you think about your web development business. Can you recall the excitement of signing a new contract for building a website or the joy of solving a critical problem that took you most of the last week? But then there is fear. How you are going …

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20 Mar 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Yoast’s €25,000 Diversity Fund

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 Yoast SEO’s €25,000 Diversity Fund to help underrepresented speakers attend WordCamps, plus we recap some highlights from this …

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19 Mar 2018

The Beginner WordPress Developer’s Guide to wp_enqueue

While WordPress is powerful, there are plenty of under-the-hood features that can help you maximize its efficiency. In fact, overlooking inherent functions such as wp_enqueue could even impact your site’s overall effectiveness. If you optimize your themes and plugins correctly, you can improve your site’s performance while enhancing user experience. The wp_enqueue function is a great …

DevelopmentDesign & UXWordPress

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16 Mar 2018

10 Must Have WordPress Plugins And Tools For Business Sites

WordPress is an amazing tool for businesses. One of the things that makes the CMS a powerful digital experience is plugins. With these tools, you can do almost anything to make your site unique. Try these 10 plugins and tools to help you make the most of your WordPress site. WP Forms This tool is …

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16 Mar 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 now shared many valuable lessons regarding how companies need to …

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15 Mar 2018

The Impact Of The AI On The Education In The Future

The future described in sci-fi movies and books is already here. We have all these flat and incredibly functional gadgets, we have smart virtual assistants, we are inventing amazing robots, and developing intuitive AI. Some things have remained more old-fashioned in the best kind of way, like schools. When we compare a modern classroom to …

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15 Mar 2018

Tips and Tricks for Using WordPress for Digital Signage

Digital displays have entered a new era in the advertising arena. From static displays to dynamic displays, business owners today have so much to choose from as far as marketing their brands is concerned. Compared to simple advertisement solutions, digital displays guarantee more attraction. Post-2010, several industries have embraced digital signage as a marketing avenue. …

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14 Mar 2018

Choosing Between React and Vue For WordPress Development

A few months ago I wrote on Quora, in response to a question if it’s better to learn Vue or React first. I said, “Learn VueJS first. I’d say that even if I knew there was a 100% chance you’d be using React in a year.” I’ve learned a lot more about React since then …

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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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