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12 Mar 2020

Why Should You Develop Free Plugins?

There are many great reasons to develop a free-to-use plugin for WordPress. What may not be as obvious is the value a person or company can receive from the unpaid venture. The benefits of this seemingly free work can provide positives such as exposure, cross-promotion, market testing, upselling opportunities, and adding to name recognition. Giving …

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11 Mar 2020

4 Ways DXP Supercharges WordPress to Better Serve Your Clients

We’re long past the days when WordPress was seen as “just a blogging platform.” WordPress is now the Internet’s most popular Content Management System (CMS): the platform powering 35% of the world’s websites. But an even more momentous paradigm shift is underway, a leveling-up of WordPress’ capabilities of which few companies are aware. WordPress is …

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10 Mar 2020

3 Ways to Optimize Images to Increase Site Speed

For your WordPress site to drive traffic, retain visitors, and increase conversions, its content needs to be engaging. Visual media can help with that. Unfortunately, high-quality images often mean large file sizes that can slow your loading times down. Of course, eliminating visual content from your site simply isn’t an option. However, there are techniques …

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6 Mar 2020

Consequences of Not Updating Your WordPress Website

Do you see update notifications on your WordPress dashboard and choose to ignore them? Did you know using outdated WordPress installations allows hackers to exploit your website? According to WordPress statistics, only 36% of users have the latest version installed (as of February 2020). Many website owners choose to defer installing updates to their WordPress …

Security & Privacy

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5 Mar 2020

How to Use Your Competitor’s Backlink Profile to Your Advantage

Increasing traffic as a means to generate more sales is a primary goal for most eCommerce retailers. As a result, considerable amounts of time, energy, and resources are invested in elevating search engine rankings. This pursuit is understandable, considering that Google search statistics show the engine processing over 3.5 billion queries daily. By employing an …

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3 Mar 2020

How (and When) to Use WordPress Multisite for Client Projects

As a WordPress developer, you’re no stranger to the chaos and challenges that come with managing multiple websites. Even if you know WordPress like the back of your hand, tending to the various tasks required to keep your clients’ sites afloat can be both time-consuming and tedious. Fortunately, WordPress multisite offers a way to handle …

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2 Mar 2020

Voting for Torque’s 2020 Plugin Madness Now Open

Let the madness begin! Voting for Torque’s 2020 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 an impressive …

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28 Feb 2020

A Quick Guide to Using WordPress Cron Tasks

There are a lot of tasks involved in properly maintaining your WordPress websites. Staying on top of them all can be time-consuming and tedious. This is particularly true when you’re tackling them manually. Fortunately, using the WP-Cron system, you can schedule tasks to occur at periodic fixed times, dates, or intervals. By automatically handling these …

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27 Feb 2020

A CSS Flexbox Tutorial for Beginners – What It is and How to Use It

As web design has progressed, there have been different standard ways to arrange elements on a website. CSS flexbox is a relatively new yet powerful way to create layouts and something every web developer and designer should be familiar with. If you don’t know how to use it yet, this in-depth flexbox tutorial aims to …

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25 Feb 2020

How (And Why) to Add Infinite Scrolling to Client Websites

When you’re designing WordPress sites for your clients, usability is an important factor to consider. However, some of the techniques used to improve User Experience (UX) on one site, may not be the best methods for another. Infinite scrolling is one tactic developers and designers use to keep site visitors engaged. While some posit it …

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20 Feb 2020

Why and How to Create a Customer Journey Map (5 Easy Steps)

Learning how to create a customer journey map is a great way to get into the heads of your audience. It’s a technique that allows you to create better websites, products, and services. Customer journey mapping also lets you understand what visitors really want and need and then give it to them. If you have …

Virtual Assistants

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18 Feb 2020

A Developer’s Guide to Open-Source Projects (4 Key Tips)

Working in web development quickly accustoms you to the time and effort that goes into creating a project from scratch. So initially, the concept of leaving your project open for anyone to access, modify, or distribute may seem unappealing. However, open source is behind some of today’s most popular and important platforms, including WordPress. Clearly, …

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