Developers

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WordPress 5.0 is now live, which means the new block-based editor is now a fully-fledged part of WordPress’ core. As such, if you’ve not yet spoken with your clients about this update and its likely impact, you’re already late to the party. This means time is of the essence. Fortunately, there’s not too much information …

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1 Apr 2019

How to Create an Effective One-Page Website

Sometimes, one page is all your website really needs. However, designing an effective one-page site requires special considerations – not least of which is deciding whether you should actually create one in the first place. Of course, no one format is perfect for every website, and one-page sites have many pros and cons. However, they can …

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29 Mar 2019

5 Best Practices for Managing Open Source Components

In today’s fast-paced software development environment, it is nearly impossible to keep up without using open source components, and it is estimated that 96.8 percent of developers rely on them. As agile and DevOps increasingly dominate the tech world, software development lifecycles (SDLC) are shortening. Open source libraries offer a wide range of ready-made components …

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26 Mar 2019

How to Speed Test Your Website (Metrics, Tools, Optimization Tips)

As a site owner, it’s important that you learn how to speed test your website. Page loading speed influences many things, from user experience over conversions to SEO. That’s why we have already covered how to improve it in these posts: 14 Ways To Speed Up WordPress And Decrease Page Load Time 10 Easy Ways …

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20 Mar 2019

A Request For Content: How to Get Usable Information When Beginning a Design Project

A key part of any design project is to eventually strip away the dummy data and populate it with client-specific information. This can be difficult, however – especially if you’re relying on the client to provide content. The broad answer to this problem is to put a solid plan into place beforehand. This involves having a …

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19 Mar 2019

The Dos and Don’ts of Responsive Web Design

Any time you see a WordPress web page that loads and navigates seamlessly (or as near to seamlessly as possible) across a range of different devices, know that all of that was made possible by good responsive web design. As more and more people utilize their mobile device(s) to access and surf the internet, having …

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18 Mar 2019

The WordPress Coding Standards: An Introduction

We often talk about how important it is to write quality code when it comes to creating WordPress products. However, that isn’t just about professionalism and pride. Practically any site can break due to poor-quality code, which could do serious damage to your professional standing. Fortunately, what ‘quality’ means has been distilled into the WordPress …

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12 Mar 2019

Keyword Clustering – What It Is and Why You Need to Do It (+Tools!)

Keyword clustering is an excellent SEO tool. If your pages fail to gain traction in search engines and don’t bring in the amount of visitors you wanted, grouping keywords is a great way to improve upon this situation. It can also help you improve your site in general. In the following blog post, we will …

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5 Mar 2019

How to Easily Set Up Google Analytics on your WordPress Site (Step by Step)

Google Analytics is perhaps one of the most important tools for a website developer. Analytics is designed to give users all of the data they need to be successful and informed when working on their webpage. You’ll be able to view important data such as: Who is viewing your website Where they are coming from …

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4 Mar 2019

A Developer’s Guide to Social Media Customer Support

It goes without saying your that customers or clients are the most important element when running a one-person (or micro) business. Given the complexities of the client-developer relationship, you’d be well-served by making it a priority. This is especially true when dealing with a customer or client who’s had a less-than-stellar experience. For better or …

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26 Feb 2019

Five Ways to Capture Visitors’ emails on Your WooCommerce Store

Only one out of 25 people who visits your WooCommerce store is there to make a purchase. To put it another way, 96 percent of the visitors you attract to your website aren’t quite ready to buy something from you. That’s a harsh reality of eCommerce, but it’s not all bad. Because even though all …

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20 Feb 2019

Developer Automation With NPX and Commander

The more I learn about JavaScript development, the more I’m exposed to JavaScript build and config tools. The tools such as babel and webpack, frustrate me. The config tools, the magic software of joy that sets up all of your build tools for you via magic pixie-dust or something so you can just write code, those …

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Developers

WordPress’ New Block Editor: How to Inform Your Clients

How to Create an Effective One-Page Website

5 Best Practices for Managing Open Source Components

How to Speed Test Your Website (Metrics, Tools, Optimization Tips)

A Request For Content: How to Get Usable Information When Beginning a Design Project

The Dos and Don’ts of Responsive Web Design

The WordPress Coding Standards: An Introduction

Keyword Clustering – What It Is and Why You Need to Do It (+Tools!)

How to Easily Set Up Google Analytics on your WordPress Site (Step by Step)

A Developer’s Guide to Social Media Customer Support

Five Ways to Capture Visitors’ emails on Your WooCommerce Store

Developer Automation With NPX and Commander