Developers

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According to Built With WooCommerce is the most popular ecommerce solution used by shop owners. And the reasons are quite clear it’s free, flexible, simple to use, and has great documentation. It’s no wonder so many people use it! Though the plugin is incredibly full-featured, it can’t help in terms of shopping cart abandonment. In …

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12 Sept 2018

Doc Pop News Drop: An Interview With The Co-Release Lead of WordPress 4.9.9

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 with Anthony Burchell, one of the release leads for WordPress 4.9.9, about what to expect from this upcoming release …

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12 Sept 2018

Why State Management, Like Redux, May Solve Your Problems

It’s only recently occurred to me that I’ve been doing WordPress, PHP, and JavaScript development for a while. In the last 5-6 years, I’ve learned some best practices that are no longer the best. For example, state management — the practice of putting all of the dynamic values of your application — a user inputs …

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10 Sept 2018

Wireframing: A Beginner’s Guide to Developing Better WordPress Themes and Plugins

If you’ve never heard of ‘wireframing’ before, now is the time to learn everything you can about it. This technique for developing the structure and format of your solutions should be a vital piece of your overall development strategy. That’s because it’s a path to creating fuller-featured and more stable WordPress plugins and themes. For …

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6 Sept 2018

Doc Pop News Drop: The creator of ClassicPress tells us why he forked WordPress

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. There’s been a lot of discussion around WordPress 5.0 recently including some folks who want to fork the WordPress project at 4.9. In last week’s video …

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3 Sept 2018

How to Use the Gutenberg Migration Guide to Deliver Modern WordPress Plugins

Love it or loathe it, Gutenberg is here to stay. As such, getting your WordPress themes and plugins to work with the new editor should be a primary concern. Truth be told, if you’re only just thinking about this aspect now, you’re cutting things pretty close. However, there’s still enough time to prepare your products, …

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31 Aug 2018

How to Switch Your Website Hosting Without Affecting Your SEO

If you have put in a lot of effort into your search engine optimization, you might be afraid that your efforts will go down the drain if you switch hosts. So does hosting affect SEO? Yes, it does. Web hosting for SEO is a critical factor for your rankings as it affects essential attributes such …

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29 Aug 2018

Doc Pop News Drop: Morten Rand-Hendriksen talks about the future of Gutenberg

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 talked with Morten Rand-Hendriksen, a WordPress expert at LinkedIn Learning, about the future of WordPress post 5.0. This video is …

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29 Aug 2018

How To Drop Legacy PHP Support In WordPress Plugins

In March of this year, Iain Poulson published a post on the Delicious Brains blog called “Hey WordPress Plugin Developers, Stop Supporting Legacy PHP Versions In Your Plugins.” I agreed, and am a WordPress plugin author, so I read it and wished people would listen and moved on with my day without taking any action. …

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28 Aug 2018

How Smart Developers Are Using AI To Power Their Sites

The world is in the early stage of the so-called ‘fourth industrial revolution’, a time when technology is changing at a pace never before experienced. In the last decade, we have moved from mobile phones to smartphones and from virtual assistants to digital assistants, not to mention everything in between. As things progress in the …

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24 Aug 2018

How To Accept Bitcoin Payments in WordPress

It’s possible to get an ecommerce operation up and running in minutes on WordPress with the aid of plugins like WooCommerce. From there you can start accepting online payments using Stripe, PayPal, 2Checkout, and a myriad of other payment gateway services, some of which don’t even require shopping carts. One drawback, however, is that not …

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23 Aug 2018

WordPress SEO: How to Improve Your Site’s Ranking

If you’ve installed WordPress before, you may have noticed that the default installation is not SEO-friendly. If you want to have a better search engine ranking, you need to optimize it first then, later on, find ways on how to promote your WordPress website. The good news is, you can enhance your site’s ranking with …

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Developers

How to Save Abandoned Carts in WooCommerce

Doc Pop News Drop: An Interview With The Co-Release Lead of WordPress 4.9.9

Why State Management, Like Redux, May Solve Your Problems

Wireframing: A Beginner’s Guide to Developing Better WordPress Themes and Plugins

Doc Pop News Drop: The creator of ClassicPress tells us why he forked WordPress

How to Use the Gutenberg Migration Guide to Deliver Modern WordPress Plugins

How to Switch Your Website Hosting Without Affecting Your SEO

Doc Pop News Drop: Morten Rand-Hendriksen talks about the future of Gutenberg

How To Drop Legacy PHP Support In WordPress Plugins

How Smart Developers Are Using AI To Power Their Sites

How To Accept Bitcoin Payments in WordPress

WordPress SEO: How to Improve Your Site’s Ranking