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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. Congrats to Smush Image Compression for winning Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness competition! Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted this year, it was a huge success. …

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10 Apr 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Flipping the Script on Hackers with the Coin Auth Plugin

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. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to flip the script on hackers and run cryptomining software on their computers? In this week’s video we talk …

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27 Mar 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Are Developers Responsible When a Plugin Breaks a Site?

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 a great conversation on r/Wordpress (lowercasing is their theirs) about what happens when a plugin update breaks a clients site. Is it the developers job …

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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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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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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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5 Jun 2017

Essential WordPress Plugins for Virtual Assistants

Our team at assisted.by specialise in WordPress development. This means we spend a lot of time with WordPress plugins, when we can’t find what we need we’ll build our own. When setting out to develop your own Virtual Assistant website you want to ensure you are using well coded, efficient, secure and maintained plugins. Over the …

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15 Dec 2016

13 Easy Ways To Speed Up WordPress

WordPress is a great platform. Having said that without proper care and attention it can become quite slow. If you don’t take the right precautions, you could end up with a site that’s not only a hassle for visitors but will cause you to lose subscribers and customers. In this post, I’ll cover some of …

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4 Jul 2016

UK Virtual Assistant National Survey v7

The latest UK VA survey launched this week – this contains all the data you need to write a new business plan or expand your existing business. Compiled by Society of Virtual Assistants, it acts as a snapshot of the industry, which is looking very healthy! With over 1,600 VAs currently working in the UK, …

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Doc Pop’s News Drop: Plugin Madness 2018 Recap

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Flipping the Script on Hackers with the Coin Auth Plugin

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Are Developers Responsible When a Plugin Breaks a Site?

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

WordCamp Europe 2018 Announces Speakers

Voting for Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness Now Open

WordPress Now Powers 30 Percent Of The Internet

Essential WordPress Plugins for Virtual Assistants

13 Easy Ways To Speed Up WordPress

UK Virtual Assistant National Survey v7