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Why WordPress’ Support For REST API Is a Big Deal

WordPress has unveiled its latest iteration, version 4.4. It’s called Clifford, after the jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, and comes with the usual slew of new features that all updates have. It sports, for example, responsive image functionality, so pictures are automatically sized depending on the device — no tinkering or cursing necessary anymore. Clifford has...
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Quick technical SEO tips for Magento merchants

Magento makes it easy to group and bundle products, but that can lead to SEO problems. Magento is the world’s most-used e-commerce platform, powering online retail sites of all shapes and sizes. Although Magento is widely used, lots of merchants still have the same issues from an SEO perspective, which impacts their visibility, traffic and...
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Google Life Sciences debuts a new name, Verily

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Life Sciences, the Silicon Valley giant’s new foray into health and medicine, announced a new name Monday that slips easily off the tongue but might sound antiquated to a high-tech, life-sciences ear: Verily. “Verily, I swear,” as Shakespeare wrote in Henry VIII. The word means “truly” or “certainly.” It dates back to...
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Web noobs rejoice, you can now convert your HTML site to WordPress for $9 per page

Flex your Web skills and sack your devs* because Product Hunt user Henrik Harju has launched a tool that converts any HTML site to a WordPress theme “in seconds.” Harju explains that the goal of his product is to automate lots of the crappy jobs associated with migrating to WordPress, as well as making it easier for...
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5 Steps to Take to Set a Proper SEO Budget

Join us at Entrepreneur magazine’s Growth Conference, Dec. 15 in Long Beach, Calif. for a day of fresh ideas, business mentoring and networking. Seats are limited–Register now to secure your spot and receive exclusive reader rate (expires 12/8). In the world of search engine optimization, there are clear best practices that apply to everyone, and...
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Google wants your blood…literally: Patent filed for needle-free blood …

The device sends an “abrupt surge” of gas into a barrel that has a “micro-particle” that punctures the skin and takes a tiny amount of blood. When the droplet is formed, it is sucked into a negative pressure barrel. “Such an application might be used to draw a small amount of blood, for example, for...
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WordPress.com is Now Open Source, Desktop App Available for Download

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SEO So Simple A Child Can Do It: In 5 Easy Steps

As it turns out, I’m not the only SEO professional in the family. At 14, my daughter Chloe started creating a passive income stream, enviable to most teenagers, of up to $1,100 per month. She did it with only a few ingredients: a WordPress blog, a Google AdSense account and some basic SEO knowledge. Like many...
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Google is crushing Apple, Microsoft in US schools

“A lot of us, when we went to school, we were in the kind of classroom where you had 30 students in the classroom. The teacher would have to explain the same thing to 30 students. If you didn’t get the concept, they would just move onto the next. That was the way you had...
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WordPress.com Goes Open Source

WordPress, the world’s largest open source content management system (CMS), has just become even more open sourcier.  Chalk it up to some changes from Automattic, the web development corporation most notable for its contributions to WordPress and WordPress.com, the hosted version of WordPress. Automattic has overhauled WordPress.com, opened the script to developers on GitHub, and made...
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