With all due respect to web content management systems like Drupal and Joomla, there’s a reason why WordPress is king. WordPress owns 60% of the CMS market and powers more than a quarter of all online sites. It’s open-source, SEO friendly, and streamlines the process of building and maintaining nearly any type of website. Obviously, having a...Read More
WordPress is a fantastic platform for building websites on-the-fly with little to no development time required to get up and running. In addition, WordPress has fantastic customizability ranging from being able to fully customize your theme, to finding plug-ins that have functionality to do just about anything you want. The list of what you can...Read More
It’s 9 a.m. on a Tuesday and one of Tom’s regular customers just called to let him know that the website is down. Jumping into action, Tom calls his hosting company only to find out that his website database has become corrupted thanks to the new plugin he added last week. Their advice? Restore his site...Read More
Most bloggers are building an email list, which is a great thing if you want to make money online with your blog, as email marketing is probably the most efficient way to do so. Mailchimp and Aweber are the most widely used services to manage email lists and send newsletters. While I’m using Mailchimp myself...Read More
WordPress development has come a very long way in recent years when it comes to tooling. In the past, developing a WordPress website required some sort of MAMP/WAMP localhost setup and almost always, a rather painful headache. Maybe you’re even one of those developers who developed their website on a live environment – I was....Read More
One of the most important questions to ask yourself when considering a new business venture is, “What problem does this solve?†Many of the most successful businesses resolve issues for users, or at least make some kind of process easier. In a recent post, WordPress developer and Core contributor Matt Geri wonders just who is...Read More
In my last few posts I’ve pondered the issue of how insecure WordPress installations have become. Here’s an interesting thing to try if you run a WordPress site; install the 404 to 301 plugin and in its settings check the “Email notifications†option and enter an email address in the “Email address†field. Now, whenever...Read More
Git into it! Bonus course Introduction to Git is yours when you take up a free 14 day SitePoint Premium trial. Article source: http://www.sitepoint.com/save-50-on-pro-quality-responsive-wordpress-themes/Read More
By Tracey Jones on 21 April, 2016 Share Let’s make something clear. We’ll not be talking about trending themes and fads. I won’t tell you whether you should use this color or that. And we sure as anything won’t be talking about how to optimise pictures (progressive rendering, by the way). Sorry to disappoint you...Read More
By Mark Gibbs Article source: http://www.networkworld.com/article/3057205/security/on-getting-your-wordpress-site-hacked-pay-now-or-pay-more-later.htmlRead More
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