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Interviews from WordCamp for Publishers 2018

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Doc Pop

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Videos

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August 10, 2018

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WordCamp for Publishers is a two day conference for online publishers of any size. This year’s event was hosted in Chicago and was filled with talks about how agencies are helping publishers improve their workflow with Gutenberg, how to improve accessibility, and why paywalls may actually be good for the open web. I had a great time at the event and was lucky be able to interview many of the speakers throughout the week. We talked with Jake Goldman (10up), Chris Van Patten (Tomodomo), Jeannette Washington (Bearly Articulating), Mike Selander (Human Made), Libby Barker (Human Made), Jodie Riccelli (WebDevStudios), and […]

Best Practices To Revert Abandoning Visitors Via Popups

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Ani Poghosian

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Community

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August 9, 2018

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There are so many possible reasons why your website visitors leave your site without making a purchase. The products offered on your store may not seem interesting to them, or their expectations may be too high. This is why you must take care of the way you’re offering your product and the way you organize your website. Every single detail is important in the improvement of the conversion on your site. If your website is easy to follow and your product is displayed in an appealing manner, and customers are still leaving, it might be time to consider popups. Popups are […]

The 5 Mistakes You Should Never Make When Creating a WordPress Blog

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Michelle O'Riordan

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Beginners

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August 9, 2018

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Blogging is one of the most effective and influential ways to communicate with a large audience via the world wide web. Whether you are a self-proclaimed foodie who wants to share your culinary adventures with like-minded individuals, or you are the owner of a medium-sized business who is looking to connect with customers on a deeper level, a WordPress blog is always a beneficial tool. In fact, companies who blog get 97 percent more links to their website in comparison to those who don’t blog. And 61 percent of online consumers in the United States have made a purchase based […]

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 8: Developing New Features For Extensible WordPress Plugins Using Test-Driven Development

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Josh Pollock

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Community

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August 8, 2018

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In my last post in this series on advanced PHP object-oriented programming for WordPress development, I walked through refactoring the low-level API of a plugin, using tests to guide the process and make sure everything works correctly. I say “low-level API” because the focus was on the internal of how the system will work. I didn’t cover too much of wiring things together. In this article, that’s where this post picks up. The next step was to create a factory that takes an array of arguments for the REST API to add, and an array of post types — that […]

The Down And Dirty Way To Migrate A WordPress Website

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Bud Kraus

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Development

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August 7, 2018

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A very common task WordPress site owners ever have to do is to move their site from one server to another. Reasons to do this include: You hate your web host and need a new service. You’d like a copy of your site so you can work on it either locally or from a remote server. There are many plugins to help you do this but all of them require an investment in time to learn the process. Invariably, there are two very different things which will occur. You will be exporting your database from your existing installation and importing […]

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