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How to Create a Professional-Looking Freelancing Portfolio with WordPress (in 5 steps)

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May 10, 2018

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Merely having a website as a freelancer is not nearly enough. If you want to be taken more seriously and command higher rates from customers and prospective clients, then you should really think of building a freelancing portfolio online; one that stands out. When it comes to building a freelance portfolio, two things are the most important: The layout design, and the content, in that order. In fact, statistics have shown that visual presentation of content might just be more important than the content itself. So much for ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’. You will definitely get more […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress 4.9.6 Adds Privacy and GDPR Features

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May 9, 2018

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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. The GDPR Compliance team has been working hard on adding new privacy tools to WordPress. The current beta release for 4.9.6 has many of these features in place. The final version of WordPress 4.9.6 is expected to be released before the GDPR goes into effect on May 25th. In this week’s News Drop video, we go through some of those new features. Install the WordPress Beta Tester plugin to give it […]

Top Quick Wins to Boost Your WordPress Site

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May 9, 2018

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Recent estimations suggest that 74,652,825 sites are running on WordPress according to ManageWP. The monthly figure of searches using keywords “WordPress” or “WP” is a whopping 37 million. The platform can handle anything from a personal blog to an enterprise site. That is a lot of competition, so your site has to stand out. One way to make sure your visitors stay is to optimize. People won’t stick around if anything on your site is loading slowly. These tips will make sure your site is lean and fast. Keep the Number of Plugins Low Every plugin you install adds code to […]

Using the WordPress Desktop App with Self-hosted WordPress – A Review

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May 8, 2018

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There are many tools to help you take care of your WordPress website. We have talked about some of them in the past in this post. Aside from them, there are also the official WordPress mobile apps. Although it has been around for a while, a lesser-known example is the WordPress desktop app named Calypso. It was originally made for WordPress.com customers to let them take care of their sites from their desktop computers. However, in combination with the Jetpack plugin, it also works for self-hosted WordPress sites. In this article, I will show you how to use it. I […]

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