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Rebuilding ACCESS NYC with Blue State Digital

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Blue State Digital Staff

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Agency, Featured

Published

February 14, 2018

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It’s not always easy to figure out which government benefit programs you qualify for—information and ease of use are key barriers for families looking to avail themselves of social services. Alongside our work with New York City on Growing Up NYC, we also partnered with the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity (NYC Opportunity) to rebuild ACCESS NYC, which provides New Yorkers with helpful information and critical resources about the social service benefits and programs available to them. ACCESS NYC functions as a public online screening platform in which residents answer a brief set of questions to discover whether they’re eligible […]

HTML Classes and Ids – What They Are (And When to Use What)

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Community

Published

February 13, 2018

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HTML classes and ids are not just important for hardcore coders. After all, these days you no longer have to be a web developer to have your own web presence. Instead, you can achieve almost anything by drag-and-drop or clicking a mouse button. That ability is a big part of the success of WordPress. The platform lets even laypeople build highly professional websites. However, if you want to dive deeper into theme customization, you don’t get around learning markup and code. A working knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP and, increasingly, JavaScript lets you do whatever you want with your site. […]

How to Create a Full-Featured Security Solution For Your WordPress Website

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John Hughes

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Development

Published

February 12, 2018

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While WordPress itself is inherently secure, its popularity means the platform is a target for hackers. However, it’s often users themselves who become a crucial weak link when it comes to website security. You’ll want to make sure your clients’ sites are locked down, to offer long-term assurance and protection. Despite the marketing spiels you may find online, there’s no one ‘best’ solution for securing your WordPress website. However, there are a number of plugins and coding techniques that, when combined, provide optimal security against virtually all threats. In this post, we’ll look at four of those solutions, and explain […]

Amazon Polly Helps WordPress Speak

Author

Emily Schiola

Filed Under

Featured, News

Published

February 8, 2018

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Accessibility has been a huge conversation in WordPress recently. At WordCamp US in 2017, nearly half of the talks focused on accessibility issues. It is an area where many sites can do better. While there are many plugins and tools to help boost accessibility, one area WordPress falls a bit short is text to speech. This is an invaluable tool for anyone who is vision impaired. Screen readers are out there but they can be clunky and if a site isn’t optimized for them, they can fail. In order to further these efforts and a partnership with WordPress, Amazon released […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Google Dives Into WordPress, 4.9.4 Update, and Plugin Madness!

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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February 7, 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. On this week’s News Drop, Doc talks about Google’s move into open source CMSs, the WordPress 4.9.4 (and 4.9.3) update and… something else.. I can’t remember… PLUGIN MADNESS!!! Love WordPress News, but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. March is a month away, which means it’s almost time for Plugin Madness. Plugin Madness is our bracket style competition where we pit 64 WordPress plugins […]

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