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Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordCamp US Recap

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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December 3, 2017

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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. WordCamp US has just wrapped up and it was a great event this year. We’ve been meeting so many new WordPressers and sharing our video interviews here throughout the weekend. In this week’s News Drop, Doc walks us through some of the big highlights from Matt Mullenweg’s State Of The Word Address. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop.WordCamp US has […]

State of the Word 2017 Recap

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Emily Schiola

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Community, Events, News

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December 2, 2017

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WordCamp US 2017 in Nashville wound down as Matt Mullenweg walked on stage to deliver his annual State of the Word address. The speech delivered the latest WordPress news as well as what to expect for 2018. Gutenberg A huge focus of last year’s State of the Word was Gutenberg. This year was no different. Mullenweg said Gutenberg has been the longest feature development WordPress has ever had. It’s been 11 months since the kickoff. In that time it’s had over 4.302 commits. “It’s really drawn together the community in a really cool way,” said Mullenweg. It has gone through […]

How to Create a Compelling Homepage Design

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Emily Reiffer

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Development

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November 30, 2017

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Attention spans are notoriously short on the web. Having experienced poorly designed pages in the past, online users are naturally skeptical of new sites. So they’ll behave accordingly to minimize wasting time before moving on. Regardless of the industry, the challenges are the same—There’s an extremely limited window to capture a user’s attention. First impressions matter as illustrated here: What does this mean? Simply put that bounce rates are highest within the first 10 seconds. That means you only have a few moments to make a great impression on your visitors. So how can you reduce the high probability of […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: What to Expect at WordCamp US

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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November 28, 2017

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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. WordCamp US is coming up soon, so this week Doc talks about the WCUS livestream, Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word address, and some of the sessions he’s excited to see. Love WordPress News but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. WordCamp US is upon us. The multi day conference is happening in my hometown, Nashville TN from December 1st to the 2nd with […]

Why WordPress Migrations Need an Overhaul

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Akshat Choudhary

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Community

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November 28, 2017

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Every serious WordPress user has had to deal with the complexities involved with migrating their website from one web host to another. Migration can be a daunting task, and even cost a lot of money. Unfortunately, migration has to be done manually. Hand operated and nonautomatic work means multitasking of the highest order. While moving websites, not only will you be in charge of content creation, but you will also have to make the compounded effort to take care of the content transfer and migration. In this article, I am going to discuss the existing WordPress Migration methods and their […]

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