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Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress and React JS

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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September 25, 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. This week’s News Drop video is a little late. Every time we recorded it, the story would change again, but if you were wondering about the drama between WordPress and React JS, this is the video for you! Love WordPress news, but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. It’s been a busy month for React, a flexible and efficient JavaScript library for building user […]

2 Ways to Make Your WordPress Website Printer Friendly

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John Hughes

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Community

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September 25, 2017

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Whether people are saving a PDF format or printing out pieces of paper, visitors sometimes want to have a permanent version of your content (especially if you are posting evergreen articles). Unfortunately, most default website styles don’t translate well to the printer. Optimizing your WordPress website for printer-friendly design is a subtle, yet powerful way to go the extra mile for your visitors. This not only impacts physical printouts but downloadable PDFs as well. In other words, you can offer beautiful PDFs on demand and even encourage the reader to download your articles for safekeeping. In this article, we’ll show […]

7 Key Tips To Boost Speed On Your WordPress Website

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Sharon Conwell

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Beginners

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September 22, 2017

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You have such a small margin of time when a new visitor comes to your site, you have to ensure that it’s running as fast as possible. That means that they’ve got to be able to find exactly what they need when they arrive, or you risk them clicking away. Here are seven tips that will help you speed up your WordPress site, bring in new customers, and keep them. Check your speed It’s easy to assume that your site is running fast enough if you visit it often enough yourself. However, don’t be fooled. Your browser may have cached […]

Embracing the Microservice Architecture Pattern With WordPress

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Josh Pollock

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Community

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September 21, 2017

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As WordPress has matured, more people are using it as an application platform. As we move towards Matt Mullenweg’s vision of WordPress as the open source OS of the web I think it’s important to question some of our conceptions of the way we tend to use WordPress. Traditionally a WordPress site is executed as a single monolithic unit. This is counter to a growing trend in web development towards microservices — many small single-purpose applications configured to act as one unit. For example, consider static HTML caching. If you are following the monolithic approach you would add a plugin […]

How to Embed Facebook Events on Your WordPress Site

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Sarah Feldman

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Community

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September 20, 2017

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Facebook is a great way to reach your audience. You can share product releases and blog posts, and talk to them directly via comments. But what if you could let them know when and where you’ll be right on your homepage? With Facebook Events, you have all the influence and reach that the social network offers right on your WordPress site. Now, in addition to working with Facebook Events on today’s largest social network, you can also have them on your WordPress site. Readers can see what events you have planned and decide whether or not to attend them. Have […]

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