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The Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Theme With Underscores

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John Hughes

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Community

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August 22, 2017

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Automattic’s theme division, Theme Shaper, recently announced they will be turning their attention back to the popular Underscores starter theme. Notably, this shift is cited due to the possibilities the new Gutenberg editor brings to future theme development. Underscores is a starter theme (as opposed to a theme framework) designed to cut down many hours of development time when setting up a new custom theme. Before the Underscores project begins to receive drastic changes, it may be a good idea to familiarize yourself with the project in its current state. If you’re new to starter themes, doing so may help reduce the learning curve. In this article, […]

5 Popular WordPress Mistakes that You Need to Stop Making

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Laura Buckler

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Beginners

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August 21, 2017

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WordPress has ceased to become just another blogging platform. Today, it is considered as the most widely used content management system. It is the most popular choice among businesses because it is easy to use and manage, flexible and highly-customizable, SEO-friendly, and given a large number of users, there’s also an existing active community for support. In addition, despite being an open-source, even big brands feel secure when using WordPress. If you are a WordPress user, you’re most probably already aware of the many advantages and benefits of using it to grow your business. However, what you need to remember […]

Top 5 WordPress Security Breaches and How to Rectify Them

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Amelia Grant

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Security

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August 18, 2017

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Holding more than 28 percent of the market share and powering 74.6 million websites across the globe, WordPress is indeed one of the most sought-after Open Source CMS in the world. With enhanced usability and appealing aesthetics, WordPress truly deserves to be the world’s most recognized publishing platform. But the massive usage of WordPress and open source have made it an easy target for cybercrooks, who aim to infect the websites with malware and gain control over their operations. Hacking platforms like WordPress enable these cyber-criminals to infect a considerable number of websites in a short span of time, using […]

How to Auto Optimize Images Using NPM Scripts & Gulp for WP Development

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Ahmad Awais

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Community

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August 17, 2017

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Image optimization is one of the best ways to make your site speedy and lightweight. Because images are one of the largest aspects of your site, it’s important that you know how to properly optimize them. Visitors will leave your site if it takes too long to load. So, the fact of the matter is that you need to keep image sizes small and use them sparingly, and that’s why optimization is so important. This process can be tedious, so here is how you can do it automatically using NPM Scripts and Gulp. Image Optimization in WordPress Image optimization means that […]

Here’s What It Takes to Make a WordPress Website Mobile Friendly

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Community

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August 16, 2017

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The rise of mobile devices has been one of the most decisive changes on the Internet. These days, no website can do without being mobile friendly or rather, no website that wants to be successful. By now, mobile users represent more than half of all Internet traffic and also make up the majority of all search queries. For that reason, there is no way around catering to this user group. Plus, Google now punishes you in the search results if you don’t have mobile-optimized version of your site. If that isn’t motivation enough, I don’t know what is. However, what […]

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