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Streaming Tickets Now Available for WordCamp Europe 2017

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Emily Schiola

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June 5, 2017

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Tickets to WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris are officially sold out, but that doesn’t mean you need to miss the conference. As part of an effort to make the WordCamp as accessible as possible, the organizers have set up a free stream. It works just like last year – to register, simply go to the Ticket page and get your free ticket to the stream. There are nearly 3,000 spots available – but to ensure your slot reserve your live stream ticket today. Though you won’t be able to participate in any of the after hours activities, you won’t miss a minute […]

An Introduction to Baseline Security for WordPress Theme Developers

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John Hughes

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June 5, 2017

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If you publish WordPress themes, it’s important to develop them with the security of your users in mind. However, the WordPress Theme Review Team recently showed that many theme authors eschew this at an alarming frequency. We understand: getting a theme and its elements to simply work is much easier than worrying about any security aspects. Even so, themes can be a huge security risk, so this is something you must concern yourself with. In fact, there are a number of security mistakes that crop up time and time again, and the good news is that fixing them in your own code […]

The Best Ecommerce Themes of 2017

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David Meyer

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Featured, Themes

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June 2, 2017

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In the last 14 years, WordPress has grown from a blogging platform to a full-functioning CMS. In fact, it is often chosen to power an online store. Whether you’re a beginner or expert, you need your site to look amazing, and these themes will make any online store look professional. Storefront Storefront is a perfect WordPress theme for ecommerce sites which is compatible with WooCommerce. It is customizable and gives the ease to choose among several layout and color options along with widgets for ease of use. It’s also incredibly responsive. Discover Discover is a professional, clean, and responsive theme […]

The WordPress Customizer Instills Confidence When Making Updates

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Torque Editor

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June 1, 2017

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Faces of WordPress is a community-centered project that celebrates the people behind WordPress and the projects they create that collectively drive WordPress forward in a way that directly benefits the community or the core software. Share your WordPress story here. The WordPress Customizer allows users to easily preview and modify their site’s appearance. Using a WYSIWYG interface, users can customize their theme’s colors, text, fonts, and anything else they want to change. The Customizer brings instant feedback to visual changes on your WordPress site, enabling easy site modification and alleviating “save and surprise” behavior. The Customizer has come a long way since its debut in […]

8 Effective Tools to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites From One Dashboard

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Nick Schäferhoff

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June 1, 2017

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Managing multiple WordPress sites at once is no easy task. While the platform has an easy-to-use interface, a lot already goes into keeping just one site up and running. Updating WordPress, plugins, themes, creating content, moderating comments, doing regular maintenance — it’s not hard but it accumulates. Multiply that for each additional site and you have your hands full, especially with sites that have healthy traffic. And that doesn’t even take into account the time it takes to log in and out of each website. Luckily, you don’t have to go it alone. Other people have realized the need to […]

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