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How to Price Your Development Services (6 Tips)

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Business

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December 20, 2022

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If you’re a freelance WordPress developer, you may not know how to price your services. It’s hard to strike a balance between making a substantial profit and not overcharging your customers. If you can’t find a happy medium, potential clients might leave you for the competition.  Fortunately, there are various ways to determine a fair price for both you and your clients. Identifying costs and evaluating competitor rates can give you a good benchmark for your services. That way, you’ll be able to set an attractive price while making the money you deserve.  In this post, we’ll look at why […]

How to Increase the Stability of Your WordPress Website (5 Ways)

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Development

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December 19, 2022

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While factors such as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are essential for your site’s growth, they don’t mean much if it isn’t secure. If you haven’t taken measures to increase the stability of your WordPress website, it might be at risk of poor performance and cyber hacking. Fortunately, there are many steps you can take to stabilize your WordPress website. Actions such as using managed hosting and tightening up your password security can help safeguard your website and improve its performance. This will help ensure that your data is protected and your site is functioning optimally.  In this post, we’ll discuss […]

Press This: WordPress Themes of 2023 with Brian Gardner

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Community, Press This

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December 16, 2022

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In this episode of Press This, WP Engine Developer Advocate, Principal, Brian Gardner looks at WordPress theme design trends for 2023, including candy pastels, creative typography, and radiant gradients. Check out the full episode for more on the role of page builders, content accessibility, and the future of Site Editing as we head into the new year.

Torque Social Hour: The WP Community Collective

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News Drop, Videos

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December 15, 2022

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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. On this week’s episode, we talk with Sé Reed and Courtney Robertson about the WP Community Collective, a group that aims to help fund WordPress contributors and community initiatives. This was a fun conversation about who open source contributions can get funded, then we spend the second half of the show talking about fun things like Andorsands, the site editor, and other WordPress news. Join us on December 21st for our next livestream.

Open for All: State of the Word 2022

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News

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December 15, 2022

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On a rainy, cloudy day in New York City, WordPress Co-Founder Matt Mullenweg presented his annual State of the Word keynote speech. In front of a small but engaged in-person audience, and a vast streaming audience, Mullenweg went over the WordPress wins for 2022 and what we can look forward to in 2023.  Some themes were familiar such as the power of the community, and the importance of keeping open source open. But others like collaborative editing within the dashboard and new plugin taxonomies spoke to an exciting and vibrant future of the project that couldn’t have been imagined when […]

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