Building an enterprise website is, by definition, a huge undertaking. The last thing you want is to invest your project’s resources into the wrong framework, which could potentially set you back thousands of dollars and countless wasted hours. Naturally, we’re big fans of WordPress! It’s a well-supported, flexible, and open-source framework that’s powerful enough to develop all manner of websites. As a platform that’s now over ten years old, it’s stable and packed with extensible features that enable you to build almost any website or web app you can imagine. WordPress is a serious contender for many reasons. In this article, we’ll outline what […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Collaborative Editing Coming to WordPress
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. According to a recent blog post by Matt Mullenweg, we may see collaborative editing tools in an upcoming version of WordPress. Love WordPress News but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. On last week’s episode, we talked about a new Chrome plugin that allows you to easily import Google Docs into the WordPress editor. A task which sounds easy, but usually ends up in a lot of frustration. Writing […]
How to Optimize Your Online Store For SEO
Running an online store is an exciting prospect, but you need great SEO in order to succeed. Without SEO your store will struggle to gain visibility and sales will suffer. Don’t fall into the trap of ‘if I build it, they’ll come.’ Work hard on your store’s SEO from day one and keep tweaking and optimizing it as you respond to users and the market. Here are the top things you need to factor into any eCommerce store – new or old! Page purpose: Be Clear It’s very important that every page on your eCommerce store is optimized for the […]
A Day of REST: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love JavaScript Frameworks
I was lucky enough to attend A Day of REST Boston (ADoR) on March 9, along with many of their workshops. If you’ve never been, and if you develop themes or plugins for WordPress, try to make next year’s event. I’ve never been to a conference that had as many smart people talking about tangible uses and implementations of the WordPress REST API. React, and Vue, and Backbone, oh my! JavaScript frameworks dominated the conversations. Whether it was old-school Backbone, the big dog React, or the newcomer Vue, every workshop, and almost every presentation featured at least one of these frameworks. […]
Why WordPress Is Excited About the WP-CLI
The WordPress REST API gets lots of attention, but for many of the same reasons, the WordPress command line interface — WP-CLI — is also worthy of this type of excitement. A REST API and a CLI are essential to modernizing WordPress. Like the REST API, WP-CLI is an alternative way of manipulating data on a WordPress site. Using simple commands you can change a user’s password, bulk import posts, activate a theme, and so much more. The WP-CLI is a community project that is led by Daniel Bachhuber. It was recently announced that the project would become an official […]

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