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Doc Pop’s News Drop: Clef 2 Factor Authentication shuts down

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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March 13, 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. Clef, the popular two factor authentication plugin for WordPress, is shutting down. This week, Doc talks about why that’s a bummer and what plugins you can try instead. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Clef Two Factor authentication was a plugin that allowed you to sign into your WordPress site by pointing your smartphone camera towards a symbol displayed on the computer screen and Clef […]

Leveling Up Your Search Skills to Better Your Business and Learn Anything

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Beginners, Featured

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March 10, 2017

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In many social circles, responding to a question with, “have you tried Googling it?” is tired and cliche. So much so, there’s even a web app that generates a snarky, let me google that for you, animation. Modern search engines are phenomenal tools. They can uncover anything from weather to sports scores to cat videos. By mastering the ability to search the web, one can learn just about anything. While “Googling” something has become commonplace, in this post I want to discuss some advanced search and discovery techniques to help one search—and learn—more effectively. Search Basics Okay, let’s start from […]

Starting From Scratch: How to Generate Traffic For a Brand New WordPress Site

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Community

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March 9, 2017

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Since WordPress allows pretty much anyone to build a website, the playing field for starting a web venture is pretty level. However, while all sites start from the same place, it’s what happens after the initial launch that determines whether or not it’s going to be successful. The skill that makes all the difference is the ability to generate traffic. Because there is no “build it and they will come.” Nobody is going to just start sending you visitors, you need to make a real effort to attract an audience. Thankfully, there are many ways to do so. To help […]

Gender Diversity in WordPress: It’s time to lead by example

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March 8, 2017

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The topic of women in tech is making headlines around the world, with recent light being shed on the gender inequality plaguing Silicon Valley. In the WordPress space, this isn’t really something we talk about. While I have personally found the community to be inclusive and accepting, the reality is that women are dramatically underrepresented in the space. This shouldn’t come as a shock considering the overall distribution of women in the technology space, but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t talk about it. We interviewed three women in the WordPress space — Bridget Willard, Jennifer Bourn, and Petya Raykovska — about what […]

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