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This time of year it is fun to spruce up your site with a festive plugin. In his State of the Word speech, Matt Mullenweg admitted to loving a Winter themed plugin for his own blog. It’s an easy to way to bring your readers a bit of cheer and not completely switch up your theme for a few months out of the year. These three plugins are free, have been recently updated, are highly reviewed, and are just fun. Snow If you want to go the Mullenweg route, consider adding Snow to your website. Though we don’t know if […]

Have you ever imagined what WordPress would be like without the community? What if there weren’t WordCamps or Meetups? What if there were no volunteers dedicating their time to building the core software? WordPress as we know it would not exist. WordPress powers 27.3 percent of the Internet and that growth directly affects the community that WordPress is built on top of. In the last five years, we’ve seen an increase in products, plugins, themes, and agencies built entirely around the CMS, and it’s not slowing down. Those people and their businesses are not only impacted by the upward trajectory but […]

QuickBooks is one of the most popular accounting software packages in the world, backed by enterprise powerhouse Intuit. The domain quickbooks.intuit.com is not only the gateway to purchasing the software but it also houses QuickBooks’ content strategy, aiming to engage current customers and acquire new ones. Portions of quickbooks.intuit.com use WordPress, namely the Quickbooks Resource Center, Quickbooks University, and the Official Product Blog. According to Sr. Web Architect at Intuit Jake Martin, the sites are hosted in roughly 15 different locations and languages. “These sites are hosted on WordPress because our team (SEO/Content Marketing) needed a tool that was easy to use, easy […]