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How To Use WordPress To Run A Magazine Or News Website

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Lyn Wildwood

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Beginners

Published

November 23, 2016

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Running a magazine or news website is difficult, but WordPress comes with a lot of built-in tools and offers plugins you can use to automate the process or make it easier. Let’s see how we can use these tools to run a magazine or news website with WordPress. Use Categories And Tags Properly Using categories and tags properly can help you organize your content in ways that make it easier for readers to find topics they’re interested in. This is especially true if your theme uses a homepage layout that separates content by category. Use categories for main topics, child […]

Get Your .blog Domain This Week

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Emily Schiola

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Community

Published

November 22, 2016

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As of this week, you can finally get a .blog domain name for your WordPress site. Back in May, Automattic announced it had acquired the rights to .blog and anyone could get one for $30 a year with premium names being offered at a higher price. See if the domain you want is available here. We recently got in touch with Patrick Jones from .blog Communications to learn more about this exciting advancement. Why .blog? WordPress started as a blogging platform and was created with that in mind. Though the platform has grown significantly in the last 13 years and […]

How To Future-Proof Your WordPress Website In 4 Easy Steps

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John Hughes

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Community

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November 21, 2016

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Making sure you’re one step ahead of the WordPress update merry-go-round is vital. Not only do you get to take advantage of any new functionality immediately, you’ll be doing your utmost to make sure your website is set for any future advancements in the platform. With some big enhancements on the horizon, such as the REST API, making sure your site can handle any unknown developments is key to ensuring a smooth and trouble-free future. The reality is that by thinking about and actioning some basic-level aspects, you’ll ensure your site will be future-proofed as much as possible – saving both time and […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: kerfuffle dot blog

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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November 21, 2016

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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. This week we talk about how some folks were disappointed not to get a chance to bid on their .blog domain names. We also talk about WordCamp US. BTW, please fill out our WordPress Business survey. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop! Back in May, Automattic had announced that they had acquired the .blog top level domain name and would soon start offering it to […]

Beyond The Blog: WordPress Used By 60 Percent of Top-100 Inc. 5000

Author

Marie Dodson

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Community, Featured

Published

November 18, 2016

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According to Nelio Software, in 2016 more than 60 percent of the top 100 sites on Inc. 5000 used WordPress to power their sites. This is up more than 20 percent from 2015, showing a rapid increase in adoption among America’s fastest-growing private companies. The continuous and rapid growth points to the maturation of the CMS and highlights just how far it’s come since its humble beginning as a blogging platform. There are several things that can be attributed to this unstoppable growth, including mass-adoption of open source, breaking the ‘blog’ stereotype, and the WordPress REST API, just to name a few. WordPress as a full-service application By now, WordPress […]

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