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5 Takeaways from ManageWP’s AMA with Paolo Belcastro

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November 17, 2016

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The “dotblogger” Paolo Belcastro from Automattic took over this week’s ManageWP AMA. Belcastro is a Spectrum Division Lead and got his start in online products in Paris, France in 1994. Since then he has managed high-profile domain names and found an internet consultancy firm in Geneva, Switzerland. In his free time, he is helping organize WordCamp Europe. Belcastro gives us insight into his everyday life at Automattic, his job title, and how staying on top of his work actually relaxes him. Here are the five takeaways: What in the world is a dotblogger? “One of the things I like at Automattic is that […]

7 Mental Barriers That Are Hurting Your WordPress Business

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November 17, 2016

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We repeatedly mention on this site how easy it is to start your own WordPress business (at least I do). The WordPress platform is free, user-friendly, easy to learn, and offers many different business opportunities. It seems like all you need to do is get started. So why doesn’t everybody? I mean, there is a staggering number of people who play with the idea to start their own online business for years but never pull the trigger. In addition to that, of those who do make the leap, many fail. According to some statistics, 90 percent of Internet business startups […]

How To Start A Weekly Newsletter

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November 16, 2016

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Dozens upon dozens of articles are published every week in any given niche. It’s almost impossible to keep up with this much content, making a weekly newsletter filled with a collection of the best and latest articles a highly useful resource. Let’s go over a few different ways to create and publish a newsletter of this kind. Publishing A Weekly Newsletter Inside Of WordPress With WP RSS Aggregator WP RSS Aggregator is one of the most popular RSS aggregators available for WordPress. You can use the premium Feed to Post add-on available for this plugin in combination with the MailPoet […]

The Future Of WordPress In 2017

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November 15, 2016

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WordPress has come a long way since its 2003 inception as a nascent blogging platform, forked from b2/cafelog. Now a full-fledged CMS, WordPress enjoys a significant market share, powering 26.9% of the world’s websites all told, and almost 60% of the websites built using a known CMS. As the web has evolved, so has WordPress along with it. For example, the WP REST API enables apps powered by JavaScript to run on the platform. Not much of a surprise, then, that at last year’s State of the Word, Mullenweg urged WordPress users to learn JavaScript, stating: “I believe quite strongly […]

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