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A Beginner’s Guide to eCommerce A/B Testing in WordPress

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John Hughes

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Beginners, Development

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October 31, 2016

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Making changes to your eCommerce website design that aren’t backed up with real-world data isn’t an effective way of improving your conversion rates. You could hire a developer and have them make changes based on your guesses, but what if it doesn’t work and you end up losing customers? A/B testing your website can help you arrive at a design that your visitors respond to in the best possible way. The best eCommerce sites understand that there’s always room for improvement, and regular testing plays a key role in paving your path to success. In this post, we’ll show you […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress 4.7 Beta and the WP REST API

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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October 31, 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. Doc Pop’s News Drop The WordPress 4.7 beta is up now and includes lots of interesting new features, including REST API support, live CSS previews, and PDF thumbnails. You can download it here. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Last year we were all hyped up for the release of the WordPress REST API, a standardized way to allow WordPress powered sites to interact with […]

How The Open Source Empire Reached The US Government

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Jack Riewe

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Community

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October 28, 2016

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Open source is imperiously taking over the internet. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a tech company that is not, in some way, leveraging open source to their advantage. Open source is working to lead technologies into the future. Dominating more than 25 percent of the internet, WordPress is one of the biggest open-source projects in the world. Its flexibility and ability to scale make it the obvious choice for any website, regardless of industry. From education and nonprofits to enterprise companies and world-renowned publications, WordPress is the CMS of choice. WordPress, and open source more broadly, has recently even reached […]

5 Takeaways From This Week’s AMA With Matt Cromwell

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Emily Schiola

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Community, News

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October 27, 2016

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This week, Matt Cromwell took over the ManageWP AMA. Cromwell is a Partner and Head of Support at WordImpress as well as co-author of the Give donation plugin. He began working on websites to pay his way through college where he earned multiple degrees. After being offered the position at WordImpress, Cromwell left the life of academia and never looked back. You may also recognize him as one of the founders and organizers of the Advanced WordPress Facebook group, which now has over 23,000 members and 30 administrators. People asked about organizing a Meetup, business changes, and of course the […]

WordPress SEO 101: How To Find The Right Keywords For Your Site

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Beginners, E-Books, Featured

Published

October 27, 2016

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For many WordPress users, doing SEO in WordPress begins and ends with installing an SEO plugin like Yoast SEO or All-in-One SEO Pack (read our comparison of the two plugins.) If you have read our in-depth guide to Yoast SEO you might even fill in the SEO title and meta description, pick a focus keyword, and follow the optimization tips on screen. That’s a good start. However, while SEO plugins can help you optimize your content for a particular keyword, they can’t tell you which keywords to target in the first place. That’s where a lot of people get stumped. […]

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