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Give Back with These WordPress Fundraising Plugins

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Devin Partida

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Plugins

Published

November 18, 2022

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‘Tis the season for giving! The end of the year is such a wonderful time to think about those less fortunate and help out where you can. WordPress makes it incredibly easy to give and run fundraisers right from your site. WordPress is one of the most influential and customizable website builders. Whether you’re working for a nonprofit attempting to modernize or a solopreneur passionate about social good, you can integrate WordPress plugins to accept donations. With countless resources and programs out there to collect gifts, why not explore these options from WordPress for seamless integration to minimize the labor […]

How to Enable Maintenance Mode in WordPress

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Will Morris

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Tools

Published

November 17, 2022

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It’s normal for your website to undergo additional work once it’s been built. Perhaps you’re planning to redesign it, add more functionality, or switch to a new theme. However, this can mean that your visitors are greeted with a glitchy site. Fortunately, you can put your website into maintenance mode. This way, you can work on it in private while preserving your User Experience (UX). In this post, we’ll take a closer look at maintenance mode and discuss when you might use it. Then, we’ll show you how to enable it in WordPress. Let’s get started! When to Enable Maintenance […]

Torque Social Hour: WordPress and the Fediverse

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Doc Pop

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News Drop, Videos

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November 16, 2022

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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode I talk with Matthias Pfefferle (Mastodon/Twitter) and Tim Nolte (Mastodon/Twitter) about how WordPress can integrate with the fediverse. In the beginning of the show we answer some basic questions, like what is Mastodon and how does federation work. Then we talk about WordPress plugins that can connect your site to Mastodon and ActivityPub. We also show some tips, like how “verify” your WordPress site in your Mastodon profile. During this episode we talk about a few WordPress plugins: We also shared some relevant links: […]

CSS Best Practices: 16 Ways to Improve Your CSS Skills Quickly

Author

Nick Schäferhoff

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Community, Development

Published

November 16, 2022

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Are you a beginner in CSS and constantly asking yourself if you are doing things right? Do you ever wonder if your markup is up to par? If so, it’s clearly time to learn some CSS best practices. By adhering to basic guidelines for writing CSS, you can make sure you produce clean, legible, and easily supportable code. You know, the kind that lets others understand what it does and that makes you proud to look at. If either (or both) of these things are something you aspire to, let’s talk about CSS best practices that allow you to do […]

How to Add a Video Background in WordPress (3 Methods)

Author

Will Morris

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Videos

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November 15, 2022

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When a user visits your website, you only have a few moments to capture their attention. If your page isn’t engaging, they might lose interest and leave without interacting with your site. Fortunately, a video background can help you catch your visitors’ eye and make a great first impression. Using WordPress, there are various methods of accomplishing this without touching a line of code. For instance, you can use a simple Gutenberg block or a plugin. In this post, we’ll talk about how fullscreen video backgrounds can enhance the user experience (UX) of a website. Then, we’ll list some methods […]

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