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A Beginner’s Guide to Load Testing WordPress Sites

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John Hughes

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Featured

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October 3, 2016

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Though WordPress is an increasingly bulletproof solution out of the box, there’s a huge difference between merrily clicking around in a local development environment, and how your site actually performs when people start hammering your servers for real. The time to start worrying about how your site will perform is well before it goes live, rather than when it suddenly and unexpectedly goes viral, or simply falls apart under even moderate load. For non-technical site owners or inexperienced developers, working out how to address this can present something of a conundrum, but luckily it’s relatively easily solved these days. In this […]

Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop: Website Weekend LA

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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October 3, 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 Website Weekend LA is a two-day event where designers and developers get together and build custom websites for nonprofits. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Running a nonprofit is already a challenging business. Most nonprofits are busy enough just managing day to day operations, and have very little time or money for working on their website. So it’s cool to hear […]

WordPress Core is Secure: Stop Telling People Otherwise

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Jason Cosper

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Security

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October 1, 2016

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Updated: October 1, 2016 It’s time to clear up the WordPress security debate once and for all. Despite all the skepticism, WordPress core is without a doubt one of the most secure platforms you can choose to put a site on. Period. Since Jan. 24, 2013 no major vulnerabilities have been discovered inside WordPress core. That means that across every, up-to-date, WordPress install on every hosting company across the internet, no vulnerabilities in WordPress core have been discovered. That’s unprecedented in open-source software. If you’re skeptical, that’s reasonable. Sometimes it’s hard to ignore rumors. But I’m going to do my […]

5 Takeaways From This Week’s AMA With Luca Sartoni

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Emily Schiola

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Community, News

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September 29, 2016

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This week, Growth Engineer at Automattic Luca Sartoni took over the ManageWP AMA. Sartoni began as a developer and soon fell in love with the connection between software and marketing. He’s been working at Automattic for two years and helped organize WordCamp Europe. Community members stopped by to ask about public speaking, marketing, and as always, the future of WordPress. Here are five takeaways. Beware the illusion of knowledge. Though there are several pitfalls to growing the engineering process, the worst is the “illusion of knowledge.” Being overly certain about something can leave room for error. “We should not fear what we don’t know, but what we […]

7 Top Notification Bar Plugins for WordPress

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Sufyan bin Uzayr

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Featured

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September 29, 2016

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There are various notification bar plugins out there that you can use to showcase header notifications to your users and visitors. Notification bars, in general, tend to be more user-friendly than popups or slideouts. They do not obstruct the viewing area, do not hijack the user’s the screen, and are not detrimental to the basic principles of UX. That said, what makes a notification bar important? Well, if you are running a blog or any type of website, you cannot just rely on visitors coming and leaving. You need to retain them, and that can often be accomplished by running […]

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