Everything you need to know about WordPress news this week. Basics Of Creating A Landing Page: Landing pages are extremely useful and easy to use. Here is how to create one for your site. Whatever Happened To PHP 7: It has taken a long time for web hosts to adopt PHP 7. This editorial looks at why that might be. WordPress vs. Medium (Infographic): Have a potential client that isn’t sold on WordPress? Send this easy-to-follow infographic their way. Why Customers Want WordPress Page Builders: A look at the rise of page builders and what it means for your customer. […]
Building a WordPress Plugin Part 5: Finishing Off Our Settings
Welcome to part five of our series on developing a plugin from scratch. Progress has been nice and steady to date, and by this stage we’ve successfully created a significant portion of our theoretical functionality. In the last installment, we finally got to see the fruits of our labor on-screen in the form of a functioning shortcode. This time around, we’re dipping in and out of both the front and back end. We previously left ourselves a little work to do in terms of organizing the display, and we’ve also yet to look at the settings page that was mentioned […]
Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop: GitHub’s new features
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 Last week several big announcements were made at GitHub Universe in San Francisco. So we chat about those and the upcoming World Wide WordPress 5K. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Last week was a huge week for GitHub who made several big announcements during their two day GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco, which was attended by 1500 people. The […]
Basics Of Creating A WordPress Landing Page
Landing pages are single web pages designed to persuade a viewer to do one thing, and one thing only. What that “one thing” is can vary quite a bit, but two of the most common purposes include persuading a visitor to opt-in to an email list or sign up for a free trial of a product or service. If you’re ready to incorporate landing pages into your content marketing mix but don’t know where to start, this article is for you. Let’s begin! 1. Study Effective Landing Pages And Learn What Makes Them Work One of the best things you […]
WordPress Vs. Medium [Infographic]
WordPress is by far the most popular content management system, dominating more than 25 percent of the entire internet. Its versatility and extendibility make it the perfect solution for any type of website. Medium is one of the most popular publishing platforms. It easily enables users to read, write, and interact with stories published to the platform. The following infographic takes a look at how the two solutions measure up to one another in a variety of different categories, including SEO, analytics, development, and beyond [Click to enlarge]: To learn more about how WordPress and Medium stack up against each other, check out […]

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