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Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop: Google puts a stop to pop-ups

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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August 29, 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 Google announced their plans to lower search rankings for websites that use intrusive (aka “pop-up”) ads. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Oh hey, look we’ve got a pop-up now. That’s cool. It’s for our Torque newsletter, y’all should sign up, but I’m going to close that now. Speaking of ads, Google announced they’ll start punishing sites that feature intrusive pop-ups […]

How To Customize The WordPress Login Page

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Beginners, Featured

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August 26, 2016

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Even after working with WordPress for a long while, many people are still surprised to learn that the backend of their website is just as customizable as the front and that none of the things they take for granted are really set in stone. We ‘ve covered this a bit in how to customize the WordPress dashboard and customizing the WordPress editor. Today we want to continue with this theme by turning to another internal page users interact with on a daily basis — the login page. Just like other parts of WordPress, we can completely customize the login page. First, we […]

Product Launch UX Best Practices Part 5: Building a WP Welcome Page Boilerplate

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Featured

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August 25, 2016

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Welcome to Part five in my series on User Experience (UX) best practices in a product launch. In the previous article, I talked about the importance of including a welcome page in your plugin. Today I’ll explain how to build that welcome page with a GPL licensed boilerplate that can be used on any WordPress product. Welcome Page Boilerplate For Your WordPress Product I created a WP Welcome Page Boilerplate to simplify the process of adding a welcome page. The boilerplate is currently available as a WordPress plugin. You can download the latest release version here and install it on your WordPress […]

WordSesh 4 Reaches 816 Viewers Across 5 Continents

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Community

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August 25, 2016

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Over the weekend, WordPress professionals from around the world sacrificed sleep and sanity to tune into the fourth annual WordSesh. The 24-hour streaming conference, which was held entirely online, kicked off on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET. WordSesh featured one session every hour and included speakers like Matt Mullenweg, Petya Rayovska, and Brent Shepherd presenting on a range of different topics: WordCamp Europe and the Global WP Community by Petya Raykovska and Paolo Belcastro 10 Step Guide to doing your own thing (with WordPress) by Kimb Jones Introduction to WooCommerce Development by Brent Shepherd WordSesh Chat with Matt Mullenweg by Matt Mullenweg […]

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