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All You Need to Know About Responsive Design for WordPress

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Nick Schäferhoff

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June 10, 2016

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Responsive design has become increasingly important in recent years. Today, being fully responsive is a feature that has become all but mandatory for WordPress plugins and themes. Yet, unless you are a web designer, exactly what makes responsive design what it is might still be a bit of a Pandora’s box for you. You are certainly aware that it is important but that’s about it. How it works or how to implement it is still somewhat beyond you. Or maybe your site is even still running a static theme and you want to update it without losing the look you have […]

What’s New In WordPress: 6/10/2016

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Emily Schiola

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News

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June 10, 2016

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Have a news tip or an upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly ‘What’s New In WordPress’ roundup? Write us at [email protected]. WordCamp Incubator Locations Announced: Cities in Indonesia, Zimbabwe, and Colombia will be given a mentor to help find a venue, sponsors, and speakers for their first WordCamps. How To Make Sure Your Website Is Mobile Friendly: Being mobile friendly is so important. Is your site easy to use on a phone or tablet? WP Mobile Security Vulnerabilities: Sucuri discovered a security vulnerability in WP Mobile last week. A patch was created so if you haven’t, update your […]

EWWW Image Optimizer 2.8.5 Patches Critical Security Vulnerability

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Marie Dodson

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June 10, 2016

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Wordfence this week disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability found in the EWWW Image Optimizer plugin to the plugin’s author Shane Bishop. Bishop yesterday released a fix for the vulnerability, which can be found on WordPress.org. Users running the EWWW Image Optimizer plugin should update to version 2.8.5 immediately as this is a critical security update. According to Wordfence, the vulnerability, which was discovered by Wordfence Senior Developer Sean Murphy, allows hackers to exploit multisite installations to gain total control of a site. “The vulnerability can be exploited in a number of ways including creating a backdoor or taking a site down altogether,” […]

Postmatic 2 Now Available For Download

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Emily Schiola

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News

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June 9, 2016

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Jason Lemieux earlier this week announced Postmatic 2, which includes new features such as digests, service integration support, comment intelligence, and more. The update comes a year after the initial launch of Postmatic. Email Digests Postmatic Digests allows you to set up daily, weekly, and monthly automatic newsletters. Unlike other newsletter and digest services, Postmatic Digests displays the post title, author name, the number of comments, and top commenters. You can choose from five different layouts, select a subject line, set your schedule, and your content will be delivered directly to your users. Before you publish your post, Postmatic 2 will make sure […]

Yoast SEO Vs. All-in-One SEO Pack: What’s the Difference (And Which One is For You)

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Featured

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June 9, 2016

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Organic traffic remains one of the most important channels for website traffic and thus SEO one of the most important tools to grow your site. Not everyone is well versed in this area. Fortunately for us WordPress users, there are SEO plugins to help us out. By far the two most popular options are Yoast SEO (formerly known as WordPress SEO by Yoast) and All-in-One SEO Pack. Both of them do a really good job at making WordPress websites search engine friendly. Yet, which one should you pick? The decision between Yoast SEO and All-in-One SEO Pack is one that […]

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