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30 Essential Plugins For WordPress Beginners

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April 28, 2016

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WordPress is the world’s most popular website building tool by far. However, while the out-the-box version of WordPress comes equipped with lots of useful features and functionalities, the core itself will only take you so far. The real reason for WordPress’s meteoric rise in the last decade or so is the platform’s robust collection of plugins (and to a lesser extent, themes). If you’re new to WordPress, plugins add extra, more specialist functionalities to a website, allowing it to do just about anything. Those impressive features you see on big company’s websites? Install the right plugin, and you can add […]

Schedule For WPCampus Now Available

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April 27, 2016

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The schedule for the inaugural WPCampus, a conference dedicated to WordPress in higher education, is now available. The @wpcampusorg community is proud to share the schedule for our inaugural #WordPress in #highered event! Join us! https://t.co/UqLbsej11T — Rachel Carden (@bamadesigner) April 27, 2016 The two-day event, which will take place on July 15-16 in Sarasota, FL, will feature an impressive collection of presenters speaking on WordPress and how it relates to the world of higher education. Some of the featured sessions include, BuddyPress and Higher Education Higher Ed WordPress Showcase Creativity: Using WordPress to Remix the First Year Experience Course Building a WordPress Sandbox And […]

How To Build The Perfect WordPress Client

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April 27, 2016

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In a recent post, we took a look at the characteristics of the ideal WordPress developer by building the DEV-BOT 5000, a robot embodying the perfect mix of skill, experience, and responsiveness. Well, turnabout’s fair play, right? In this post, we’re going to build the perfect WordPress client for our DEV-BOT 5000. Its name: the Ideal Client Engineer – Curious Responsive Engaged Active Model 5000. ICE-CREAM 5000, for short. (Because who doesn’t love ice cream?) We started out by asking some of WordPress developers what traits their ideal client would possess, and we’ve sorted out their responses below. What makes […]

WordPress 4.5.1 Maintenance Update Now Available

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April 26, 2016

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WordPress 4.5.1 maintenance release is now available. You can download it directly or update from within your dashboard. The update comes just two weeks after the release of WordPress 4.5, which according to the blog post has already been downloaded roughly six million times. The release addresses 12 bugs found in WordPress 4.5, including a singular class issue that breaks the Twenty Eleven theme and an Imagick bug that could break media uploads. It also fixes compatibility issues between specific versions of Chrome and the visual editor. If your site supports automatic background updates, then just sit back and relax, 4.5.1 is […]

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