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Top Free Transactional Email Alternatives To Mandrill

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March 15, 2016

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For a while, Mandrill has been popular among users, especially when it comes to sending transactional emails in bulk. Mandrill ensures timely delivery of your emails, as well as reduces the load on your own server, and does not require you to manage email from your infrastructure. However, recently Mandrill announced that it will soon discontinue its free tier plan, and after March 16, new users can only register via MailChimp, not Mandrill. Plus, by April 27, all existing users will be required to merge their Mandrill accounts with MailChimp. You can read more about this development here. MailChimp, the parent […]

The Globalization Of WordPress: WordCamp Europe, Global Translation Day, And More

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March 14, 2016

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WordCamp Europe announced last week that more than 2000 tickets have been sold, making it the largest WordCamp to date. The first 1700 tickets sold out in January, six months before the event, which forced organizers to expand the venue. Tickets are going fast — there are fewer than 100 tickets left. According to WP Tavern, “Based on the attendees confirmed so far, WordCamp Europe 2016 will have 58 countries represented, which is six more than the event had in 2014 and 2015. Including micro-sponsor tickets, the countries with the highest number of attendees include Germany (8%), Netherlands (8%), UK […]

How To Convince Clients Of The Benefits Of Using WordPress

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March 14, 2016

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“Is WordPress right for my website?” Anyone building WordPress sites for clients likely has to deal with this question on a regular basis. As it turns out, client education is as much part of this business as installing plugins and writing CSS. For WordPress professionals, the platform is second nature and the benefits of using WordPress for building websites are completely obvious. However, we often forget that clients don’t possess that same knowledge. For some, that really isn’t a problem. All they want is a website and they don’t care about what’s running it. Others, however, do care and sometimes […]

What’s New In WordPress: 3/14/2016

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March 14, 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]. Automattic Acquires Majority Stake In Pressable: Pressable became the next Automattic acquisition this week. It is unclear what if any changes to the company will be made. New WordCamp Europe Tickets Go On Sale: A new round of tickets for WordCamp Europe went on sale last week, which puts it on track to be the largest WordCamp yet. Facebook’s Instant Articles Plugin: Download the plugin and Facebook articles will load faster. Get your news in record […]

Plugin Madness, Week 2 Update

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March 11, 2016

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We are off to an exciting start in round two of our Plugin Madness competition. In case you missed it, Plugin Madness is a bracket-style tournament where we pit the 64 most popular WordPress plugins. Votes have been tallied for the first round of the competition and 32 plugins have been cut as we move into round 2. Here is the full list of this week’s competitors. WP Maintenance Mode vs. NextGEN Gallery Simple Page Ordering vs. Post Types Order WP-DB-Backup vs. iThemes Security Duplicate Post vs. Wordfence Security WP Mail SMTP vs. Disable Comments MailChimp for WordPress vs. WP Smush […]

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