WPMU DEV today released Hummingbird, a performance plugin that addresses many of the issues that slow down your website, including caching, minification, script loading, file compression, and more. ” … it also provides clear and easy to follow instructions on how you can further improve your PageSpeed Insights score, right down to the specific files you need to edit or move to the footer of your site, and even the images you need to compress.” Hummingbird features a new performance tool that analyzes your site and generates a report to show how well it performs. Providing a score out of 100, it […]
Recurring Payments 2.4 Update Released From Easy Digital Downloads
Since its inception, the Recurring Payments extension in Easy Digital Downloads has been a success, and today the company announced a big update. “Recurring revenue is predictable and allows businesses to properly forecast their future revenue, making risk and growth management significantly easier to manage,” Founder Pippin Williamson said in the announcement. The update, Recurring Payments 2.4, addresses many things — one of the most requested, however, was the ability to manage multiple subscriptions. If this is something you’ve been after, your prayers have been answered. Instead of being confined to one subscription per person, you can now register as many as […]
Introducing Torque’s 2016 Plugin Madness Competition
WordPressers, get ready. On March 1, we’re launching Torque’s 2016 Plugin Madness, where the first 64 most popular WordPress plugins from the official plugin directory compete against each other for total plugin domination! Modeled after the NCAA college basketball tournament March Madness, we use a bracket-based voting system to pit plugins against one another each week. Head on over to pluginmadness.com to see which plugins are competing and check in weekly to vote on the current round. We randomly placed the 64 plugins into four groups — The Pressers, The Wordees, The Extenders, and The Installers (watch our selection video […]
How To Move WordPress From Localhost To Live Server
The ability to set up and use local development is an important one in any WordPressers skill set. A local WordPress installation enables you to work independently of an online connection, test site changes, themes, and plugins without the risk of breaking your live site, and overall makes your workflow more efficient. So much so that I recently wrote an entire article on how to install WordPress locally with XAMPP. Your site won’t do any good, however, if it’s just lying around on your hard drive. Once you are done with the work, you need to figure out how to […]
Unsurprisingly WordPress Is Great For Small Business
WordPress is the most trusted software for small business according to Alignable’s SMB Index. The study chose 25 national companies and judged them based on the Net Promoter scale. The scale asks one question “how likely is that you would recommend our company/product/services to a friend or colleague?” This is the first time the company has released its findings to the public. WordPress Is Great For Small Business The study included other CMSs as well. Each business was given a number between 0-100, with WordPress receiving a 73, Wix a negative 7, and SquareSpace 11. This study doesn’t come as much of […]

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