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WordPress.org Announces First Ever Worldwide Contributor Day

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January 22, 2016

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Need plans for next weekend? Gather some developer friends, a computer, and a pizza, and participate in WordPress.org’s first ever worldwide contributor weekend. Every month, WordPress.org will announce a theme and anyone, regardless of skill level is encouraged to try their hand at contributing. This month, the challenge is centered around the Support Team. You can either gather with a group of people or participate alone, but the objective is to answer 20 questions throughout the weekend. If you don’t get through all 20, that’s okay, just getting your feet wet is enough. The idea is to try to answer the […]

What I’ve Learned From Writing WordPress Proposals For Over 8 Years

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January 21, 2016

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Over the last eight years, I have written hundreds of proposals for WordPress website projects. In the early days, most of them were terrible. Then I started paying attention to what I was putting out and the feedback I was receiving. I started making small incremental changes to my proposals until I found a formula that worked for me. In this article, I’m going to share everything I’ve learned from writing proposals over the last eight years to help you write better proposals for your prospects and win more projects. Disclaimer: my clients are predominantly small to medium-sized businesses. If […]

5 Free WordPress Poll Plugins

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January 21, 2016

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Polls and surveys are a great way to collect meaningful data to better understand your readers. Plus, they are a great way to ramp up reader engagement. With WordPress plugins, you can create a poll without knowing any code and easily embed the survey or poll functionality. Let’s take a look at five of the best poll plugins for WordPress. WP-Polls WP-Polls is extremely customizable with tons of different options to choose from so that your surveys and polls can run as smooth as possible. This easy-to-install plugin supports single and multiple answers and can be configured within minutes after installation. […]

Stash Live Available In BackupBuddy 7.0

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January 20, 2016

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BackupBuddy was the first plugin to make it easy to backup, restore data, and move WordPress sites, and yesterday iThemes announced its biggest update yet — Stash Live. Stash Live, slated for release in the near future, makes real-time backups of your website. According to the announcement, “The new Stash Live feature makes a real-time backup of your site, streaming your database and files over to our new Live online service where you can make a Snapshot (a BackupBuddy zip file) of your full site, your database, your plugins, and your themes.” From there, you can download the Snapshots and keep them […]

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