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Next ManageWP AMA Will Be Adii Pienaar

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Emily Schiola

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October 20, 2015

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If you weren’t able to tune into the AMA with Pippin Williamson last week, you have the chance to speak with another influential WordPresser on Wednesday, Oct. 21. ManageWP announced Adii Pienaar, co-founder of WooThemes will take to the Internet starting at (TIME) to answer your questions. In 2014, after leaving WooThemes, Pienaar started Receiptful, which helps businesses send customers receipts that include marketing messages. He also wrote a book about branding and maintains a personal blog about what it’s like to grow and learn as an entrepreneur. Read through what he’s done and start thinking of some interesting questions to […]

Beginner Tutorial: How To Use Git For WordPress Development

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Nick Schäferhoff

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October 20, 2015

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Does the following sound familiar? You want to make a change to your WordPress site. So you fire up the FTP connection, locate your desired file and download it, make the necessary changes and upload it back to the server. After that, you refresh your browser page to see the changes in effect. If that is your workflow, don’t worry. You are not alone. Everyone starts out like that. It’s only later that people professionalize with things like local development and trying out design changes via Firebug before committing changes to style.css. It’s a natural process and you shouldn’t be […]

What’s New In WordPress: 10/19/2015

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Emily Schiola

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October 19, 2015

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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]. Playing With Type: How to identify the right typography for your site if you aren’t a designer. How To Embed Content from Over 300 Sources Into Your WordPress Site For Free: It isn’t too difficult to embed different types of media into WordPress, but finding the embed codes across different sites can be. Embedly works with over 300 sources to make embedding so much easier. 5 Takeaways From Pippin Williamson AMA: Renown plugin creator, Pippin Williamson, answered […]

What You Need To Know About Enabling Revisions In WordPress

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Edmund Turbin

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October 19, 2015

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Enabling revisions in WordPress is a useful way to retrace your steps and travel back in time to an earlier version of your content. This is a quick walkthrough on how to enable and use the core revision functionality in WordPress. Depending on your host and how you install WordPress, revisions may already be enabled by default. If not, they can be turned on by adding or changing a line in your site’s wp-config.php file. With revisions enabled, each time a change is made to a post, an additional row is inserted in the WordPress database, wp_post table with a […]

5 Takeaways From AMA With Pippin Williamson

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Emily Schiola

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October 16, 2015

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Earlier this week, Pippin Williamson stopped by ManageWP to do a cheeky AMA. People asked the successful plugin developer everything from, what it felt like to be homeschooled to what he would change about WordPress core. Williamson has written more than 200 plugins, is the CEO of three e-commerce companies, and co hosts a popular podcast dedicated to WordPress called Apply Filters. He managed to answer quite a few questions. Let’s take a look at some of the main takeaways. Managing multiple projects is both rewarding and difficult. Williamson spoke about how rewarding and difficult it can be to manage […]

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