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Why would you want to create an exact copy of your WordPress site? Shouldn’t this unique piece of art stand above being treated as a mere commodity? Well, while this is definitely an apt (and in no way overblown) description of your work, there are actually several good reasons to make a duplicate of your site: Moving from development on your computer to production server or the other way around Migrating to a different provider Creating a backup Setting up an online testing environment or staging server Using a copy of an existing site for a similar project Sound convincing? […]

There are thousands of awesome plugins out there. Many of them, like WordPress SEO by Yoast or W3 Total Cache, are well known and widely used. There are, however, some out there that are just as amazing, yet not as well known; and, with more than 37,000 plugins in the WordPress Plugin Repository, and even more available as premium plugins, it’s easy to overlook them. Today, I want to shine a spotlight on five awesome plugins that you may not have heard of, but will want to start using once you learn about them. 1. Webmaster User Role If you’ve done work for clients before, you’ve […]

Long gone are the days when WordPress was merely a blogging platform. By now it’s a full-fledged content management system used by millions of websites and powers a healthy chunk of the Internet. Consequently, the number of people whose employment somehow revolves around WordPress is also steadily increasing. From hosting providers, to technical support, to *cough* WordPress bloggers—more and more people around the world make a full-time income from the platform. And it pays off. Just look at this developer from Pakistan who is building a three-story house for his entire family after selling just one WordPress theme. In fact, web designers and […]

I take blogging pretty seriously. When I write a post it has a very specific purpose and tends to be pretty long. I think this strategy has a lot to do with my success; but it has also raised the stakes on blogging to the point where I no longer have a container for a few hundred words I’d like to share. By container I mean a place to publish content longer and more permanent than a Facebook post but less high stakes than a blog post. With that in mind, I decided that I needed a microblog. For a while, I thought […]