In the WordPress ecosystem, we find ourselves surrounded by a great community, full of helpful people and technology that keeps getting better and better each year. Whether you’ve just started preparing your Turducken, or you are part of 95.5% of the world that doesn’t do the whole Thanksgiving thing, we appreciate you stopping by today. With that in mind, there’s plenty of things for WordPressers to be grateful for this season, here’s our list: Client-friendly security updates that automatically install themselves. JJJ committing the next 6 months of his life to BuddyPress, bbPress & GlotPress. Matt Mullenweg being a really snappy dresser. Git integration. […]
eCommerce Stores: Are You Ready for Black Friday?
Black Friday is finally upon us, and that can only mean one thing: millions of crazed shoppers fighting to grab the biggest bargains. Although it’s the brick-and-mortar stores that receive most of the media coverage, Black Friday is also an important time for eCommerce stores: with an ever-increasing number of online shoppers, there is serious money to be made! Today, I want to help you manage your eCommerce store’s Black Friday by giving you tips for handling traffic, creating promotions, and maximizing sales — I will also be introducing you to several WooCommerce plugins to help you add relevant Black […]
Interview with Kiko Doran on Prestige Conference
The second-ever Prestige Conference — a conference focused solely around business and career development in the digital space — is scheduled for February 27-28, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This article discusses the thought process behind the laser-focused event and sheds light on future plans to offer even more new content and learning. The inspiration. For Prestige’s Founders Josh Broton and Kiko Doran, the inspiration for the conference came after years of attending, organizing, and speaking at WordCamps. “Both Josh Broton and I have an extensive history with the event circuit, and one thing we heard over and over was that people within the […]
Getting schooled in WordPress security at Sucuri
Like most of us, I consider myself pretty good at doing WordPress. I don’t develop themes or plugins, and I don’t know a lick of PHP — but I am a wizard in the WordPress dashboard! Don’t we all love setting up a brand new install? It never loses its magic: searching for the perfect theme, tweaking all the settings, and perfecting the permalinks. However, in all my years of working within the environment, nothing felt more pressing than the need to learn all about WordPress security. So when I recently joined Sucuri to help them with their content, I […]
The ultimate guide to Jetpack
When it comes to WordPress plugins, we all have our favorites. It would probably take you only a few seconds to come up with at least five plugins you install on virtually every website you create. You little nerd, you! I’m no different. Among my all-time favorites is Jetpack by WordPress.com. Initially installed on one of my sites for its excellent stats and analytics feature, by now it has a fixed position on my go-to list of plugins. However, even though I use it on a regular basis, the other day I realized that my knowledge of Jetpack is not […]

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