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Google Officially Releases Mobile Friendly Labels

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November 19, 2014

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Yesterday Google officially announced the latest addition to its search engine results pages: mobile friendly labels. With the number of mobile users constantly on the rise, it is little surprise the latest changes were implemented with mobile users in mind. Creating a mobile-friendly experience is hardly groundbreaking — webmasters have long been embracing responsive designs to cater to mobile users, and Google already penalizes websites that aren’t optimized for mobile devices. However, the latest announcement signals a serious commitment to mobile users, and this could have repercussions for the millions of WordPress users around the globe. What are the changes? […]

Building a loyal community by adding a forum to your website

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November 18, 2014

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If you are able to build a loyal following for your website, success usually follows: fans of your site are more likely to share your content on social media, visit regularly, and buy whatever it is you’re selling. As a result, building a community around your website is a good long term target for all aspiring webmasters — which is easier said than done, of course! How do you build this community? Awesome content and a user-friendly website are musts, but you also need to cultivate a higher level of engagement among visitors. Encouraging an active comments section is a […]

Fixing the White Screen of Death

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Al Davis

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November 18, 2014

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Whoever wrote the now famous quote “there are no certainties in life beyond death and taxes” clearly never had a WordPress site; because somewhere, sometime, when you least expect it (and most likely when it is least convenient), you will go to perform what appears to be a minor upgrade of a plugin or theme and your site will completely vanish — poof, gone from the Internet. If you have experienced this, relax, all is not lost, you’re just experiencing the white screen of death. What is the white screen of death? First, let’s clarify what we are talking about. The most […]

What You Need to Know about Starting Your Own WordPress Business

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November 17, 2014

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In the 2014 State of the Word, Matt Mullenweg revealed an interesting insight from this year’s WordPress development survey: Of the people who took part in the survey, 25 percent made their living entirely through WordPress. Twenty-five freakin’ percent! Almost 7,700 people! And that is just a small sample of WordPress users. Isn’t it awesome that WordPress has evolved to the point where people can feed their families with its help? That it allows them to build a career they love and work with something that they believe in? I mean, who would have thought? Maybe you are thinking about doing the […]

WordPress Community Shares Thoughts on Microsoft’s Open Source News

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November 13, 2014

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On Wednesday, S. Somasegar, the corporate vice president of the developer division at Microsoft, announced that Microsoft is opening up access to .NET and Visual Studio — a move that will lead to universal access of Microsoft’s industry-leading platform and tools. In the coming months Microsoft plans to continue to open source the full server-side .NET Core Stack: ASP.NET 5 down, the Core Runtime, and Framework, Somasegar said. In addition, the open source .NET will be expanded to run on Linux and Mac OS X in addition to Windows. As of Wednesday, several components of the core .NET framework have been released and […]

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