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Tell a Story With Your Data: 7 Data Visualization Plugins for WordPress

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Devin Partida

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Community

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July 22, 2022

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Data visualization can help you create a successful and informative website or blog. Organizing your information into easy-to-read and visually appealing content, such as charts and graphs, improves your readers’ user experience, increasing the chance they will remain on and return to your site. Data visualization can be a long and tedious process of coding for clear and appealing graphics in the correct specs. If you use WordPress, many plugins make the job much easier and quicker, allowing you to focus on producing more content promptly. Here are five easy data visualization WordPress plugins that make a difference for you […]

How to Use Local (By Flywheel) Without WordPress (3 Easy Steps)

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Development

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July 21, 2022

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Although you may use WordPress for absolutely everything, there may be occasions where you break away from the CMS for one reason or another. And if Local is your tool of choice for offline development, you might think you have to switch to a different one because you can’t use it without WordPress. Thankfully, that’s not the case. Today, we’ll show you how to set up and use Local to without WordPress. We’ll discuss what other types of sites you can build with Local, how to access the files and database you need to do it, how to save this […]

Press This: Unlock Revenue & Time With Advanced WordPress Automation with Jannis Thümmig

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Emily Schiola

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Community

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July 20, 2022

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Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl. I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you here every week on Press This. As a reminder, you can follow me on Twitter @wpdavidv, and […]

How to Import and Export Websites in Local (By Flywheel)

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Development

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July 19, 2022

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One of the great features of Local is its ability to import and export websites. This is, of course, useful to move a local site to a live server and vice versa or to move a local installation to another computer. If you do this with any other server (local or live), it usually involves copying the entire WordPress file system, exporting and importing the database, and changing the MySQL credentials inside wp-config.php so WordPress can connect to the database. You also have to replace the mentions of the old site URL inside the database. Working with Local makes this […]

14 Ways to Speed Up WordPress and Decrease Page Load Time Copy

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Featured

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July 19, 2022

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Don’t you love the feeling you get right after setting up a fresh WordPress installation? The way it loads within the blink of an eye, unburdened by any content, plugins, or sidebar widgets? Pure bliss. So, why doesn’t it stay that way and why the need to learn to speed up WordPress? Unfortunately, over time most WordPress sites will grow slower and slower as they accumulate bloat. Plugins, images, custom code—everything starts to eat up resources. If you are also one of those people who neglect basic site maintenance, soon it will feel like someone poured sand into the gears […]

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