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A Good Pick-up Line and a Good CTA Are Pretty Much the Same Thing

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Jessica Glassberg

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March 14, 2014

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When you’re trying to inspire engagement on your site, you want to implement the best practices to encourage further interaction, right? Right. Because if that’s not what you’re doing, then you should probably keep your thoughts in a private Hello Kitty journal on your nightstand instead of on the interwebs. And the best way to inspire a response is a well-crafted Call to Action (CTA). So, how does one go about crafting the perfect CTA? Well, think about your CTA like a good pick-up line; if executed correctly, you’ll get the reaction you’re hoping for. However, if poorly executed, you […]

DradCast Episode 036: Aww Shucky Ducky

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Marie Dodson

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Community

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March 13, 2014

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EusHhqknSOU Show Notes Host Scott Bolinger is the co-founder of Press Coders WordPress Themes. He is also the co-founder of AppPresser, which allows you to make native iOS and Android apps with WordPress. You can contact him on Twitter: @ScottBolinger Or visit him online: www.PressCoders.com What They’re Sippin’ On Brad—PC Porter (home brew) Dre—Stella Scott—Stone IPA Host Interview How did you start using WordPress? Bolinger’s development in WordPress started out when he was hired as a graphics designer at a small company. Throughout his time there he grew into a web guy—a WordPress guy in particular— and eventually left the company […]

Over 160,000 WordPress Sites Exploited by Attackers

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Marie Dodson

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News

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March 13, 2014

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WordPress users beware, hackers are using brute force to target WordPress sites. Attackers are exploiting WordPress pingback—a feature that allows sites to cross-reference blog posts—to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on WordPress websites! In a recent post on the Sucuri blog, CTO Daniel Cid indicated that all WordPress sites that have pingback enabled can be used as zombies in the attack. This was exemplified when security researchers discovered that over 160,000 legitimate WordPress sites—all using the pingback feature—were being used as pawns to run a large HTTP based—layer 7, or the application layer—attack on a well-known WordPress site. Dan […]

Dissecting WordPress: Customizing header.php

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Sue Laren

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March 12, 2014

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This is the second in a series of articles on the parts and pieces of WordPress, and how they go together. As I said in my introductory article, I came to WordPress from a background of hard-coding my own HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript. Learning the basics of WordPress—and CMS more broadly–took me a great deal of time. I learned how to store post and page information in a database, and then extract that information to build pages “on the fly” using templates–which results the WordPress page seen by the end user. This page has a header, footer, perhaps a sidebar […]

Calling All WordPress Users: WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 Needs Your Help

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Marie Dodson

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Featured, News

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March 12, 2014

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Yesterday, the first beta of WordPress 3.9 was announced, and is now available for testing. With a scheduled release date of mid-April, testers are needed to further refine the new software. As testers, you have the opportunity to contribute to the development of 3.9 and–more broadly–to the WordPress community. To contribute, simply install the WordPress Beta Tester, or download the zip file for beta. If you encounter a bug, you can report it in the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Alternatively, you can post an in-depth bug report of the issue you’ve encountered. Many bugs have already been reported, so make […]

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