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Less is More: 3 WordPress Plugins for SEO

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November 21, 2013

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WordPress plugins are a fast and simple way to customize your site’s performance or modify its look. It is common (and tempting) for new webmasters to load up their site with dozens of plugins, but this practice may actually be doing more harm than good. I’m of the belief that less is more. My team at DigitalTraffic.com has been doing eCommerce SEO for over a decade. When we optimize a client’s website, there are really only 3 plugins that we always use. This is not to say that certain desired functionalities won’t require other plugins, but for the vast majority of our […]

Episode #28: Bacon Bad

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November 21, 2013

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Show Notes Host  The guest host of Episode #28 was Robert Neu, CEO and Marketing Engineer of FAT Media. Robert is also one of the hosts of the WPBacon podcast. What were they sippin’ on? Robert Neu was drinking a Fat Tyre Brad a Grand Cru Dre a Corona. How did the Robert get into WordPress? Robert started out in freelance, building sites. He tried Drupal, Joomla, Open Cart, and eventually realized WordPress made him the least angry. While Robert started as a developer, he later transitioned to focusing on SEO and internet marketing. He continues with this focus through […]

Sleek WordPress Concept Redesign by George Kordas

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November 20, 2013

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A responsive concept redesign of WordPress admin—featuring the dashboard,  media gallery, iconography, widgets, and colors—has been posted by Melbourne-based UI Designer and Frond-End Developer George Kordas. Imran Hunzai of iHunzai.com called it an “inspirational and out of the box design.” He explained: The redesign gives the feeling of the new iOS7 design which is more flat with a glassy look. On Advanced WordPress, a few people questioned the usability of George’s design. One member pointed out that the removal of shadows, bevels, and gradients makes it difficult to discern which parts are clickable, and which aren’t. Overwhelmingly though, people described the design as “beautiful.” This is what George […]

Evaluating Plugin Weight and Performance

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November 20, 2013

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I was recently asked how I judge the performance and relative “weight” of plugins when I am testing them for Tidy Repo. I wish I had a one stop solution for determining this, but it’s a little more complex than that—so I thought I might detail my process here. General Testing Setup For my local dev environment I use Vagrant, and 10up’s wonderful Varying Vagrant Vagrants box. This works for most plugins, but some need to be on a live install for one reason or another, so I have a site set up on my server as well. These are […]

Matt Report: WordPress Startup Challenge

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November 19, 2013

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Enjoy watching Top Chef, Project Runway, or The Apprentice? Love WordPress? We’ve got just the show for you. Episode 1 On November 8, 2013, “hopeful motivator” Matt Medeiros—of Matt Report and Slocum Design Studio—produced the first episode of Matt Report: WordPress Startup Challenge. Matt invited a cast of early-stage WordPress startups to pitch their new product or service to a panel of WordPress entrepreneurs. Judges It was an exciting first episode, featuring the wise words of 3 seasoned WordPress judges—Syed Balkhi, the founder of WPBeginner, Eric Hamm of CobaltApps, and Bill Erickson, a WordPress Engineer. Contestants The 4 contestants for the […]

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