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Nick Schäferhoff

Nick Schäferhoff is an entrepreneur, online marketer, and professional blogger from Germany. He found WordPress when he needed a website for his first business and instantly fell in love. When not building websites, creating content or helping his clients improve their online business, he can most often be found at the gym, the dojo or traveling the world with his wife. If you want to get in touch with him, you can do so via Twitter or through his website.

Why and How to Create a Customer Journey Map (5 Easy Steps)

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February 20, 2020

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Learning how to create a customer journey map is a great way to get into the heads of your audience. It’s a technique that allows you to create better websites, products, and services. Customer journey mapping also lets you understand what visitors really want and need and then give it to them. If you have never heard about any of this before, don’t worry. In this post, we will give you everything you need to know about it. Below, we will talk about what a customer journey mapping is and how to create a customer journey map for your website […]

How to Create a Video Marketing Strategy in 6 Simple Steps

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February 12, 2020

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It’s becoming harder and harder to reach customers with traditional methods of digital advertising. Companies need to constantly step up their game to stay relevant on the web. If you feel the same, creating a video marketing strategy for your business might just what you are looking for. Video marketing isn’t exactly new, but it has been gaining traction as a valuable and relevant way of attracting visitors and customers. While online users often completely tune out forms of advertising like banner ads, video marketing continues to grow as a promotion channel. It’s also quite versatile as you can use […]

WPvivid Backup Plugin – A Review (Features, Usage, and More)

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February 5, 2020

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Having a backup solution on your site is one of the most basic ways to ensure WordPress security. The platform also offers many different solutions for it. A relatively new contender in this area is Migrate & Backup WordPress by WPvivid, which dubs itself as “the only free all-in-one backup, restore and migration WordPress plugin”. To see what it can do for users and if it brings anything new to the table, in this review we will take an in-depth look at it. Below, we will examine its standout features and go through all of its key functionality so you […]

How to Create a Gutenberg Block with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

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January 31, 2020

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If you’re a new developer or DIY’ing your website because of budget constraints, this can easily feel outside of your abilities. However, thanks to the people over at Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), it doesn’t have to be. Since version 5.8, they have made it possible to build and customize your own blocks for the Gutenberg editor. In this post, we will show you how it works. We’ll discuss why building blocks through ACF is great, who can take advantage of this feature, and finally, how to do it step by step. Let’s get into it. Why Create Gutenberg Blocks With […]

12 (WordPress) Web Design Trends 2020 You Should Not Miss Out On

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January 23, 2020

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What will be the web design trends 2020? We actually asked ourselves similar questions several times this decade: 14 WordPress Web Design Trends in 2015 17 WordPress Web Design Trends We Can Expect in 2017 WordPress Web Design Trends 2018 – What to Expect in the New Year 5 WordPress Trends That Aren’t Going Away in 2019 However, there are constantly new developments on the web and everything continues moving forward. For that reason, we thought it would be time for another edition of this article. In the following, we will try to make some predictions about the web design […]

How to Do Page Redirects in WordPress – The Complete Guide

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January 15, 2020

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Page redirects in WordPress are not the most straightforward topic if you are dealing with it for the first time. Many people have heard of page redirects before but aren’t always sure when you need to use them or how to implement them. In the following blog post, you will learn everything you need to know about page redirects (in WordPress and otherwise). This includes what they are and why they matter when to use what type of redirect, where to apply them, and different ways of correctly implementing page redirects on your WordPress site. Let’s get going. What Are […]

10 of the Best Gutenberg Plugins to Extend the WordPress Editor

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December 23, 2019

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So you’ve made the switch to Gutenberg. How are you feeling about the new WordPress editor’s functionality? Maybe you’re looking for more blocks, an overall improved experience, or simply want to download a standalone addon that fully utilizes Gutenberg’s new features. For anyone seeking to upgrade and enhance the editor, here are some plugins that will do the trick. Some add entire sets of feature-packed widgets, while others make small improvements to Gutenberg itself, or even give you the ability to create your own blocks. The carefully curated entries below are some of the best Gutenberg plugins around. They will […]

Google Site Kit Review – Improve Your WordPress Site Hassle-free

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December 16, 2019

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If you own a WordPress site (and why else would you be here), chances are good that it is connected to at least one Google product. To check on your traffic and SEO efforts, this might be Google Search Console, Google Analytics or both. In addition, you might use PageSpeed Insights to see how your site performance is faring and AdSense for monetization. It’s exactly for people like you that Google recently released a new WordPress plugin – Site Kit. It aims to make connecting your site to these different services easier and allows you to display their most important […]

Updating Old Content: The Secret SEO Weapon You Are Not Using

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December 5, 2019

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Do you ever ask yourself what to do with old blog posts? It often seems like most people solely focus on creating new stuff, however, updating old content and refreshing existing pages is another great strategy to improve the SEO and performance of your site. The reason is that creating high-quality content is hard work and time-consuming. Consequently, if you only have a small team or are doing all of it by yourself, it’s hard to compete with the big blogs out there. If that’s the position you are in, re-optimizing your existing content might be just what the doctor […]

WP Event Manager Review – A Solid All-in-one Events Management Plugin

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November 19, 2019

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Including events on your WordPress site is a common goal for WordPress users. Whether as an event calendar, by offering event registration, or having a designated events page, there are many ways to include your organization’s happenings on your website. WordPress offers several plugins to achieve this. One of them is WP Event Manager, which you can find for free in the WordPress directory. It has all the functionality you need to create and manage event listings on your site. It also comes with advanced options that allow you to generate revenue with them. Below, we will take a detailed […]

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