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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.

10 WordPress Developer Skills You Should Invest In (2020 Edition)

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Development

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May 26, 2020

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As a WordPress developer, it’s important to keep up with all the new tools and skills emerging in your industry. WordPress is constantly evolving, with other developers releasing new plugins, frameworks, and build tools to make it even more robust. Learning these is necessary to staying relevant against growing competition. Below are a mix of ten tools to try and skills to invest in this year. Some are basic life skills and others growing technical niches. Learning to master these will help you become a better developer and find more work as you bring something new to the table. Version […]

SEO Trends 2020: 6 Predictions to Inform Your Strategy This Year

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SEO

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May 20, 2020

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If you run a website or online business, you likely already try to keep up with trends in web design, development, and marketing. But are you also up to date on the latest SEO trends of 2020? Do SEO tactics really change that often? The Google search algorithm actually updates every day! While the essentials remain relatively constant, keeping up with the trends can give you an edge on the thousands of websites only employing basic SEO tactics – or less. As search engines update their code and strategies emerge to take advantage of the new features, you’ll need to […]

9 Ways to Take Care of Your Mental Health During the Coronavirus Lockdown

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Community

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May 13, 2020

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Preserving your sanity during the coronavirus lockdown poses a challenge for many people. Staying inside for a prolonged amount of time can take a toll on your mental health. And why wouldn’t it? It has all the ingredients for that: Social isolation and lack of person-to-person interaction Loss of structure and routine Lack of exercise, sunshine, and basic necessities High levels of uncertainty about the present and future Access to doom-and-gloom news feeds and lots of time to read them I could go on but you get the picture. If you want to get through this and come out on […]

Headless WordPress: What It Is and How to Use It

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Development

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May 6, 2020

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“Headless WordPress” is a popular buzzword lately. Chances are, you have heard it thrown around the digital water cooler but aren’t quite sure what’s behind it. WordPress is an extensive, amazingly complex platform, but it does have its limitations. While it’s a fully-featured tool for bloggers and web developers that offers many possibilities, it doesn’t let you do everything. For example: Publishing content across multiple platforms Coding your website in languages other than PHP and Javascript Using WordPress as an editorial tool without the website attached Yet, all of that is possible with headless WordPress. It takes a little technical […]

CSS Grid Tutorial: Beginner’s Guide to Creating Layouts With Grid

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Development

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April 29, 2020

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For a long time, the one flaw in CSS was that there was no straightforward way to create layouts. Doing so always relied on using properties like floats and absolute positioning, which had their own flaws and challenges. Thankfully, this CSS Grid tutorial is going to change that. The CSS Grid property finally allows web designers to make two-dimensional layouts that are not only easy to implement but also responsive. It is the first CSS module developed specifically to solve the problem of making layouts with CSS. In this tutorial on CSS Grid, we’ll go over its basics and give […]

Coronavirus and Small Business: 12 Tips to Weather the Crisis

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Development, News

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April 22, 2020

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Small business owners are one of the many groups hit hard by the spread of coronavirus. Many have to close and can no longer earn money because of the lockdown. Understandably, this leaves a lot of people scrambling to make ends meet and keep their companies alive. In order to lend some assistance, we have put together a guide for small business owners on how to get through the lockdown. The tips below are aimed to keep you financially afloat, find ways to keep serving your clients, and work on your enterprise while waiting for things to blow over. At […]

DDoS Attacks Explained: What You Need to Know to Prevent Them

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Security

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April 16, 2020

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Every growing website needs to be aware of DDoS attacks, and other common threats that can quickly take down an unprotected server. They can be devastating if you don’t know what’s going on or how to deal with it. In this day and age, anyone who knows where to look can purchase DDoS services. As you become more prominent in your field, someone may use them to damage your sales or reputation. However, with the right precautions, DDoS attacks can be prevented — or stopped in their tracks. What are DDoS Attacks? A DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack is a sudden […]

Google Data Studio Tutorial – Basics, Beginner Tips, Next Steps

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Development

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April 15, 2020

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A lot of running a successful site comes down to collecting, interpreting, and using data. Many people already use Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and Google Site Kit. But there is a new tool on the block, Google Data Studio. I keep hearing good things about it, so let’s go ahead to see what it can do for us? So, if you are as curious as I am, let’s move on ahead. What is Google Data Studio? Alright, the first thing we both probably want to know is, what is this Google Data Studio everyone keeps mentioning? Let’s examine that […]

Landing Pages – The Ultimate Guide (Best Practices, Examples)

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Design, Development

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April 8, 2020

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Landing pages are an all but necessary part of marketing campaigns. Yet, crafting one that actually gets you conversions isn’t easy. There’s a lot that goes into a successful landing page, from the images you include to the copy you write to even the text you use in your call to action. Every little element can make the difference. Understand what makes a landing page work, and you can seriously increase your conversions and earn new users. In this guide, we’ll tell you the crucial elements of landing pages, show you how to build one, and help you optimize it […]

WordPress Version Control – Why and How to Use It (+Plugins!)

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Development, Plugins

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April 1, 2020

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Organizing a team of editors, developers, and designers is never a simple task. Trying to keep track of what each of them is doing on your WordPress site can seem all but impossible. What if someone makes a mistake and your entire website goes down? You won’t know what happened, who did it or likely have any way of rolling back without losing days or weeks of work. That is, unless you use version control. WordPress version control allows you to track everyone’s individual actions and changes on your site. It also allows you to store previous versions of each […]

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