Visual branding is an important part of building a business. However, in some cases, your brand fonts may not be available on major font hosting sites such as Google Fonts or Typekit. This means you’ll need to find an alternative means of displaying them. Fortunately, it’s possible to convert your brand’s fonts into website-friendly ones and embed them like any other. This process is actually less technical than it sounds, thanks to Font Squirrel’s web font generator and plugins such as Font Organizer. In this article, we’ll walk you through the steps necessary to prepare your brand’s fonts for web use. Then, we’ll show you how […]
Securing WordPress with WPScan
WordPress is the world’s favorite content management system used to power millions of websites, ecommerce stores, blogs, and web applications. Its ease of use and ability to launch beautiful websites with minimal effort has made WordPress a standard in modern web design, powering nearly 30 percent of the internet. But because of its popularity, WordPress has also become a common target for hackers. Securing and understanding the flaws of a WordPress website is a task often overlooked by website owners. However, with a handy tool called WPScan, entrepreneurs and web developers can easily evaluate their installation’s security and keep their […]
What to Know Before Starting a WordPress Plugin Business
WordPress powers over 28 percent of the web. With that comes 150,000 plugins and themes, which adds up to over 1.3 billion downloads on WordPress.org alone. It’s truly a powerful platform that can allow for a lucrative plugin business. However, when we examine the space more thoroughly, we find that only less than 5 percent of the products have a paid offering. You may think that these 5 percent own 99 percent of the market, but it’s actually far from it. The monetized items are only 22 percent of total active items. The vast majority of installed and active plugins […]
The Beginner’s Guide to Writing WordPress Posts in Markdown
If you’ve ever written a post in Microsoft Word and tried pasting the content into WordPress, you have probably experienced the irritating carryover of site-breaking document styles. In fact, any text editor with formatting options can experience the same issue. ‘Markdown’ is a plain-text syntax for writing articles without distraction. Agencies can streamline content creation by working in Markdown with both writers and editors. This standardizes the copy and reduces distracting visual styling issues. Then, after approving the content, you can handle stylization directly within WordPress. In this article, we’ll introduce you to Markdown formatting and how you can learn […]
9 Basic Social Media Writing Tips
Writing content is one of the most powerful tools that you can use to engage your consumers with the services or products that you’re selling. The art of content writing has extended to a vast array of platforms, including social media. However, the skills required to write for social media are different from those you would rely on to write an article or even ad copy. One of the hard truths that we should all embrace in this time and age is that most people out there rarely pay their attention to simple and raw advertising. Instead, what gets them […]
Everything You Need To Know About Semantic SEO
The Semantic Web is here. Those that are taking advantage of Semantic Technologies to build a Semantic SEO strategy are benefiting from staggering results. From a research paper put together with the team at WordLift, presented at SEMANTiCS 2017, we documented that structured data is compelling from the digital marketing standpoint. For instance, on the analysis of the design-focused website freeyork.org, after three months of using structured data on their WordPress website we saw the following improvements: +12.13% new users +18.47% increase in organic traffic +2.4 times increase in page views +13.75% of sessions duration In other words, many still […]
How to Save Time By Mastering WordPress’ Keyboard Shortcuts
WordPress’ ease of use is common knowledge. While the platform isn’t exactly sluggish when it comes to maneuvering around its screens, advanced users can speed up navigation through WordPress’ dedicated keyboard shortcuts. Saving a few seconds here and there when working on a large project will eventually add up, and this can save a lot of time when working with WordPress generally. Time is money, so finding a shortcut is always a good idea! Many of the basic shortcut commands are easy to memorize, and are included within your WordPress installation – without the need for a plugin. You can […]
Why You Should Absolutely be Using Plugins On Your WordPress Site
WordPress powers 28 percent of the Internet, and a huge part of its success is plugins. When it comes to expanding its horizons, WordPress has opened the doors for innovation in the realm of web design and development. It is a feature-rich and easy to use CMS that has acquired the attention of webmaster all across the globe. There is a plugin for almost anything, and you can make your site exactly what you want it to be. Let’s look at some of the amazing ways plugins can quickly and cheaply enhance your site. Creation of backlinks Custom WordPress plugins can […]
10 Reasons Progressive Web Apps Will Be the Future of Apps
When mobile first started out, websites had to create separate mobile websites which had less content than their desktop versions. That meant twice the maintenance for a not-so-quality product. We then entered the era of responsive web design, which still has its limitations. While native apps are still prevalent and certainly aren’t going away anytime soon, they present challenges for developers and customers alike. Over the past couple of years, progressive web apps have been on the rise, and they seem to be solving the problems that responsive web design and native apps have. What the heck is a Progressive […]
How to Host Your Open-Source WordPress Theme on GitHub
Publishing an open-source WordPress theme sounds relatively simple if you follow the steps provided in the Theme Developer Handbook. However, what happens once a piece of code breaks the theme, while you’re in the middle of developing another feature? Without a way to easily track and manage code, your theme may soon become unorganized and unwieldy. Version control enables you to track changes to your WordPress theme so you can revert to a previous iteration when something breaks. You can also work on new features in one place while fixing bugs for old versions in another. In this article, you will […]
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