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5 Tips to Create a Human Experience on Your WordPress eCommerce Site

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January 27, 2017

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WordPress is a fantastic resource not only for building your website but also extending to effectively run your eCommerce services as well.  Most business owners are using WooCommerce to allow their site to sell and handle all of the process items that come with an eCommerce business. It can be tough to know where to insert a human touch in the buyer’s interaction with your website. Your audience is used to shopping online and using stores that run WooCommerce in conjunction with WordPress. In fact, web-based sales are projected to eclipse $3.5 trillion within the next five years, according to […]

How To Analyze And Boost WordPress Performance

John Hughes

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December 12, 2016

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WordPress is flexible enough to create just about any type of website. It’s also incredibly easy to use, which means the technical knowledge for getting started is pretty low. However, because of this, when issues occur (such as inevitable performance drops) you can be left waving the white flag. Fortunately, there are a few steps you can take to preemptively minimize any serious harm. Depending on the makeup of your site and its content, you can optimize images, dig deeper into caching solutions, and tinker under WordPress’ hood to speed up your website’s loading times. In this post, we’ll present five different ways you can […]

A Beginner’s Guide to eCommerce A/B Testing in WordPress

John Hughes

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October 31, 2016

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Making changes to your eCommerce website design that aren’t backed up with real-world data isn’t an effective way of improving your conversion rates. You could hire a developer and have them make changes based on your guesses, but what if it doesn’t work and you end up losing customers? A/B testing your website can help you arrive at a design that your visitors respond to in the best possible way. The best eCommerce sites understand that there’s always room for improvement, and regular testing plays a key role in paving your path to success. In this post, we’ll show you […]

The Non-Techie’s Guide to Common Security Threats

John Hughes

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October 24, 2016

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Security is ongoing discussion for WordPress site owners of all levels of technical expertise, but it can be an especially hard area for newbies to get to grips with. While security insiders are fluent in the differences between common attack vectors, it can often appear as little more than a bewildering sea of hard to grasp threats for the average Joe. In this piece, we’ll be looking to fill in some of those knowledge blanks by briefly breaking down what some of the more common threats out there are actually all about. Rather than blind you with acronyms and white papers, we’ll concentrate on […]

9 Popular Managements Solutions for WordPress

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October 20, 2016

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Managing multiple WordPress websites can be a challenge for even the most seasoned WordPress users. With a management solution, however, the process is streamlined. Making it easier than ever to manage all of your sites from one central location. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular solutions. InfiniteWP InfiniteWP is a management solution for WordPress websites that works from your own servers. Thus, you download and host InfiniteWP from your own server and run it therein. Unlike ManageWP, InfiniteWP does not operate remotely from its own cloud clusters. The feature set is pretty standard, including backup and […]

7 Essential JavaScript Libraries To Take Your Skillset To The Next Level

John Hughes

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October 10, 2016

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It’s been a less than a year since Matt Mullenweg confirmed what many in the WordPress world had long been suspecting – JavaScript is at the heart of the platform’s future. The subsequent launch of Calypso on WordPress.com also served to drive the point further home. Naturally, all of this sparked something of a stampede among developers to finally fully engage with the language’s potential, rather than treating it as something they occasionally have to deal with on the front end. Learning to love the widely used libraries is a major part of the process. In this piece, we’ll help you jumpstart […]

Basics Of Creating A WordPress Landing Page

Brenda Barron

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September 16, 2016

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Landing pages are single web pages designed to persuade a viewer to do one thing, and one thing only. What that “one thing” is can vary quite a bit, but two of the most common purposes include persuading a visitor to opt-in to an email list or sign up for a free trial of a product or service. If you’re ready to incorporate landing pages into your content marketing mix but don’t know where to start, this article is for you. Let’s begin! 1. Study Effective Landing Pages And Learn What Makes Them Work One of the best things you […]

Developing A REST API App – Part 5: Adding Custom Endpoints And Extra Touches

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July 25, 2016

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In the last part of our series, we stepped through building the basics of our app using Facebook’s React, and put together a simple solution where users could serve up nuggets of timeless wisdom on demand. This time around, we’ll concentrate on two main areas: adding a custom endpoint back in our WordPress site to make life a little easier when we’re delivering large amounts of quotations, and adding some small extra touches on the front end back in React. As a quick reminder of the overall setup, so far we’ve got a local WordPress install running at http://walden.dev/ and […]

PHP Fundamentals For WordPress Developers

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July 21, 2016

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Like many WordPress developers, the first time I wrote PHP, I didn’t know anything about PHP or software development in general. As I started to tackle more advanced concepts, however, I struggled because I never learned the fundamentals of PHP that were assumed in the materials I encountered. Regardless of your stage in your process of learning PHP as a WordPress developer it’s important to make sure you know the basics. In this article, I will discuss PHP fundamentals: variables, constants, data types, functions, and scope. This knowledge will equip you to learn PHP and other languages, as most of […]

Everything You Need To Know About JavaScript And WordPress

Emily Schiola

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July 19, 2016

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JavaScript has been on everyone’s minds since The State of the Word last year. Matt Mullenweg’s quote has been repeated and parodied more than Kanye West. Though the request sounds easy, there is a lot that goes into learning JavaScript deeply. This guide will start you on your way to an understanding of JavaScript for WordPress. 28 High-Quality Tools For Leaning JavaScript This article is the perfect place to start. A brief description of JavaScript followed by some recommendations for great tools to make your understanding easier. The list is made up of online resources, videos, and books depending on your […]

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