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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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Sufyan bin Uzayr

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Developing A REST API App – Part 3: Choosing And Testing A Front End Solution

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July 11, 2016

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So far in our series, we’ve loaded some data into WordPress to play with and made sure we can access it via the REST API. Along the way, we’ve introduced a number of core concepts and simple tools you can use to start experimenting yourself, even if you’re not a tech whizz. This time around, it’s time to consider how we might go about handling things on the front end. We need a nice framework we can use to pull data out of WordPress via the REST API and display it. It’s almost certainly going to involve a JavaScript-powered solution. But which […]

4 Exciting New Revenue Routes The REST API Opens Up

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June 13, 2016

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With the WordPress REST API still staggering towards the finishing line, now is a great time to dust off the crystal ball and consider how developers might actually go about making money through its commercial use in the future. The next few years promises to bring a flood of new talent into the WordPress ecosystem, cementing the platform’s place as the dominant publishing platform online. We’re still in the early days of this next stage, but it’s already obvious that a much wider world of opportunity is potentially opening up to skilled developers. In this piece, we’ll whet your appetite […]

The WordPress REST API: The Journey So Far, And What’s to Come

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April 22, 2016

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