Getting hacked is the kind of thing that you might think only happens to other people. However, that heart-dropping moment when you realize you’ve been hacked changes everything. The signals that you’ve been hacked aren’t always overt. For example, what happens if you enter your password incorrectly on the first few tries? You might not notice right away that your admin account is no longer available to you. It’s important to learn the signs that your site has been hacked now, to avoid presenting malicious content to your visitors without even realizing it. In this article, we’ll explain what hacking […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: National Cyber Security Awareness Month
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. Since it’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), we figured it would be a great time to talk about 4 easy ways to keep your WordPress site secure. If you are interested in learning more about protecting your personal cybersecurity, I’d recommend https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/. Love WordPress News but hate reading? My name is Doc and you’re watching Doc Pop’s News Drop. October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Which is mostly focused […]
How to Auto-Sync Your Git Repositories to WordPress
Many developers use sites like GitHub, BitBucket, and GitLab to automatically deploy changes to a staging or live website. For most developers, the workflow goes something like this: you develop a theme or a plugin locally and then host it somewhere — for me, it’s usually GitHub. Over the years, GitHub has become one of the popular choices for developers and pushing your projects to its repo has become an integral part of web development. Doing things this way can help you sync it up with a live WordPress installation. Syncing your GitHub repositories with WordPress manually is somewhat tedious because […]
Designing Demos for Your WordPress Themes and Plugins: 5 Things to Keep in Mind
As a WordPress developer, it’s important that you set your themes and plugins up for success from the very start. Spending some time creating a high-quality demo is a great way to give potential customers a sneak-peak of your product’s functionality. If you have a high-quality product, a demo is one of the best sales tools available. It helps to get prospective customers interested in your solution and addresses any concerns they may have. Ultimately, a good demo of your WordPress theme or plugin can make your product stand above the crowd. In this post, we’ll cover five things to keep in mind when building […]
5 Tips to Create a Human Experience on Your WordPress eCommerce Site
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
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