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Yoast SEO Vs. All-in-One SEO Pack: What’s the Difference (And Which One is For You)

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June 9, 2016

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Organic traffic remains one of the most important channels for website traffic and thus SEO one of the most important tools to grow your site. Not everyone is well versed in this area. Fortunately for us WordPress users, there are SEO plugins to help us out. By far the two most popular options are Yoast SEO (formerly known as WordPress SEO by Yoast) and All-in-One SEO Pack. Both of them do a really good job at making WordPress websites search engine friendly. Yet, which one should you pick? The decision between Yoast SEO and All-in-One SEO Pack is one that […]

Why It’s Time for Agencies to Fully Embrace WordPress for Client Work

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June 8, 2016

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Despite the high profile success of companies such as 10up, some agencies are still reluctant to fully commit to WordPress as a solution for clients. The platform’s roots as a blogging engine (and small business CMS) still leave many doubting whether it’s the right technology to build an entire project or team around. While historical doubts about WordPress in an agency environment were not without justification, the software is more than ready to rise to the challenge these days — and an increasingly impressive number of top-flight agencies have moved large parts of their development efforts over to it. In this piece, we’ll […]

It’s Time To Level Up Your PHP Skills

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June 7, 2016

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A few years ago I was working on a WordPress-powered web application that used several custom post types, each of which required a different class to query it. The classes included a lot of repetitive code because the queries and a lot of other things I was doing was different. Somewhere during this project, I noticed that the pattern I established and cut and pasted across four different classes was very wrong. I recently came across my first Carl Alexander article on polymorphism in PHP, which introduced me the concept of abstract classes in object-oriented PHP. I re-read the article […]

10 Common WordPress Errors And Problems (And Their Solutions)

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June 3, 2016

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In its thirteen years of its existence, WordPress has enabled countless people to start their own websites, careers, and businesses online. That’s a pretty impressive feat and a testament to the platform’s abilities. However, nobody is perfect, not even our favorite content management system. With so many people using the platform in different environments and for different purposes, things won’t always go smoothly and WordPress users will run into issues on the way. In fact, there are a number of common WordPress problems that most users are likely to encounter at least once. The good news is that with its […]

6 Reasons Why WordPress Makes Perfect Sense For Enterprise Companies

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June 1, 2016

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Though WordPress has come an incredibly long way from its blogging roots, there’s still a certain degree of skepticism in some quarters about whether it’s a platform that’s ready for enterprise adoption. The concerns are not totally without reason — at least in principle. Whether in terms of security, scalability, reliability, or just general ease of use, enterprise environments bring unique challenges to the table, and any underlying weaknesses in software solutions will quickly be exposed. In this piece, we’ll step through some of the most common objections that have dogged WordPress’ route to this potentially crucial market so far, and […]

How To Make Any WordPress Theme Responsive

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May 31, 2016

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Having a responsive website is incredibly important. This tutorial is especially important if you are still running a static theme that you want to make responsive. Doing so can often be easier than taking an already responsive theme and customizing it to fit your design. However, even if you are merely interested in learning how to implement responsive design in practical terms, this is the article for you. How To Convert Your WordPress Theme To Responsive Design First, we need to go over the basics of responsive design: Fluid site grid with proportionate instead of fixed measures Flexible images Implementing design […]

13 Years Of WordPress

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May 27, 2016

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WordPress launched 13 years ago today. That’s 13 years of blogs, businesses, and community. The CMS has dramatically evolved over the years and is currently used by more than 25 percent of the entire internet. Needless to say, WordPress has come a long way since Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little teamed up to make blogging easier. We certainly wouldn’t be here without it. Let’s look back at 13 of the biggest WordPress milestones over the last 13 years. 2003 — WordPress Was Released There couldn’t be any milestones without the biggest. Thirteen years ago today WordPress officially launched when Mullenweg and Little […]

6 Tools That Make WordPress Migrations A Breeze

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May 24, 2016

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Migrating WordPress from one host to another used to be such a hassle. Broken databases, missing files, and long wait times made it one of my least favorite things to do. Until I discovered plugins and tools that made migration joyfully easy. Here is a list of my favorite migration tools. Not only have I included descriptions about each, but which tool is best for what kind of user. If you don’t see your favorite migration tool below, please include it in a comment at the end. 1. All-in-One WP Migration Not only is this plugin easy to use, but it […]

An Introduction To PHP 7 For WordPress Users

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May 23, 2016

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WordPress has played a hugely significant role in helping PHP conquer the web over the last 12 years. While WordPress has whizzed through successive versions at an ever-increasing rate during that time, the language that still powers the majority of the platform has remained incredibly stable behind the scenes. Big changes are finally in the offing with the arrival of PHP 7, however, and major WordPress hosts such as WP Engine are already kicking the tires of the latest release and getting ready to fully support it for their users. In this piece, we’ll take a look at the development of […]

WooMattic’s Future: True Ecommerce Democratization

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May 19, 2016

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Since day one, WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg’s mission for WordPress has been the democratization of publishing. And when Automattic last May acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce, the popular ecommerce plugin, Mullenweg shared an idea to create a solution where it’s as easy publish stores online as WordPress has made it to publish websites. WordPress Democratizes Publishing Democratizing publishing is ambitious, and it’s something that WordPress achieves with grace. Users can easily spin up a free site on Automattic’s WordPress.com or for a low cost by signing up with a WordPress host. With thousands of free plugins to choose from, […]

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