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Crowdfunding may be a great idea to gain support and funding for your project, however, creating a respected and successful crowdfunding project isn’t an easy task. As discussed in crowdfunding: part one, many hours of work go into not only planning out every piece of your crowdfunding page but also keeping up with marketing it as much as possible. Throughout the seemingly simple process of crowdfunding, there are some underlying struggles and controversies. Before launching your own project, it’s important to be aware of some of the caveats and stories of crowdfunding campaigns gone awry. The Good In a perfect situation, […]

On a recent episode of the WordPress podcast, The DradCast, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said that “when you think about it, we’re kind of building a web operating system.” This remark mirrored statements he made in last year’s State of the Word address about making WordPress into a foundation for mobile apps. Not only has WordPress itself evolved into a more suitable tool for app development, but there’s also a slew of new plugins and services available that make it even easier to build web and mobile apps. Thanks to these developments, WordPress is a relatively easy and affordable option […]

As much as version control has been an integral part of the core development of WordPress for quite some time, it has never been easy to integrate proper version control into the platform. As the complexities of web development have increased, version control has become ubiquitous on both the front end and the back. But managing databases, theme files and plugin settings across distributed teams is still a challenge. That’s why developers Borek Bernard and Jan Voráček began work on VersionPress, a version control system for WordPress. VersionPress approaches the problem by storing both your database and files in a […]

Wouldn’t things be so much easier if we could all plant money trees and have an unlimited stock of cash to use on whatever we wanted? You could create all of those seemingly impossible inventions and business ideas you thought of while you were showering. Of course, you could always have a bake sale or a lemonade stand to raise funds over a painstakingly long time. Alternatively, you could go visit every person in your city, plead your case, present your project, and ask for at least one measly dollar in funding. In the same design of the previously mentioned […]

It’s probably safe to say that everyone who runs a website wants it to convert better. Whether that means more email sign-ups, sales, donations, memberships, leads, downloads, or whatever it is you are trying to achieve with your presence on the web. But let’s be honest, do you really know what makes your visitors tick? Do you have any idea why some customers buy your product and others don’t? Why some decide to stay on your site and others are leaving right away? A website’s success—the customer’s decisions to buy or not, to stay or leave—depend on a variety of […]