The current economy being a bit recessed across the US, a lot of people are unable to find jobs and are turning to entrepreneurship and starting their own companies instead. The dream of entrepreneurship has become more motivating than the goal of working for 40 years and living out your final years on retirement savings. There are a lot of different companies to be started: small businesses, service-oriented businesses, and startups. There is a bit of confusion about what it means to start a startup. Not all new companies are startups, nor should they be. Definition of a Startup A […]
44 of the Best SEO Tools and SEO WordPress Plugins of 2016
Search engine optimization is a complex topic involving many different disciplines. No wonder we have written extensively on this topic before, for example here, here, here and here. Especially website owners who take care of SEO themselves can use all the help they can get and do well using all the tools at their disposal. Last year we already looked at the best SEO tools and WordPress plugins for 2015 and now it’s time for an update. For that reason, below we will have a look at some of the most useful SEO utilities 2016 that will help you make […]
SEO in-depth: Understanding and optimizing the WordPress robots.txt
When it comes to SEO, most people have a decent understanding of the basics. They know about keywords, and how they should show up in different places throughout their content. They have heard of on-page SEO, and have maybe even given WordPress SEO plugins a whirl. If you dive down into the nitty gritty of search engine optimization, however, there are a few rather obscure pieces of the puzzle that not everyone knows about—one of them being robots.txt files. What are robots.txt files and what are they used for? A robots.txt file is a text file that resides on your server. It contains […]
How To Customize The WordPress Backend (For Clients And Yourself)
One thing that WordPress users most appreciate about the platform is its flexibility. Pretty much anything on a website built with it can be customized: Page templates, custom post types, widget areas, you name it. Yet, one area that is often still treated like it’s set in stone is the backend. Most of the time we concentrate on changing things in the front of the site but take the WordPress admin area for granted as it is (or as themes and plugins make it). However, the ability to change doesn’t stop there. WordPress wouldn’t be WordPress if you couldn’t also […]
Processing Forms with AJAX Using the JSON REST API
Update: For more information, you can download our free ebook, The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress REST API. In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how to write a simple plugin to create and edit posts using the JSON REST API. While this could be the basis of a cool, front-end editing plugin — with the addition of some fields and CSS, and the implementation of the TinyMCE or similar, of course — the point isn’t to reverse the engineering of the WordPress post editor, but rather to introduce you to processing form data using the REST API and AJAX. After you understand how […]
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