With more than 50,000 plugins to choose from, it can be difficult to decide which will be most beneficial to your WordPress site and which you don’t truly need. When you’re just starting your WordPress blog or website, you need to have a game plan of which plugins you’ll need to create a website that’ll attract visitors. There are several areas of building a website you’ll need covered by plugins: security, appearance, analytics, forms and surveys, SEO optimization, and much more. It simply depends on what kind of website you’re trying to create. Here are 26 of the best WordPress […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: WCEU 2019 and Plugin Madness
Doc Pop’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. In this week’s episode we talk about Think Like A Hacker, the new podcast from Wordfence.com and the newest results from our Plugin Madness competition. We also a feature a new video that the WordCamp Europe team shared with us about this year’s event in Berlin. Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. This week we have a big update […]
5 Best Practices for Managing Open Source Components
In today’s fast-paced software development environment, it is nearly impossible to keep up without using open source components, and it is estimated that 96.8 percent of developers rely on them. As agile and DevOps increasingly dominate the tech world, software development lifecycles (SDLC) are shortening. Open source libraries offer a wide range of ready-made components that can help you cut the time it takes to develop a product. Open source software (OSS) differs from proprietary software in that it is available to everyone. You can freely copy, alter, and share the code. You must still accept the terms of the […]
How to Speed Test Your Website (Metrics, Tools, Optimization Tips)
As a site owner, it’s important that you learn how to speed test your website. Page loading speed influences many things, from user experience over conversions to SEO. That’s why we have already covered how to improve it in these posts: 14 Ways To Speed Up WordPress And Decrease Page Load Time 10 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Website [Case Study] However, the basis of putting any of these tips into action is that you have a proper understanding of the current state of your site. While there are many software solutions to test site speed out there […]
How to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites from One Dashboard
Are you a business owner who has multiple websites for different aspects of their marketing campaign? Maybe you own an assignment writing agency, so you have a home website that explains your business. Then you have another site that teaches students how to write, and on top of that, you decide to start a blog with the purpose of personal branding. So there are three websites to manage in this case. Each of them comes with the need for backups, core updates, and plugin update tracking. Each of them has a unique theme, which comes with its own issues. Tracking all […]

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