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Building a beautiful website for your business begins with choosing a theme — a design that controls page layout, widget areas, and default style. With more than 350 free and paid themes on WordPress.com, selecting a theme for your business website can feel overwhelming, but you can make it easier by focusing on these three questions….
[embedded content] In this talk, Matt will cover the steps necessary to build and ship new packages and modules for Apache and PHP. Presenter: Matt Dees
The WordPress XML-RPC is a specification that aims to standardize communications between different systems. It uses HTTP as the transport mechanism and XML as encoding mechanism which allows for a wide range of data to be transmitted. For us WordPress peeps, the most important part of this is “different systems”. WordPress needs to communicate with other…
Every day, people from all around the world start a site on WordPress.com to share everything from photos from their latest adventures to deeply personal stories from their lives. What motivates them to do so? We asked seven bloggers from the WordPress.com community to tell us what inspires them to blog. Here are their responses:…
Veeam Backup Availability Suite v9 Veeam Backup and Replication Scale-Out Backup Repositories – You now have the ability to group multiple backup repositories into a single large Scale-Out repository. This also offers you the option to add additional extents to current Scale-Out Backup Repositories. Very useful for when your repository is running low on space…
cPanel & WHM is one of the most powerful tools a hosting provider can have in their arsenal. It allows you to create emails and domains on the fly and gives hosting providers the opportunity to partition their servers. Most impressive is its ability to incorporate a whole host of other add-on features. In fact,…
Website design has become more flexible and innovative over the years. Greater flexibility can improve the over-all user experience, but it can also lead to user frustration. Web designers want to have a top quality product. As with all design elements, a top quality website should have both form and function. Unintuitive Innovations Read moreInstalling…
In this article we’ll look at some ways to use the WordPress register sidebar function along with some advanced tips as well! To get a sidebar working in your theme you’ll need to let WordPress know about it first – to make sure it shows up in the admin – and add some front-end code…
The 2015 edition of the Automattic Worldwide WP 5k (#WWWP5k) is around the corner! Automatticians already hit the trail at our company meetup last week. It was early — the sun was barely peeking behind the mountains in Park City, Utah — but the air was crisp and the morning was perfect for running a 5k. (Staying fit…
During my time here at cPanel, I have noticed that there were a number of tickets that I worked on in Technical Support where questions were asked about how to do things related to how to host a site. My objective in this article is to introduce anyone who is interested in starting a hosting…
[embedded content] Whether you’re running a hosting operation with thousands of servers or just a handful, this talk will light up the ways EasyApache 4 and our new MultiPHP support can save time, lower operation costs, and increase flexibility for developers and site owners. Presenter: Jacob Perkins
Looking for more traffic? Social media is your best friend. Every Facebook like and retweet helps you grow your audience and attract more customers. To ace your online strategy, optimize your website for social media. From widgets to share buttons, here are five ways to integrate social media into your WordPress.com site. Social Media Icons Your website…
Ever wonder why companies like Apple or Amazon have such a cult following or why people love to use their sites as “inspiration” for their own website designs? I was one of these people back in my early days as a web designer. The first thing I’d do before starting a design project is look at…
So you’ve got people coming to your site, which is an excellent first step. However, now you need to keep them there for a while. Here are some quick tips on how to make certain a visitor isn’t just going to turn around and leave. 1. Make Sure the Message Is Primary Read moreInstalling and…
Veeam Replication between vSphere 5.x and vSphere 6 Compatibility A customer wanted to know if it was possible to use Veeam Replication between 2 different versions of VMware vSphere. The version being vSphere 5.5 and vSphere 6. The answer is yes as long as the Virtual Machine Hardware is running at the highest level or…
Content management systems have steadily increased in popularity across the internet. Whether it’s a personal blog or a company site, CMSs are becoming the new web standard. WordPress, arguably the most popular content management tool, is the framework behind millions of sites across the web, including the former cPanel.net. Because of it’s popularity, versatility, and…
Netapp Fpolicy Panic [ad name=”sysadmintutorialsSquare250″]There is a nasty bug within certain versions of Netapp Data Ontap where if you have fpolicy enabled on any vserver within your cluster, the node can crash, including multiple HA pairs at the same time. Netapp’s Bug ID is 800390 and it explains the following: When performing certain SAN SCSI operations…
Launching a magazine? At WordPress.com, you can choose from an ever-growing collection of themes. Here are four free and four premium themes to promote a wide variety of content. Canard Launched earlier this year, Canard showcases writing and photography in a nicely balanced layout. You can display up to five posts in a grid on your homepage, and if you publish…
[embedded content] Learn how to fully customize the behavior of cPanel & WHM by exploring the cPanel hook system. David will show you how to create unique functions that will open your eyes to the limitless possibilities of the software. Presenter: David Nielson
There are amazing free WordPress resources everywhere on the web, and nowadays, you can accomplish almost everything you need without spending a dime. That said, there are also several tools and services worth paying for because they bring something to the table others didn’t. In this article, we’ll be going over some software that is…