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What You’ll Be Creating WordPress Gutenberg is coming soon to a website near you. It will revolutionise the way you write posts and create pages, so get ready to use it by taking our new course, Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg. What You’ll Learn Gutenberg is a completely new way for people to create content…
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You’ve made the awesome decision to launch an eCommerce store. Now…where do you build it? When it comes to eCommerce, there are two big names – Shopify and WordPress. By the numbers, these two platforms are the two most popular ways to build an eCommerce store, which might leave you wondering… Read moreHow To Create…
As many site creators know, it’s daunting to find images to represent the message you’re trying to put out into the world — especially if you don’t have the equipment or time to make your own. At WordPress.com, we’re constantly striving to make it as easy as possible to create beautiful websites that represent who…
Illustrations of any kind are quite a hot topic lately. Today, we will be expanding on this idea, and going over the work of one of the most world-renowned illustration artists. Noma Bar is an Israel-born artist whose works are simple, yet powerful. He has designed over one hundred magazine covers, published over 550 illustrations,…
Even today, backlinks are still the #1 ranking factor. That’s why everyone that does SEO is so focused on getting more links. In the last years, Google has done many algorithmic updates and that’s why some ways of earning backlinks that worked great a few years ago don’t work anymore or even can get your site…
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Find Out in Three Minutes (or Less!) If a Career in Tech Is Right for You Our quick and easy quiz will help you pinpoint exactly how to get started in tech, in hardly any time at all. A version of this article previously appeared on PowerToFly. Study after study shows that millennials balk at…
I recently tweeted out about the awesome boot menu option that NetApp has introduced in Ontap 9.x that saves a tonne of time called – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning. In this post I will show you what steps to go through when using option 9 – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning NetApp Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning…
Trying to make your WordPress site faster is an already technically complex process, further obscured by all the jargon you have to understand. Here’s an overview of some commonly used site “speed up” terms. I hope it helps demystify the process!
Browser caching
Imagine your web page is like a puzzle. The puzzle pieces are CSS, JavaScript and image files. When you visit a web page, the browser has to retrieve all those puzzle pieces from the server, then assemble them correctly to make your web page.
Browser caching allows the browser to keep some of those puzzle pieces in place, that is, stored in the browser itself (on your computer), so that the next time you visit that page, it doesn’t have to fetch them again from the server.
The purpose of browser caching is to make repeat visits to the same site much faster for the visitor.
Sometimes, you need to create a fully functional landing page quickly and efficiently. The best way to do that is by finding a suitable template and customising it to fit your needs. You’ll learn exactly how that process works in our new short course, Get a Landing Page Up and Running With Envato Elements. What…
If you’re in need of some VueJS admin templates (built with Bootstrap) then have we got something for you! But before we get to the good stuff, have you had the chance to check out our previous roundup of the best Bootstrap templates for ReactJS? Highly recommended! Anyway, VueJS has been getting more and more…
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of podcasts — their beautiful storytelling and engaging news delivery add a whole new dimension to the media landscape — and podcasters. We happily support podcast creators, from sponsoring events like Podcast Movement to supporting embeds from services like RadioPublic. Did you know that WordPress.com allows you to host your…
Early this year Google announced that it would start warning users when a site they visited was not using an SSL Certificate, and we helped you understand the reasons behind SSL Certificates. Today, let’s talk about picking the right one! No matter what sort of website you may host, protecting and encrypting the data transmitted over…
July is the month that brings hight of summer and so for this month’s batch of fresh resources, we have some hot new tools from some well-established as well as novice developers. The list has quite an interesting mix of tools ranging from Sketch library by the WordPress community which will allow you to create…
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Many issues that arise on your WordPress site will be plugin-related. Whether it’s a conflict between plugins, between a plugin and your theme, a buggy update, or whatever else may happen, the standard troubleshooting procedure is to deactivate all your plugins, then turn them back on one at a time until the issue reappears. This process lets you isolate exactly which plugin is at the source of the conflict. However, if you have more than a handful of plugins on your site, which almost everyone does, this can be a time-consuming and frustrating process.
Enter….. Plugin Detective
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Are you leading a team of designers or developers or are a team member? Then, you know the value of good communication and collaboration. Even if you’re freelancing, you still need to communicate with your clients. It never hurts to have a set or two of extra eyes to provide some feedback or advice. Collaboration…