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Ecommerce is one of many ways you can make money from your website. However, it’s much easier to do if you have a good solution installed on your web hosting. Magento is one such platform that comes with a variety of tools to help you succeed. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how…
Get Our FREE Ultimate Guide to Interviewing for Your First Tech Job Make a plan for landing your dream job with this FREE ebook! This is one part of our series on tech job interview questions. Try these 85+ technical interview questions, too. While some people might not find job interviews nerve-wracking, for most of…
Andrew Youderian • May 1, 2017 Selling a business is the ultimate goal of many entrepreneurs. It’s an enormous milestone, can provide a nice cash infusion and is an incredible learning experience. It’s also an extremely lengthy process fraught with land mines and emotional ups and downs that are not for the faint of heart….
You’re off to a strong creative start in 2017! Here are a few recent updates and stories from the WordPress.com community in April that we wanted to share with you. What’s new This Year’s WordPress Default Theme, Twenty Seventeen, Is Now Available “Great looking theme!” – Jason Thornberry Independent Publisher 2 Is Here Read moreHow To…
Your clients are going to want a say in the work you do. You are creating for them, after all. The problem is, sometimes their feedback isn’t helpful. There are times when feedback is vague: “I don’t know. I just don’t like the way it looks.” There are times when they want you to go…
Andrew Youderian • April 27, 2017 Brian Thron loves his job. It’s why he’s already been at the office for over an hour and it’s only 8 a.m. I ask Brian, the Marketing Manager for Yardbird, what he’s got on the docket today. “I’m shooting out a few emails to some social influencers to get…
Andrew Youderian • April 27, 2017 If you read through a typical eCommerce manager job description, you’ll quickly learn that it’s a robust role. An average day could start with a promotions meeting with the creative department in preparation for Black Friday. And from there, everything from putting together a digital marketing budget, overseeing expansion…
The popular Independent Publisher design is a WordPress theme that has long been beloved for its simplicity and legibility. So we are happy to announce that it has been improved, ever so slightly, with the design talents of Caroline Moore and Kjell Reigstad. Introducing Independent Publisher 2: Read moreHow To Choose A WordPress Theme –…
Email has been a staple of digital marketing for years. The return on the investment is measurable with even moderate effort for most brands. But every marketing professional today knows that one of the biggest challenges for email marketing has been competing with an ever-dwindling reader attention span. For years, the average attention span for…
There are several popular providers that offer both domains and hosting for WordPress. Since the beginning of the internet, a quiet storm has been raging under our noses between ‘one-stop’ shop providers and internet experts … domains and hosting together forever, or living apart but still friends? Oct 2020: We tested all the best WordPress…
I ran into an issue recently with vCloud Director 8.20.0.5070630 while trying to import a virtual machine from vCenter into a vApp. The Import VM into vApp window appeared, I filled out all the info and when I click on OK, vCloud produced a class java.lang.NullPointerException error. VMware vCloud Director Cannot Import VM to vApp…
We’re excited to announce that this year’s WordPress default theme, Twenty Seventeen, is now available on WordPress.com. Designed by Mel Choyce, Twenty Seventeen is a business-oriented theme that allows you to create a stunning front-page layout with multiple sections. The theme can be topped with a large custom header image or atmospheric video of your choosing. Read moreHow To Create a…
Andrew Youderian • April 12, 2017 Selling products online is one thing. But selling yourself is a whole other feat. It’s why writing a solid eCommerce resume has so many prospective new hires in a total tizzy. We’ve broken down the art of writing an eCommerce resume into seven easy steps. If you follow these,…
2017 is a promising time for young, female entrepreneurs. Women overcome obstacles and defy accepted odds every single day. It’s vital for us to inspire younger generations of women to succeed in their endeavors. Some recent statistics show us that women are growing increasingly more active in generating new organizations and new business models. Today,…
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: GIFs are good for more than just humor. Sure, you might know them most from social media or Tumblr, but that doesn’t mean GIFs can’t be a valuable contributor to helping your customers get more from your knowledge base. And to prove it to you,…
Education WordPress themes have a rather important mission, even though it might not seem like so at first. Basically, in the world where so many institutions, schools, and other organizations look for new and effective ways to reach students, good education WordPress themes make that goal a possibility. Kindergartens, schools, universities, specialized courses, social gatherings…
Within VMware vCloud Director you have the option of creating additional secondary subnets within an External Network. You may do this to introduce additional networks to your vCloud infrastructure while re-utilizing the same External Network vlan In my lab, I have an example of an External Network called External-Net-2 which resides on vlan 5. Within vlan 5 I’m using…
Learn how to handle unexpected WordPress problems, find the source and get your site back online.
When something goes wrong on your WordPress site, how do you react? Do you freak out, or have a mini panic attack? Don’t worry, that’s a fairly typical reaction from the normal WordPress user 😉 With this post I’d like to change the way you look at and react to WordPress problems 🙂
With WordPress, as with many things in life, we learn a lot when things aren’t going smoothly; learning to deal with technical problems pushes us out of our comfort zone and forces us to develop new skills and a deeper understanding.
Much of what I’ve learned in WordPress over the years has happened through things going wrong and me having to figure out how to fix it. Every time you face a problem and learn how to deal with it, your confidence is boosted and your problem-solving toolkit, and resilience, expands. The next time an issue crops up you are better equipped to handle it and you feel less panic.
Many businesses implement a knowledge base for their customers or clients – it can be a huge boon to customer service. What a lot of companies don’t realize is that a knowledge base can come in just as handy for improving their internal operations. As companies grow and evolve, they often find themselves with a…
When working with Joomla, there may be a time when you don’t want a certain extension on your site. Perhaps you decided you didn’t need the tool, you found a better plugin or it hasn’t been updated in a long time. Regardless, it’s to your benefit to learn how to remove Joomla extensions. One of…