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Take our FREE 3-Minute Quiz to See 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. Have you ever looked at your favorite website and wondered exactly what made it tick? Have you…
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Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do in the community. This week, I share my experience at the Codex Hackathon. We’re big fans of publishing here at WordPress.com. From fantastic content created by our blogging community and news…
Do you have notebooks full of elaborate doodles and handicraft projects stuffed in every corner of your closets? Do you automatically imagine better furniture arrangements when you visit a friend’s house for the first time? Do you lull yourself to sleep at night thinking about how you’d redesign your favorite cafe’s website? Sounds like you’ve…
I came across a few issues upgrading a site from vCenter 5.5 update 2 up to update 3b. I’m writing this article in the hope that if you run into the same problem it will save you hours of troubleshooting and support calls with VMware. vCenter 5.5 Update 3b Upgrade I had already gone through updating…
Q1: What is your background, for those readers not familiar with you? I’ve been developing on the web for over 20 years. Sometime between my first website and now, I finished my degree in offensive hacking, spent some time as a youth pastor, and came back to continue life as a developer. I’ve worked as…
Make this the year you finally follow your dreams! How to get hired as a total tech beginner.
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For almost a decade now, I’ve dreaded the question, “So what do you do for work?” Not because I don’t absolutely love my job—I do. But because it can be really tough to explain to someone who’s not in tech what my work actually entails. If I told people I did web design or development,…
Creating your own knowledge base on your WordPress powered site is easy with the The Heroic Knowledge Base plugin. In the last article Heroic Knowledge Base – Using the templating system, I covered how to integrate the plugin seamlessly with the newly released TwentySixteen theme and also showed some theme development techniques using the plugin’s…
You have a fantastic plan for a digital startup, but do you have the skills to make it work? A solid business plan is a must, but that won’t get your company off the ground if you don’t have the hard talent that the digital marketplace requires. As more and more graduates turn to virtual…
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Other types of spam are more interested in using your server space to send out requests, while some take advantage of users to send over harmful malware and viruses. Spam needs you, but you certainly don’t need it. In fact, when building a website on WordPress, it’s wise to implement tools to prevent all types of…
I have been trying out a few different configurations in my lab with a Netapp and Veeam setup running snapmirror and snapvault on the same volume. Traditional if you wish to utilize offsite backups you would use Netapp Snapvault and if you were to utilize disaster recovery you would use Netapp Snapmirror. There is nothing…
He’s accomplished a lot for only being 16 years old. Below is our recent Q&A interview with him as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What age did you start getting into WordPress development, & how long have you been doing it? I first got into WordPress development around 13 after I went to my first…
On this Theme Thursday, I’m happy to present a brand new free theme for your enjoyment. Revelar Designed by Automattic’s own Filipe Varela, Revelar is a single-column blogging theme with a fresh, modern look. Designed to showcase your gorgeous photography and complement your writing, it’s a perfect choice for photographers, travelers, and authors. With support for large featured images, multiple post formats,…
Dream freelance projects for every Myers-Briggs Personality Type. That’s right—permission to spend time on a personality test!
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Every year we release an annual flagship theme as a blank canvas for bloggers, artists, professionals, and business owners. This year’s creation, Twenty Sixteen, is a gorgeous theme that celebrates a classic WordPress layout yet injects it with new energy and precise, minimalist flare. Twenty Sixteen‘s customization options allow it to support any type of site — from a traditional blog to a professional web…
Taking on new web development projects is exciting. But if you’ve been around the block a few times, you know the sense of dread that accompanies working with a new client. Will they be a scope-creeper? Will they try to contact you at odd hours? Will they engage in conversations befitting of Clients From Hell?…
You’ve seen the newsletters from Adda sharing Skillcrush love. You’ve read (and maybe re-read. More than once. OK, several times.) all the Blueprint descriptions. You’ve watched a Skillcrush webinar or two and maybe sent a few questions to hello@skillcrush.com. You’re *this* close… But something’s keeping you from taking that all-important last step to get…
