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This Theme Thursday, we’re introducing a new free theme: Dyad. Dyad pairs text and images in a balanced, dynamic layout, making it perfect for blogs where words and photographs need equal weight. Featured Images are displayed in different sizes and dimensions, depending on screen size and device. Read moreHow To Create a Multilingual Online Store with WordPressDyad is a fork…
Dig through little-known settings and simple changes that will ensure email delivery and keep your server online in high-traffic situations. Presenter: Tristan Wallace
What makes a great blog post? We all have our pet criteria: sharp prose. Enlightening content. Stunning photos. (“Lots of GIFs?” Sure, why not?) Beyond its style or tone, a standout post invites us to take a peek into another person’s home or field of expertise, and offers a glimpse of that individual’s mind at work. The five recent…
We’re less than a month away from the inaugural WordCamp US, the largest WordPress conference in the world. Join us in Philadelphia for two days of informative sessions and stimulating conversations with everyone from blogging newbies to the most experienced WordPress developers in the world. WCUS will be on December 4–5 (with Contributor Day on…
I’ve already shared some of the upcoming features of PHP 7, in this article I thought I’d take a look at some of the bad patterns we should stop using as we switch to the lightning fast PHP 7. And don’t forget to check out our new mega-benchmark of the final version of PHP 7.2….
When you create a free website on WordPress.com, your site’s default address will look something like example.wordpress.com. When you’re ready to build your professional presence, buying a custom domain — such as yourgroovydomain.com — is a great next step to personalizing your site and carving out a space for your business online. You can register a domain…
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m happy to present a new free theme in our collection, Button. Button Button is a theme that’s as cute as its name. With detailed accents, featured images, gallery slideshows, and a soft color palette, Button is designed with crafty blogs in mind. Show off your sewing skills, chronicle your…
You may own a large corporation or a small business, but campaigns to niche markets can be valuable additions to your marketing tool set. However, niche marketing requires a different campaign than mass marketing does. When you prepare such a campaign, consider and account for these differences. Audience Characteristics Read moreInstalling and Configuring your OnApp…
Veeam Backup and Replication RPC error:Access is denied. Code: 5 Veeam Backup and Replication setup with application aware processing requires a user account that has admin access to the virtual machines you wish to backup. The user account must be in the format domainuser and not user@domain.local. If your user account is in the format…
If you’re thinking about developing plugins for cPanel & WHM or Manage2, then this is your chance to see what’s possible. Sarah will review the wealth of tools available in cPanel’s SDK documentation. Presenter: Sarah Kiniry
Last week we asked the WordPress.com community to join us for 5 km of walking, jogging, running, or hiking as part of our annual Automattic Worldwide WordPress 5K. The response was fabulous — check out some stories and photos from bloggers who participated around the world. Surprises on the trail With a bald eagle rumoured…
As a content strategist, I’m always searching for innovative ways to think about and market usable, intelligent content. This is particularly vital when communicating highly technical information. It can be difficult for hosting providers and businesses in general to stand out from the pack so I thought I’d share my new favorite content marketing hack….
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…