Ryan Holmes founded the social media tech company, which now has almost 1000 employees. Here, he shares how he did it and offers advice. Listen up. View original post at Entrepreneur…
A Thoughtful Guide to Picking the Perfect Themes and Plugins for Your WordPress Site
First impressions are everything. And when it comes to your online “home” making a great first impression can make all the difference between your website being a total success or a complete failure. It’s only natural that choosing the right theme and the plugins to go with it, are crucial parts of establishing your brand. But choosing the right theme can …
The WordPress.org Recommended Hosting Page is Revamped, Features Flywheel for the First Time
DreamHost, Flywheel, and SiteGround have joined Bluehost on WordPress.org’s new recommended hosting page. In mid 2015, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of the open source WordPress project, announced the page would be revamped. To have a chance at being listed webhosting companies needed to fill out a 40-question survey. 2016 Recommended Hosts Page This is Flywheel’s first time on the page. Flywheel, …
How to Upgrade XAMPP for WordPress Without Losing Anything
There are a lot of things to love about XAMPP, but the update process is not one of them. There’s nothing automatic about it, and you can go ahead and plan on hitting a few bumps along the way. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the process so you can get XAMPP up-to-date with minimal hassle – and without …
WordPress Accessibility Team Seeks Testers Using Speech Recognition Technology
photo credit: Let’s Read – (license) The World Health Organization estimates that 285 million people worldwide are living with some form of visual impairment and 39 million of those are estimated to be blind. Many people with low vision depend on speech recognition technology to navigate the web and communicate their thoughts. This type of software also assists people who …
Your Brand Is About the Feels
Integrity, reputation, trust and relationships are the components of the emotional side of branding. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Setting Up VersionPress for Git-Powered WordPress Version Control
One of the best things about WordPress is how easy it is to make sweeping changes to a website in just a few minutes. But with no easy way to revert a website to a previous state, you can lose a lot of work very quickly if you aren’t careful. VersionPress brings the power of Git to WordPress so you …
GitLab Courts Disgruntled GitHub Customers with Response to Recent Pricing Hike
Yesterday GitHub announced pricing changes that give all paid plans unlimited repositories and change plans to a pricing-per-user model. Individual developers are the most likely customers to benefit from the changes, but many organizations will see an exponential increase in pricing. GitLab, a competitor in the Git repository hosting space, immediately addressed disgruntled GitHub customers with a pricing comparison on …
Free High Quality Image Resources for Creating Professional WordPress Sites
If someone were to ask you to name your most valuable salesperson, would your website be in the running? While it may not be a flesh-and-blood team member, your website holds great value for your company not only in terms of sales, but also in terms of marketing. And a cohesive “look” plays a role in that. Take a moment …
Critical Vulnerabilities Found in PhpStorm, Immediate Update Advised
JetBrains announced today that it has released a security update for PhpStorm and all of its other IntelliJ-based IDEs due to a set of critical vulnerabilities: The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) flaw in the IDE’s built-in webserver allowed an attacker to access local file system from a malicious web page without user consent. Over-permissive CORS settings allowed attackers to use …