Whether you’re working for a client or developing your own WordPress projects, you don’t need me to tell you that speed matters. A lot. And contrary to the well-known cliche, it’s really the lack of speed that kills when it comes to the web. If you depend on WordPress for your livelihood, then it had better perform: Ignore site speed …
WPCampus Online Scheduled For January 23rd, 2017
Earlier this year, a number of people gathered in Sarasota, FL, to attend WPCampus, the first conference devoted to WordPress in higher education. As the organizers continue to accept applications to host the event in 2017, the team is also organizing a virtual conference called WPCampus Online. WPCampus Online is an all-day event planned for Monday, January 23rd, 2017. Organizers …
4 Reasons Your Company Should Use Native Advertising
Your target audience doesn’t want to be sold. Give them something to think about instead, and you’ll help engender brand loyalty around shared viewpoints. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Advanced WordPress Development: Using Gulp to Streamline Your Workflow
No matter what languages you’ve used in the past to development websites, you’ve no doubt had to complete menial, monotonous tasks – image optimization, JavaScript minification, concatenation, compiling supersets like SCSS and CoffeeScript to their native counterparts, creating the final build… just to name a few. Fortunately, build scripts such as Gulp and Grunt can take care of these rather …
Take the 2016 Git User’s Survey
The 2016 edition of the Git User’s Survey is open and there is a little more than a week remaining before it closes on October 20. Jakub Narębski, one of the main contributors to the gitweb subsystem and author of Mastering Git, posted the survey on behalf of the Git development community. Narębski has created and analyzed the Git User’s …
New Upfront WordPress Magazine Theme – Say Hello to Issue
Another week, another lot of new goodies for WPMU DEV members, and this time round it’s a stylish, crisp magazine-inspired theme that works straight outta the box with our WordPress theme framework Upfront…. say helloooo to Issue. Our new magazine-inspired WordPress theme for Upfront. Check out a live preview of the theme here or find out more and download it …
You Are Responsible for Your Own Awesome
HeroPress is a wonderful site where each week, someone from the community publishes an essay that describes how WordPress changed their life, made them a better person, or gave them a new perspective. Most of the stories have a happy ending and if you’re a regular reader of the site, it’s easy to assume that the WordPress ecosystem is one …
How to Show Different Menus to Different WordPress User Roles
If you’ve already taken the time to nail down the perfect navigation for your WordPress site, the next thing on your todo list should be working out how much of your website’s menu should be visible to your site’s visitors. For many websites, there probably isn’t much need to customize navigation. However, if you happen to run a website with …
5 Signs It's Time to Rebrand
Changing your brand is literally going to affect everything else in your company. So, don’t do it on a whim. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Advanced WordPress Development: Using the Command Line
While mention of the command line strikes fear into the hearts of many developers, the truth is that it is an easy to use and immensely helpful tool for development. Once you understand how it works, the command line is straightforward to use and will streamline how you work, saving you a bunch of time. This is the fourth post …