For the past few months, members of the WordPress Meta team have been hard at work redesigning the WordPress Plugin Directory. That’s why I was surprised to hear a rumor that the project was shut down. I reached out to Konstantin Obenland, WordPress core contributor, who confirmed a number of items. The first is that the project is far from …
6 Tips for Creating a Sexy Logo
Your logo is important. Don’t let an “expert” talk you into something you don’t feel “light” about. View original post at Entrepreneur…
MySQL and WordPress: Understanding How Databases Work
WordPress uses MySQL, an open source database management system, to store and retrieve all of your website’s information, from the content of your posts and pages to your comments, usernames and passwords. If you need to visualize it, think of your site’s database as a filing cabinet and MySQL as the company that made it. MySQL is a popular choice …
Automattic Pushes the Advanced WordPress Facebook Group Giveaway to More Than $70K in Prizes
Last week, we mentioned that the Advanced WordPress Facebook Group is giving away more than $40K worth of WordPress related prizes away to celebrate crossing the 20,000th member milestone. This past weekend, the prize value jumped to more than $70K after Automattic contributed 100 one-year long Jetpack Pro licenses to the prize pool. Jetpack Professional costs $299 per year and …
A New Paradigm for Building Customer Trust
How do you build trust among your customers? Follow these critical steps. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Hide Your WordPress Login Page From Hackers and Brute Force
Running a WordPress website can feel like managing a magnet for malicious login attempts. Brute force attempts to log into WordPress are so common there’s a page in the Codex dedicated to the topic. There are many strategies for dealing with this problem, and the best strategy is to deploy multiple strategies. In this article, I’ll explain how I implement …
Privacy Checklist: 10 Tips for Protecting Visitors to Your WordPress Site
Businesses of all sizes—bloggers, SMBs, eCommerce companies, large enterprises, and more—understand the importance of having a website. Without it, a business is relegated to the more time – and labor – intensive (and not to mention outdated) method of increasing brand recognition and converting leads through cold calling and word-of-mouth. Plus, if your brand doesn’t have a website, you’re relying …
In Case You Missed It – Issue 11
photo credit: Night Moves – (license) There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post. Stay Out of My Admin Bar! Earlier this year, I asked …
Top 25 Free WordPress Plugins and Why They’re So Damn Popular
Ever wondered what the most popular free WordPress plugins are and why they’re so freaking popular? Knowing the answer could help you understand which ones are a must to install on your site (or even what kinds of plugins you should be building). The more plugins you include in your site, the more you weigh it down and run the …
WP-CLI Contributors Work Towards a More Sustainable Future for the Project
Last month Daniel Bachhuber, maintainer of WP-CLI, opened up a discussion on how to create a more sustainable future for the project. He asked users the following question: How do I reduce WP-CLI’s bus factor, and more generally lay a foundation for WP-CLI’s long-term organizational stability? The bus factor is a term sometimes used in software development that refers to …