Here are the strongest brands in franchising for 2017, ranked. View original post at Entrepreneur…
24/7 Live Expert WordPress Support…Now Available for all WPMU DEV Members!
Our crack WordPress support team is now on live chat 24/7/365 and our members are absolutely loving it. No more waiting on support tickets, forums or for emails…we’ve got the help you need for any WordPress issue right here, right now. And you can try it out entirely for free! Your site is a 24/7 […] View original post at …
maekit Acquires WP Remote, Plans to Add Cloud-Based Backup Services
maekit, a cloud-based platform that handles the business aspect of web design, has acquired WP Remote from Human Made. Two years after Human Made began searching for a buyer, maekit purchased WP Remote to integrate it with the company’s existing platform that caters to designers managing multiple clients. “WP Remote had remained a much-loved product with its users and despite …
Long Live the King: How Today's Entrepreneurs Can Follow Elvis Presley's Ingenious Business Playbook
What can my fellow entrepreneurs learn from Elvis? Turns out, lots. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Make WP_Query Arguments Filterable
The WP_Query class is very powerful. It lets you create your own custom queries to run anywhere in your WordPress site – in the main content, in the sidebar or anywhere else you like. It’s something I use a lot, either in custom template files or in areas outside the content such as the sidebar […] View original post at …
The Psychology of Brand Loyalty: 5 Key Takeaways
Is brand loyalty dead? Nope, not from this contributor’s perspective. View original post at Entrepreneur…
10 Plugins for Easily Importing and Exporting WordPress Data
Tim O’Reilly, founder of the terms “open source software” and “Web 2.0,” once said, “We’re entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.” No matter how much I love WordPress, he’s right. Software gives us the power to do, but what good is all that “doing” if we don’t have […] View original post at …
Unit Testing WordPress Plugins with PHPUnit
When you’re working on plugins and you start introducing new functionality, it’s good practice to ensure the existing logic isn’t broken. Without proper testing, the chances are high that simple fixes may snowball into a spaghetti coding nightmare. So in today’s article, I’ll show you how to take advantage of unit testing for your WordPress […] View original post at …
Early Results from NRKbeta’s Comment Quiz Plugin Show Readers Enjoy the Quiz but Rarely Leave a Comment
Earlier this year, NRKbeta, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s media and technology site, open sourced its comment quiz plugin for WordPress. The site’s publishers have been experimenting with requiring their readers to complete a short, three-question quiz before giving access to the comment form on certain articles. The goal of the plugin was to prevent rants and off-topic responses by ensuring …
WordPress 4.9 to Focus on Code Editing and Customization Improvements, Targeted for November 14
photo credit: Sophie Ollis WordPress core contributors have set a tentative schedule for the upcoming 4.9 release, which will be co-led by Mel Choyce and Weston Ruter. The development cycle kicked off in early August with Beta 1 scheduled for early October and the official release targeted for November 14. Choyce published a list of goals today that outlines what …