Having a distinct and recognizable brand voice can really give your business a boost.
What to Do If You’re Exhibiting Signs of Job Burnout (and How Some WordPress People Cope)
Working as a freelancer is tough. Working as your own boss makes it even tougher. Yes, the life we lead as WordPress professionals lends itself to some awesome opportunities: flexible travel, self-directed schedules, and you get to work for the best boss ever (i.e. yourself). But there’s a fine line between killing it and killing […]
Camp Press is Coming to Iceland April 19 – 22, 2018
photo credit: Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove The next installment of Camp Press will be held in Iceland at the Volcano Huts located in Húsadalur Valley in the Þórsmörk Nature Reserve April 19 – April 22, 2018. It will be the first time a Camp Press event will be held in Europe. The Camp Press organization was founded to help attendees detox …
Put Data Front and Center to Guide Your Rebranding
Ace your rebranding efforts by incorporating data about customers, competitors and yourself.
Automate Just Got More Amazing – Introducing ‘Safe Upgrade’
G’day all and strewth we’re super happy you liked Automate so much maaaaate. And, as you did, we’ve doubled down our efforts to add in some pretty sweet improvements, starting with what we’re calling “Safe Upgrades.” Wanna take a look? Thought so 🙂 Before we get started though, if you’re not familiar with Automate yet it’s […]
From Building WordPress Sites to Selling Plugins in One Year
Katie Keith This is a guest post written by Katie Keith, co-founder of Barn2 Media. In this post, Keith shares the lessons she and her husband learned transitioning from client work to selling WordPress products in one year. If you’ve ever dreamed of quitting client work and earning passive income by selling WordPress themes and plugins, you’re not alone. Selling …
How I Defined My Brand Language Using This Secret Tool
In our latest episode of ‘Tough Love Tuesday’, brand strategist Jennifer Kem talks about how entrepreneurs must focus on archetypes to find a brand that resonates with their audience.
Speeding Up Search on Big WordPress Sites with Elasticsearch
Large sites with a lot of content can easily get bogged down when people try to find content. Every time someone uses the “Search” box on your site, they’re using MySQL queries to the database, eating up resources and slowing everything down. Check out our post 27 Solutions to 14 Forgotten WordPress Page Speed Problems for more […]
Google Chrome v62 Adds Support for OpenType Variable Fonts, Expands HTTP Warnings
Google Chrome version 62 was pushed to the stable channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux today and will be rolling out to users over the next few days. The browser is continuing to put the pressure on website owners to migrate to HTTPS. As expected from the roadmap laid out earlier this year, a “Not Secure” warning is now displayed …
Is WordPress Secure?
The question of whether or not WordPress is secure is complicated. While it’s obviously a secure enough platform for roughly a quarter of all websites around the world that are powered by WordPress, it’s not without its flaws. So, who is responsible for keeping WordPress secure? Of course, some of that responsibility ultimately falls on […]