We host millions of sites across our CampusPress and WPMU DEV Hosting platforms. And we’re also behind Edublogs, likely the largest WordPress Multisite network in the world (if you don’t count WordPress.com). Over the past 11+ years of building and growing these services, we’ve evolved everything that we do. We’ve made mistakes, learned a good deal, […] View original post at …
Disqus 3.0 Beta Improves Comment Syncing
When we interviewed Daniel Ha, CEO and co-founder of Disqus, earlier this year, he explained why some users were reporting problems syncing comments between Disqus and WordPress and that improvements would be coming soon. “We may have taken some services offline to work on them which may have affected those who were trying to sync,” Ha said. Disqus has released 3.0 Beta …
How to Make WordPress Comments Completely, Totally Stop
For some of the websites you create, comments are completely unnecessary. Sometimes it’s a matter of not wanting people to comment on your pages. Posts are fine, but why does WordPress even think that pages would need comments? Then there’s the fact that some comments present a security risk if they contain suspicious links that […] View original post at …
WordCamp Europe 2017 Draws 1900 Attendees from 79 Countries
photo credit: WP Tavern WordCamp Europe was held this weekend in Paris, bringing together 1,900 attendees from 79 countries. Another 1,000 people joined via livestream from 77 countries to make a total audience of 2,900 participants from 92 countries. The number of attendees on the ground was about one third less than original estimates of 3,000, but everyone who wanted …
Making Money From Your Blog: Seeing the Money Roll In
If you’ve been following my series on blogging for profit, you’ll now have a high quality blog with a growing audience in a well-defined niche. But how do you turn that into revenue? In this final post in the series, I’ll examine that question. I’ll explore the options for monetizing your blog, and identify what our […] View original post at …
How to Add Google Analytics Tracking Code to WordPress
When you think about the greatest pairings of all time, you probably think about duos like Batman and Robin, Mickey and Minnie, and peanut butter and jelly. I mean, you can’t find more compatibility than those couples, right? Then again, there is the very modern duo of WordPress and Google Analytics. While they might not […] View original post at …
10 Lessons Learned From Five Years of Selling WordPress Products
This post was contributed by Rebecca Gill. Rebecca is the founder of Web Savvy Marketing, a web development, design, maintenance, and SEO consulting company based in Michigan and host of the SEO Bits podcast. Rebecca recently sold her Genesis Theme store to 9seeds, a store she managed and maintained for five years. In this post, she shares ten lessons learned …
10 Essential BuddyPress Plugins for Growing Online Communities
BuddyPress is awesome. It lets you add social media functionality to your WordPress site, turning it from a static website to a community, and all for free. Out of the box, it has loads of features – including private messaging, groups, sitewide notices and more. In fact, it has so many features that you’re given […] View original post at …
WordCamp Europe 2017 Kicks Off with Contributor Day Focused on Growing WordPress through Inclusion
photo credit: WP Tavern Hundreds of WordPress contributors gathered today with space for each team to have its own dedicated room. The Community Summit was held earlier in the week, lending a strong contingent of veteran contributors to this event, ready to use the short time they had together. With a high concentration of WordPress expertise gathered in Paris, WCEU …
Why So Many of America's Greatest Brands Are Unhealthy
Learn to hit the pause button, start from the beginning and do what the most disruptive businesses have done — focus on the individual. View original post at Entrepreneur…