Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2017
Is freelancing all it’s cracked up to be? Sure, it is! But it takes a lot of hard work. And I should know. I started freelancing in 2004 when I was 20 to help pay for college. My very first paying writing gig was an article for a teen arts magazine about Irish dancing. I’ve […] View original post at …
Shopify’s official plugin for WordPress was removed from the plugin directory this week. The plugin allowed users to create “Buy Buttons” for products from their Shopify stores and insert them into WordPress posts and pages using a shortcode. It was built by WebDevStudios and had approximately 9,000 active installations before it was removed. Shopify’s documentation says the plugin has been …
Knowing your business doesn’t mean you know how to market your business but there is help available. View original post at Entrepreneur…
There are currently about 3 billion smartphone users worldwide. Even if your site only taps into the tiniest fraction of those global users, I’m willing to bet there’s a significant portion of mobile visitors that comprise your overall site traffic. Why do I say this? Because in the U.S. alone, smartphone users access the Internet, […] View original post at …
Take, for instance, what happened with Tidy Cats litter. View original post at Entrepreneur…
It’s time to start optimizing your images for lossy compression if you haven’t already because Google PageSpeed Insights has quietly started recommending this form of image optimization. Google has updated the documentation for its popular pagespeed insights tool to include lossy image compression. Fortunately, you can compress the images on your WordPress website and go lossy in just […] View original post at …
WordCamp Europe 2017 organizers are counting down 50 days until the largest planned WordPress event to date. Speaker announcements continue to roll out and the recommended hotels are getting booked up at the height of tourist season. As of yesterday, more than 300 of the 500 tickets for Contributor Day have been claimed. This year organizers are experimenting with sponsor …
Sometimes the best way to promote your business is to promote yourself. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Recently, I showed you how to create a staff intranet using the BuddyPress social networking plugin. The tutorial walked you through setting everything up, but your intranet won’t be a truly useful tool unless you populate it and manage it. So that’s what we’re going to cover today. In this post, I’ll follow on from […] View original post at …
Over the weekend, Matt Mullenweg announced that the upcoming WordPress 4.8 release will drop support for IE versions 8, 9, and 10. Core contributors have been discussing browser support for the past two months in relationship to setting technical requirements for the new editor. Microsoft discontinued support for IE 8, 9, and 10 in January 2016, which means these versions …
