The success of your brand depends on the bonds you build with content creators and influencers. Take a look at where the content creation industry is headed. View original post at Entrepreneur…
New Video Explores Site Building Progress from WordPress 5.9 to 6.2
WordPress 5.9 “Josephine” was released in January 2022, but that seems like ages ago when you compare the advances made in site building over the past year. Anne McCarthy, an Automattic-sponsored contributor who heads up the Full Site Editing Outreach Program, has published a short video that tours the important changes in WordPress over the past few major releases. The video …
A Brand Story Is What You Need to Share Your Entrepreneurial Vision. Here's How to Create One.
Everything you need to know about designing a brand story that will help you connect with your customers and make them feel like they can count on you. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Automattic Launches Blaze Ad Network for Jetpack and WordPress.com Sites
Automattic is bringing Tumblr’s Blaze ad tool to WordPress sites with its launch today on WordPress.com and Jetpack. Blaze made its debut in April 2022, to the delight of Tumblr users who will gladly shell out cash to get people to look at their cat or promote a game they made. It’s an affordable way to attract new followers or …
3 Marketing Trends to Adopt in 2023
Follow these trends to reach your ideal customers and increase brand awareness. View original post at Entrepreneur…
WordPress Performance Team Working Towards Unbundling Performance Lab Plugin
WordPress’ Performance Team met this week with the express purpose of responding to Matt Mullenweg’s recent request to stop adding functionality to the Performance Lab plugin which could otherwise work as a standalone plugin. At the end of December 2022, the Performance Team published instructions for how to test the new SQLite implementation, which was bundled into the Performance Lab …
'This Is a Further Sign the Brand Has Successfully Ditched the Baggage of its Past': Abercrombie Sees 'Better-Than-Expected' Holiday Sales
Abercrombie & Fitch’s holiday sales rose 1% to 2%, exceeding expectations of a holiday decline. View original post at Entrepreneur…
SmartCrawl’s Newest Release Adds A Handful of New Features, Plus Greater Flexibility in Options
SmartCrawl version 3.4 adds multiple keyword analysis, additional SEO recommendations, the ability to disable SEO & Readability Analysis in the post list, and more. For free. SmartCrawl has been SEO optimized from the start, but each new version further improves site performance while boosting your PageRank on Google. With automated SEO scanning, automatic XML sitemaps, real-time keyword and content analysis, …
Gutenberg Times to Host Webinar on How to Use New WordPress Layout Features
Gutenberg Times will be hosting a live Q&A webinar titled “Layout, Layout, Layout” on January 11, 2023, at 05:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) via Zoom. This event is open to WordPress users of all experience levels who are interested to learn more about how to use WordPress’ layout features when building sites with blocks. Host Birgit Pauli-Haack will …
WordCamp Europe 2023 Speaker Applications Open, Organizers Call for More Interactive Sessions
WordCamp Europe 2023 is being hosted in Athens this year with two conference days scheduled for June 9 and 10. The first day’s theme is “WordPress Now” (Everything that can be currently achieved with WordPress) and the second day is “WordPress Tomorrow.” Organizers have opened the call for speakers and are especially interested in scheduling talks that “empower people to …