When you’re ready to scale up your WordPress.com blog or website without limits, migrating to a self-hosted WordPress.org site is the best way to go. You can get full reign over your site’s design and functionality, as well as access help from people in the WordPress community (and us here at WPMU DEV!) when you’re […] View original post at …
Ultimate Guide to WordPress Migrations and SEO: Post-Migration Tasks and Testing
Moving a WordPress website is straight forward enough (if you know what you’re doing, that is – and if not, here’s how). But it’s important to be aware of the possible fall-out and impacts on your SEO. This is part two of a two-part series on WordPress Migrations and SEO. In part one, we looked at how […] View original post at …
WPWeekly Episode 255 – All About the Customizer
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Weston Ruter and Nick Halsey, lead developers of the Customize component in WordPress. I invited Ruter and Halsey on the show to give us some insight into its origin and why it was created. We also discuss its evolution since WordPress 3.6 and why it’s an important …
How to Get Your Branding Noticed
Your brand reflects your identity as a company. What are you doing to make yours stand out? View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Back Up Your WordPress Backups for Bulletproof Protection
Of course you back up your websites! But what if something were to happen to your backups? Do you have a plan B in place to cover that possibility? You may think I’m being alarmist, but I think I’m only being realistic. Recent events have shown that the only way to really keep your data […] View original post at …
The Value of Sponsoring a WordCamp from a Business’ Perspective
Tony Perez, CEO of Sucuri This is a guest post written by Tony Perez, co-founder and CEO of Sucuri. Sucuri is a website security platform that helps clean and protect websites. I would consider us a small mid-sized company. Our annual sponsorship budget is in the range of $300 – $400k per calendar year (CY). One of the industry events …
The 10 Biggest Mistakes in Personal Branding
Quit sabotaging your personal brand with these embarrassing blunders. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Customize the Free Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme for Business
Twenty Seventeen ships as the new default theme with WordPress 4.7. This business-oriented theme marks a noteworthy departure from the blog-centric default themes of the past and reflects WordPress’ broader transition from a blogging platform into a platform well-suited to creating all sorts of websites. If you plan to try out Twenty Seventeen you’ll figure […] View original post at …
Pantheon’s $100K WordCamp US Sponsorship Revoked the Night Before the Event
Nearly 2,000 people descended on Philadelphia, PA to attend WordCamp US last week. On the night before WordCamp US took place, Pantheon’s sponsorship was revoked and advertising materials, including the company’s booth, were hidden in a storage room inside the venue. The move generated a lot of controversy on social media and at the event. It cost Pantheon $100K to …
24 JavaScript Libraries and Resources for Becoming a Better Web Developer
In Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey Results of 2016, JavaScript took home top honors. Not only did it land at the top of the list for full-stack, front-end, and back-end technologies, but 55.4% of people now say they use it over other programming languages. JavaScript is an extremely powerful programming tool for any WordPress developer to have […] View original post at …




