Fans of artist Dennis Cooper are concerned about Google’s mysterious removal of his 14-year-old blog approximately two weeks ago. Cooper, a novelist and performance artist known for his controversial subject material, fears that Google may be censoring his work but hasn’t received an explanation. After contacting Google via multiple channels, Cooper received a statement about the blog being in “violation …
Why Slashing Prices Also Cuts Up Your Brand
Slashing prices as a strategy never lasts. Those customers you saw during a discount won’t return once prices return to normal. View original post at Entrepreneur…
8 Completely Free Ways to Steal WPMU DEV’s WordPress SuperPowers
When I started out in WordPress I was broke. Not just broke, broke-ass. Newly married, new baby, $6.57 in the bank, no paycheck coming in and starting a new online business. I needed to start and grow a site. I needed the support of a community. I needed it all at top quality. And I needed it all completely for …
New Plugin Adds Featured Audio to WordPress Posts and Pages
This week Nick Halsey published his new Featured Audio plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory. Halsey, a WordPress core contributor and a musician, created the plugin to provide a solution that would associate audio files with posts in the same way that WordPress supports featured images out of the box. The plugin works with any WordPress theme to display featured …
7 Gauges to Monitor on Your Brand-Expansion Dashboard
Making a name for yourself means you have to stay on top of your game. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Add a Hello Bar to Your WordPress Site (and Why Everyone is Doing It)
Want to boost your conversion rates? That’s what hello bars are all about. Whether you want to add email subscribers, advertise special deals, drive traffic to a landing page, or make a site-wide announcement, hello bars get the job done. What are hello bars? Hello bars, more generically called notification bars, are the bars added to either the top or …
Codeable.io Buys Back Shares From Early Investors, Partners with WooCommerce
Codeable.io, an outsourcing marketplace for WordPress projects, announced a new partnership with Automattic today, along with a share buyback from some of the company’s early investors. Tomaž Zaman and Per Esbensen bootstrapped the company for the first couple of months after founding it in 2012, prior to receiving a $75K investment from three business angels. After another couple of months, …
WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Custom Fields and Metadata
The default Page and Post content types in WordPress are enough for many websites, but if you really want to harness the powers of WordPress as a CMS it’s time to start learning about custom fields and metadata. This is the sixth post in our WordPress Development for Intermediate Users series. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development …
WordCamp New York City Takes Part in United Nations Open Camps Initiative
This weekend, WordCamp New York City takes place at the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology. The event offers everything you’d expect at a WordCamp including multiple tracks of sessions and a contributor day. Behind the scenes however, WordCamp NYC is part of a large initiative that includes a number of open source projects. On July 8-17, the …
The Only 3 Things to Do (Over and Over) to Make Your Brand Stand Out
Connect with customers on an emotional level, consistently. View original post at Entrepreneur…








