In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Topher DeRosia, founder of HeroPress. DeRosia provides an update on HeroPress and explains his new role creating WordPress training videos for WinningWP. Jacoby and I discussed the news of the week including, Press This removed in WordPress 4.9, Meta box support in Gutenberg, and WP-SpamShield removed from the directory. …
How to Easily Auto Update WordPress, Themes, and Plugins
Wouldn’t you agree that one of the greatest annoyances about working in WordPress is that little nag at the top of the admin dashboard that screams, “Update me!”? I mean, it’s not like you aren’t aware that there are updates that need to be processed. It’s just that it would be nice if WordPress would […]
12 LinkedIn Lead Generation Tactics for Your WordPress Business
Once upon a time, my LinkedIn profile was among the top 1% most viewed: Of course, this was back in 2012 when LinkedIn only had 200 million users. As of April of 2017, LinkedIn now claims upwards of 500 million users. Regardless, I share this fun fact for the purpose of letting you know that […]
iA Writer 5 for iOS Released, Web Collaboration Version Coming Soon
iA Writer 5 for iOS was released last week, nearly a year after version 4. This update is free for those who purchased version 4 from the iOS App Store. iA Writer 5 for Mac is still in the works. The free Android version of the app is receiving incremental improvements that will bring it to parity with version 5 …
7 Best WordPress Backup Plugins of 2017 Compared (Pros and Cons)
Let’s say disaster strikes your website. You could get in touch with your hosting company if your plan includes regular backups. But it might not be enough. Think about it: Your site goes down because a bad or incompatible plugin or theme broke it when you made the latest update. Your site goes offline and […]
WP-SpamShield Plugin Removed from WordPress.org, Author Plans to Pull All Plugins from the Directory
The WP-SpamShield plugin was removed from the WordPress.org directory this week due to what the Plugin Review Team has deemed a violation of the guidelines and a possible miscommunication. Two weeks ago, the author of WP-SPamShield and the author of the Plugin Organizer plugin exchanged contentious remarks in a support forum thread where each accused the other of targeting each …
Why You Should Share Blog Posts More Than Once on Social (and How We Do It with MeetEdgar)
Sharing content like blog articles on social media is a great way to build your audience and get traffic to your site, and no doubt you’re already doing it on Facebook and Twitter. But the mistake a lot of people make is sharing content on each channel only once. I know, because that what we used […]
Hummingbird Gets Full Caching (and You Won’t Believe How It Compares to WP Super Cache…)
Over the past year, we’ve really pushed the boat out on Hummingbird, our site optimization plugin, by adding pretty much every single thing you could need to boost your page speed… But there was one thing left. Caching! Well, as of last week, that’s no longer the cache (see what I did there 😉 because […]
Jetpack 5.5 Removes Syntax Highlighting and Gallery Widget for Compatibility with Upcoming WordPress 4.9 Release
Jetpack 5.5 was released yesterday with several important changes that ensure the plugin is compatible with the upcoming WordPress 4.9 release scheduled for November 14. The plugin will be able to shed some weight, as core improvements will make Jetpack’s syntax highlighting and gallery widget obsolete. WordPress 4.9 incorporates CodeMirror, which brings syntax highlighting, linting, and auto-completion to the built-in …
18 Quality Must-Have WooCommerce Plugins for WordPress in 2017
If you’re in the business of building WordPress websites for clients, then you’re actively working to grow the e-commerce economy–which is awesome! In UPS’s 2017 Pulse of the Online Shopper report, they discovered that retail is on the up and up with a 4% year-over-year growth. And when they looked exclusively at online sales, they […]