The original Raspberry Pi was released five years ago and the micro computer product line is still going strong. The Raspberry Pi Foundation sold its ten millionth Pi last year and just released the Pi Zero W in February 2017 with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth. If you are among the millions of Raspberry Pi owners who like to tinker with …
5 Surefire Ways to Diversify Your Income as a Freelance Web Developer
Let’s face it, freelancing isn’t so great when it comes to having control over one’s income. There are “famine” situations when there’s just not enough work and times when the work just doesn’t pay enough. And then there are times when some paying clients simply disappear, often taking away a huge chunk of your estimated […] View original post at …
Clef’s Dead, Now What? 4 Free Two-Factor Authentication Alternatives
The Clef plugin made logging into WordPress easy and more secure thanks to two-factor authentication. But it was recently announced that Clef is sunsetting and now users need to find an alternative. So what the fudge are we supposed to do now? Two-factor authentication for logging into WordPress meant you didn’t have to fumble trying to […] View original post at …
WordPress Community Support Shuts Down WordCamp Netherlands in Favor of City-Based WordCamps
The application for WordCamp Netherlands 2017 has been denied. The camp, which held its sixth edition in Utrecht last year with more than 425 attendees, was one of the most well-established WordPress events in Europe. Yesterday lead organizer Marcel Bootsman published a post on the Dutch WordPress community site to explain why the camp has been cancelled. Bootsman’s post is …
How to Keep Your WordPress Staging and Live Sites in Sync
In a recent post, I showed you how to easily set up a staging site for WordPress on cheap hosting. If you followed the steps I outlined, you’ll have been able to set yourself up with a staging site you can use to test updates to your site, without paying for expensive hosting with staging […] View original post at …
WordPress App for Android Adds Better Support for Jetpack-Enabled Sites
Automattic’s mobile engineers released a major update to WordPress for Android this week. Last year the app’s users saw a growing disparity between the features available to self-hosted sites and those available to WordPress.com users. Not having the WP REST API in core was holding the app back from providing the same site management features that WordPress.com site owners already …
How to Add Medium’s Most Popular Features to WordPress
High-profile blogging platform Medium has lost some of its shine since one-third of staff were let go last, and this week announcing a paid membership subscription program. These business changes offer a solid reminder that companies come and go, and the wise content producer maintains a home on the web with a platform that will […] View original post at …
WPWeekly Episode 269 – Interview With Daniel Ha, CEO and Co-founder of Disqus
In this episode, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Daniel Ha, CEO and co-founder of Disqus. Ha explains why he created the service, what his thoughts are on large sites disabling comments, and the state of comments on the web. We also discuss the company’s monetization strategies and what opportunities exist to generate revenue around comments. Ha shares what …
12 Steps to Building a Small Business Website with WordPress
Setting up a website for your business can be costly if you are using professional web designers and developers. Fortunately, if you’re anticipating that your website isn’t going to be too complex with too many pages and features, you can design and build your site yourself using several cost-effective tools. In this guide, I’m going […] View original post at …
Data From Theme Reviews Shows Authors Need More Education on Developing Secure WordPress Themes
Last week, we highlighted the progress being made by the Theme Review Team in clearing out a 1K+ review backlog. In an effort to determine common problems with themes discovered by reviewers, Carolina Nymark, a member of the Theme Review Team, reviewed 100 tickets from 531 themes that were closed and marked not approved between December and February. Nymark cautions …