Getting hacked has become synonymous with starting fresh, losing your content and access to your website. Thing is, you can have it all and a bag of chips. Computer chips. Okay, maybe not a bag of computer chips, but you don’t have to scrap your entire site you worked so hard on after it’s been […] View original post at …
How to Set Up a Support Forum with the Support System Plugin
If you provide websites to clients or users, then you’ll need some way of letting your clients communicate with you to ask questions or raise problems. You might be doing this already via your site’s admin screens – but what about creating a support forum in the front-end of your site? At WMPU DEV we […] View original post at …
How to Create a Web Design Style Guide
Designing a website can be a challenging process. Finding inspiration for a design that is both aesthetically pleasing and also functional isn’t always straightforward. Maintaining a consistent style across various web properties and pages can make things even more difficult. It is especially true after the launch of a site, when there may be multiple […] View original post at …
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 […] View original post at …
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 […] View original post at …
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 […] View original post at …
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 […] View original post at …
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 […] View original post at …
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 […] View original post at …
Developing WordPress Sites for the Censored Web
The invention and widespread use of the internet has changed millions of lives thanks to: Unlimited information availability at the click of a button Facilitating connections through social networking sites and email The ability to start businesses without a physical storefront (or the associated expenses), empowering people to offer products and services to almost anyone […] View original post at …