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There are a lot of ways to promote your WordPress business online. If you’re willing to invest in them, ads are one of the quickest ways to get eyes on your website.

Is it possible to connect an Etsy store to WordPress. Having your Etsy shop integrated with your WordPress site can help you sell more products online.

Are you confused by GDPR, and how it will impact your WordPress site? GDPR, short for General Data Protection Regulation, is an European Union law that you have likely heard about.

Coming up with new ideas for your WordPress blog can be a lot of work. More importantly, you can’t – or shouldn’t – rely on intuition alone to figure out which topics will do well with your audience.

You’ve created your product and it’s in the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) stage. Now what? This week in The Weekly EDDit we look at how to successfully launch your digital product.

Voice search optimization is something every WordPress website owner will need to deal with. It will be an important part of SEO in 2018 and beyond. The emergence of artificial intelligence and improvements in voice recognition are changing the way we interact with (mobile) devices. Speaking is more convenient than typing.

Privacy policies are one of the most overlooked aspects of most websites. If you stop to look around most of the popular sites you visit, you’ll find they all have unique privacy policies.

Google has invested heavily in shaping the architecture of the web. Most recently, Google has partnered with open-source content management system (CMS) WordPress, arguably the largest, with market share nearing 59 percent and an estimated 1/3 of all web content published through the platform.

As a long time WordPress user, your WordPress dashboard probably feels like a second home to you. But, for those new to the platform, that same dashboard can look quite intimidating when they first log in.

If you don’t suffer from any impairments, navigating modern websites is a simple affair. The problem is, not everyone experiences the web in the same way. More importantly, some disabilities make browsing a site more complicated than you might imagine.

The internet has evolved. Privacy and security have now become a top priority for most businesses. Even the internet giant, Google has started leveraging more importance to secured sites. This means, if you own an eCommerce store, then this is the right time to add Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protection to your website.

You can set up a beautiful-looking WordPress site by simply installing a theme, and achieve more complex features with the help of plugins. While this simplicity is a great advantage, if it isn’t used wisely, it can really work against you.

If you are looking to purchase or invest in a website, you’ll need to do some background checks first. A site that looks good on the outside, may have some nasty surprises lurking in the code. The post How To Vet A Website Purchase: Buyer’s Guide appeared first on Torque.

PageSpeed Insights provides information about how well a page adheres to a set of best practices. In the past, these recommendations were presented without the context of how fast the page performed in the real world, which made it hard to understand when it was appropriate to apply these optimizations.

Because WordPress is so global, many developers work remotely. It’s so common in the communty, that Automattic closed its San Francisco office this year in favor of remote work. This article is about remote work and finding what’s best for you and how you work. Working remotely is very personal, and so I’ve shared how …
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WordPress powers over 28 percent of the web. With that comes 150,000 plugins and themes, which adds up to over 1.3 billion downloads on WordPress.org alone. It’s truly a powerful platform that can allow for a lucrative plugin business.

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.

“Job websites, they are one of the most searched kinds of sites out there. People spend hours on them on a regular basis, in the hope to find the perfect job that matches their profile.

Your website isn’t complete until it has a domain name. In real life, that would be akin to owning a home without an address. While people would still be able to come over, they would have a hard time locating your house. This means, one of the first things you need to do once you have your website up and running is to register a domain name.

When mobile first started out, websites had to create separate mobile websites which had less content than their desktop versions. That meant twice the maintenance for a not-so-quality product.

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WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts Chances are you use numerous keyword shortcuts on a daily basis. You probably use them so regularly that they’ve become second nature to you. Well, WordPress has those same shortcuts, and mastering them can make your life as a webmaster or blogger much easier. WordPress offers a wide array of shortcuts that […]
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