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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are rapidly ramping in scale. They’ve been on the radar since at least 2000, and 2017 may be the year they become your biggest security concern.
When planning a WooCommerce store, you will have to answer a lot of up-front questions that will have a serious impact on the future success of the store. The setup of the store is a serious challenge because once done, changes to the setup and design of the store are always difficult. To customize WooCommerce product pages,
WordPress.com is a limited version of WordPress run by Automattic. Here, you can create a blog or website in moments without worrying about hosting and managing your WordPress. However, to use many more complex plugins and functionality, and to have the full breadth of customization you desire, you may at some point decide to use the full WordPress platform available from WordPress.org and “self-host” it – host it on your own server,
In this tutorial, you will begin to learn plugin development for WordPress. The example plugin will have an admin page with a basic form element and a submit button, and will perform the simple task of creating bulk categories in one go.
A lot of times, when developing a website or blog on WordPress,
So what does that phrase mean, “Geo-Targeting WordPress Content”? First, let’s back up and look at an example of personalization.
After a decade of steadily declining sales, Coca-Cola turned its fortunes around by simply adding names to Coke bottles. The company’s “Share a Coke” campaign created a personal connection with consumers that fueled sales.
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Are you thinking of making changes to your site? Perhaps an update or a redesign?
Before you jump in head first, you should know there is a quicker and safer way to do that.
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Welcome to WordPress! Starting your first WordPress powered blog or website is an exciting, and sometimes confusing, time. You are likely worried about making mistakes and also wanting to get up and running as soon as possible.
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If your WordPress website needs a particular stylesheet or JavaScript file only in one specific page or just under a limited number of conditions, there is no need to load those files everywhere on your website.
Web Icons
Users today are focused just as much on the visual design of a website as they are about the content they need from it.
Traditionally designers and developers have used individual images/sprite-sheets for their icons; these graphics were a series of pixel perfect images that would be used in specific parts of the site (such as the search bar,
You know you need a fast website. Your visitors don’t want to wait, Google rewards speed, and you just want to create the best site you can.
We previously talked about some strategies for speeding your site in our article How to Optimize Your WordPress Site’s Performance. One key strategy we covered in that article is caching.
