4 Ridiculously Obvious Mistakes I Made Building WordPress Sites for Clients
It was New Year’s Eve in the port of Saint-François in the Caribbean. It was hot, and the town was buzzing with preparations for the evening festivities. And I was working on finishing a WordPress site for a client. Not a good way to be spending your time hours before...
read moreCompromised WordPress Sites Spread Spywares And Potentially Unwanted Applications: What You Should Know
Researchers reveal that some compromised WordPress sites are unwittingly spreading potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), as well as spyware. The spyware and PUAs are being sent to users through fraudulent browser plugins and bogus Flash update messages. The hacked...
read moreHow to hire a WordPress developer when you know nothing about code
Of all the WordPress users, I’m pretty sure the majority of them don’t know everything about what’s happening behind their website, e-commerce, or blog built on this open source software. Sure, some of them might know HTML and CSS; others are even able to hide post...
read moreThe 10 People in Almost Every WordPress Professional’s Life (And How to Deal With Them)
As WordPress professionals, we deal with certain constants: The havoc a missing semicolon causes, the panic of hardware malfunction, the seemingly never-ending parade of updates. However, some commonalities take the form of humans – both clients and acquaintances. For...
read moreAlpha Release of Bootstrap 4: What’s New in the Latest Framework Version
Bootstrap celebrated its 4th birthday on August 19. To congratulate the framework community on such a joyous occasion, the company made an alpha release of Bootstrap 4. If your web projects are powered by this framework, read our post to find out how you can update...
read moreWhy You Should Have the Latest Version of WordPress
In recent weeks WordPress plugins have suffered a spate of security vulnerabilities, prompting concerns WordPress as a platform isn't secure. Of course it's secure – when it's up-to-date. We look – in detail – at what you need to know. Read more here.
read moreThe End of The Web Hosting Industry
Just when the Web hosting industry seemed more stable and entrenched than ever, announcements last week by Google, Microsoft and Amazon gave an official stamp of approval to the technological shift that is about to send it all swirling down the drain, and the...
read moreGoogle: Mobile-Friendly Web Sites To Rank Better In Mobile Search Is your site mobile-friendly?
Is your site mobile-friendly? If not, contact us. [email protected] Google said that on April 21, 2015, Google’s mobile ranking factors will not only label your site as mobile-friendly, but will also use that to determine if your site should rank higher in the...
read more7 Free WordPress Plugins to Make Quick Work of Tedious Tasks
If you run your own WordPress site – or even a bunch of sites – let’s face it, managing it can become time consuming as you add new features, new users, and your content becomes more complex. Luckily, there are some great tools available – and all free! – that can...
read moreSmart Thumbnails with “object-fit”
So you've built a perfect grid with perfectly sized product thumbnail images, perhaps in a squared size, but whenever the client uploads images with an incorrect size, they will be squished into the rectangle, potentially being incorrectly resized. You could avoid...
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