Your WordPress Site – view under the hood

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When choosing a new car, we focus a lot on finding the paint color we like and seat covers that fit our style. Everyone just assumes that the car is going to come with a functioning engine, air bags, suspension, onboard entertainment system etc. The same philosophy is often applied to building a new website … Read more

3 Plugins that we love!

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With cold winter weather in full swing and Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought I’d write about the WordPress plugins that make web developer nerds like us feel warm and fuzzy inside! WordFence Security In our opinion (and we’ve been doing this for 20+ years now), WordFence is the single best method to … Read more

What Does “self-hosting” with WordPress Mean?

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You have probably seen this term a lot if you are researching website options for your company or organization. Most of the choices at your disposal fall in one of two categories: “self hosted” and “builder” based. Your builders would be Wix, Weebly, Squarespace etc. All of these platforms are hosted and run by the … Read more

What are UX & UI? And why are they important for WordPress and Magento websites? – Design

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What is UX design? UX comes from User Experience. In simple words it is the way in which people interact with a website. The goal of UX design is to make sure that the user has a positive and intuitive experience when using a product or service. A positive user experience can lead to higher … Read more

WordPress Site Backups – Website Security

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Most people think that a Website Backup is like Flood Insurance – something you should probably do to protect yourself from a large scale (and extremely unlikely) disaster but do not want to pay a monthly fee for. I want to challenge both statements – site backups serve many more purposes and you do not … Read more

How to Write a Blog Post – WordPress

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WordPress is our favorite content management system for a whole host of reasons. It works as a fabulous framework for everything from eCommerce to Learning Management and has a solid architecture in place that allows it to be competitive with any stand alone web software for any application you can imagine, while still retaining flexibility … Read more

Basic WordPress Vocabulary for Beginners

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Do you hear people talking about WordPress and have hard time following the conversation? Do you have a WordPress website and are not sure what it’s made of? Below is a glossary of the most commonly used terms in WordPress. Child Theme – A Child Theme can be installed alongside a main theme. Developers will … Read more