Editor’s note: This blog post was updated on June 27, 2018. Every couple months or so, Google seems to like to shake things up a bit and add some new criteria by which they rank sites. One of the most recent of...
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As someone who loves the command line, I’m always striving to make my workflow easier, more efficient, and just overall better. Hopefully, by walking through my set up and my recommendations for the best command line tools, you’ll find some nifty tips...
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There's a dearth of women in tech, but there are female figures in WordPress changing the game. Here's Suzette on empowering women in WordPress...
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Multilingual websites are becoming more and more common these days as WordPress becomes increasing popular and even more powerful with an enormous community. When starting out a multilingual site, there are a number of things to consider and some important elements to keep in...
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I love Sass, and I love using icon fonts. However, I do not like the limitations of using inline non-semantic, presentational markup to place these wonderful symbols, e.g. What if we could keep the embellishments in our stylesheet, minimize the HTML markup,...
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Recently Chris Reynolds brought up an issue he was experiencing with one of our client projects; he was struggling to compare the current active status for plugins in a multisite network between internal dev servers and a WPEngine staging site so that...
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Custom Post Type UI has been around for the better part of five years and is one of WebDevStudios’ oldest plugins in the WordPress.org repo. It has amassed over 640,000 downloads and maintains a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars. Since its...
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