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Setka Editor – A New Approach to Styling WordPress Content
If you want to engage the readers on your site, you need to go beyond mere words on the page. Style and presentation matter, which is one reason for the explosion of page builders in the WordPress ecosystem. Setka Editor, the tool I’m reviewing today, is born from that same impetus – from the desire…
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My Role: Gordon Forsythe
Title of the day: Software Architect of Awesomeness Hi, I’m Gordon Forsythe and I’m a software developer. I’ve been a professional programmer for around 20 years. In the various jobs I’ve had, I’ve worn many hats and been involved in many industries, including healthcare practice management & insurance, real estate, education and some things I’d…
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Enterprise Website Development: 7 Critical Considerations for Choosing WordPress
Building (or rebuilding) a venture site is, by definition, a colossal undertaking. The exact opposite thing you need is to put your venture’s assets into the wrong system, which could set you back a significant number of dollars and innumerable squandered hours. Why Choose WordPress for Enterprise-Level Development? WordPress is the top Content Management System…
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Making Remote Work, Work
Pagely is a distributed, location-independent company. We have employees around the globe, and while a chunk of our folks are in the Phoenix area, the majority live and work elsewhere. It’s an amazing gift to be able to do your job from anywhere in the world. I chose to embrace the idea and take it…
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Our Lean Startup
There are a lot of misconceptions about lean startups. This is a great introduction to the nuances of the topic, with concepts we subscribe to. However in the context of this post, I’ll equate “lean” practices to bootstrapping – or the efficient use of resources. How did Pagely evolve from a Managed WordPress Hosting company…
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Leaders in WordPress Series: Ben Pines and Elementor Page Builder
Welcome to the first post in our Leaders in WordPress Series. In this series, we will feature individuals and products in the WordPress community who illustrate leadership and innovation. We’ll be talking about how they made their way in the WordPress space, how they’re making their own unique contributions and what they hope to do…
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My Role: Brian Feeley
Brian Feeley Title: WordPress Support Engineer Who am I? In 1996, I started a high school class doing web design hosted on Geocities. I spent many years as a Business Solutions Analyst doing contract work. Then, I evolved back into web design and large scale hosting support. I’ve always had a passion for PHP and…
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A Quick Guide to Hiding the WordPress Login Page
Want to frustrate hackers with a good ‘ole fashioned game of hide and seek? If so, hiding your WordPress login page is a great way to secure your site from both targeted hacks and automated brute-force attacks. In this post, I’ll dig into two different ways to hide your login page: The easy way –…
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The Best Plagiarism Checker Tools for WordPress and Beyond
From famous cases of forgery to instances of accidental self-plagiarism, anyone can become a victim of content theft in one way or another. Anytime you publish original content online, you become vulnerable to the threat of being plagiarized. You also increase the risk of unknowingly plagiarizing someone else. To protect yourself and your brand from…
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Centralizing WordPress Code with a Theme Wrapper, Custom Actions and Layout Classes
I’ve been developing WordPress themes and plugins for the past 6 years, and in that time, I’ve learned a lot about how to efficiently centralize and organize WordPress theme files. For a long time, I thought that using Template Files was the right way to organize my WordPress theme– just whip up a post-type-specific template-file,…