Category: WordPress Tips
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Hosting Options, Not Mandates. Deploy and Stage WordPress Your Way.
Inside the WordPress developer community there is the mantra “Decisions not Options” which when applied to the UX/UI of the WordPress application attempts to streamline the user experience by making sensible choices on behalf the user and reducing confusion and clutter. Every time you give a user an option, you are asking them to make…
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How To Create Accessible WordPress Websites
What is Web Accessibility And How To Create Accessible Websites? According to the World Health Organization, 285 million people have vision impairments and around 15 percent of the world’s population, or estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities. As websites and mobile applications have grown rich and creative, they have become less accessible to these…
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Pagely management plugin now in full release.
We previewed our new hosting management plugin a while ago, and today we are happy to announce it is now available on all Pagely hosted sites. We started with a small beta group of customer’s and slowly rolled it out across the system over a number of weeks. Tell me why it is awesome. Okay,…
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Reasons You Should Do a Regular WordPress Check-Up
Admit it, you do treat your WordPress installation as a set-it-and-forget-it kind of thing, don’t you? Almost everybody does. Literally, the only two things we usually do with a WordPress site once it’s up and running is: (1) publish new content, (2) update the plugins and the WordPress core itself (here at Pagely, Plugins and…
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Kiko Doran: The Jimmy Kimmel of WordPress
Kiko Doran is not a late-night talk show host, but like Jimmy Kimmel is one of those people that knows everyone, and everyone knows him. I recently met Kiko at WordCamp San Francisco and he connected me with a ton of great people and nearly everyone I met seemed to know who he was. Hence…
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Bidding Competitor’s Trademark in Adwords. Good Marketing or Shady Practice?
Update 9/2/2015: Sadly I thought we were done with this nonsense. However a new competitor (now the 3rd) has decided to take up this tactic even after we asked them politely to stop. Shame that their $20+ million in VC has done so little for them that they need to ride our coat tails. Adwords…
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TablePress: A Free and Easy Way to Add Tables to WordPress Posts
The WordPress post editor keeps on getting better and better, giving you a growing amount of control over how your post content is formatted and presented. However, one area where WordPress is lacking is adding tables to your posts and pages. While you can create a table using HTML and decorate it with CSS using…
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IPv4 vs IPv6
This post is part of a series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This tenth post in the series is about the IP address system, and in particular IPv4 and IPv6 and why knowing about them is important. We’ll walk you through the…
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Add Attractive Email Sign up Forms to Your Site For Free with Optin Forms
If you want to give your readers the opportunity to subscribe to your email newsletter, or increase the subscriber numbers of your existing mailing list, then adding attractive sign up or optin forms to your site is a great way to do so. In this post we will be taking a look at a free…
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Udemy: Free and Premium Online Courses for Learning WordPress
Udemy offers on-demand online courses covering a wide range of topics from software development to speed reading. Once you ‘enroll’ and become a member you are then able to pick and choose from the published courses and start learning at your own convenience, with unrestricted repeat access to the content. There are even mobile apps…