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Development can be a surprisingly personal process. You can ask any group of developers what tools they use, and you’ll likely get many answers. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any standout solutions to consider. Using Vagrant for WordPress development can be one of those...
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When a WordPress website is loaded, it runs on code. Once upon a time, that code was strictly HTML. Now, it’s a few different things, typically CSS, HTML and JavaScript. That’s the front-of-the-house, though. The waitstaff that all visitors see. Back-of-the-house runs a bit differently; there...
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If you’re a content creator or a writer, you must hold one rule above all others: show, don’t tell. You can explain something in 1,000 words and still not get the information across as well as an image or visualization of the concept could. That’s why the Visualizer plugin by...
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Duplicate content is the boogeyman of the SEO world. Depending on who you ask and what you read, the definition and scope of what constitutes duplicate content varies wildly. That’s why in this article we will break down what duplicate content really is and the misconceptions about what...
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Most of the software you use releases new versions often, usually identified by an associated version number. The system is called ‘semantic versioning’ and it enables you to track development progress. What’s more, if you work with WordPress, you can definitely benefit from good...
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GitHub, and Git in general, intimidate a lot of people. However, this type of distributed version control software is a must in any developer’s toolkit. Moreover, knowing how to use GitHub and deploy code from it to your WordPress web host can make for a much safer development process. That...
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Kinsta is well-known among managed WordPress web hosts. While it’s more expensive than almost every other provider in the field, it also claims to offer better performance to all of its customers. The real question is whether those claims hold up in practice. In this article, we’re...
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WebAssembly is a really cool project that compiles other code languages so that they can run in the browser with JavaScript. It is significantly faster than many of its competitors. It lets more data-and-processing-heavy sites run more smoothly and quickly than otherwise possible. In this article,...
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Are you a “wipe the slate clean” person? How many times have you said you’ll start fresh on Monday, or the first of the month, or in the New Year? Here’s a secret: it never works. You can’t really ever wipe the slate clean, nor should you want to. You’ve come this far thanks to the work...
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While there are many plugins available to turn your WordPress site into a fully-functioning online store, they can potentially take a toll on your site’s performance. A ‘headless e-commerce’ solution – that separates your site’s front end from its e-commerce functionality – can...
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If you’re in software development, you are going to have to deal with technical debt at some point. So to answer the question in the title…no, you can’t avoid it. However, there are steps you can take to minimize its effects and make sure it doesn’t get out of hand. At least...
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Every website you visit includes hundreds of elements, even if it’s not readily evident. This means images, text, subheadings, and of course, icons. However, using the same boring icons as every other site can make yours look ‘cookie-cutter’, which is why it’s important to...
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