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5 Best WordPress Maintenance & Support Services

5 Best WordPress Maintenance & Support Services

March 21, 2023 in WordPress | 2 comments

For a busy website owner, the right WordPress maintenance and support service can be your secret weapon. A reliable and skilled partner can handle much of the day-to-day busywork. However, the wrong partner can cause more problems than it fixes. In this article, we’ll help you avoid that problem...

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How to Create a WooCommerce Membership Site

How to Create a WooCommerce Membership Site

March 23, 2023 in WordPress | 6 comments

A pretty standard way of monetizing web content is to provide limited access to that content through a membership community. You can create this easily with one of many paywall plugins available for WordPress. The Patreon platform (which can be linked to WordPress, too) is also a very popular...

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6 Best Dropbox Plugins for WordPress

6 Best Dropbox Plugins for WordPress

March 16, 2023 in WordPress | 2 comments

There are a lot of services you can use to back up critical files to the cloud, and Dropbox is one of the most popular options. On top of being a great platform for personal and business file storage, it can also integrate with your website via various Dropbox WordPress plugins. That integration...

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5 Best FTP Clients for WordPress Users

5 Best FTP Clients for WordPress Users

September 11, 2022 in WordPress | 4 comments

Like a computer file system, a website is built on a hierarchy of directories and subfolders and all sorts of different files contained within. Making sure that each is in the right place, named correctly, and that their contents are precisely what needs to be there is a hard job. To make that...

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8 Best CDN Services for WordPress

8 Best CDN Services for WordPress

March 9, 2023 in WordPress | 4 comments

As a website owner, you likely have two primary concerns with your website: security and speed. Security being important to protect your site from DDoS attacks, brute force incursions, and even just straight-up malicious code being injected. Regarding page speed, Google uses load time as a ranking...

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15 WordPress Developers to Follow in 2021

15 WordPress Developers to Follow in 2021

March 9, 2023 in WordPress | 10 comments

There are near-infinite resources for learning about WordPress development, from YouTube channels to blogs such as this one. While in-depth articles and courses have plenty of value, following WordPress developers on Twitter can also be surprisingly informative. In fact, Twitter can be a key way to...

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9 Best WordPress News Sources for 2021

9 Best WordPress News Sources for 2021

March 16, 2023 in WordPress | 8 comments

If you use WordPress in any capacity, it’s a good idea to stay informed about the platform and it’s community. Three types of news in particular should be paid special attention to: official WordPress announcements and development updates, prominent third party development updates...

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The Best Code Snippet Plugins for WordPress

The Best Code Snippet Plugins for WordPress

February 15, 2021 in WordPress | 13 comments

There’s a running joke among programmers that software development is 10-20% knowing how to code and 80-90% knowing how to search the internet for an answer or code snippet. Thankfully, lots of people post those code snippets on their websites for others to use and modify. If you’re one...

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Is Managed WordPress Hosting Really Worth It?

Is Managed WordPress Hosting Really Worth It?

April 26, 2023 in WordPress | 15 comments

Managed WordPress hosting is one of the most popular hosting options for WordPress websites. One downside is that it’s more expensive than non-managed hosting (though some options like Cloudways help keep that cost down). This raises the question: is managed WordPress hosting really worth it? In...

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