Hello everyone and happy New Year! While we've been busy enjoying the holidays, we still found some time to collect all the best WordPress news and stories from the past month.
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You don't need to start from scratch. There are solid, free React Native templates out there that are ready to be dropped right into your app. For this list, I pulled together a selection of the ones that developers actually use. The ones with good docs. The ones that aren't broken.
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You’ve decided to start a new venture and you’ve come up with the perfect name. But when you search for the domain you want, you discover that someone already owns it. So what do you do? Do you give up and change your business name, or do you figure out how to buy a domain that is taken? If you want to choose the latter option, you’ve come to the right place.
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Welcome to the 46th edition of the monthly transparency report (for November 2018). In this series, I discuss what has been going on in the business and share my learnings and strategies along the way.
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About a decade back, Google announced that that site speed would affect web search ranking. Although the post did not clarify the impact of speed on the rankings, webmasters reading the announcement understood that website speed optimization should be at the top of their development plans.
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The day has come! If you’ve been to your WordPress dashboard today, you’ve likely noticed a new (major) update waiting for you … yes, WordPress 5.0 has landed!
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Hey WordPress fans, this is our last monthly news roundup of this year. In the next one, we will be changing one digit. And so is WordPress, with WordPress 5.0 almost ready to go live, after being delayed a couple of times. But at least we have a release candidate right now.
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As functionality and interactivity increase on the web, there has been a steady increase in web page size over the last few years. As of early 2018, the average page size on the internet stood at over 2 MB! How to battle this? A little something called lazy loading images is one of the better solutions.
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WooCommerce is the biggest, baddest, most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress, which, by extension, also makes it the most popular e-commerce platform of them all. But how did the journey begin? Was WooCommerce always the top dog right from day one?
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Shopify is one of the top options out there for anyone interested in building an e-commerce store the easy way. With emphasis on “the easy way.” However, if you want your shop to succeed, you may need more features than the default setup provides. Let’s look at 10 of the best Shopify apps for any new user!
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Welcome to the 45th edition of the monthly transparency report (for October 2018). In this series, I go through everything that’s been going on in the business – especially the behind-the-scenes stuff – that you might be interested in.
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The prospect of starting a web design business can be a bit overwhelming. However, at the same time, if you're stuck in a job that you don't 100% like, the prospect of using your skills to build a web design business that operates based on flexibility and freedom is hard to deny. Would you rather toil away as you are, continuously bogged down by stress? Or are you willing to take a risk for a chance at something better?
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If your looking to make adding new posts without having to log into the WordPress dashboard, or maybe to allow your visitors a way to submit some kind of content of their own, then here's a way you can create a new post form and display it on a custom page template.
(read more) The functions.php file is one of the most useful files in your theme. If you're developing lots of themes, the chances are you've got some sort of framework either that you use yourself or is published by a third party. This is a collection of snippets you can put in your functions.php file and they'll perform a number of handy functions which makes your life running WordPress just that bit easier.
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Hello friends, welcome to our November 2018 WordPress news roundup! Now that I think about it, I can't believe we're nearing this year's end...which kind of frightens me because I realize once again how fast time is flying.
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Choosing between the best blogging platforms in the market can be tough for those just getting started with blogging. There is a huge number of options out there, with each providing a set of not-so-different features.
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Welcome to the 44th edition of the monthly transparency report (for September 2018). In this series, I discuss the interesting things that have been going on in the business, plus add a handful of personal lessons and thoughts throughout.
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Here's a guide on how to start a dropshipping business. We cover how to do research, find providers, and show you how to dropship based on industry success stories.
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When I first saw the terms, “headless WordPress hosting” and “WordPress to static,” I didn’t know what to make of it. I was like those poor Westworld hosts saying, “doesn’t look like anything to me.” Nevertheless, the idea – also known as serverless WordPress – is quickly catching on, and we now have two exciting companies aiming to bring serverless WordPress to the masses.
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