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5 Major Advantages of Enterprise WordPress Hosting
Despite the fact that WordPress powers 30% of the Internet, the myth of it being “just a blogging platform” still exists. WordPress is perfectly suited for managing large-scale business enterprise content, delivering secure, robust, and flexible website solutions for virtually any industry. However, these benefits can only be reaped when WordPress is combined with the appropriate hosting platform…
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A Definitive Guide on How to Create Custom Post Types in WordPress
WordPress’ default post types are useful for creating blog posts, pages, attachments, and other standard elements of your website. However, if you’re looking to facilitate streamlined and efficient content creation for your business site, you may find the default post types somewhat restrictive. This is where WordPress custom post types come into play. You can…
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5 Leadership Lessons from Elon Musk: Don’t Wing It
“The world’s most remarkable living entrepreneur,” is what Chris Anderson, the founder of TED, calls him. Many compare him to Steve Jobs. Some say Elon Musk is in a league of his own. Here’s a quick recap of his career: Drops out of a Stanford graduate program after two days and starts a business in…
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The Complete Guide to WordPress User Roles and Permissions
If you run a large website, a membership site, or simply need to give other people access so they can manage, edit, or contribute to your site, WordPress user roles and permissions let you control what users can and can’t do. WordPress provides six default user roles, each with its own set of permissions and…
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Introducing PressThumb at Pagely
PressThumb has been an off the menu speciality item for the past year or so, and in that time we’ve put it to the test for the whole range of use cases and scale. From a convenient and free add-on to your existing VPS, to full scale dedicated infrastructure processing countless requests per minute, it’s…
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Toughen Up Your WordPress Site Security By Forcing Strong Passwords
It’s impossible to overstate security when it comes to managing your WordPress website. While a good web host will have certain measures in place to minimize the risk of any attacks on your site being successful, at the end of the day, much of the responsibility for keeping a website secure rests on the shoulders…
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The Complete Guide to Running a WordPress Forum
Forums and message boards are one of the oldest forms of online community, pre-dating social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. They’re also still the most popular means for asking and answering questions, not to mention a sure-fire way to grow an engaged community around your business. WordPress is the perfect platform for creating an…
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A Step-by-Step Quality Assurance Plan for Your WordPress Site
A brand new business might shell out $3K on a website and think it’s getting a bargain. However, when prospective customers start running away in droves because the site is: Slow Buggy Confusing Frustrating Unsafe Broken Well… It’ll quickly prove to be one of those “you get what you paid for”-kind of situations. I guess…
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The WordPress Codex: An Invaluable Resource for Better Coding
WordPress users and developers occasionally run into things that trip them up — this applies not only to novice users but to experienced WordPress developers as well. WordPress does not provide a dedicated support team to field questions or concerns, but their support forum is very helpful and manned by experienced and knowledgeable WordPress volunteers. You…
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9 Alumni Engagement Best Practices for Higher Education
With the recent announcement of The Pagely Scholarship, we’ve been deep in a higher ed mindset and got to thinking about ways to engage alumni, in addition to current and incoming students. We spend some of the best years of our young adult lives at college. Studying. Being independent for the first time. Pulling all-nighters…