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How to Style Blockquotes in WordPress Using CSS
You probably remember the concept of blockquotes from school. If you’re like me, you might even have flashback nightmares about properly MLA-formatting long form blockquotes. Omit the quotation marks, indent this, double space that… Thankfully, WordPress blockquotes are a little less stressful. They’re actually a great way to break up a wall of text in…
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9 Powerful Ways Digital Publishers Can Increase Readership
We’ve all been there. Spent hours writing a post, hit publish and… got nothing. The web sure can be a lonely place when your comment count is zero. It feels like you’re talking to a brick wall as digital tumbleweeds go passing by. Kinda reminds me of that well-known philosophical thought experiment: “If a blog…
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What Companies Can Learn From Google’s Quest to Create the Perfect Team
What does it take to build the perfect team? Like many companies, Google executives believed that the best teams were made up of the best people. In the words of Julia Rozovsky, an analyst in Google’s People Operations division, “Take one Rhodes Scholar, two extroverts, one engineer who rocks at AngularJS, and a PhD. Voila.…
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How to Make Your WordPress Website Multilingual
Making your WordPress website multilingual has never been easier thanks to some great services and plugins. While there is no standard support for multilingual blogging built into WordPress, some free and commercial translation plugins make it easy to offer your readers a choice of languages so they can consume your content in their native language.…
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Get to know ARES – an Application Gateway for WordPress
We spent most of 2017 developing a new web application gateway to better serve the tens of billions of requests to Pagely hosted WordPress sites. There’s been a lot of talk on our blog about new features and releases for 2018 so here we’d like to share a few details about how it works, the…
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An In-depth Performance Comparison Of 5 Popular WordPress Page Builders
If you feel somewhat restricted by the flexibility of layouts provided by WordPress themes, you might be interested in building your WordPress webpages with a page builder plugin. WordPress page builders have become wildly popular because they let anyone, even those without the gift of code, build a beautiful website or landing page using a…
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3 Alternatives to Google Analytics for WordPress
Google Analytics is a free and powerful go-to solution for monitoring your website and tracking important activity. However, it would be shortsighted to discount the other solutions that exist for collating your data. Keeping tabs on your website traffic is possible with a number of analytics programs, although it’s important that you choose the one…
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8 Web Design and Development Tools You Need to Know About
One of the things many people struggle with at work is making time to find ways to work smarter. It’s not like any of us don’t want to work smarter or faster. It’s just that mentality of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” that has a way of seeping in when we think about…
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6 Leadership Lessons from Phil Knight, Co-Founder of Nike
Two companies IPO’ed on the same day in December of 1980. They would go on to change industries and redefine advertising. And buying stocks that day in either of these corporations would have made you enormously wealthy. Their names? Apple and Nike. While they started off on the same day, three decades later Apple dwarfs…
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How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress
The login page of a WordPress website is the entry point to personal information, valuable content, and many other things that matter to your business. That’s why it’s extremely important to keep this page safe from brute force break-ins — attacks that rapidly test out various combinations of usernames and passwords until one is successful.…