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The Ultimate WooCommerce Guide
eCommerce integration has been growing in popularity steadily over the course of the past few years. More and more businesses are now selling online, whether or not their core business is eComm. Big enterprises, smaller businesses and even home-based entrepreneurs are making use of WooCommerce to create eCommerce stores and sell online within minutes. So…
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Online & Distance Learning in Higher Education – Tips for Success & Best Practices
Higher education online learning and distance learning have been on the rise for some time. According to the Digital Learning Compass: Distance Education Enrollment Report 2017, distance learning continued its annual growth trend. In the fall of 2015 more than 6 million students took at least one distance course, a 3.9% increase from the previous…
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Popup Plugins and Why Your WordPress Site Needs One
In this post I’ll walk you through the most useful types of popups, which popup plugins to use on WordPress and all the reasons why you should get a popup on your site (despite the bad rap they sometimes get). Popups, when done poorly, are annoying, interfere with user experience and can leave visitors with…
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Web Accessibility Plugins for WordPress Users
In a “first-of-its-kind” trial, Florida-based retail chain, Winn-Dixie, was recently found guilty of violating a blind man’s rights for not maintaining an accessible website. Web accessibility cases are common these days as the divide between physical and online business tightens, but this particular dispute is significant for a few reasons. It’s the first known federal…
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Tips for Higher Education Marketing to Millennials
Gone are the days when higher education marketing could rely on glossy brochures and academic reputation to attract new students. Millennials have learned from college dropouts like Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg that a degree isn’t your only path towards success or landing a well-paid job in modern industries where relevant skills and experience trump…
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Holler Box Review – The Friendly WordPress Popup Plugin
Have you noticed how frustrating it can be to browse some websites nowadays? It seems like every day sites get more and more aggressive with opt-ins, overlays, and more. Enter, Holler Box… In a world of lightbox popups and full-screen overlays, Holler Box is a popup plugin that’s a breath of fresh air. Holler Box…
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How to Build Your Own WordPress Wiki
Whether it’s product information, employee guidelines, or how-to’s, businesses tend to create information in droves. Before long however, the need to store that information in a spot where your customers, partners, and employees can get to it becomes an imperative. That’s where a WordPress wiki comes in. In this post we’ll highlight the value a…
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WordCamp Kyoto 2017
I had the honor of presenting this past weekend at WordCamp Kyoto. It wasn’t my first time addressing WordCamp crowds on security topics, but it was my first time in Kyoto, Japan. I felt at home, as the attendees and organizers of this event were excellent at making everyone feel welcome. WordCamp Kyoto The event…
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How to Set Up a WordPress Multisite Network
Multisite is a powerful WordPress feature that allows you to create a network of websites running off of a single WordPress core installation. It’s been around since WordPress 3.0 and quite a lot of big sites use it — WordPress.com, the New York Times, Harvard, and Edublogs to name a few. Read on to learn…
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Running a Successful WordPress Webinar
On September 16th, 2014, a new world record was set when 12,091 people attended the largest ever webinar held by Glavbukh in Russia. What makes this figure so astounding is the fact that only ten years earlier, almost nobody had even heard the word “webinar”. In recent years, many businesses have come to realize the…