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Why Choose WordPress in 2024

Why Choose WordPress in 2024

In 2020, we published a post titled '3 Simple Reasons to Use WordPress', highlighting scalability, flexibility, and ownership as the key factors that make WordPress an excellent choice for site owners. These reasons remain as valid as ever in 2024 and we would like to take those core reasons and expand a bit on the…

Top WordPress Managed Hosting Providers for Your WordPress Site

Top WordPress Managed Hosting Providers for Your WordPress Site

Have you ever noticed how some WordPress sites run smoother, load faster, and have minimal downtime? A large contributor to this is their choice of hosting - specifically, managed hosting for WordPress. This managed hosting is built to optimize every aspect of your site, from speed to security, to ensure peak performance, not just keep…

WordPress Events in 2024 That Should Be On Your Radar

WordPress Events in 2024 That Should Be On Your Radar

The best way to stay on top of the latest happenings in the WordPress world is to be a part of the diverse and ever-growing community. This year, there are a ton of exciting WordPress events lined up, each with unique opportunities to learn, connect, and grow. Whether you're a developer, a designer, a content…

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Europe’s GDPR Data-Protection Law will Likely Affect You in the U.S. and Everywhere

GDPR makes you liable for penalties if you collect data on citizens of the European Union. Your location outside of Europe matters not. So it behooves you to know what this new law entails if you hope to comply with it. In a nutshell, GDPR obliges you to make some security-oriented changes to your website…

Marketing & Content, Tech Talk

The Right Way to Respond to Google’s Mobile-First Initiative

Google’s Mobile First initiative. Have you heard about this yet? You have? Great. But what are you planning to do in response to it? Nothing? OK, that’s not great. Not great at all. Because ignoring Mobile First is a surefire way to sink your website’s rankings in Google search. A big drop in rank portends…

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Accessibility for Your Website is a Must—Here’s Why

Per Valet: "Accessibility...is your friend. You should embrace it like a friend because it’s going to help you be more successful (not to mention keep you out of legal hot-water). Don’t let the dread-inducing terminology of the [accessibility] guidelines scare you. The more you know about them, the less trepidation you’ll feel."

Marketing & Content

Do You Wonder If the New WordPress Editor Will Break Your Website? The Answer is….Maybe

WordPress is pushing out a new code version next week and soon you'll be invited via the admin area to try out the new editor coming in release 5.0—but before you click that button be sure to read this very informative article by Joe Casabona about the potential problems you may face and how to…

Marketing & Content

Google introduces new Search Console

A new Google Search Console. Over the last few months, Google has been sending out invitations to their BETA version of the new Google Search Console to select users. If you are not among that BETA group, that's ok. They will be opening up the experience to all the users of the current Search Console…

Marketing & Content, Tech Talk

WordPress is ending support for Internet Explorer, should you worry?

What is happening? WordPress has announced that it's "officially ending support for Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10, starting with WordPress 4.8." Microsoft officially discontinued supporting these browsers themselves in January 2016. Matt Mullenwig states in his announcement: "I realize that folks still running these browsers are probably stuck with them because of something out…

Marketing & Content

The Hidden Dangers of Using Free Site Scan tools.

Site scan tools are becoming more and more popular. There are hundreds of services and free online entry points where you can gain insight and specific information on your website. While often helpful, these tools can lead the unsuspecting professional into needless anxiety. Pages of recommendations, suggestions, waterfalls of data, are all good things. In…

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Google to Further Penalize Websites Lacking SSL in 2017

Here's the skinny... SSL is a way of encrypting websites to make them safer and less hackable. Google is already penalizing sites that DON'T have this in place. Things are about to get a whole lot worse for pages with logins and credit card forms come January 2017. All WordPress sites have a login page, and…

Design

We Completely Redesigned OpenView Partners Website

Over the past five months, we gave the OpenView Partners digital presence a pretty drastic makeover. We built them a completely new website, and we gave their separate OpenView Labs blog a facelift to match the new branding.

Marketing & Content, Tech Talk

How to Launch an Event Management Website Quickly

Your client asks you, “Hey, so I have a website project that needs some complicated moving parts, but I only have a limited budget...can you help? Oh, and it needs to be done in a few weeks.”

Marketing & Content

Hiring the Right Team for Website Management

Taking care of your website should be manageable. Given the fantastic open-source software like WordPress available, the wide variety of plugins, and the massive amounts of data you can collect to gain context on how you’re doing—website management should be easy.

Tech Talk

AMP for WordPress—How to Get Started

Google recently launched AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) to create “a better, faster mobile web”. When Google makes announcements backing projects like AMP, it’s worthwhile that site owners take note.

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