Writers tend to put some real thought into their title. For online content, titles are important for both readers and search engines. That makes them double important! If you use WordPress and our Yoast SEO plugin, you insert the post’s title in the post title input field. Your title will appear as an H1 heading […]
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Five for the Future (5FTF)—an ideal that WordPress companies should give 5% of their time back to the WordPress community. When I joined WebDevStudios (WDS) in April of 2017, I considered the company’s ongoing participation in 5FTF a fringe benefit. I was even more excited when I learned that much of this contribution takes place during
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On this episode of the Dot Com LIfestyle Vlog, I show you step by step how to setup a new WordPress website in under 5 minutes. If you have an online business, you need a blog. You can use this video as a guide to set one up or you can use my free WordPress
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You want your website’s visitors to have the best experience possible, right? Well, then you better not keep them waiting. Slow-loading pages are one of the biggest frustrations people experience online. In fact, having slow page loads can affect everything from how many people view your site and where you rank in Google to how
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By Mark Zeni If you run a WordPress website, you know how important it is to showcase high-quality images. But it isn’t always easy to get things setup properly, from sizing images, to creating grids, mastering image placement is a challenge that many WordPress website owners face. So, what
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Website landing pages are important. They are a sales opportunity. Think of them as windows for conversion—your chance to influence a website visitor to become a customer. That’s why landing pages should not be taken lightly or treated as an afterthought. There is an art (and a science) to creating landing pages that work. Try
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To work properly, websites contain multiple CSS and JavaScript files. These must be fetched from the server by the visitors’ computer, to fully load a webpage. In the old standard, HTTP/1, only one request at a time could be handled, so minifying and concatenating multiple files was a good idea. Otherwise, visitors would experience a
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If you’ve wanted to dive into Jenkins, chances are that the first thing on your mind is deployments. And if you’re like me and have absolutely no idea what you’re doing, it’s even more likely that you will be completely confused on how to approach it. I mean let’s be real, developing a Jenkins pipeline
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The article you are about to read is probably one of the easiest posts I have written in a long time, as its subject is right there next to the edit screen in WordPress: the internal linking tool, which is a part of Yoast SEO Premium. I have only written three lines right now, but
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By now, you’ve likely heard about something different coming to your WordPress website called Gutenberg—a new way in which you will edit your website using a concept of data blocks. I think it’s safe to say that the Gutenberg WordPress editor is the single largest change to the open-source platform since… heck, I can’t think of anything
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