Marketing Podcast with Kim Doyal It’s so easy to start a business today. You simply get online and start. Now I’m not saying it’s easy to own, operate, and profit from a business – but I do know if you don’t start you’ll never know. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing […]
It’s already turning out to be one WordCamp-filled summer! And this weekend, WebDevStudios (WDS) is headed to the OC for WordCamp Orange County (WCOC), Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11. Not only does this educational WordPress event offer a bevy of informative sessions and workshops, including “How to Get Started with Building a Website for your Business” and
If you have a website, which you do, then you obviously need some social media share buttons. But what if the buttons you currently use display all zeros? Like this: There are probably very few things that are worse for your social proof than showing such numbers. I guess this will sound quite obvious, but
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The Definitive WordPress Cheat Sheet WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging platform on the planet. As pervasive as it is, however, it also comes with a level of complexity that can stymie all but the most savvy blog technicians among us. But have no fear! Help is here for the rest of us mere
I am a huge fan of WordPress. I’ve run my business on it for a decade, recommended it to thousands and feel eternally grateful for what it’s allowed me to do. But is it still the best option? As you might have noticed, the blogging scene has changed a lot in the last five years.
WordPress was built by the community. In just a few incredibly productive years, it grew to become the most popular CMS in the world, and all of us in the WordPress Community played a role in the evolution and development of WordPress. Together, we made it into the popular powerhouse it is today. If there
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The design process from start to finish is different for each designer, but it’s important to remember that you’re designing for the client and their users and not for design’s sake. Utilize current trends in web and app design in moderation, but ultimately the client may not need or want a shiny, new, image-heavy, animation-laden,
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Using Elasticsearch (ES) on your site can help boost performance, especially with complex search setups. When using Elasticsearch on your local development environment, it can be tricky, because the names of indices are based on URL and can be the same as another dev’s; and you don’t want to overwrite the data of your team
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We’re at WordCamp Europe (WCEU) right now! Beginning today through Saturday, June 17, the most important WordCamp in the world (maybe even the universe!) is taking place at this very moment in Paris, France. And we have team WebDevStudios (WDS) on site, soaking in the culture and all the WordPress education available. If you’re there, too,
As a busy business owner or blogger, you know it’s important to optimize your time spent. One way to to do so? By making the most out of the tools you currently use. If WordPress is your Content Management System (CMS), there are a ton of ways you can use the tool to level up
