Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to…
4 ways to save funds for an IT startup
Some numbers are just terrifying. Nowadays, various reports like this one indicate that 90% of startups fail. With all the growing hype around startups, the legitimate question is “What are the reasons for that”? According to statistics, more than half of startups die within the first four years…
7 Hacks to Improve PageSpeed of Your WordPress Blog
A slow website is infuriating. Even if your content is excellent, it doesn’t change the fact that people don’t like to wait. It hurts your content’s readability. And it negatively affects your site’s overall performance. Hacks to Improve PageSpeed of Your WordPress Blog So let’s explore the solutions….
50+ Stunning Examples of Enfold – Kriesi’s Top-Selling WordPress Theme – In Action (2019)
Home / Design / 50+ Stunning Examples of Enfold – Kriesi’s Top-Selling WordPress Theme – In Action (2019) By WinningWP Editorial Last updated: May 19, 2019 41 Comments In line with a couple of our earlier showcase posts, we figured we’d take the time to find out…
WordPress MindMap Editor Plugin
May 18th in Viral, WordPress Plugins by WordPress Jedi. Mind maps are wonderful for organizing your ideas and projects. There are plenty of software applications that let you create simple and complex mind maps. The WordPress MindMap Editor plugin is pretty easy to use….
How to Design Reflections for Images and Text in Divi
Designing reflections for images and text is a classic design technique that can be used to spice up the content of a web page. And, Divi makes it easy to create these reflections right from the Divi Builder without having to use a photo editor. In this tutorial, …
How to Embed a Google Form in WordPress
Can you remember the last time you filled out an online form? I’m guessing it wasn’t that long ago, especially if you regularly buy things online. It is easy to underestimate the importance of forms when it comes to the business of collecting customer data through your WordPress…
Is Your Business Ready to Hire Remote Workers?
My dad worked from a home office for years, long before it was common or popular to have a commute as short as the hallway. He turned my brother’ s old bedroom into an office, and he outfitted it with everything he needed. It was fully functional, stocked with…
How to Fix Error Establishing Database Connection in WordPress
“Error Establishing a Database Connection” is something you don’t want to see on your WordPress site. You have probably seen this message if you’re familiar with WordPress because it’s a pretty common problem, but it can be a real disaster when you get this message on your site…
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Debugging CSS Grid Part 1: Understanding implicit tracks – Learn the difference between explicit and implicit grid. Understanding grid placement through building a HTML periodical table – A fun demo that teaches the tricks behind CSS Grid placement. Animating Links – Ways to add some cool effects to…
Best Places to Find Design and Writing Inspiration
Everyone needs inspiration, and especially if you are in any kind of creative field you will need it more often than others. Exploring other people’s work, adopting the logic and style from the professionals makes the process easier while starting any new assignments. Having understood the basic patterns…
Cyber Security & Your Business: Is It Secure?
18 May Cyber Security & Your Business: Is It Secure? Posted at 00: 00h in Blog by Editorial Staff If you’re the owner of a small to medium-sized enterprise, you may be under the impression that cybersecurity isn’t something you need to concern yourself with. Cybercriminals would only target…
Jetpack Retires Proofreading Module, Time to Find A New Grammar and Spellchecking Alternative
Jetpack 7.3 was released last week and if you didn’ t read the changelog, you may have missed that the spelling and grammar checking module that uses After the Deadline has been retired. “ Grammar and Spelling: Remove from Jetpack. We’ve chekced the spelling alot over the years, but…
VVV 3.0 Introduces New Ubuntu 18 Box, Support for VVV 2 is Discontinued
VVV 3.0 was released this week, introducing a new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS box. The project’ s previous versions used Ubuntu 14, which has now reached end of life (EOL). Support for VVV 2 is now discontinued, due to an unforeseen complication with its PHP dependencies. Ondřej Surý, who maintains…
Three resources to help you get started with your welcome email sequence
Creating a welcome email sequence is one of the best things you can do for your email marketing. When you welcome a visitor into your home, what do you do? You may offer to put up their coat, offer a beverage, and show off your home. Basically, this…
Who is Responsible for the Security of Your Website?
On a daily basis at Sucuri, we hear things like: “My host takes care of my website security.” “I have never been hacked, so why should I care?” Or here’ s a personal favorite: “I’ll take care of it if (when) it happens.” Let’s be honest, no one wants…
Grow Your WooCommerce Store Using Smart Content Marketing Strategy
Marketing is one of the most important bedrock of every modern-day business. Marketing allows us to reach a wide range of audiences. Content marketing plan, on the other hand, provides an avenue to reach a wide range of audiences through content marketing strategies which will go a long…
Win WPForms PRO License (Giveaway) | 3 Lucky Winners
For this giveaway, I have teamed up with WPForms. Participating in this giveaway, you have a chance to win WPForms PRO license. Three lucky winners will get one year of WPForms PRO license usage. PRO license is usually $399/year, but in this giveaway, you can get it…
WP Rocket vs WP Super Cache – Which Is The Best WordPress Caching Plugin?
Home / Performance / WP Rocket vs WP Super Cache – Which Is The Best WordPress Caching Plugin? By Colin Newcomer May 17, 2019 Comparing WP Rocket vs WP Super Cache is kind of like asking whether or not it’s worth it to pay for a premium caching…
Remote Team Best Practices to Build Positive Company Culture
Generally, it is believed that building a good culture in a co-located team is much easier than building a culture in a remote team. Although you will be able to build a healthy culture for your co-located team, there is no easy and fast way to get it…
List of WordPress Developers & Designers (2019)
Years ago we posted a list of available WordPress Developers & Designers. Lots of great people and companies shared their information, but a lot has changed. So rather than try to contact everyone on the list and ask them to update their infos, here is a new…
Creating personalized adventure books with your child as the star – the story of Bang On Books
Reading has the power to spark children’s imaginations, transporting them to magical places where anything is possible. Taking this idea a step further, Bang On Books personalized adventure books fully immerse kids in stories where they become the main character – the hero. “Bang on” is a colloquial…
How to Transform Multiple Elements for Abstract Hover Effects in Divi
As you already know by now, Divi has a ton of design settings that allow you to create unique hover effects for any Divi element (sections, rows, or modules). Usually, a hover effect is isolated to just one element. For example, if you add a transform rotate property…
Monstroid vs Monstroid2 Features Comparison | What’s The Difference?
Monstroid is a very popular theme for WordPress, but many confuse Monstroid and Monstroid2. Are those same themes or separate? In this post, I will compare Monstroid vs Monstroid2. To make their products stand out, theme providers enhance their products with exceptional sets of tools and design…
Security Checklist – Best Ways to Secure Your WordPress Website
Do you run a WordPress website? Then do yourself a favor and consider the following must-have security tips and the Best Ways to Secure Your WordPress Website. Each of these will go a long way to making sure your website is a far, more secure place to manage your…
25 Best Gutenberg Friendly WordPress Themes (2019)
Are you looking for the best Gutenberg friendly WordPress themes? Gutenberg is the new WordPress block editor introduced in WordPress 5.0. It is incredibly fast, more visual, and offers new ways to create content layouts for your WordPress posts and pages. Many WordPress theme designers have updated…
404 to 301 Plugin for WordPress
May 17th in WordPress Plugins by WordPress Jedi. We all hate having 404 errors on our pages. If you install plugins such as Redirection, you can keep a close eye on your 404 pages and fix many of them. 404 to 301 can also…
Free High-Resolution Marble Texture Backgrounds
Elegant and beautiful, marble textures make a great background for a variety of projects. Marble always brings an air of exquisite polish to a design, with its lustrous look and visually pleasing patterns. And when it comes to these backgrounds, you’ve got a lot of options. Do you…
Weekly WordPress News: Walking to WordCamp Europe
After the release of WordPress 5.2 last week, this week was a much quieter affair as far as WordPress news goes. Gutenberg 5.7 makes some interesting improvements to the core Columns block, and Matt Mullenweg continues his push to drive acceptance of remote work. Other than that, we…
Optimize Your Reseller Hosting For WordPress
Reseller hosting is a great opportunity for you to develop a hosting business of your own, whether you’ d like to do it as a side hustle or a full-time job. Our reseller package gives you everything you would need. And there’ s no need to fear working in a…
