WordPress
WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that enables users to create, manage, and publish digital content without needing to code. Initially launched in 2003 as a blogging platform, WordPress has evolved into a versatile CMS that powers many websites, from small personal blogs to large corporate sites. Its core features include:
- User-friendly Interface: WordPress is designed with a focus on usability, making it accessible for users with any level of technical skill. The dashboard allows for easy navigation, content creation, and site management.
- Themes and Customization: Users can change the look and feel of their website using themes. Thousands of free and premium themes are available, many of which are customizable to meet specific design requirements.
- Plugins: WordPress extends its functionality with plugins, allowing users to add features such as contact forms, SEO tools, social media integration, etc. The plugin repository offers over 58,000 free plugins, with thousands more premium options.
- Responsive Themes: WordPress themes are generally responsive, meaning they automatically adjust to look good on any device, from desktops to smartphones.
- Multilingual Support: WordPress supports multilingual sites either natively or through plugins, enabling the creation of websites in multiple languages.
- Media Management: Users can easily upload and manage media files (images, videos, etc.) using the drag-and-drop media uploader. WordPress also offers basic image editing features.
- Content Management: It provides tools for creating and managing content, including posts, pages, and custom post types, along with categories and tags for organizing content.
- User and Role Management: WordPress includes a built-in system for managing users, allowing site owners to assign roles and permissions to control access to different parts of the site.
- Security and Updates: Regular updates are released to enhance security and introduce new features. WordPress also supports SSL certificates for encrypted connections and various security plugins to protect against common threats.
WordPress’s flexibility, scalability, and extensive community support have made it a go-to choice for creating and managing websites. WordPress offers comprehensive tools to build and maintain a professional online presence, whether for a small personal project or a large enterprise solution.
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The Best Social Sharing Button Plugin for WordPress
One of our clients called this morning and mentioned that whenever they attempted to write a Facebook update and share a link to their site, the update didn’t show the social sharing image we’d provided. I did some tests this morning, and on the desktop browser, it appeared to work fine, but the mobile app inserted a link with no…
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WordPress: Add A Custom Class If The Post Was Published Today
I’m constantly getting requests from our clients for customizations I’ve never even considered. Recently, we had a client that wanted some custom styling for their posts published today so that they could be highlighted utilizing a custom CSS class. They wanted to incorporate the class on archive pages, search results, and single post page templates of their child theme. To…
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Customize Your WordPress Feed With A Featured Image and Copyright Statement (Pre and Post Content)
One interesting thing about WordPress is that the featured image has never been incorporated into the RSS feed. This is a bit unfortunate, as selecting or designing the featured image can draw much attention to an article. Prepend Content To The Posts In Your RSS Feed To prepend the featured image to your content isn’t too difficult. Here’s the code…
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Iframe Breaking: How To Stop Unauthorized Iframing Of Your Content
A visitor to my site once informed me when he clicked on one of my links on Twitter; he was brought to my site with a big popup and a malicious code warning. That’s enough to scare the heck out of someone, so I started doing some testing. There was nothing wrong with my site – the problem was the…
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What is DNS Prefetch? DNS Preconnect? How To Remove Resources In WordPress You’re Not Using
If you’ve been a consistent visitor to Martech Zone, you’ve likely seen a remarkable difference in WordPress‘ performance over the last year. I’ve been speeding up WordPress to improve my user experience (UX), and it’s also a critical ranking factor in organic search (SEO) – which dominates my overall traffic to the site. Simultaneously, I’ve been utilizing Ezoic to increase…
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Albato: Build, Automate, And Enhance Your Sales and Martech Stacks With AI-Driven No-Code Integrations
As platforms become more complex and marketing teams continue to shrink, your only choice is to automate as much as possible so that your teams can focus on developing creative solutions to acquire, upsell, and retain your customers. Automation is a critical stage in a business’s digital transformation. Automation is essential to teams – especially those who are feeling the…
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Mastering the Digital Landscape: Three Ways to Enhance Your Online Brand Presence for Today’s Marketing Demands
People are online a lot. More than 30 percent of U.S. adults say they are online almost constantly, a number that continues to climb. Whether we are logging in for work or scrolling through our feeds in the supermarket checkout line, it’s clear that we are digital-first and online-oriented. Pew Research Center We are also navigating an increasingly crowded online…
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TextBuilder: Use GPT and AI To Find Ideas, Write, and Publish Your Content At Scale
Consumers and businesses research online to get assistance with problems or to find resources to help them solve their problems. Building a comprehensive content library is the lifeblood of being found as that resource. Bloggers, affiliate marketers, copywriters, ad experts, and startup founders need constant high-quality content to maintain their online presence. However, the demand for content often outweighs the…
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iThemes Security Pro: The Essential WordPress Security Plugin for Self-Hosted Websites
WordPress is a popular and widely used platform for building websites, but its popularity also makes it a prime target for hackers. A colleague of mine recently told me how a client on his server installed a malicious plugin that infected every WordPress instance on his server. After he spent hours cleaning out the malware, he launched the sites and…
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WordPress: Fight Registration Bot Spam On Your Site With hCaptcha
As with many WordPress sites, Martech Zone is open to anyone registering. I don’t want to shut down open registration, as I’ve welcomed hundreds of contributors and partners to the site. However, having an open registration form on the site has invited thousands (I’m not kidding) of bots to register accounts to publish malware and spam articles. A bot that…
