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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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Prepend Text With A Custom Field To Your Custom Post Type Content
in WordPress, add_filter() is a function used to hook a custom function or an existing WordPress function to a specific filter action. Filters are one of the two types of Hooks, the other being Actions. They provide a way for functions to modify the data of other functions and are the cornerstone of WordPress’ plugin functionality. Here’s the basic syntax…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Add A Sortable Column To Display A Custom Field On The Custom Post Type Admin Page
One area of Martech Zone that continues to drive a lot of traffic to my site is my growing documentation of sales, marketing, and technology acronyms. I continue to expand the list of almost 600 and I also tag the posts with the acronym so that the latest posts are displayed within the single acronym display page. This custom post type…
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Analytics & Testing
Visual Website Optimizer: Increase Sales and Conversions Through A/B Testing And Experimentation
A/B testing is an essential tool in the modern business toolkit. It allows companies to compare two versions of a webpage or other user experience to determine which performs better. The process involves showing the two variants, A and B, to similar visitors at the same time. The one that gives a better conversion rate wins. Benefits Experimentation While many…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Sort Your Custom Post Type Posts Alphabetically
With the new theme (and child theme) I’ve implemented on Martech Zone, I had to rebuild and recode the custom post type I built for Acronyms. I optimized the code to insert some additional custom fields and I’m having to redesign the archive and taxonomy templates to better display the acronyms listed. In my last theme (whose developers discontinued support),…
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Customer Data Platforms
Formidable: Disable Form Submissions From Human Form Spammers On Your WordPress Site
By far, one of the best decisions I made was to include an hCaptcha on my forms and to purchase the paid version of CleanTalk to end the automated form spam bots. It’s worked. On a daily basis, the plugin blocks over 20 to 30 form bot submissions. But that doesn’t mean that all spam has been halted, though. On…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Use WP Activity Log To Monitor and Alert You Of Changes and Errors
One of the tasks we’re often handed with a new client is adopting their WordPress site that has been built in-house or with an inexperienced agency. The result is often a slow site, problems with poorly developed themes, and packed with a ton of plugins. While I’m a fan of WordPress, it’s far too easy to build out an instance…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Mailchimp: More Than An Email Service Provider, A Digital Marketing Suite
If you’re looking for an email service provider (ESP), there’s no doubt that you’ve heard of Intuit Mailchimp or have seen their ads… everywhere. Over the years, the platform has evolved to offer a wide range of services to small and medium-sized businesses – including CRM, content management, social media, and e-commerce capabilities. We have several clients on Mailchimp and…
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Content Marketing
How To Stop WordPress From Guessing Redirects When It Believes It Will Result in a 404 Error
If you’re a longtime reader of Martech Zone, you’ve probably noticed much progress on cleaning up the site. I’ve been correcting incorrect internal links, adding many redirects, removing articles to discontinued platforms, and updating critical articles. Working nights and weekends, I’ve probably deleted over 1,000 articles and edited over 1,000 more… and my work isn’t done. Another functional change I’ve…
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Content Marketing
Exit Intent Popup Code Snippet in JavaScript And jQuery
One of the projects that I’m working on for this site is having a popup div with a CTA that encourages new visitors to subscribe to Martech Zone by email. There’s additional development I’m working on so that I can widgetize this method for WordPress and have the exit intent section be an actual sidebar… but I did want to…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Dynamically Include JavaScript or PHP Using the Post ID
One of the efforts that I’ve really been working on this year on Martech Zone is providing some simple web applications that are helpful to our visitors. There’s some basic development behind these that include both PHP and JavaScript (mostly jQuery). With WordPress, there’s not a really convenient way to write pages or posts with the specific code that you…
