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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How to Check, Remove, and Prevent Malware from Your WordPress Site
This week was pretty busy. One of the non-profits that I know found themselves in quite a predicament – their WordPress site was infected with malware. The site was hacked, and scripts were executed on visitors that did two different things: The site tried to infect Microsoft Windows users with malware. The site redirected all users to a site that…
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Integrately: How To Integrate Salesforce Marketing Cloud With WordPress Using Elementor Forms
As Salesforce consultants, a problem that we continuously see in our space is the development and upkeep costs of integrating third-party sites and applications with Marketing Cloud. While we do a lot of integration and automation development on behalf of our clients, we will always research whether or not there is a solution available on the market first. The benefits…
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Add a Responsive Image Rotator Widget To Your Site On Any Platform
Many years ago, I was disappointed to find out there wasn’t a simple way to rotate images in WordPress so I developed an Image Rotator Widget Plugin for WordPress. Over the years, though, WordPress advanced its capabilities and a ton of other plugins, page builders, new widget user interface, and third-party tools have surfaced. It wasn’t worthwhile for us to…
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How To Automate Emailing Your WordPress Posts With Jetpack Subscribe To Site
If you were an email subscriber for my publication, you may have noticed that we discontinued the newsletter. My partner on that is UpRipple and Adam is actually doing a ton of refactoring of the platform and integrating some other tools with it, including a CRM. The beauty of my newsletter was that I didn’t actually have to build anything…
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AdButler: Manage Your Site’s Advertising Packages and Ad Serving Within WordPress
If you’ve got a WordPress site and want to manage ad offering, packages, payments, and ad serving, AdButler may be the best option on the market. The WordPress integration via widgets makes building and deploying ad zones a piece of cake, and the AdButler system is highly customizable, flexible, scalable, and even offers whitelabeling. AdButler Platform Features Include: Scalability –…
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YaySMTP: Send Email Via SMTP In WordPress With Google Workspace and Two-Factor Authentication
I’m a huge proponent of Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) on every platform that I’m running. As a marketer that works with clients and client data, I simply can’t be too careful about security so the combination of different passwords for every site, using Apple Keychain as a password repository, and enabling 2FA on every service is a must. If you’re running…
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YaySMTP: Send Email Via SMTP In WordPress With Microsoft 365, Live, Outlook, or Hotmail
If you’re running WordPress as your content management system, the system is typically configured to push email messages (like system messages, password reminders, etc.) through your host. However, this isn’t an advisable solution for a couple of reasons: Some hosts actually block the ability to send outbound emails from the server so that they’re not a target for hackers to…
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The Best WordPress SEO Plugin: Rank Math
Rank Math SEO Plugin for WordPress is a lightweight search engine optimization plugin for WordPress that includes sitemaps, rich snippets, content analysis, and redirects.
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WP Migrate: The Easiest Way To Separate A Single Site Away From WordPress Multisite
One of our clients grew to a point that their company separated from their parent company. At issue was that the parent company was managing all of their subbrands via WordPress Multisite. What is WordPress Multisite? WordPress Multisite is a pretty unique feature built within WordPress that enables quite a bit of customization and permissions across a network of sites…
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How to Embed a PDF Reader In Your WordPress Site With Optional Downloader
A trend that’s continuing to grow with my clients is putting resources on their sites without forcing the prospect to register to download them. PDFs specifically – including white papers, sales sheets, case studies, use cases, guides, etc. As an example, our partners and prospects often request that we send them sales sheets to distribute the package offerings we have.…
