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 Automatically Share Your WordPress Posts to LinkedIn Using Zapier
One of my favorite tools for measuring and publishing my RSS feed or my podcasts to social media is FeedPress. Unfortunately, the platform doesn’t have LinkedIn integration, though. I reached out to see if they were going to add it and they provided an alternate solution – publishing to LinkedIn via Zapier. Zapier WordPress Plugin to LinkedIn Zapier is free…
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How To Easily Check, Monitor, And Fix Broken Links in WordPress
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How to Block Search Engines from Indexing WordPress
It seems every second client we have has a WordPress site or blog. We do a ton of custom development and design on WordPress – everything from building plugins for companies to developing a video workflow application using Amazon cloud services. WordPress isn’t always the right solution, but it’s quite flexible and we’re pretty good at it. Many times, we…
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WordPress: Embed an MP3 Player in Your Blog Post
With podcasting and music sharing so prevalent online, there’s a great opportunity to enhance your visitors’ experience on your site by embedding audio within your blog posts. Thankfully, WordPress continues to evolve its support for embedding other media types – and mp3 files are one of those that are easy to do! While displaying a player for a recent interview…
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Omnify: An Online Reservation, Booking, and Payment Platform
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WPML: Translate Your WordPress Site With This Multilanguage Plugin and Optional Translation Services
WPML is the standard in the industry for developing and translating your content on a multilingual WordPress site. I am currently running the GTranslate plugin on Martech Zone in order to do simple, multilingual machine translation. This has expanded our reach globally as well as driven search engine traffic to my site. We’re working on deploying a site for a…
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WordPress: WLWManifest Is A Legacy Feature With Security Implications. Here’s How To Disable It
In the evolving landscape of content management systems, certain features persist long after their original purpose has faded into obscurity. The Windows Live Writer Manifest (WLWManifest) in WordPress is one such artifact, representing a bygone era of desktop blogging tools while potentially introducing unnecessary security risks to modern WordPress installations. WLWManifest Origins and Purpose The WLWManifest feature was introduced to…
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It’s Time to Raise Your RSS Feed From the Dead
Contrary to popular belief, feeds are still roaming the face of the internet… or at least the underworld of it. Content syndication may be being consumed by applications and websites more than people using a feed reader… but the opportunity to ensure your content is distributed and looks great across devices is still a plus for content strategies. I was…
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Jetpack: Enhance WordPress’ Internal Site Search Capabilities with Advanced Search
Consumer and business browsing behaviors continue to change as they self-serve and seek the information they need without contacting your company. While taxonomies, breadcrumbs, related content, and design are critical user interface elements that assist visitors, internal site search is often overlooked. WordPress Site Search While WordPress has had an internal search functionality since its inception, it’s largely dependent on…
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Gravity Forms: Easily Build Forms in WordPress to Capture Leads
Utilizing WordPress as your content management system is pretty much the norm nowadays. Many of these sites are beautiful but lack any strategy for capturing inbound marketing leads. Companies publish whitepapers, case studies, and use cases in great detail without ever capturing the contact information of the folks who download them. A good inbound marketing strategy is developing a website…
