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
Making A Case For WordPress In Enterprise: Pros and Cons
WordPress is growing in the enterprise, used across every primary industry nowadays. Unfortunately, major businesses still bypass WordPress because of its reputation as a small business or independent blogging platform. In recent years, dedicated WordPress-managed hosting platforms have evolved. We migrated to Flywheel for Martech Zone and have been ecstatic with the results. There are pros and cons of utilizing…
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Analytics & Testing
Pantheon: Serious WordPress or Drupal Hosting with New Relic
We have 47 active plugins on our WordPress installation. That’s a lot of plugins, many of which may slow down the performance of WordPress. We do some comprehensive speed tests before deploying plugins, or we may even use some of the logic to simply update our theme so it runs faster and is less taxing on our servers. Speed is…
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E-commerce and Retail
Integrate Shopify Seamlessly With Your WordPress Site
We’ve been setting up quite a few WooCommerce sites for clients… and it hasn’t been easy. The WooCommerce interface is a bit clunky and additional features are mostly available through a plethora of plugins that require paid subscriptions… and more configuring. Lots and lots of configuring. If you’ve never seen Shopify, we shared a video that shows you how to…
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Content Marketing
We’ve Moved Hosts… You May Want To As Well
I’ll be honest that I’m incredibly disappointed right now. When managed WordPress hosting hit the market and some friends of mine launched their company, I couldn’t have been happier. As an agency, I was tired of running into issue after issue with web hosts who would pass off any problem with WordPress on to us. With Managed WordPress hosting, our…
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Content Marketing
The High Cost of Web Design Failures is Too Common
When you read these two statistics, you’re going to be shocked. More than 45% of all businesses don’t have a website. And of the DIY’s (Do-It-Yourselfers) that embark on building a site, 98% of them fail in publishing one at all. This doesn’t even count the number of businesses that have a website that simply isn’t driving leads… which I…
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Analytics & Testing
Enable Social Selling on Your E-commerce Site with GetSocial
Over 71% of consumers are influenced by social media but only 3% actually result in conversions. That’s an enormous gap and GetSocial would like to close that gap by transforming your e-commerce site into a social selling site where your content is readily shared, data captured, influencers are identified, and conversions are accurately measured. GetSocial offers the following features and…
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Analytics & Testing
Numerics: An Integrated Widget Dashboard for iOS
Numberics allows iPhone and iPad users to create and customize their own integrated dashboards from a growing collection of third parties. Pick from hundreds of pre-designed widgets to build an overview of website analytics, social media engagement, project progress, sales funnels, customer support queues, account balances or even numbers from your spreadsheets in the cloud. Features include: Predesigned widgets of…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
CoPromote: A Social Promotion Platform for Publishers
CoPromote is a social marketing platform where users opt in to share one another’s content. CoPromote is a network of publishers recommending one another. Some of the key features of CoPromote that help brand/content creators increase their organic reach include: Intent – All CoPromote members sign up to the service with the intent to share another’s messaging, whereas with Facebook,…
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Content Marketing
Smart Ways to Combine Content Marketing with SEO
The folks at Blogmost.com developed this infographic and named it Little Known Ways to Build High Quality Backlinks in 2014. I’m not sure I like that title… I don’t think companies should focus on building links anymore. Our local search experts at Site Strategics like to say that new strategies require earning links rather than actively building them. More importantly,…
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Content Marketing
Migrate from CMS to CMS
WordPress, Joomla, K2, Drupal, TYPO3, Blogger, Tumblr… have you ever needed to migrate from one site to the other? We have and it’s often torturous and requires a ton of manual effort. Not only that, but even once you have the content transferred, it often doesn’t deal with users, category and tag taxonomies, URL slugs, comments or images. In short,…
