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
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Revive Social: Automatically Share WordPress Content Across Social Media Platforms
If you’ve got a WordPress publication like mine with thousands of articles, you know you’ve got amazing content that’s dying simply because you’re not promoting it. Social media is a fantastic place to drive relevant visitors to your publication. Still, the arduous task of queueing and scheduling old content is too much for most companies. Managing social media can be…
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Content Marketing
ShortPixel: Unlock Blazing Fast Websites by Optimizing and Compressing Your Images
A slow website can turn away visitors, frustrate users, and impact your search rankings. Many factors contribute to site speed, but unoptimized images are the biggest culprit. Large image files with slow loading times affect user experience (UX) and SEO. Manually resizing and compressing images for every page can be tedious and time-consuming, especially if you manage multiple websites. ShortPixel ShortPixel…
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Marketing Tools
Plesk: Streamline Your Agency’s Workflow and Boost Productivity With A Centralized Client Management Platform
Web agencies and content managers face numerous challenges. The demands can be overwhelming, from managing multiple client websites to ensuring top-notch security and performance. Juggling various tools and platforms often leads to inefficiencies, increased costs, and potential errors. What if there was a way to centralize all these tasks into one powerful, user-friendly solution? Plesk Plesk is an all-in-one web…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
goodshare.js: Simplify Your Social Sharing in Web Applications With This Lightweight JavaScript Library
In the age of social media, sharing content across various platforms has become an integral part of user engagement. However, implementing social sharing functionality can often be tedious for developers and website owners. Enter goodshare.js, an open-source JavaScript library that simplifies adding social sharing buttons to your website or application. What is goodshare.js? goodshare.js is a lightweight, modern JavaScript solution…
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Content Marketing
GeotargetingWP: How to Redirect Users Based on Their Location in WordPress
A few months ago, a multi-location client asked if we could automatically redirect visitors from specific regions to their internal location pages on the site. At first, I didn’t think it was too difficult a request. I thought I could download an IP address to the location database, put a few lines of JavaScript into the pages, and we’d be…
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E-commerce and Retail
ShopWP: Transform Your WordPress Site into a Shopify Powerhouse Shop
Running an online store can be challenging, especially when you’re trying to leverage the strengths of multiple platforms. Many entrepreneurs find themselves torn between the robust e-commerce capabilities of Shopify and the flexibility and content management prowess of WordPress. What if you could have the best of both worlds? In addition to Shopify’s native features that help you sell via…
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Email Marketing & Automation
MailPoet: The Ultimate Email Marketing Solution for WordPress (and WooCommerce)
Today, we relaunched our newsletter, and I couldn’t be happier with the results. I used Mailchimp before and was extremely happy with its performance and support. However, I couldn’t justify the expense without a return on investment (ROI). I also only used a fraction of its capabilities but had to continue paying for them all. Years ago, my friend Adam and…
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Artificial Intelligence
Narrato: Empowering Teams to Produce High-Quality Content at Scale with Generative AI
Content marketers and business owners face numerous challenges. The demands of content marketing can be overwhelming, from generating fresh ideas and creating engaging content to managing teams and optimizing for search engines. As competition for audience attention intensifies, marketers must find ways to produce high-quality content efficiently while maintaining consistency across channels. Narrato Narrato is an all-in-one AI-powered content platform…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Redirect All RSS Feeds To One Destination
While reviewing Google Search Console, one issue that I kept encountering was URLs ending in /feed/ causing issues. While it’s pretty ingenious of the WordPress CMS to add RSS feeds to every bit of content – posts, tags, categories, comments, etc. – the feature is unnecessary. It produces a ton of internal paths for Google to crawl that have no…
