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6 Security Plugins to Lock Down Your Site
Are you tired of reading articles about strengthening your site security? Do you think that it’s redundant to learn new tips and tools for locking down your site? Do you believe that security plugins are useless? It’s common to ignore site security. Lots of webmasters do it. But just because many people follow a path…
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Cashless Payments: The Future of Transactions
Amazon Go was founded in January 2018. And it has marked the beginning of a new era. The era where people no longer need to bring cash to purchase something. The era of contactless payment. Some people call it “tap-and-go”. As of 2019, Amazon Go has opened 18 stores across the U.S. Sooner or later,…
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10 Tips to Get the Most from Gmail [2019 Edition]
If you’ve read two or three articles featuring productivity hacks, you know that not checking your email first thing in the morning is a priority. The harsh reality is that many people do so frequently. A survey of 1,000 Americans revealed that 55% of people check their email less than an hour after waking up.…
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10 Stellar Gutenberg – Optimized Themes for Your Projects
The Gutenberg editor was the hype of early 2019, and endless armies of developers have expressed their opinions about it. Clearly, the new visual editor is the most transformative change in many years. Willing or not, both theme developers and average users should adapt to the new paradigm. A few months after Gutenberg stole the…
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The Beginner’s Guide to Git and GitHub
More and more top employers, including Google and Microsoft, are focusing more on Stack Overflow, Git, and GitHub accounts than on resumes. These accounts say a lot more about your knowledge and skills than a CV because they effectively reveal what you’ve worked on. Past or side projects, contributions to open source works, and your…
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Design Principles for Crafting a Stellar Site
A decade ago, many internet users impatiently checked out Smashing Magazine to read the latest web design articles. Lots of actual web designers found their passion for website creation through these posts. It was a time when the principles of web design determined a productive debate amongst designers—both beginners and experts. Nowadays, there are significantly…
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What to Do Before Updating Your WordPress Site
Updating your WordPress website may seem trivial and even unnecessary at times. After all, if your website is working properly and without any fuss, what is the need to update it in the first place? As it turns out, consistently updating your website is a must. It improves your website’s performance, addresses unresolved security issues,…
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8 Google Analytics Tips for Intermediate WordPress Users
Google Analytics is the most used analytics tool by a huge margin. It provides a massive amount of data to get a better search ranking. It’s not the most user-friendly product ever created, but even less-experienced users can extract actionable data at first sight. You will enjoy using it once you get more experienced. Google…
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WordPress security checklist for website admins
Are you wondering why we have published a WordPress security checklist if other bloggers have done it before exceptionally well? The shocking truth is that the average WordPress user doesn’t care much about security, and hackers focus on WordPress vulnerabilities. 70% of all WordPress sites in the Alexa Top 1,000,000 are vulnerable to hacker attacks.…
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Blog optimization – just another case study
Aghiuta.com is a media monitoring and politics blog written by Florin Popescu. Here’s our WordPress optimization we did for this blog. Before optimization First page loading speed was 4.3 sec. The homepage has 86 requests and 1.3 MB. JS Facebook Connect JS has 174.4K and is loaded in 0.69 seconds. The Facebook Like Box can…