Some years back I built an e-commerce website for a client using a StudioPress theme and the Shopp shopping cart. I customized the theme to match my client’s brand and added custom functionality to Shopp to address features we needed that weren’t available at the time. That was my first e-commerce site to build on …
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Nexcess, part of the Liquid Web brand of families, recently announced the addition of Managed WooCommerce Hosting to their product lineup. It’s impressive (I’ll share why shortly), but first, let me loosely define a few terms so that we’re all on the same page. Some Definitions Web Hosting – This term broadly applies to any …
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Staging sites are to WordPress hosting as responsive design is to the web: At this point, there’s an expectation that those things just are. Not all WordPress hosts have gotten on the staging site bandwagon yet, but the best of them have. If you’re not familiar with what a WordPress staging site is, here’s my definition: …
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What started out as a 30 day goal to improve the SEO of this site has morphed into a half-year journey, but hey, life happens, right? If you’re just now joining me in this journey, you may want to catch up on previous weeks: 30 Days to Better SEO – Week 1 30 Days to Better SEO …
I don’t typically write editorials — especially not ranty ones — but I’m going to today because I have opinions and a platform to share them (thank you, WordPress!). ManageWP, a WordPress management tool I have publicly loved for years, was recently acquired by GoDaddy, a hosting company I have not historically had warm-fuzzy feelings …
A couple of years ago I wrote about deploying WordPress from a local install to a live site. My workflow has evolved over time (I’m sure yours has, too) and the tools available are consistently getting better. So I figured it was time for an updated look at my WordPress deployment workflow. For starters, let …
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