If you have a WordPress website, you might want to make certain changes to it or conduct troubleshooting in order to improve the user experience. Unless you’re a network administrator or trained in IT, however, you might be understandably afraid to make alterations on your live site. Fortunately, localhost is a tool you can use to fix errors and test new plugins on your website without making them visible to your audience. Building locally can help you create a WordPress site in an affordable, fast, and test-friendly manner. Best of all, you don’t need to be a developer to understand […]

Managing multiple WordPress sites can be challenging, even for expert developers. Keeping up with the various tedious tasks of site management takes a great deal of time and energy.   Fortunately, you can install WordPress multisite on a localhost to manage your network more efficiently. This enables you to effortlessly run multiple sites from one single install. In this post, we’ll discuss what WordPress multisite is and why you may want to use it. Then, we’ll show you how to install multisite on a local server. Let’s get started! What WordPress Multisite Is (And When to Use It) WordPress multisite is […]

When comparing Wix vs WordPress, it’s clear that the two are very different tools. One is a site builder designed for beginners to create simple websites. The other is a powerful CMS with a much steeper learning curve. But when you’re designing your first site, it might not be clear which one is best suited for the task. It’s an important choice to make. You need to take into account what features each has, how well it will scale as your website gets more visitors, and how much it will ultimately cost. Not sure where to start? This Wix vs […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news and events. This week’s guest is Robert Windisch, WordPress Agency CIO and part of the WordPress community since 2005. Joining us as the co-host this week is Joshua Dailey, to talk about a panel he is hosting for Decode 2022. Join us each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour. Next week’s guest is Victor Santoyo from Sucuri. Remember to vote for your favorite plugins on https://pluginmadness.com

Email marketing is one of the most efficient ways to boost your conversion rate. In fact, email generates an average ROI of $36 for every dollar spent. However, you’ll need to set up a vigorous email marketing strategy before you can reap these benefits. Fortunately, WooCommerce enables you to automate and send any type of message to your customers. Utilizing the platform’s email extensions, you can personalize your marketing, increase traffic, and drive sales for your eCommerce site. In this post, we’ll discuss six types of WooCommerce emails you can send your customers that will help increase your sales. Let’s […]

These days, making your WooCommerce online shop multilingual is more important than ever. 75% of online users don’t speak English, and many people won’t engage with a website if it’s not in their language. That’s a huge chunk of your visitors turned away. Thanks to the vast advances in online machine translators, making your store functionally multilingual takes little more than installing a plugin. And if you are willing to invest time and money into a professional translation, all the better. Making your store multilingual allows you to reach the vast audience of non-English speakers. Or, if your site is […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news and events. This week we are joined by Rob Howard from MasterWP to talk about this recent article, “Open source isn’t ready for a world at war“. In this episode we talk about a Russian plugin that was recently removed from the WordPress repository plus other stories of OpenSource repositories that have had some conflict due to global politics. Join us each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour. Next week’s guest is Robert Windisch. Remember to vote for your favorite plugins on […]

If you’re hoping to start an eCommerce business, you may be worried about competing with larger retailers such as Amazon and eBay. Due to their massive scale, they can offer low prices and fast shipping times that are nearly impossible to contend with. So how can you possibly keep up? Dropshipping can make your business dreams possible. This modern model requires little up-front investment, and relieves you of the responsibility of managing inventory. Plus, you can be successful while maintaining a smaller-scale store. In this article, we’ll explain how dropshipping works and explore some of its pros and cons. Then […]

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. Powered by RedCircle David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on […]

Are you wondering what’s the best programming language to learn in 2022? Which first or additional technology can you pick up that will help you get a well-paying job? It’s not as simple of a choice as it seems. Some languages are popular and oversaturated, while others are trendy but obscure among recruiters. Either way it can be hard to find a job with them. Other coding languages are very old and it can be hard to break into an industry with developers who possess 20+ years of experience. Some are high in demand and low in supply, but very […]