To grow your business, you need to provide the best possible service to the widest audience. However, it’s difficult to achieve this goal if you don’t offer multilingual customer support. After all, your website has the potential to reach a global user base. Thankfully, there are several ways to provide exceptional support to all your customers, even on a multilingual site. By connecting with visitors in their own languages, you can present yourself as an international company that has the resources and drive to maintain a global audience. In this post, we’ll discuss why providing multilingual customer support is a […]

You may be reluctant to migrate your WordPress site to another hosting provider yourself, especially if you’ve ever broken it accidentally while tinkering under the hood or had an update crash. You know the panic that results from seeing an error message where your website should be. Thankfully, there are several tools that can help you migrate to a new host without issue. Unlike with proprietary website builders, you can pack up your WordPress site and move on to greener pastures with a few simple steps. In this article, we’ll explore some of the reasons you may want to migrate […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. This week’s co-hosts are Carrie Dils and Chris Garret. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST when our special guest will be Liam Dempsey.

While the average conversion rate for eCommerce websites is 3.5%, top-performing eCommerce sites far outstrip this meager figure, converting at a whopping 25.8%. But what makes the difference between these masters of sales and the rest of the heel-draggers? Easy — a focus on conversion optimization. Want to drive more sales this festive season? Instead of feeling around in the dark, test, measure, and analyze the website features that directly affect conversions.  By doing this, you can identify the best eCommerce website practices that will optimize your site for more conversions over the holiday period. Keen to know the top […]

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. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogel Paul, 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 Twitter […]

Embedding social content is a simple yet effective way to make your WordPress site more engaging. However, Facebook has announced a change to its API that could potentially break all your website’s embedded Instagram and Facebook content. If your website features any Facebook or Instagram embeds, then the upcoming oEmbed Application Programming Interface (API) change will affect your website. Luckily, there are steps you can take to ensure this update doesn’t leave you with empty pages. In this post, we’ll discuss what this controversial API change is, and what it means for WordPress. We’ll then share how you should be […]

The world looks a little different this year, but one thing that remains the same is getting great virtual deals during the period from Black Friday through Cyber Monday. WP Engine teamed up with companies from around the community to create Cyber Weekend. All of these deals will help you level up your website this holiday season. Let’s dive into the deals! Genesis Pro Looking to majorly revamp your site? Join the Genesis community and have access to the Genesis Framework, Genesis Blocks and more. Offer: Get 30% off your first year of Genesis Pro Coupon Code: SP3FREE Dates Valid: November 23, […]

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. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogel Paul, 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 Twitter […]

As I write this, in a normal year, I would have just gotten home from St. Louis after what was sure to be a successful WordCamp US 2020. I would have seen many close friends I only see once or twice a year, maybe I would have gotten to speak, and I definitely would have made new connections. We’d have seen a great recap of what happened with WordPress this year, and we’d know what city we’d all get together in next year.  But this is not a normal year. WordPress events — WordCamps, WordPress Meetups, and events surrounding the […]