WP-CLI is a tool that allows commands to be run in WordPress from the command line or terminal. One of the reasons why developers love WP-CLI is that it provides a way to automate WordPress and common operations that otherwise require navigating through the WordPress Dashboard in order to execute. There can be many clicks to get through operations like updating all plugins on a WordPress Installation. WP-CLI makes it possible to automate repeatable commands with scripting in order to create a list of executable tasks. Instead of running many commands, they can be saved together in a script and executed […]

Out of all the buzzwords being used AI causes the most stir nowadays. Artificial Intelligence or AI is a separate branch of computer science, and it deals with the development of complex computer systems to aid humans. By taking over repetitive, dull or grueling tasks, humans have more time to focus on more important endeavors. In blogging, this is needed more than ever, due to an ever-increasing level of competition on the market. To take your blogging to the next level, AI is deemed an indispensable aid. Whether it’s writing or bending complex SEO algorithms to your will, AI is […]

Finding inspiration is not as easy as people think. It takes time to find out what you actually want to do with a website and which design would work for what kind of business. If you are running short on time and you are in desperate need for inspiration, here are some of the best resources to meet your muse: Site Inspire This website has a massive library of Web designs which you can filter according to your own needs. You’ll be able to get inspired by a host of wonderful business and industry designs. You can even filter this […]

If our server can’t keep up with the number of requests its getting, we have two basic options; scale up, add more servers or server resources, or make the program more efficient. A perfectly-optimized program would never run out of server resources. That’s a great ideal, but its hard and processing power is cheap, so we add a few more cores. Scaling up is our default. Like a lot of developers, I spend a lot of time working on these types of scaling problems. As I’ve grown my business, I’ve learned the hard way that I have to give up […]

This post is part of a series on React development for WordPress developers. In my last post, I covered unit testing React components using Jest. Jest, when used for basic assertions and snapshot tests can cover a lot of the functionality of a React component. The “React Way” of developing interfaces calls for composing interfaces, which are themselves components, out of smaller components. Jest lets us test each component in isolation, but we’ll also need to make sure that component work as intended when nested inside of each other. This article also covers looping through React components — for example, […]

Data is a huge part of any website. It’s important to know exactly who is reading your content and which topics are getting read the most. These numbers help you plan your content. However, how much can you really trust your website stats, e.g. Google Analytics? The answer should be not that much. Data from three separate UK membership organizations shows up to 78% of website visits are not being recorded in Google Analytics. Initial data discrepancies Year Out Group were concerned their website visitor numbers in Google Analytics have been dropping year-on-year since 2013. This is despite strong search […]

Should you pay for WordPress security? That’s probably a question a lot of website owners ask themselves. After all, much of the allure of the WordPress platform is its price tag: zero. It’s one of its many benefits and probably among the main factors WordPress has become the most popular content management system in the world. Yet, in some areas, it does make sense to invest money. For example, there are a number of premium plugins that are worth their price. Hosting is another one of those areas where you pretty much get what you pay for. Is WordPress security […]

Ecommerce has redefined the shopping experiences of people and has offered an abundance of convenience to select and buy a product. Because it’s so easy to use, more and more ecommerce businesses are choosing to set up their online store on WordPress. Setting up your own store is as easy as downloading the WooCommerce plugin. In this post, we’ll teach you how to get started. Ease of navigation Experts often recommend flattening the navigation process of your website. Simply put, a flat website design minimizes the number of clicks a consumer has to perform to arrive at his/her desired destination. If […]

Sometimes, when I stumble across certain WordPress products in our business sphere (more with plugins than with themes) I think to myself: “I bet that the logo/icon/featured image/homepage design for this one was either created by the same person who coded the product, or perhaps through a Fiverr gig”. At some point, after having said this to myself one time too many I decided that maybe there’s something we, at Freemius, can do to shrink this phenomenon. Why Is Nonexpert Branding So Bad? A product’s design and branding are crucial for its success. In the case of WordPress plugins and […]

If you give even a quick glance to any popular web design blog, you’ll see tons of gorgeous and easy-to-use designs that appeal to readers and developers alike. However, there’s a growing trend of turning back the clock (in a manner of speaking), to an age where web design was in its infancy and web-safe fonts ruled the online world. On paper, ‘brutalist design’, takes the worst elements of web design and showcases them to the fullest. However, that’s not the complete story. Much like minimalism, brutalist adopters have clear goals in sight with their designs. At the same time, […]