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9 Powerful Ways Digital Publishers Can Increase Readership - We’ve all been there. Spent hours writing a post, hit publish and… got nothing. The web sure can be a lonely place when your comment count is zero. It feels like you’re talking to a brick wall as digital tumbleweeds go passing by. Kinda reminds me of that well-known philosophical thought experiment: “If a blog post falls in a forest and no one is around to read it, does it make a sound?” Okay, so maybe I’ve swapped out a few words...
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Security Haiku: OptionsBleed - Memory Leaking over OPTIONS requests sent. This patch stops the leak. The vuln-du-jour is called OptionsBleed and affects Apache2 web servers. It was caused by a programming oversight in the Apache2 server project which allowed small amounts of memory to be leaked when an OPTIONS request is sent to the web server. This bug only affects sites that are configured with a LIMIT directive which attempts to filter nonexistent HTTP methods, which is extremely rare bu...
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4 High-Quality Yoast SEO Alternatives for WordPress SEO - When it comes to WordPress SEO plugins, Yoast SEO is the first thing on most WordPress users’ minds. There’s just no arguing with the plugin’s 61 million+ downloads. But while Yoast SEO might be king, that doesn’t mean there aren’t viable Yoast SEO alternatives out there. In this post, we’re going to dig into some of those alternatives, illuminating the world of WordPress SEO plugins that goes beyond Yoast SEO. Some of them, like SEO...
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Security Haiku: WordPress 4.8.2 - Within this release Ten security patches. Sites are now secure This week brings a security update to WordPress core. The security patches include multiple serious vulnerabilities and we are applying patches as soon as possible for customers. The WordPress core and security team have also released version to address any of the patched vulnerabilities for the following versions: 4.8.2, 4.7.6, 4.6.7, 4.5.10, 4.4.11, 4.3.12, 4.2.16, 4.1.19, 4.0.19, 3.9.20, 3.8....
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Improving Cross-Cultural Dexterity among Leaders and Managers in Remote Teams
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4 Ways to Drive Social Traffic to Your Blog - In 2014, something amazing happened. No, not Patrick Stewart doing the Ice Bucket Challenge. (Though, that was one for the books). Rather, social media started to beat search in driving referral traffic to publishers’ websites. This means more readers were finding blogs through channels like Facebook and Twitter than through channels like Google and Yahoo. This, of course, was followed up in 2015 with the discovery that Facebook overtook Google ...
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Security Haiku: Malicious Code in Display Widgets - We coined a new term: “plugin identity theft”. Let it not catch on. A popular plugin in the WordPress.org repository has been “hijacked” (for lack of a better term) by a developer with suspicious intent. The popular plugin “Display Widgets” is described as “Adds checkboxes to each widget to show or hide on site pages“, yet in the last few releases there have been some unexpected new features added: such as adding posts directly to the site...
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5 Essentials for WordPress Landing Pages that Convert - Landing pages are a marketing essential for any business with a website, as these serve as a web page where you can drive traffic and encourage visitors to take a particular next step. Landing pages are standalone pages, sometimes without a navigation bar, and a single call-to-action to better guide visitors to take your desired action, whether that’s downloading an eBook, signing up for a free trial, or making a purchase. Ideally, eve...
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5 Key Takeaways from Jeff Bezos’ Leadership Style - Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, is soon to become the world’s richest person. And, if we are to believe him, he’s just getting started. He’s not the only one who thinks so. RBC Capital’s managing director, Mark Mahaney, estimates Amazon is on track to become the world’s first trillion dollar company. And if that wasn’t enough, Bezos is also an early investor in Google, Twitter, and Uber. He runs his own version of SpaceX called Blue...
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How to use React with the WordPress REST API - I remember back when I learned how to develop for WordPress, I spent weeks in the Codex, learning the template hierarchy, the template tags, and so on. The Codex was like my Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: they might as well have printed “DON’T PANIC” on the front, because it kept me learning at a comfortably steady pace. These days it feels more like I’m stuck in Dictionopolis from The Phantom Tollbooth. Reading through documentation for new...
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