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2023’s Best Image CDN Solutions for WordPress: Our Top 5 Picks

If you try searching for the best image CDN on the WordPress plugin directory, the results will probably leave you with even more questions than answers. What you’ll find as the top suggestions are image optimization plugins instead of CDNs for images. This can be pretty confusing. To clear up the confusion, we’ve put together the ultimate image CDN comparison guide for WordPress users.

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9 Best WordPress Forum Plugins in 2023

Forums are a great tool to foster discussion and connection on the internet. With some of the best WordPress Forum plugins out there, it is easier than ever to create your own online community. In this post, we’ll provide you with our list of the most helpful WordPress forum plugins to help you get a …

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9 Expert-Recommended Ways to Use Video on Website Homepage

Using a video on website homepage designs has become the norm for most contemporary brands and it’s likely to continue into the future. Companies are doing their best to hook first-time visitors to their websites by making a great initial impression. Video has proven to be a useful marketing tool for doing that. If you’re eager to learn how best to incorporate the use of videos on your website’s homepage, then check out these nine tips and best practices.

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How to Add Multiple Pins to Your Divi Map

The Divi Map Module makes it easy to embed a Google Map to your Divi website. This is a great way to share your business location on a contact page, in a footer, or on an about page. In this post, we’re going to demonstrate how to add multiple location pins to your Divi map. …

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Authorization vs. Intent: Why You Should Always Verify Both

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has observed a recent increase in the number of partial vulnerability patches that don’t properly address separate underlying issues. More specifically, we have been seeing an increase in Missing Authorization vulnerabilities that are fixed using tools intended for addressing Cross-Site Request Forgery, which are two independently fixable vulnerability types that …Read More

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WordPress vs Squarespace (2023) — The Crucial Differences

WordPress began as a blogging platform nearly two decades ago and since then has evolved into a full content management system that rivals (if not surpasses) any web platform available. One of its strongest competitors in that arena is Squarespace, a sleek and polished website builder that offers professional-level design and function for those who …

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A Brief History of Website Builders

The process of website building has gone through significant transformation over the years. Nowadays almost anyone with basic computer skills can build a website, but during the early days of the internet, web design was the sole domain of programmers and coders. In this article, we will explore the history of website builder from the mid-90s to the present.

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Get a Free Health Center Layout Pack for Divi

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new Layout Pack for Divi. This time around, the design team has created a beautiful Health Center Layout Pack that’ll help you get your next Health Center website up and …

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WooCommerce vs Shopify (2023) — Which One Is Best?

WooCommerce vs. Shopify is a tough match-up. Shopify claims that over 1,700,00 businesses use its platform. WooCommerce, on the other hand, has more than five million active installations. That means we’re talking about two eCommerce giants, each taking an entirely different approach to helping you build an online store. In this article, we will compare …

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Divi Plugin Highlight: Woo Essential

Woo Essential is a third-party plugin that adds 8 new Woo Commerce Modules to the Divi Builder. It also adds several features to streamline the shopping process, allowing you to display products and categories in multiple layouts and lots of feature options. In this post, we’ll look at the modules and features of Woo Essential …

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WordPress vs Wix (2023) — Which is Right for You?

In terms of WordPress competitors, they don’t come a lot bigger than Wix. Wix has made a name for itself by offering free websites that require absolutely no experience to create. The Wix team has grown its market share a great deal in recent years. WordPress, however, remains the 800-lb gorilla in the room. Because …

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10 Best WordPress Schema Plugins in 2023

Schema markup is essential to SEO, providing search engines with data about your website and its content that is structured appropriately for search engines. With the right schema plugin, you can help search engines understand your content better, which can improve your website’s visibility in search results. In this post, we’ll be looking at some …

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WordCamp London In Early Planning Stages for September 2023

The organizers of WordCamp London are in the early planning stages for an event that would take place in September 2023. It has been nearly four years since London hosted a WordCamp. The event was cancelled in 2020 and scheduling was not resumed until recently. Organizers have created a survey that respondents can take anonymously in approximately 2-3 minutes. The questions were created to help them know how to shape the event. In 2019, WordCamp London brought in 768 attendees and sessions were livestreamed for the first time. Organizers are asking how many people attendees would like to see at …

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Industry-Wide Tech Layoffs Impacting WordPress Professionals

Most WordPress professionals managed to escape 2022’s round of tech layoffs, which primarily affected venture capital-funded startups and larger companies that had overhired during the economic upswing that came with pandemic precautions being lifted in many places. Mass layoffs hit Meta, Peleton, Stripe, Carvana, and more during the last half of 2022. Tech layoffs have continued relentlessly in 2023, with major players like PayPal, Spotify, Google, Microsoft, Coinbase, Salesforce, and Amazon cutting tens of thousands of workers in January. This round of layoffs seems more brutal than the last, as it hits more close to home for WordPress professionals. Layoffs.fyi, …

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How to Sell a Website in 9 Steps: Go From Scratch to Done Deal

Ever wondered how to sell a website? Whatever your reasons might be for doing so, you’ve decided that now is the time to pull the trigger. Unfortunately, selling a website can often feel like a daunting and even intimidating process. Luckily, we’re here to help you with a simple guide on how to do it in nine steps.

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WordPress 6.2 is Coming Soon! Here’s Your First Look

On February 6, 2023, the WordPress core development team published its Roadmap to 6.2, which includes a wealth of exciting details about the key sections of work expected to be completed for WordPress 6.2, the next iteration of WordPress that’s planned for a March 28 release. This release, like the ones that have come before …

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Wordfence Intelligence CE Weekly Vulnerability Report (Feb 6, 2023 to Feb 12, 2023)

In case you missed it, Wordfence has curated an industry leading vulnerability database with all known WordPress core, theme, and plugin vulnerabilities known as Wordfence Intelligence Community Edition. This database is continuously updated, maintained, and populated by Wordfence’s highly credentialed and experienced vulnerability researchers through in-house vulnerability research, vulnerability researchers submitting directly to us using …Read More

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BuddyPress 11.1.0 Maintenance Release

Immediately available is BuddyPress 11.1.0. This maintenance release fixes 3 bugs. For details on the changes, please read the 11.1.0 release notes. Update to BuddyPress 11.1.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository. Many thanks to 11.1.0 contributors  1benk1, webmasterfreya, casper99 & imath.

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How to Improve First Contentful Paint (FCP) in WordPress

If you want to create a great experience for your visitors, you want your First Contentful Paint times (and other associated performance metrics) to be as low as possible. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at FCP and show you how to measure it. Then we’ll explore how to improve First Contentful Paint via six proven methods.

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Wordfence Adds Two Factor Auth for WooCommerce Customers

Wordfence 7.9.0 has been released and it includes a very exciting feature for WooCommerce sites and other WordPress sites wanting to make two factor authentication (2fa) available to their site users or members. Wordfence 7.9.0 now lets you give your users the ability to configure 2fa on their profile pages. For WooCommerce websites, by enabling …Read More

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8 Best WordPress Form Plugins in 2023

Form plugins are crucial for website owners to easily collect and organize visitor data. Without them, gathering leads and improving front-end strategies can be hindered. With many form plugins available for WordPress, choosing the right one can be difficult. That’s why we’ve listed the best options to help you find the perfect fit for your …

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WordPress Unveils Commemorative 20th Anniversary Wapuu

The global WordPress community is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the software’s first release on May 27, 2023. Two decades ago, WordPress made its debut featuring Texturize, XHTML 1.1, manual excerpts, and a new admin interface. An official anniversary website is publishing updates about how the community can get involved in the upcoming celebration plans. Organizers and participants will be using the #WP20 hashtag on social media to designate posts as related to the event. Community organizers hosting celebrations can have their events listed on the website by submitting them through a form. As part of the festivities, the project has …