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Need a Website Fast? Let Us Do It For You
Check this critical task off your to-do list and let our WordPress.com design and development experts build your website for you, all in four business days or less.
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How To Use WordPress Maintenance Mode When You Make Site Changes
What is WordPress maintenance mode? Why is it important? Is it right for your site? Learn how to enable maintenance mode on WordPress.
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How to Back Up WooCommerce: Database, Orders, Products
Safely store your data and make it available for a quick recovery in an emergency. See the best way to back up WooCommerce without breaking the bank!
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What is World Blog Day and How Can You Celebrate?
Did you know there’s a whole day dedicated to celebrating blogs and the bloggers behind them? Since the early 2000s, August 31st has been known as World Blog Day. Naturally, we’re excited to mark this holiday!
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How to Add & Use a CDN in WordPress (+ Best Free CDN Plugin)
It might sound complicated, but you don’t need a developer to add a CDN to WordPress. Get step-by-step directions & the top tools for quick installation.
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How to Find, Access, and Edit functions.php in WordPress
Everything you need to know about functions.php. How to find, access, edit, & understand this important file. Functions.php troubleshooting pro tips.
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Here’s a Look at Our Favorite New Patterns
There are now over 260 Patterns that can be inserted into your pages and posts in just seconds. Here's a look at some of our favorites.
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How to Add a Mega Menu to WordPress (Guide & Plugins)
Quickly create a stunning custom mega menu in WordPress without hiring a developer. See the top plugins or follow these instructions to build one manually!
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.blog Featured Site: exploratree.blog
Kinsume is an influencer marketing platform with an environmental twist. Their blog, exploratree.blog is a resource for both influencers and marketers, sharing marketing expertise and industry trends while shining a light on important climate change issues.
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How to Secure Your WordPress Login Page (Complete Guide)
Enhancing your WordPress site security doesn't have to be complicated. It starts with a safe login page. Here are the best ways to lock it down.
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Five Tips for Preparing to Apply to the Happiness Engineer Position
The opportunity to become a Happiness Engineer is an exciting one, and with all the excitement comes a lot of expectations as well! You’ve likely read about the work of a Happiness Engineer, and how we’re passionate about helping our customers with everything WordPress. If you share our passions and think you could be a…
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Grow Your Audience with Microsoft Start
With the help of Microsoft Start, WordPress.com creators are getting access to an all-new tool to increase their audience.
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5 Ways a Blog Can Help You Build Your Personal Brand
Blogging is critical to a strong business marketing strategy, but what about your personal brand? A blog is one of the best ways to solidify your online presence and build positive awareness. Let’s look at what a personal brand is, why it matters, and how blogging can help build yours.
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130 Blog Post Ideas (and a Process to Find More Topics)
Ever feel like you’re running out of blog post topics? Borrow from this list of 130 ideas (and learn how to consistently come up with ideas of your own).
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How to Detect & Remove Malware from a WordPress Site
What’s the easiest, fastest way to detect & remove malware from WordPress? Do you need a plugin? Can you do it yourself? See the details & can’t-miss tools.
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Blog Name Ideas: How To Pick A Great One
Choose the perfect blog domain name that's original, catchy, and attractive. Follow these nine tips and set yourself apart to attract visitors!
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How to Protect Your WordPress Site From Brute Force Attacks
What are brute force attacks? Is your site a target? There are 4 easy-to-implement steps that can prevent a major headache. Get the checklist & best tools!
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New Design Superpowers for You to Leverage
One of the most exciting things about WordPress is that it’s constantly improving. In fact, did you know that Gutenberg releases new functionality and improvements every two weeks?! There have been a number of really cool and powerful capabilities rolled out over the last few months that give you even more control over the design…
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How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources in WordPress
What are render-blocking resources? What’s the quickest, easiest, & most effective way to get rid of them? How to test – and 5 ways to optimize – your site.
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.blog Featured Site: outdoorliving.blog
Outdoorliving.blog is run by three friends who met on a “great adventure” in 2012 and have been exploring the world together ever since. When the pandemic limited their travels, they created outdoorliving.blog to bring the joys of the outside into people’s homes.
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New Tools for More Successful Editing Adventures
Spacing in Galleries You now have the power to control how much space lives between your images at the horizontal and vertical level. This allows you to create a variety ways to present a collection of photos. You can even eliminate all of the space to give it a collage effect. Lock Those Blocks Have…
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Jetpack 11.2 – Under-the-hood improvements for your site
Jetpack 11.2 ships several under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes for a better Jetpack experience for you.
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Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for August 2022
The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Below you’ll find the six newest themes that we’ve added to our library, giving you beautiful options for a product showcase, photography portfolio, travel blog, or whatever else you can dream up. To install any of the below themes,…
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