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Domains: A Cookie Jar Analogy
As Engineers, one of the most common questions we receive is about one’s domain name and how it affects their website. Domain names can look daunting, but you don’t have to worry about it! Grab your favorite cookies and cup of tea or coffee or chocolate (or any beverages you prefer,) and let's learn more about domain names and why they are similar to a cookie jar.
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How to Restore Wordpress from a Backup (5 Ways)
Five guaranteed methods to effectively restore your WordPress website from a backup. Which is easiest and how do you restore a site that's completely down?
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.blog Featured Site: blonded.blog
Blogs have adapted over the years, but they remain a fun, satisfying way to explore and share your interests with others. Our next featured dotblogger is blonded.blog, a fan-driven blog is dedicated to all things Frank Ocean, one of the defining artists of our time.
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WooCommerce Performance Optimization: Guide & Best Plugin
Successful stores are obsessed with performance. Why? There’s a direct correlation between sales and profits. See the proven tool for a quick performance boost.
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Shining a Spotlight on Podcasts
Interested in podcasting? In this post, we showcase podcasts in a wide range of topics and discuss how to stand out with your own podcast.
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Time to Celebrate! It’s our 5th Anniversary
Once again, it’s time to celebrate! KKWT is celebrating our fifth year since launching .blog to the world. And what better way to celebrate than sharing five of our favorite Top 5 lists! On our birthday, we thought it would be fun to highlight some fave dotbloggers.
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Episode 29: Dylan Field, Figma Co-founder, Talks Design, Digital Economy, and Remote Culture with Host Connie Yang
The latest episode of the Distributed podcast pairs Dylan Field, Figma’s CEO and Co-founder, and guest host Connie Yang, Head of Payments Design at Stripe. Join a discussion on design, instilling remote culture, and the digital economy, including Field's perspective on the role of design in technology. “We’ve gone from a physical economy to a digital economy. I don’t think these are new trends or new things that happen but now, all of a sudden it happened all at once, and accelerated massively,” he says.
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WordPress Backup Plugins: Which One Should I Choose?
What’s the best WordPress backup plugin? Get a detailed comparison of top plugins on pricing, features, ease of use, pros, cons, and more! Plus FAQs answered!
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Create A Blockbase Child Theme
We have been working on a plugin to help you create a Blockbase child theme. The idea is that you can use the existing tools to make changes to a Blockbase theme, and then export a bundle of templates and theme.json as a new child theme. I tried to create a new theme called “Typewriter”…
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Redesigning WooCommerce’s social media presence
In May 2021, the WooCommerce design team started a project to redesign our visual language for all social media channels. Our aim was to improve our presence and communicate the brand as more fun and attractive to our followers.
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Why Your WordPress Website Needs an Image CDN
No matter your site, if images are slow to load or blurry, you'll fall short of your goals. How a WordPress image CDN can help & how to know if you need one.
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WordPress Image Sizes: A Quick Guide
Ever wondered why there are multiple images created for every one you upload? Learn the answer and also how to control the sizes created.
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How to Back Up a WordPress Site (Manually & Automatically)
Compare types of backups and how to perform each one. Should you use a plugin? Do you want manual backups or something automatic? Get the details you need.
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WordPress Image Carousels: Dos, Don’ts, and Top Tips
WordPress image carousels add a dynamic web design element to your site. Learn best practices and tips for using image carousels.
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How Long Should my Blog Post be?
Blogs play a huge role in driving website traffic. Quality content builds brand awareness, credibility, and shows search engines, like Google, that your website has useful information to share, making it easier for potential customers and clients to find you.
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How to Start a Fashion Blog For Free (and Get Paid)
Yes, you can turn your passion into a career! Start a fashion blog on WordPress to express your unique style, grow a loyal following, and generate revenue.
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New: Free Blogging Course
We have released a free course to help aspiring bloggers and content creators develop smart strategies and launch their sites.
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Automattic Women: Elizabeth Pizzuti
Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is designer Elizabeth Pizzuti. Who are you, and what do you do? At Automattic, I’m the design lead working on improvements to the admin experience…
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Jetpack Acquires WordPress Vulnerability Database WPScan
Jetpack is acquiring WPScan, a WordPress vulnerability database. WPScan is used across the WordPress ecosystem to learn about new vulnerabilities to WordPress core, themes, and plugins. WPScan started as a simple Ruby script in 2011 to help identify vulnerabilities in self-hosted WordPress websites. The simple script matured into a large software project and gained popularity amongst the security and WordPress communities.
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WPScan Acquired by Automattic
We are very excited to let you know that WPScan will be joining Automattic! WPScan has been working on improving the WordPress security ecosystem for over 10 years. During that time we released our wildly popular WordPress security scanner. We then developed and released the WordPress vulnerability database, where we triage and record hundreds of…
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Jetpack 10.3 – Under-the-hood improvements for your site
This month, we’re shipping several under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes to make Jetpack work even better for you and your website.
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.blog Featured Site: researchinsiders.blog
At their core, blogs connect people, creating a place where like-minded people can communicate around shared interests. Our next featured dotblogger draws on her own experience to help arm Research Higher Degree students with tools for success at researchinsiders.blog.
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5 Lessons I've Learned from My Cat
Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace. The Foo Fighters album’s name defines my cat, Hunter, and the ways she has helped me to become a better Happiness Engineer. I adopted Hunter in March of 2011. She was pretty small, full of fleas, and very sick. Her former owner had traumatized her. She was and still is…
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Introducing New Self-serve Options for Enterprise Plus Plans
We’re all about making it easy to keep spam off your site, from the initial signup process to the protection we provide for years to come. Last year, we introduced Enterprise Plus plans, designed for businesses that have over 60K API calls each month. But until now, you had to contact our sales team to register. …
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