How to combine activity logs and monitoring to supercharge WordPress administration

Careful and consistent administration of a WordPress website can not only help you ensure happy visitors and users but ultimately more of them. However, many WordPress website owners are not in the business of managing WordPress websites.

With primary focus lying elsewhere (mainly on running the business), they tend to find this activity something of a black box that can take valuable time away from the core business. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way. Logging and monitoring are two primary, easy-to-use tools that can help you ensure a healthy website with minimal effort.

A New WordPress Plugin Allows Websites to Build Call-to-Action Buttons on Blog Posts Automatically

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An SEO agency has released a new client-exclusive WordPress plugin that builds call-to-action buttons at the bottom of blog posts automatically.

Dallas, TX – The Dallas-based SEO agency Joe Youngblood SEO & Digital Marketing Consulting has become well-known for offering high quality WordPress SEO services and for building out custom plugins for their clients and the WordPress community. Now the agency brings their clients something new – automated call-to-action buttons for blog content. 

One of the main complaints the agency gets from…


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Swedish E-Bikes – Energy Institute Blog

Uppmärksamhet! New research digs into the economics of ebikes.

What do Sweden, Norway, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and Scotland have in common? They have all introduced subsidies for electric bicycles.

In today’s blog, I want to write about new research from economists Anders Anderson and Harrison Hong on ebike subsidies in Sweden. Policies aimed at encouraging ebikes have been proliferating rapidly, but this is the first economic analysis I’ve seen and the study does an excellent job laying out many of the key issues.

Pedal Power

Wanting to reduce carbon emissions,…


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WP Engine Makes Atlas Available



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WP Engine, a WordPress technology company, has announced the availability of Atlas, a WordPress headless solution. Developers can grow their sites on Atlas. Prices range from $49 to $499, and there is Atlas Blueprints, which offers free, professionally-designed starter sites that allow anybody to get up and running with headless WordPress.

Jason Cohen, founder and chief technology officer at WP Engine, told CMSWire WP Engine experienced a flood of interest in headless WordPress with the release of Atlas in 2021. Many established WordPress developers…


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WordPress 6.0 Features Numerous Accessibility Improvements

WordPress recently announced that version 6.0, due out in May 24, 2022, will feature a significant amount of accessibility improvements that will make using WordPress easier for users and bring it closer to WCAG 2.0 AA compliance.

WordPress Accessibility

WordPress maintains inclusiveness and accessibility as a core goal “as much as possible” for all WordPress releases.

In order to achieve this goal WordPress has an internal team that is focused on accessibility.

The WordPress statement of accessibility notes:

“The WordPress community and the open source WordPress project is committed…


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The 5 Best Chrome Extensions for WordPress Users

WordPress is a powerful tool that allows you to create a website or blog both easily and to your exact specifications. This doesn’t mean that it’s without its flaws, however.

If you’re hoping to get more out of WordPress, then there are a bunch of different extensions available for you to try from the Chrome Web Store. Here are five of the very best for you to have a look at.

First on this list comes WordPress Theme Detector and Plugin Detector. This Chrome extension is great if you’re trying to get an idea of what else is possible with…


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Bluehost India Unveils Its New Campaign Focused On Helping SMBs Create Online Stores And Start Selling Digitally

  • Multilingual campaign aims to reach SMBs pan India to communicate the ‘EASE’ of creating e-commerce websites with Bluehost
  • Bluehost is recommended by WordPress.org as one of the top trusted brands

MUMBAI, India, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Bluehost, a trusted web hosting provider specializing in WordPress, has unveiled a campaign targeting SMBs in India to help build online stores and start selling online. The multilingual campaign will be run in English, Hinglish and 3 other Indian languages (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu) across multiple media channels. It comprises two films showcasing…


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The WordPress Stack That Turns Designers Into One-Stop Web Agencies

Behind every web experience, there is a designer. Great designers are highly sought after for their insight into peoples’ expectations and their underlying assumptions about how things should work.

Some web agencies prize their designers and grant them significant freedom to pursue innovative ideas. However, that’s not always the way things work. Often, technical demands and other obstacles get in the way, forcing designers to compromise on their ideas and change course.

That’s why many web designers are looking for ways to bypass technical limitations and build…


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A Pared Back Web Fonts API May Land in WordPress 6.0 or Not at All – WP Tavern

Anyone who has been watching or participating in the development of the web fonts API can attest that it has been an emotional rollercoaster. At one point, it seemed to be a shoo-in for WordPress 5.9. Then, it was punted to the next release. Sure that it was landing once again, we find ourselves looking down the track, wondering just where the next dip or twist will take us.

Over the weekend, I had a sense of dread. The WordPress 6.0 Beta 1 release last week felt premature. I am just as excited about the next major update as I have been about any before. There are tons of noteworthy…


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Best WordPress Themes Releases on ThemeLooks Marketplace

“Multipurpose Business WordPress Theme designed for All kinds of Creative Agency, Digital Acency, Design Agency, Online Business, Business Website etc.”

By Designing with Love and Coding with Care, ThemeLooks is Here To Provide You The Best WordPress Themes and Plugins As Well As Fully Responsive Website Templates

As one of the fastest-growing and outstanding Premium WordPress Themes and Website Template companies, Themelooks appreciates and understands the existence of small businesses. Themelooks has an exceptional and widespread reputation as a provider of theme and template…


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