How to effectively enhance your WordPress website with email marketing tools – Customer Think

Most blogs and businesses that use WordPress are already ahead of the curve, especially when it comes to online visibility.
Yet, as online shelves grow, more is demanded of the eCommerce marketer and retailer. They’re expected to capture and maintain digital market share.
Email marketing and automation are gaining in popularity with WordPress users. When done correctly, email marketing can increase traffic and purchases on your website.

Understanding the impact of email marketing tools

Efficient communication with prospects and customers is essential for an online business.

However, while…


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Save 76% on a no-code website builder for WordPress


Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication.

TL;DR: As of April 29, you can get a lifetime freelancer plan for Brizy Next-Gen WordPress Website Builder for just $69, which is down 76% from its usual $299.


Even if you grew up in the AIM or Tumblr age, the bits of HTML and CSS you acquired probably aren’t enough to build an entire website from scratch. If you have the capacity to learn how to code on your own time, by all means — it’s a worthy skill to obtain. If not, you have some options as well, like using a no-code website builder like Brizy.

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Gutenberg Hub Launches an Online Page Builder App Using WordPress Patterns – WP Tavern

I have been raving about the power of patterns for what feels like forever at this point. And, just when I start wondering what this feature will look like next, someone surprises me with a new idea. Often that person is Munir Kamal.

He mentioned that he would share a “little” page-generation app that ties into the WordPress patterns library earlier this week. Today, he publicly announced that it was live on Gutenberg Hub.

The app is still at a concept stage, but the current online version works well. Essentially, it is an interface that allows users to piece together patterns…


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Ukraine targeted by DDoS attacks from compromised WordPress sites

Ukraine’s computer emergency response team (CERT-UA) has published an announcement warning of ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks targeting pro-Ukraine sites and the government web portal.

The threat actors, who at this time remain unknown, are compromising WordPress sites and injecting malicious JavaScript code to perform the attacks.

These scripts are placed in the HTML structure of the main files of the website and are base64-encoded to evade detection.

The code runs on the website visitor’s computer and directs their available computational resources to generate an…


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How GoDaddy Helps Small Businesses with Domain Names, a Website Builder, WordPress, and More in 2022 | News

As one of the world’s largest domain registrars and web hosting providers, GoDaddy offers a range of products and services to customers to help start and elevate their entrepreneurial journeys online. Branchleaf Digital has now expanded their offerings to provide even more GoDaddy products to customers.

SAN ANTONIO, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — As an official GoDaddy reseller, Branchleaf Digital now offers customers many GoDaddy products directly. Here…


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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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