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News
How Cryptocurrency May Be Driving a New Wave of Attacks on WordPress Websites
Although WordPress is an incredibly secure platform, one of the newest threats that has arisen is for cryptocurrency miners to be maliciously installed on your WordPress sites to hijack your users’ computers. This article explains how cryptocurrency could affect WordPress websites and what you can do about it.
Tools
10 Best WordPress Star Rating Plugins
If you would like to include a star rating on yours or a client's website, this article reviews 5 plugins to help you do this.
Create an App Without Knowing Code
There are so many possibilities to create an app or a website with a lot of functions and features but without ever looking at the source code. This article by Paul Jarvis explores the options.
Review on Motors Theme: the Ultimate Dealership and Classifieds WordPress Theme?
If you are working with dealerships, car rental companies or classifieds - check out this review on the Motors Theme. It seems to be quite useful and provides a clean look and feel to the content.
How to Set up a Cornerstone Content Strategy with Yoast SEO?
On your site, you probably have a number of articles that are dear to your heart. Yoast calls these articles your cornerstone articles. So how do you make sure these articles pop up in a high position in the search engines? Read on my friend and find out.
Business
How Saying “No” Wins More Work
This post looks at the way you should be using "no" to show your expertise and win more work. Some prospects will drop out part way through the process, but they were unlikely to be the type of client that you want anyway.
Top 4 Online Marketing Trends for 2018
While there are several new online marketing trends poised to impact your go-to-market strategy, here are 4 most important ones to focus on in 2018.
Learn
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on Video Marketing Strategy
It's time to have a heart-to-heart about video marketing. You may be missing out on one of the most effective ways to engage with your audience online.
The Unique Selling Proposition: a Key Element for SEO Success
Columnist Fili Weiss explains what a unique sales proposition (USP) is and why every indexable page on your site needs one.
Making Analytics Simple with Asi Dayan and Noam Green
In this week's WP Elevation podcast Mike talks to Asi and Noam from Oribi who walk us through the types of statistics that you should be measuring. They also talk about the types of metrics and KPIs that you should be asking your customers about when you install analytics and insight packages onto their websites.
Hosted Versus Self-hosted eCommerce
In this Post Status podcast, Brian and Brian discuss self-hosted vs managed eCommerce and whether or not conferences have outlived their usefulness. They also look at WooCommerce vs other solutions and explore Shopify and Liquid Web’s Managed WooCommerce hosting as viable done-for-you strategies. It's an interesting one guys, so tune in!
Self Care
Mindfully Coping with Urges & Addictions
We all have addictions or some something you would like to change to become a little more healthy. But dealing with urges can be quite difficult. This is a great article, by Leo Babauta, which gives advice on how to deal with addictions and strong urges.
3 Tips for Dealing with New Freelance Job Jitters
Freelancers have to start new jobs often. Here's how to keep the knots out of your stomach.
Practical Tips for Taking Time for Yourself to Help You Achieve Your Goals
Setting goals gives you motivation, vision and can help you get out of a rut. Check out these simple strategies to help tackle issues with productivity and get the most out of your 2018.