Sorry, not sorry: The problem with Facebook’s sorry campaign

“I’m sorry, so sorry.” In the 1960s, it was a hit song by the 15-year old American singer Brenda Lee, crooning about unrequited love. In the 21st century, “sorry, so sorry” has become the tragic modus operandi for banks, businesses and social media behemoths. Time and time again, mega companies exploit customer data for nefarious reasons, walk away with a slap on the wrist — and occasionally a hefty fine or two — and spit out a “we’ll do better” PR campaign. “Today, we’re renewing our commitment to you — and working to earn back your trust,” Wells Fargo wrote in an ad caption after being busted for opening millions of customer bank accounts without permission.
“From now on, [we’ll] do more to keep you safe and protect your privacy,” Facebook declared after a spree of bad press, tanking stocks, and public backlash over its handling of fake news and selling user information.
The reasons companies lie are obvious. The first is financial pressure: Stock prices and investors don’t always respond well to transparency. Second, ego. With no incentive to admit errors, businesses are sticking
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17923/sorry-not-sorry-the-problem-with-facebook-s-sorry-campaign

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Nine Years of Managed WordPress • Pagely®

A look back – and forward. We launched Pagely in August 2009. Now, nine years later, Managed WordPress Hosting is a multi-billion-dollar channel. I’m not sure even we saw that coming back then.
The channel grew slowly at first, then quickly took off to become saturated with providers of all stripes. Managed WordPress is now ubiquitous. Some providers are interesting, but very few are doing anything different, or better, for customers. The once-novel features of automatic updates, routine backups, robust site caching, and a focus on information security have been commoditized.
Pagely has moved to the top of the market by deploying more robust and flexible solutions aimed at higher ed, media, and enterprise-tier clientele. Our expert-level staff cater to the complex technical and service needs of these clients by leveraging unique technical solutions crafted from almost a decade of “in the trenches” experience and an arsenal of resources available to us from our primary technology partner, Amazon Web Services.
How We Roll (It’s Evolution, Baby)
As the WordPress Hosting space became more crowded, we realized differentiation was the key to our growth. Instead
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17922/nine-years-of-managed-wordpress-pagely

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The Ultimate List of WordPress & Remote Job Sites

Below you’ll find hundreds of job websites, newsletters and aggregators for WordPress and Remote (non-WordPress jobs). The WordPress jobs cover all specialties from WordPress plugin and theme development to web design and customer support. The Remote jobs include everything from programming to support roles, marketing and more. Happy hunting!
Name
Description
Comments
NamePost Status
DescriptionThe Post Status Job Board is the best way to get a job in front of serious WordPress professionals. Likewise, it’s the best way for serious WordPress professionals to find qualified, full-time positions at great companies.
CommentsPost Status is the best place for high quality WordPress jobs due to the vetting process. It’s also the best WordPress news source and I’d highly recommend becoming a member.
NameWordPress Jobs
DescriptionThe official WordPress job board.
CommentsMaintained by volunteers.
NameGoogle Jobs
DescriptionGoogle Jobs filtered for WordPress
Comments
NameIndeed
DescriptionWordPress jobs on Indeed.
Comments
NameFreelancer
DescriptionWordPress jobs listings at freelancer.com
Comments
NameWPMUDEV Jobs
DescriptionJobs listings at WPMUDEV.
CommentsWPMUDEV is a membership site
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17921/the-ultimate-list-of-wordpress-remote-job-sites

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8 Reasons WordPress Sites Get Hacked And What To Do About Them

Hacking is a bigger problem now than it has ever been. As the sophistication of our technology and software has grown so have the techniques employed by hackers. By the same token we have better security for websites now than ever before. You can never make your WordPress site 100% safe from hackers, but there are certain proactive steps you can take to make it harder for them.
***Check out my post on 10 important things do after installing WordPress***
If Hackers Are Targeting WordPress Should I Use Another Platform?
Let me be clear, ALL websites are vulnerable to hacking, not just WordPress. The most secure websites on earth such as Google, The Department of Defense and the National Security Agency (NSA) have all been hacked.
The reason WordPress is a common target of Hackers is because of it’s widespread use. WordPress is the most popular website platform in the world. It powers a staggering 31% of all websites on the Internet. Therefore, it’s not surprising it would be a popular target for those with bad intentions.
To its credit, WordPress takes security very serious. Even right out of the box WordPress it’s pretty secure.
What I want to share with you today are
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17920/8-reasons-wordpress-sites-get-hacked-and-what-to-do-about-them

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How to make the most of internal linking for higher rankings and improved organic search visibility

An internal link is a hyperlink pointing to a page within the same domain. Internal linking is crucially important for both website rankings and usability:

• Internal links allow users to conveniently navigate around the website (i.e. in order to complete a purchase, learn more about a product or read about your business)
• Internal links allows crawlers discover more of your site pages, even those that have no external backlinks (especially important ones)
• Internal links are thought* to improve each given page authority (Google puts some emphasis on the signal: The more internal links a page has, the more internal authority it is supposed to have).

*This has never been officially confirmed by Google (unless I missed the announcement) but we’ve seen web pages doing considerably better once we add internal in-links pointing to it, so let’s say this one is an educated theories backed by multiple experiments.

Now, the question is however how to use internal links correctly. Let’s see…

1. Internal Linking Basics and Best Practices

I won’t repeat what Rand said in this Whiteboard Friday video because I agree with most (all?) points. But let me recap:

• Well-structured navigation is crucial both for user experience and crawling… however
• In-content internal links (links embedded within meaningful context) seem to carry more weight for rankings
• Google is believed to give the least importance to footer links
• Internal anchor text does matter. This has almost been confirmed by a Googler. That said, if you target specific queries for a specific page, use descriptive keyword-focused (but meaningful) keyword links when linking to that page (when that makes sense). However stay away from always using exact-match anchor text, as it may seem unnatural.
• If there are two internal links to the same page on one page, only top anchor text seems to matter to Google
• Google seems to like text links more than image links with an alt text
• Generally, the more in-links a page has, the better its rankings (this is easy to test: Just pick a page on your site and start linking to it consistently. You are likely to see it moving up in SERPs)

2. Analyzing and Evaluating the Internal Link Structure

Surprisingly, given the amount of weight SEOs put on internal linking, there are not many tools that allow you to see internal structure clearly. Yes, there a few powerful crawling solutions including this free one as well as one of my favorite ones Screaming Frog.

But there’s no easy way to analyze how each specific landing page is linked to throughout the site.

Jet Octopus solves that problem by introducing Linking Explorer feature. Crawl your site using Jet Octopus and open the Linking Explorer section (Behind “Explorer” link in the navigation). From there you can provide the URL of your (or your competitor’s) landing page to see how exactly it is linked to from other pages on the site.

I love the section of the report that shows in-linking anchor text. This gives you a great insight:

• If you are doing enough optimizing your internal anchor text (or if you are over-optimizing things to the point where it looks a bit ridiculous / unnatural)
• What keywords your competitors want to rank each specific rankings for

3. Using Structured Data for Internal Linking

Apart from anchor text, there’s a more beautiful way to signal Google of your internal structure by linking: Schema.org

Some of Schema.org properties have been confirmed by Google as impacting the way they interpret websites (at least the way the page look when listed in SERPs). Others are presumably helping, because, as confirmed by Google, structured data in general helps Google understand websites better and it may even be a ranking factor.

So when using internal linking which Schema.org properties can be implemented?

1. /BreadcrumbList

Google says marking up breadcrumbs using Schema.org is one of the enhancement tools that could positively influence your website’s organic visibility and engagement (i.e. click-through)

• The markup helps Google understand the website’s hierarchy better
• /BreadcrumbList markup helps Google generate breadcrumbs-like format of the URL structure which is more appealing and may increase click-through

[Indicate the position of each URL in the site’s hierarchy using BreadcrumbList]

There are a variety of WordPress plugins allowing you to easily implement the markup, including this one.

2. Authorship

Even though Google’s authorship has been discontinued (meaning authors are no longer highlighted in search results), that experiment revealed two things:

• Google pays attention to who wrote a piece (we’ve seen traces of this again and again, including their Raters’ guidelines that introduced EAT (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) concept)
• Google appreciates any help they can get when identifying an author of the page

That being said, making their life easier never hurts, so marking up internal bio links using Schema.org/author is a smart idea.

3. /ListItem

Another way to stand out is search is getting intro those search carousals. Officially, Google supports list format for the following content types: Recipe, Film, Course, Article. However, as they confirm, this list is ever growing, so marking up your product lists is not a bad idea.

[Here is an example of a list from a single website shown in a carousel]

4. Reviews!

Reviews get huge SERPs visibility. It’s one of the oldest rich snippets Google has been experimenting with and today Google supports a variety of types, including “including businesses, products, and different creative works such as books or movies. ” Here’s a solid collection of WordPress plugins for each supported type depending on what it is you are doing. All of the plugins in that list are Schema.org-based.

Google recommends using schema.org/URL whenever you want to point them to the page with the full review.

5. More!

Again, whether Google is currently supporting a certain Schema.org type or not, it’s always worth thinking “What else should I do to help them understand your site easier”

Besides, Google has stated it many times that they are working on supporting new and new schema properties including FAQ and HOW-to (just recently). So whenever you are working on creating or editing pages, consider Schema.org properties that make sense there. For example, you can:

• Point to your About page using schema.org/Organization
• You can link to your home page using schema.org/copyrightHolder whenever you are publishing a new content asset, etc.

What internal linking tactics are you using to maximize your website’s organic visibility? Please share in the comments!

source https://searchenginewatch.com/2018/09/28/how-to-make-the-most-of-internal-linking-for-higher-rankings-and-improved-organic-search-visibility/

29 Best Commercial WordPress Theme Shops

We are often asked by our users about which are the best commercial WordPress theme shops. Buying a theme from a reliable commercial WordPress theme company gives you the peace of mind about the quality and support. In this article, we will share the best commercial WordPress theme shops that are offering excellent themes with great after sales support and updates.

There are hundreds of free WordPress themes available in the WordPress.org’s theme directory. While these free themes are great, they offer fewer features and limited support.

This is where commercial WordPress theme shops come in. These WordPress theme companies offer premium WordPress themes with far more features. They also offer support and regular theme updates.

Below are the best commercial WordPress theme shops in the market.

1. Themify

Themify has been around for a while now and have earned themselves a top spot among established WordPress theme companies. They offer modern and beautifully designed WordPress themes for all kind of websites.

They also offer the Themify Builder, an intuitive drag and drop WordPress page builder. It is integrated in most of their themes.

Pricing: You can buy a single theme (plus one free theme) for $49 or $79 for all themes and 12 plugins with 1 year of support and updates. For $249 you can purchase lifetime access to all their themes.

2. Elegant Themes

Elegant Themes is one of the oldest and most well-known WordPress theme shop. They have been around for a long time and surely know their stuff.

They have a huge collection of beautifully designed WordPress themes for all kind of websites. Each theme also gives you access to their Divi Builder which is one of the top WordPress drag and drop page builder plugin in the market.

Pricing: The best part about Elegant Themes is their pricing. For $89 you get all their themes and plugins with 1 year of support and updates. For $249 you get lifetime access to all their themes and plugins.

3. CSSIgniter

CSSIgniter is a popular WordPress theme shop. They offer a large collection of beautifully designed WordPress themes for business, magazines, blogging, hotels, and news websites.

All their themes are quite easy to setup, translation ready, and highly optimized for speed and performance.

Pricing: You can purchase a single theme for $49 or join their theme club for $69. This gives you access to 1 year of updates and support. They also offer a lifetime membership plan with all their resources including themes and plugins for $249.

4. StudioPress

StudioPress is one of the most well-known commercial WordPress theme shops. All their themes are built on top of their own Genesis theme framework, which is trusted by most WordPress developers for its quality code and rock solid performance.

Their theme shop also includes Genesis child themes created by third-party developers. These themes are vetted by the StudioPress team to ensure they follow their standard of quality and excellence.

Pricing: Starting from $129 for theme + Genesis framework. This gives you access to detailed tutorials and unlimited updates. You can also buy their Pro Plus membership for a discounted price of $499.95 and get access to all their themes.

5. ArrayThemes

ArrayThemes offers a beautiful collection of WordPress themes. The most noticeable feature of all their WordPress themes is beautiful typography that looks equally great on all devices and screen sizes.

Their WordPress photography themes feature beautifully crafted galleries that would make your photos popout. Their portfolio themes have detailed portfolio templates, and for WooCommerce you’ll love how their themes handle product pages.

Pricing: You can purchase a single theme for $49 or join their theme club for $89 with 1 year of support and updates. You can also get lifetime access to all their themes for $249.

6. ThemeIsle

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ThemeIsle offers some of the best free and paid WordPress themes in the market. Many of their themes have their free versions available in WordPress.org directory with slightly fewer features than paid versions.

Their collection includes multipurpose business themes, restaurant, legal, non-profit, and blogging themes. All their themes are easy to customize and backed by their friendly support team.

Pricing: $89 for a single theme, and $89 for all their themes and plugins for 1 website. For unlimited access you can join their club membership for $299.

7. WPZoom

WPZoom offers a beautiful collection of well designed WordPress themes. Their theme collection includes blogging, business, magazine, portfolio, and video themes.

They use their own theme framework behind the scenes, which is highly optimized for speed. All their themes include very simple and easy to use options panel for quicker setup. They have excellent documentation to help you get started.

Pricing: Single theme costs $69 and all themes package costs $99.

8. TeslaThemes

TeslaThemes offers modern WordPress themes for businesses, blogs, and eCommerce websites. They have a collection of 67 WordPress themes neatly organized into different categories.

All their themes feature modern designs with stunning animations, parallax backgrounds, and crisp typography. These themes are easy to setup and come with detailed documentation with step by step instructions.

Pricing: You can purchase a single theme for $58 or all their themes for $99 with 1 year of support and updates. For $299 you can purchase lifetime access to all their themes.

9. Artisan Themes

Artisan Themes offers a small collection of powerful multipurpose WordPress themes. Each of their theme comes with a collection of readymade website templates that can be installed with one click.

They take a modular approach to design and allow you to just drag and drop modules to quickly build your own layouts. The combination of built-in layouts, demo installer, and drag and drop page building allows you to create unlimited designs.

Pricing: $129 for a single theme license and $439 for all themes package. Both options include 1 year of support and updates.

10. MojoMarketplace

MojoMarketplace has been around for a long time. They started out as a premium WordPress theme company and have evolved into a large online marketplace where top developers sell their WordPress themes and plugins.

They have a huge collection of WordPress themes neatly organized into categories and tags. They also have a useful search feature that helps you quickly find themes that match your industry.

Each item on their website has a support forum where theme developers provide direct support to customers. All themes are well documented and some even have video tutorials to help you set up your website.

Pricing: Themes are priced between $49 and $59, this includes one year of support and updates provided by theme developer.

11. Graph Paper Press

Graph Paper Press offers beautifully crafted free and premium WordPress themes. Their themes are suitable for photography, portfolio, and business websites. All themes are translation ready and easy to setup. They support a theme customizer with all their themes for easy customization.

Each theme has eCommerce integration and beautiful layouts to sell your photos online. Their business themes feature professional and neat layouts with flexible custom theme options.

Pricing: All themes plan starts from $99 with automatic updates and support for one year. You can get lifetime access to all themes in $399.

12. aThemes

aThemes has a modern collection of WordPress themes. They offer both free and paid themes for magazines, portfolio, and business websites. Some of their premium themes are also available for free at WordPress.org repository with fewer options than the pro version.

They share the complete information of theme updates, validity of WordPress release, documentation, and other useful details for each theme on their website. All their themes are easy to customize and built on the highest standards of code.

Pricing: Single theme is available with one year of support and updates for $59. You can get lifetime access to all their themes with support and updates for $249.

13. Anariel Design

Anariel Design offers niche-based multipurpose WordPress themes. Their designs and layouts stand out among the other premium themes. All the themes work great with all third party WordPress plugins.

Their collection includes WordPress themes for fashion, charity, portfolios, restaurants, and lifestyle blogs. The multipurpose themes can be used to easily create all kinds of WordPress websites.

Pricing: You can buy single theme in $59. If you want access to all their themes, then you can get premium membership by paying $149 for the first month and then $10 per month until you want to keep the membership.

14. FloThemes

FloThemes has a stunning collection of WordPress premium themes for photographers. They provide a one-window solution to create your portfolio or photography website with ready-made layouts. They’ll guide you step by step from getting your domain name and web hosting to launch your website.

They also offer tutorials to help you get started. All their themes are flexible and easy to set up. They offer beautiful crisp typography that looks good on all your devices.

Pricing: You can buy one site license in $279 and two site licenses in $449. It will include WordPress installation and theme setup with one-to-one email support.

15. ChurchThemes

As the name suggests, ChurchThemes offers professionally designed WordPress themes for Churches. All their themes include features like sermons, events, staff, locations, ministries and more. Everything a WordPress theme for churches should provide.

ChurchThemes includes built-in WordPress podcasting features allowing you to easily add sermons in audio, video, and text formats. You also get access to step by step guides to set up your church website easily without hiring someone.

Pricing: Single theme licenses start from $99 to $129 per website. 1 year of theme updates and support is included.

16. Meridian Themes

Meridian Themes offers beautiful WordPress themes built for bloggers, creative professionals, and business owners. All their themes are optimized for performance, security, and SEO.

Their themes feature unique modern designs that are highly customizable. All theme options are easy to use and setting up a website is made easier with a simpler dashboard.

Pricing: $59 for a single theme and $89 for all themes package with 1 year of support and updates. You can also get lifetime access to all themes for $249.

17. HermesThemes

If you are looking for WordPress themes for hotels, then start your search from HermesThemes. They offer beautifully designed WordPress themes for hotels, resorts, and B&Bs.

Their themes include ready-made templates to showcase your properties, rooms, and nearby attractions. All themes are compatible with multilingual websites using WPML.

Pricing: Single website license costs $249 and multiple websites license costs $399 with 1 year of support and updates. It’ll be billed annually.

18. EngineThemes

EngineThemes specializes in offering WordPress themes with some serious functionality baked into the theme with addon plugins. They offer themes for real estate, classifieds, jobs engine, and more.

Their themes feature beautiful designs built to support the functionality that the particular theme offers. All their themes include custom theme options dashboard and detailed customization features.

Pricing: $89 for a single site license. They also offer theme packages at different pricing plans. All plans include support and updates for 1 year.

19. Organized Themes

Organized Themes has an excellent collection of WordPress themes for restaurants, churches, non-profits, and business websites. Their themes offer easy drag and drop layouts using WordPress widgets to build your own landing pages.

These beautiful designs are also optimized for SEO and speed. All themes include flexible customization options and easy setup with 1-click demo installs.

Pricing: Theme costs range between $15 to $55 for single theme and $65 for all themes package. For $100 you can buy lifetime access with updates and 1 year of support for all their themes.

20. Gorilla Themes

Gorilla Themes is another popular WordPress theme company that offers multipurpose WordPress themes. Their themes also include companion plugins for photo gallery, listings, selling modules, and other features.

They have themes for various niches including automotive companies, travel blogs, real-estate websites, magazines, and musicians. All themes have custom header layouts with multiple navigation menus support and an easy to use theme options panel.

Pricing: Single site license costs $49.95 and unlimited sites license costs $149.95 with 1 year of support and updates.

21. AudioTheme

AudioTheme offers WordPress themes for musicians, bands, and music websites. Their themes include sections to add discography, upcoming gigs, gig details, audio and video sections.

Their themes use live WordPress theme customizer to set up the features. All theme options are neatly organized, and you can view your changes in the live preview as you edit your website.

Pricing: Single themes $69 and all themes package for $129 with 1 year of support and updates.

22. WPCasa

WPCasa specializes in beautiful WordPress themes for real estate websites. All their themes are built to create professional real estate websites and manage property listings with ease.

Their themes can also be extended with addon plugins built specifically for real estate businesses. They also include a powerful listings search, agent management, property page templates, and easy to use of customization options.

Pricing: €49 for single theme and €69 with paid addons included.

23. Macho Themes

As the name suggests, Macho Themes offer powerful and bold WordPress themes. Their themes are flexible and easy to setup in WordPress. They support Google fonts for beautiful typography on all themes.

Their themes are suitable for medical websites, dental clinics, news, and magazine blogs. The most notable feature in their themes is the custom header and footer navigation.

Pricing: Single website license costs $59 and extended license costs $89. They also offer lifetime membership for $119.

24. MysteryThemes

MysteryThemes offers simple and beautifully crafted WordPress themes with premium features. Their themes are built on highest industry code standards. MysteryThemes are multipurpose and can be used to create all types of WordPress websites.

They offer both free and paid WordPress themes. All themes support WooCommerce, advanced typography, 1-click demo importer for the quicker launch of your site.

Pricing: $55 for single theme and $189 for all their premium WordPress themes.

25. ShowThemes

ShowThemes are known for their beautiful collection of WordPress themes designed specifically for events. All their themes are built by event professionals to offer a one-stop solution.

They offer single and multiple page layouts on all themes. Their themes are flexible in design and colors which means you can customize any of their theme with your style needs.

Pricing: Single theme cost starts from $89. You can buy all the themes for $159 and support portal with all themes for $189.

26. SecondLine Themes

If you want to start your own podcast website, then you should checkout SecondLine Themes . All their themes support tools for podcasters using companion plugins. They offer features to play podcasts smoothly on your website.

Their WordPress podcast themes has audio and video support with multiple layouts to display your podcasts professionally. Each theme comes with drag and drop page builder that helps in easy customization.

Pricing: You can buy single podcast theme for $59 and all themes bundle for $139 with 1 year of support and updates. They also offer lifetime access to all their themes for $389.

27. UpThemes

UpThemes offers an excellent collection of premium WordPress themes designed with care and attention to details. Their collection includes themes for magazines, music, bands, photography, non-profit, and church websites.

All their templates are easy to customize with unlimited colors, header styles, and different layout choices that you can mix and match. Their themes also include Beaver Builder to create your own custom page layouts, and premium Typekit fonts (with select themes).

Pricing: $125 for a single theme for 1 website and 1 year of support and updates.

28. AppThemes

AppThemes offers different WordPress themes for business websites, blogs, magazines, and more. They specialize in themes that act as a full-fledged platform to cater niche sites like coupons website, classifieds, job boards, business directory and more.

Their themes include powerful design features to match your own brand colors, custom logo, and layouts. Their niche themes offer great monetization options baked into theme’s functionality.

Pricing: Single theme for $69 and all themes package for $199.

29. Pixelgrade

Pixelgrade has a small collection of beautiful and stylish WordPress themes. All their themes have elegant layouts with bold and bright colors. They offer easy to use theme options panel to customize your WordPress website.

Their themes are suitable for magazines, news, travelers, food blogs, and other content-based niches. The most notable features in their themes include stunning typography, multilingual support, custom layouts, and unlimited color schemes.

Pricing: Single theme costs $99/year with support and updates. You can also get lifetime access to all their themes for $189.

Choosing WordPress Themes for Your Website

All these commercial WordPress theme shops offer great designs that are easy to customize. However, many beginners are still unsure about what they are looking for.

We believe that simplicity is the best design. Look for simpler themes that are easy to customize. If you are looking for a specific functionality, then make sure that the theme supports it.

Remember, that you can always use WordPress plugins for extra features like contact form, photo galleries, sliders, and email subscriptions.

For more on this topic, check out our article on things to consider when selecting a WordPress theme.

We hope this article helped you find the best commercial WordPress theme shops. You may also want to see our ultimate step-by-step guide on how to make a website with WordPress.

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TranslatePress – Translate a WordPress Site Easily from the Front End

TranslatePress is a WordPress plugin that lets you translate your site, or parts of it, in a simple way – directly from the front-end. It works similarly to a visual page editor in that regard. More and more sites are catering to an international audience and you can’t afford not put up multilingual content anymore. In line with this, it’s no wonder the plugin’s popularity and financial gain have grown exponentially in such a short time. Put simply – if you’re translating your site, then you should, by all means, be using TranslatePress.
Translating made easy
As already mentioned the whole translating process (at least the manual part), is done directly on the page in a user-friendly interface and is therefore easy for anyone to pick up regardless of any previous skill. The great thing is that the plugin seamlessly integrates itself into your existing theme settings, so you won’t have to change anything in order to use it.
We could say it has a plug-and-play nature to it. Because of this, there should be no conflicts with anything you’re already using and not only that, every translation you make can be viewed practically in real-time
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17919/translatepress-translate-a-wordpress-site-easily-from-the-front-end

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Leaving Homestead: Finding the Best All-Around Local Development Environment

Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about using Laravel Homestead as my local environment. At the time, my only real options were Vagrant or MAMP as an Apple user. Since then, the number of options has increased slightly to include Local by Flywheel, a more significant push to using your computer, and a set of packages like nginx and dsnmasq to run a local environment from a directory on the fly. At the time, Homestead was my local development environment of choice because it was easy to install, quickly configurable, and lightweight—something I appreciated using an older MacBook Air as my daily driver at the time. However, the more robust my sites became, and the more websites I collected on my local, the slower Homestead appeared to run almost certainly because it relies on VirtualBox or a virtual system to run your instance, which caused me to look elsewhere. I avoided MAMP or Vagrant and similar software because they were too resource heavy for my late 2011 setup for many of the same reasons.
Alternative Options
Flywheel offers a solution (at the time called Pressmatic; Flywheel acquired the company in late 2016), which provides individually configurable docker instances in
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17918/leaving-homestead-finding-the-best-all-around-local-development-environment

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How WordPress errors can negatively affect your SEO

WordPress is such a popular Content Management System that it now powers up to 30 percent of all the websites existing over the Internet. Its popularity as a seamlessly easy-to-use website builder has made it the first choice of inexperienced and non-technical users who want to build their own websites through it.

To top it all, the amazing SEO plugins such as the Yoast SEO and the All-in-One SEO plugin have made it tremendously easy for new users to take care of their website’s SEO. However, the entire journey of handling a website is not a cakewalk, even with WordPress. There are always certain elements that will break havoc onto your site and make things go haywire. So, what are such issues that negatively affect a WordPress site’s SEO even when everything else is in place?

Let’s find out through this blog post where we talk about the most common WordPress errors that negatively affect our site’s SEO.

500 Internal Server Error

Definition: A very general HTTP status code, the 500 Internal Server Error is an indication of an unclear trouble with the website’s server. When the server can’t offer more specific information, it displays the 500 Internal Server Error.

How it affects the site’s SEO: If this error becomes a frequent one on your website, it will affect the reputation of your site for the visitors as well as the Search Engines It can eventually lead to a poor website experience for the users because obviously, no one wants to deal with a website that frequently displays errors.

404 Not Found

A failure to find the requested resource even after communicating with the server results in the 404 status code appear on the website. Visiting a web page that doesn’t exist returns this error to the user. They might not be a technical SEO problem but it is a Client-side Error which can affect the traffic on your website and even damage the reputation of your website. They create a poor experience on your site and can hurt your SEO in the long run.

404 Errors

These fall into the category of errors that don’t impact your WordPress site’s SEO directly but can affect the link equity and user experience over time on the website. These errors show up when there is no matching URL i.e. the content is not found or is unavailable. There are several kinds of 404 errors such as external 404s, Outgoing 404s, and Internal 404s.

If your website is returning these errors, you can try getting rid of them with the help of the Screaming Frog tool. Search Engines look at 404s in a manner that it helps them ascertain if the website is meeting the criteria and is taken care of. A User-Experience killer, 404 errors can decline the search clicks and eventually affect the site’s SEO.

Crawl Errors

Crawl errors do what they say. When your website fails at letting the Search engines bots crawl it i.e. visit each page of the website; this error occurs. Divided into two, these crawl errors are Site errors and URL errors i.e. when the entire site can’t be crawled and when a specific URL fails to be crawled, respectively. These errors do affect the ranking of your website as the bots are unable to crawl them and rank them.

502 Bad Gateway

Causing a little impact on the SEO, the 502 Bad Gateway error is returned when one server receives a bad response from another server. Also might be caused by your network, prompting your browser to think that something is wrong. But, always look out for the error.

504 Gateway Timeout

Fairly impacting the SEO of your site, this error happens when a Server doesn’t get a timely response from another server while trying to send you the page you requested or due to the corrupt databases.

Some tips to keep the errors in check:

• Always check the code in the validator.
• Never disallow search engines to index your site through CMS.
• Always allow your website to be indexed in .htaccess.
• Keep checking your site’s URL at regular intervals so that you can find and fix issues swiftly.
• Always submit the site’s sitemaps to Google Search Console so that your website is not left out from search engines recognizing your sitemaps.

Bonus tips to take care of your WordPress website:

• Always make sure that your website’s loading speed is taken care of and that your website load within 2 seconds from the time the request is made. Have a look at the WordPress speed optimization guide to take care of this aspect. And you need to choose a reliable and competent web hosting provider to take care of your site’s server.
• You can also implement caching on your website to help the website load faster and enhance its user-experience, resulting in better SEO rankings.
• Your site’s design can also kill its rankings and SEO. A minimal, responsive, and mobile-friendly design and improve its overall user experience, driving in more traffic and leads.
• Never ignore WordPress tags if you want to play well when it comes to your WordPress site’s SEO. These tags help the readers and visitors easily find your website and ts articles in the search engine result pages.
• Optimizing the images on the site is quite an untapped SEO move for website owners that can help them improve the SEO of their website.
• The choice of the right themes and plugins can largely impact the appearance and performance of your website that play quite a decisive factor when it comes to the SEO of your website.

Conclusion

There are yet a lot of errors that can pop up on your website and affect the SEO of your WordPress website. It is important to keep them in check and negate their effect as and when they seem to surface. Only by keeping an eye on them and keeping your website together, you can run your WordPress website efficiently and smoothly.

source https://searchenginewatch.com/2018/09/27/how-wordpress-errors-can-negatively-affect-your-seo/

WPBakery (Visual Composer) Bug in Change Handler

The WPBakery (Visual Composer) changeHandler function uses the “vc.accordion” data attribute without first checking for it’s existence. Any plugin or theme using a jQuery show / hide event trigger (for example) will trip this bug and the post editing page will fail to load properly. I’ve posted the bug report to the Visual Composer channel on Slack, but the channel does not seem to be read by WPBakery employees, so this bug may go unfixed. The unminified WPBakery code looks like this. Note that data("vc.accordion") is being used here without first checking if the attribute exists or not.
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changeHandler = function(e) {var caller;void 0 === (caller = $(e.target).data("vc.accordion")).getRelatedTab && (caller.getRelatedTab = function() {var findTargets;return findTargets = function() {return caller.getContainer().find("[data-vc-tabs]").filter(function() {var $this;return void 0 === ($this = $(this)).data("vc.accordion") && $this.vcAccordion(), $this.data("vc.accordion").getSelector() === caller.getSelector()})}, caller.isCacheUsed() ? (void 0 === caller.relatedTab && (caller.relatedTab
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17917/wpbakery-visual-composer-bug-in-change-handler

source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/wpbakery-visual-composer-bug-in-change-handler/

How to Create WordPress Backup Using JetPack (formerly VaultPress)

Do you want to create WordPress backup using JetPack (formerly VaultPress). VaultPress help you create automatic real-time WordPress backups and store them in the cloud. In case of a mishap, you can easily restore your WordPress website with just a few clicks. In this article, we will show you how to easily create real-time WordPress backup using JetPack (formerly VaultPress).

Why Use WordPress Backups by JetPack (VaultPress)?

VaultPress is one of the best WordPress backup plugins. It was rebranded to merge with JetPack, and it is now called JetPack Backups.

JetPack offers backups as a paid subscription service. Their pricing plans start from $39 per year for JetPack Personal (which is lower than what VaultPress cost previously). This plan comes with:

• Automated daily backups with unlimited storage
• 30-day backup archive
• Easy site-migration and 1-click restore
• Expert support provided by email
• and other powerful features like image CDN, lazy loading, etc.

We use VaultPress on WPBeginner for backups, and we have found it to be an extremely reliable solution. The primary reason why we use VaultPress is because they offer a seamless real-time backup solution which is very important for a large site like ours.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to create WordPress backups using JetPack (formerly VaultPress).

Creating WordPress Backups Using JetPack (Formerly VaultPress)

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the VaultPress plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, click on the VaultPress menu item in the WordPress admin sidebar. This will bring you to the plugin’s settings page. Click on the ‘View plans and pricing’ button to continue.

This will take you to VaultPress website where you will see pricing for JetPack Personal plan. Click on the Get Started button to continue.

On the next screen, you need to enter your website address and then click on the ‘Start Installation’ button.

Next, you will be asked to provide your WordPress website’s administrator username and password. This information is used for installation and will not be stored anywhere.

JetPack will now be automatically installed on your WordPress site, and you will be redirected to the payment page. After providing your payment information, click on the ‘Pay’ button to continue.

After payment, the setup will continue and automatically configure backups for your website. Once finished, you can click on the ‘Back to your site’ button.

This will take you back to your WordPress website’s admin area. From here you need to visit JetPack » VaultPress page to view and manage your WordPress backups.

Note: Depending on the contents of your website, VaultPress may take a few minutes to finish the first backup before it appears on this page.

Giving VaultPress Access to Your Server

VaultPress needs access to your server to restore backups and be more efficient. To do that, you need to visit the VaultPress dashboard.

From here you need to visit the Settings page and enter your SSH or SFTP credentials. You can find this information in the email you received from your hosting provider when you signed up.

VaultPress will also ask you to add SSH Keys to your server. If you are on a shared hosting provider, then chances are that you don’t have access to create that file.

This file adds an additional layer of security. However, if you can’t add those SSH Keys, then VaultPress would still be able to connect to your server using SFTP information that you provided.

Don’t forget to click on the Save button to store your credentials.

Note: you can continue using Jetpack without providing access to your WordPress hosting server. The advantage of adding your SFTP access is that it helps VaultPress work more efficiently, and if you have a large site, then this will help you restore faster.

Restoring WordPress Backup by JetPack and VaultPress

VaultPress allows you to easily restore your WordPress site from a backup. Simply go to JetPack » VaultPress page and then click on the ‘Visit Dashboard’ button.

This will take you to your VaultPress dashboard where you need to click on ‘Backups’.

You will see a page showing your most recent backups. You can click on the restore button next to the backup that you want to restore.

VaultPress will now prepare your backup to be restored, and you will be able to see the progress on screen.

Once finished, you will see a success message.

You can now go back to your WordPress site’s admin area to see if everything is working as expected.

We hope this article helped you learn how to create WordPress backup using JetPack + VaultPress. You may also want to see our ultimate step by step WordPress troubleshooting guide for beginners.

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