WordPress 6.2.2 – what’s in this update

WordPress 6.2.2 What’s NewCreditsFreedomsPrivacy Maintenance and Security Releases Version 6.2.2 addressed a security issue and fixed 1 bug. For more information, see the release notes. Version 6.2.1 addressed some security issues and fixed 30 bugs. For more information, see the release notes. Welcome to WordPress 6.2.2 WordPress 6.2 includes more than 292 enhancements and 394 bug fixes. This page…

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Why launch a WordPress Website?

In the world of ever changing, evolving technology, it’s harder to launch an activate your brand’s website and get found on search engines organically. Search engine optimization and Google advertising and online marketing can get expensive for start-ups. Survival of the fittest means those with either venture-capital backing, private family investors, angel investors or deep…

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How to add a new user to your WordPress Site

How To Add A New User Go to your WordPress admin page and log in to your website. https://www.youdomain.com/wp-admin If you’re not sure of your password, you can click “Lost Password” to reset it. Now that you’re in the WordPress dashboard, click on Users in the left sidebar. Towards the top of the screen, click Add New.…

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accessiBe

What is accessiBe? accessiBe is the leading AI-powered web accessibility solution that makes websites accessible to people with disabilities, and compliant with the WCAG, ADA, and other accessibility legislation. By using AI and automation, accessiBe signficantly reduces costs and time, making web accessibility achievable for all businesses. MAKING THE WEB INCLUSIVE FOR ALL The #1 Automated …

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WordPress Market Share: Usage Stats, Facts, & Research (2022)

How Popular is WordPress? Thanks WPbeginner for putting together this update for all to benefit. If you are a WordPress developer or just getting started with WordPress, you MUST begin your journey with WordPress Beginner! To learn more, see our article about the history of WordPress. WordPress is immensely popular and is used by millions of…

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One Signal – Website Push Notifications for Blog Subscribers & more

OneSignal Platform OneSignal is one of the fastest & most reliable services to send push notifications, in-app messages, SMS, and emails to your users on mobile and web. Know how some sites on Safari and Chrome ask you if you would like updates from their website? THIS IS IT! Want THE Guide on how to…

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WordPress 5.6.2 – what you need to know

Welcome to WordPress 5.6.2. WordPress 5.6.2 brings you countless ways to set your ideas free and bring them to life. With a brand-new default theme as your canvas, it supports an ever-growing collection of blocks as your brushes. Paint with words. Pictures. Sound. Or rich embedded media. Maintenance and Security Releases Version 5.6.2 addressed 5 bugs.…

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siteground hosting

WordPress Hosting with Siteground

We partnered with SiteGround on more than 10 WordPress websites and have had an incredible experience. As much as we love loyalty to platforms with wonderful customer services (and fast cars) from the past, we are finding there are highly reliable partners that serve all clients needs. What we digg? Caching and Cloudflare included SSL…

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Checking WordPress website for compatibility before upgrading PHP to 7.X

If you are an digital marketing agency and you find yourself with a new client that has an older WordPress website having performance issues (or if you yourself are starting a new job managing an existing WordPress website, but not sure what’s wrong), I HIGHLY recommend that you start with an AUDIT of the website…

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WordPress 5.2.2 Update

Welcome to WordPress 5.2.2 Congratulations on updating to WordPress 5.2.2! This update makes it easier than ever to fix your site if something goes wrong. Version 5.2.2 What’s NewCreditsFreedomsPrivacy Maintenance and Security Releases Version 5.2.2 addressed 13 bugs. For more information, see the release notes. Version 5.2.1 addressed 33 bugs. For more information, see the release notes. Keeping Your Site…

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WordPress 5.1

What’s new with WordPress 5.1

Welcome to WordPress 5.1 You’ve successfully upgraded to WordPress 5.1! Following WordPress 5.0—a major release which introduced the new block editor—5.1 focuses on polish, in particular by improving overall performance of the editor. In addition, this release paves the way for a better, faster, and more secure WordPress with some essential tools for site administrators and…

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wordpress 5.0

How to disable Gutenberg – How to fix Website after WordPress 5.0 Update

WordPress 5.0 “broke” our sites. But not really… As part of our WordPress maintenance programs, we handle updating WordPress & plugins constantly for our clients. Yes, after WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg was installed, we did find editing pages and posts rather challenging. The platform is amazing if you are launching a brand new website or blog.…

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Broekman Communications - marketing & PR agency

End of Life of PHP 5 – Upgrade to PHP 7 by 12-31-18

Big thank you and shout out for WordFence for monitoring, managing, education and publishing key invaluable articles that help webmasters, website developers and website managers around the world protect their clients and their websites! 🙂 Next steps: 1. As always, before I do anything, ensure back-ups of website & database are in place so that…

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facebook advertising

How to Add Facebook Pixels to WordPress-based website

Using Facebook with WordPress When we want to really track how Facebook ads are performing on websites we manage and get a deeper understanding of our audience interaction and, of course, determine success of campaigns…. getting a pixel installed on your site will LINK that advertising from Facebook with your website’s visitor traffic information. The…

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9 Hidden Features in the WordPress Media Library Only Power Users Know

Discovered amazing article written by Tom Ewer of wpmudev! Solid resources & tips here. READ BELOW! https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-media-library-hidden-features/ Published on September 12, 2015 HIGHLIGHTS Can use as FREE image compression tool Create central repository of all images for project Quick editing tools for work on the road (vs using Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, etc.) Using FREE downML – Download Media…

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WordPress maintenance

WORDPRESS MAINTENANCE & UPGRADES For over 10 years, we’ve been developing, managing, updating and moderating WordPress-based websites. One thing we’ve learned along the way, similar to ANY website and ANY content management system, keeping the foundation integrity solid requires minimal, but constant love and care = AKA maintenance.As part of our one-off or monthly retainers,…

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social media infographics

SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT + MODERATION.  Brand Management & Online Marketing  Online PR & Publicity  Social Media Campaign Development  Networking & Moderation  Community Engagement Marketing  Consulting   Author Social Media Plan. From Situation Assessment & Analysis to Development. o Reconnaissance mission to collect everything about {INSERT ENTITY} (Company History, Competitive Analysis,…

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Website Development with WordPress

BROEKMAN communications has a 15-year track record of developing websites with branding, marketing, business development, social media, SEO and PR front-and-center! Our core offering now is website development using WordPress. From helping translate your vision & acting as your art director/creative director, BROEKMAN communications builds amazing high-end websites as YOUR dedicated programmer. Did you know that 17% of all sites online now use WORDPRESS?

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WordPress 3.6 – amazing new features!

WordPress 3.6 REVISIONS, Media Player and really nice default TWENTY THIRTEEN theme! Colorful New Theme Introducing Twenty Thirteen The new default theme puts focus on your content with a colorful, single-column design made for media-rich blogging. Inspired by modern art, Twenty Thirteen features quirky details, beautiful typography, and bold, high-contrast colors — all with a…

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Themeforest – favorite source for WordPress Themes

Professional WordPress Themes & Website Templates for any project Discover thousands of easy to customize themes, templates & CMS products, made by world-class developers. At Themeforest, you can buy website templates aka themes for WordPress in addition to HTML, Shopify, Magento, Jamstack, and many other content management systems like Joomla and Drupal with prices ranging…

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Search Engine Optimization

SEO is real strength of ours. We have a proven track record with SEO basics as part of our Wordpress Website Development projects. We follow many benchmark best practices. We deploy plugins to strengthen site content, communicate better with bots, yield better search engine results and get 1st page ranking quickly. We offer a number of ways to do “after market” SEO programs. Core focus is to yield some natural great ‘organic search’ strength!

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Social Media Consulting

SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT + MODERATION.  Brand Management & Online Marketing  Online PR & Publicity  Social Media Campaign Development  Networking & Moderation  Community Engagement Marketing  Consulting Want to see my PINTEREST Board approach to showing you things we care about? pinterest.com/broekmancomm/social-media/   Author Social Media Plan. From Situation Assessment…

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