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GDPR for American Websites
GDPR (The General Data Protection Act) goes into effect on May 25th, 2018. If you haven’t been preparing already, you might be wondering whether you should be paying attention. The most important thing to know is that the GDPR, while it is only agreed upon in the European Union, applies to some companies and organizations outside…
WordPress Tags and Categories
Your WordPress tags and categories have a lot of potential. Here’s a beginner’s guide to these powerful tools. WordPress tags and categories Both tags and categories are tools for sorting and identifying pages and posts. Both are below the Publish tools in the WordPress editor. If you have a blogger (and you should), you may…
The Gutenberg Update
The editor in WordPress will soon change completely. The Gutenberg Update, which is the name of this change, is taking longer than expected, but is currently planned for sometime this year. This is the biggest change at WordPress in years. It’s important that you know about it if you create posts even occasionally, since the…
RSS Feed Plugins: What Can Go Wrong
Bringing your blog to the homepage of your WordPress site — even if your blog is offsite — is easy to do. When we build a website, we usually include a blog feed on the homepage as part of the custom theme, and your theme might do this, too. Here’s how the blog you’re reading…
Adweek’s Attack on WordPress
Adweek recently published what comes down to an attack on WordPress, and I was quoted in that attack. As Rebecca Haden of Haden Interactive explains, “If you use WordPress, you may have a software platform built by one team, a theme built by someone else, and a bunch of plugins and extensions built by other…
10 Takeaways from WordCamp Omaha
WordCamp Omaha 2017 was well organized, enjoyable, and fun. I always learn things at WordCamp, and Omaha was no exception. Here are 10 things you might not already know: Dusty Davidson reminded us that WordPress now powers 28% of the internet. You might know that already, but did you know that the next most popular…