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It has never been easier for individuals to tell the world about themselves by creating a personal brand identity. Building a personal brand can demonstrate a person’s qualities and skills, defining what makes them unique or different. Any edge you can find on your competition is critical in today’s cutthroat business environment. Social media and […]
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A user might be operating in front of a mobile screen and a desktop screen, but their expectation changes widely on both devices. A user in front of a mobile device is a little less patient, as they are mostly “on the go” compared to when they are in front of a desktop. Mobile devices have changed the overall user experience and how a user perceives a website nowadays. In short, we need our content to render dynamically on mobile and desktop screens abiding by their requirements. If we could do that, we could create a responsive design with content specific to the device users.
For example, you cannot hide a “Login” button on a dropdown or hamburger menu in the corner. While you can do that on a desktop screen (even though it’s a bad design!) and the user will find it. The developers cannot mess up with the mobile design, considering the traffic size and data generation a mobile device is responsible for. Also, we have a lot to share with our users on the developer's end and want a large screen space to accommodate everything.
I was going fair on my Udemy networking course until I go to lesson 47. Subnetting Large Networks Part 2, my brain started smoking. Up to this point I had been dividing the network/hosts on the forth octet. And when counting the bits that I was going to borrow from the host portion of the address I wouldn't even count the bits in the network portion of the address. If it was class C I would only count the bits in the forth octet, if it was a class B I would only count the bits from bit 17 and forward/right, and if it was class A from 9 forward/right. But when I got to this lesson the instructor divides the network on the third octet and for whatever reason he started counting the network bits from the beginning, the very first bit in the first octet. I've attached the file. My network/cicso training has come to a dead stop.
SEO may sound like something only big businesses care about, but it’s actually one of tech startups’ most critical marketing strategies. SEO Agency assist you in improving the visibility of your website and products in...
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Looking for some up-to-date Shopify statistics? Want to know how many people visit Shopify every day? How many live Shopify stores are out there? Or, most importantly, how much money Shopify merchants and Shopify itself are making? 
I just released a video where I try out clk.sh.
First, I wanted to see if the service was indexed in Google. I just pick a bunch of link shortening services from a list, one by one, and leverage the reputation of each one. People are looking to know more about them and to see if they are trustworthy.
In some cases, these lists that I use are pretty old, and because of how some of these services work, they will get a bad reputation after a while. Yes, the current video shows you a service that may force you to install programs in order to open up the destination page.
A bad reputation may eventually lead to a deindexed or penalized website. This is why I don't recommend people using services like this. You go against the natural flow.
After that, I checked the reputation on TrustPilot. You can't trust the 5 star reviews on TrustPilot, but the one star ratings definitely have some merit to them in my opinion.
Then I went to BHW and did a quick search. Someone got banned for trying to sneak in a link. Another example of going against the natural flow. Following a natural flow would mean spending effort to create real value, like I try to do in my video.
Then I found another sneaky method to post clk.sh links and similar. To my surprise, I couldn't find anyone getting banned, so I guess the moderator didn't understand the trick. Still, I don't recommend doing it.
Do you know about clk.sh?
Have you ever tried it?
Do they pay out?
Before they pay out, I believe they require a $5 or $10 earn. Because of the rep, I would expect them to not honor a pay out at all, but I don't know really.
I don't think I can post a link here, sorry about that.
A couple of weeks ago I almost accidentally found in my apartment an old laptop that was only gathering dust: a Lenovo Thinkpad T440s that I bought in 2014.
The specs:
In the video below, we take a closer look at MySQL DB installation, MySQL Workbench, how to connect to the MySQL DB, and how to get info using the Java program. Let's get started!
Lex Machina, a legal analytics solutions provider and a subsidiary of LexisNexis, has announced the release of its API, which is intended to facilitate what the company refers to as “technology-assisted human review” of legal documents. This solution is intended to work with case resolutions, damages, remedies, findings, and counsel and party data.
When it comes to building websites there is probably some truth to the saying that you are only as good as the tools you have. Design experience and an ability to write code can make up for some shortcomings. But what you really want is a WordPress theme that can not only enable you to do excellent work but enable you to build websites quickly and easily as well.
There are good multipurpose themes and not-so-good multipurpose themes. You certainly want to avoid selecting any of the latter.
How can you distinguish between the good and the not-so-good if you don’t have time to do extensive research? And what approach can you take if you have your mind set on investing in a theme that gives you all the flexibility you are ever likely to need. Theme that enables you to power yourself through the building process. The one that gives you an end result that is precisely what you expect, or your client demands – or better?
You can always check out a theme’s sales, ratings, and reviews. But a better approach is to leave things up to those who have the experience and expertise to identify a few top candidates to choose from.
That is where we come in. At least one of the following 8 top multipurpose WordPress themes for 2022 could be the gamechanger you’re looking for.
This popular multipurpose WordPress theme is the biggest one of them all. BeTheme’s customer-base is large enough (250,000+), but it’s the 40+ core features that give a true picture of how big BeTheme really is.
Be’s most popular features:
1. A Library of 650+ trendy pre-built websites that
2. With BeBuilder, the fastest and most flexible page builder for WordPress you can:
3. With the WooCommerce Builder – an absolute gem
BeTheme is Elementor ready and is frequently updated. Click on the banner and check out each of Be’s powerful core features.
Building a website doesn’t have to be hard, and because of Total’s completeness it won’t be. This aptly named multipurpose theme has the tools and design flexibility necessary to make your website building adventures fast, easy, and successful.
48,000+ Total users will agree. They have enjoyed easy access to –
Total is optimized for speed and is fully compatible with WooCommerce, Gutenberg, and Elementor. Click on the banner; there’s much more to see.
Because it is loaded with features that are not present in most of the other eCommerce oriented theme, WoodMart’s increasing popularity has made it ThemeForest’s most highly-regarded theme.
A quick look at the WoodMart website (click on the banner) should give you all the proof you need.
These features include –
WoodMart has logged more than 40,000 sales to date and enjoys a 4.95/5-star rating.
Avada’s huge following (450,000+) of happy users has made it the #1 best selling theme of all time. Avada’s unique assemblage of powerful website building tools include –
Avada is WooCommerce-ready theme, 100% responsive, and speed optimized.
Uncode is a pixel-perfect theme that empowers its users to create pixel-perfect websites. This Envato best seller has logged more than 90.000 sales to date.
Powerful website-building features include –
Uncode is ideal for creating blog, magazine, and portfolio sites.
6. TheGem – Creative Multi-Purpose & WooCommerce WordPress Theme
TheGem is the best-selling theme on ThemeForest with 60,000 users, which says a lot.
A few examples of what you’ll find in the package:
TheGem Blocks with its 300+ premium pre-designed section templates to speed up your workflow.
Beginners and advanced users alike find this multipurpose theme an impeccable tool to work with.
With Impeka –
You have a choice of Elementor, Gutenberg, or enhanced WPBakery page builder.
The fact that Litho is an Elementor WordPress theme says a lot about what you can expect when working with it. With Litho at your fingertips, you can build any website you envision thanks to its Slider Revolution plugin and its host of home pages, creative elements, and templates
You’ll find the online documentation is highly detailed and extremely helpful, as is Litho’s first-class customer support.
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You have your mind set on selecting a theme that gives you all the flexibility you need. Theme that enables you to sail through the website-building process. The one that gives you a product that is precisely what you or your client expects.
The best approach to satisfying that objective is right in front of your nose. Your search should end with the 8 top multipurpose WordPress themes presented here. Choose one that looks like a best bet, and it won’t let you down. It may even turn out to be a gamechanger.
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Upserts are useful for anyone who works with a database to know, but the term "upsert" might not even appear in your DBMS's documentation!
So what is an upsert, and why might it not be mentioned in your docs?
I got to talk to Paulina Hetman this week! Paulina is a heck of a creative coder, using her skills as an illustrator and all-around web developer to make ideas come to life. And she doesn’t keep all those ideas to herself, she spends time educating other budding developers both professionally and by building courses and things like her incredibly clever quizzes (as Pens!).
Notion is an amazing collaborative tool that not only helps organize your company’s information but helps with project management as well. We know that all too well here at CodePen, as we use Notion for countless business tasks. Learn more and get started for free at notion.com/codepen. Take your first step toward an organized, happier team, today.
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Imagine walking into this: "About 4 million lines of PHP code, written by underpaid, sometimes not well-meaning, freelancers and students over the span of 8 years. The CEO wrote a large part, but stopped learning new techniques around 2004."
That's how bad tech debt can get when a startup is run without considering that all of those messy shortcuts will eventually have to get cleaned up.
The front page seems to fill with duplicates. I'll paste what I'm seeing but here I am again finding the front page a place that I only check out to see if there's been any change for the better. Today, it's a reminder why I don't go there.
Examples:
Sharing files with friends and co-workers has had a long history of evolution. In the early days (1980s) , it was done via a telephone line and a modem, hard copy files such as floppy disks, and then moved on to File Transfer Protocol (FTP) from a central server.
Each move you make is followed by sites, ISPs, government offices, and other outsiders. Is there, in any case, a strategy to keep away from it? You can protect your identity on the web and...
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Would you like to customize your WooCommerce product search results page?
By default, WordPress and WooCommerce have limited search capabilities. By customizing your product search results, you’ll be able to increase sales and grow your business.
In this article, we’ll show a few easy ways you can customize your WooCommerce product search results page to provide a better user experience.
By default, WooCommerce comes with a built in product search feature. However, it has serious limitations. This could mean that your customers won’t be able to find the products they’re looking for.
As a result, you may be losing potential sales. If your customers can’t find what they’re looking for, then they may not come back to your online store.
How does this happen? The default WooCommerce search only indexes the title, content, and excerpt of posts and pages. It doesn’t consider any content within custom fields while performing a search.
That’s a problem because a great deal of your WooCommerce product data is stored in custom fields. As a result, none of your WooCommerce product categories, tags, reviews, and other special attributes will be indexed.
Luckily, you can solve this problem using a WooCommerce product search plugin.
That being said, let’s take a look at some examples of how you might improve your WooCommerce product search results page.
Here is what you will learn from this guide. You can click the link to skip ahead to the section you’re interested in.
The first thing you need to do is install and activate the SearchWP plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
SearchWP is the best custom search plugin for WordPress, and is used by over 30,000 websites. It’s also one of the best plugins for WooCommerce because it delivers more relevant product results to your customers.
Note: You’ll need at least the Pro plan to access WooCommerce integration.
Upon activation, you need to visit the SearchWP » Settings page and switch to the ‘Support’ tab to enter your license key. You can find it in your account area on the SearchWP site.
Next, you need to install and activate the WooCommerce Integration extension.
You can download it from your account area on the SearchWP website and install it as you would install any other WordPress plugin.
Now you are ready to set up your SearchWP custom search engine.
Simply go to the SearchWP » Settings page and make sure you’re on the ‘Engines’ tab. Once there, you need to click the ‘Sources & Settings’ button.
This will bring up a popup where you should make sure the checkbox next to ‘Products’ is checked. This will allow SearchWP to index your WooCommerce products.
WooCommerce product reviews are stored as comments. If you want to make reviews searchable, then you should also check the ‘Comments’ box.
Once you’ve done that, click on the ‘Done’ button to close the popup.
Now you need to scroll down to the ‘Products’ section. Notice that by default, the plugin will only look at the product title, content (description), slug, and excerpt (short description).
You can extend SearchWP’s reach by clicking on the ‘Add/Remove Attributes’ button.
This will bring up a popup where you can include specific custom fields and taxonomies in searches. For this tutorial, we’ve added the ‘color’ and ‘size’ custom fields, and the taxonomies ‘product categories’ and ‘product tags’.
You can now click the ‘Done’ button, and you should notice that those custom fields and taxonomies have been added to the products section of SearchWP.
After that, you can adjust the weight of each attribute. If you’d like to make a specific attribute more important in search results, then simply move the slider to the right.
When you’re done, go ahead and click on the ‘Save Engines’ button at the top of the screen to save your settings.
SearchWP will then start rebuilding your search index in the background. After that, the plugin will be ready to start delivering more relevant search results to your WooCommerce store.
SearchWP will automatically use any search forms on your online store. However, if you need to add a search form, then see our step by step guide on how to create a custom WordPress search form. This will also teach you how to style the results page using custom CSS.
Now you can go to your WooCommerce store to try out the search feature. We’ll search for the product category ‘hoodies’, and all products in that category will be displayed.
To learn more, see our guide on how to make a smart WooCommerce product search.
By default, SearchWP will include all of the products in your online store in the search results. However, you may wish to specify which products should or should not be displayed.
For example, you can automatically exclude products if they fall under certain conditions, like if they are discontinued or out of stock. Or you might only display products that are on sale or come with free shipping.
For example, the AeroPress WooCommerce store lets you search for products with free shipping. This is a great incentive for customers to make a purchase.
To get started, you should click the ‘Edit Rules’ button in SearchWP’s Products section.
Right now there are no rules. You can create as many rules as you need.
To create your first rule, you need to click the ‘Add Rule’ button.
Now you can specify the conditions for which products should be shown or excluded from search results. For this tutorial, we’ll exclude all out of stock products.
First, you should select ‘Exclude entries if’ from the first drop down menu. Then select the ‘Product visibility’ taxonomy and type ‘outofstock’ in the field next to it.
If you like, you can add additional conditions that should be excluded by clicking the ‘OR’ button. Once you’re finished adding rules, click the ‘Done’ button.
Now all you need to do is press the ‘Save Engines’ button at the top to store your changes.
To learn about more ways you can make use of SearchWP’s rules, see our guide on how to exclude specific pages, authors, and more from WordPress search.
Live search will improve the search experience on your WooCommerce store by automatically showing search results as your customers type their queries.
For example, Good Dye Young offers live search results on their hair and makeup products.
Relevant products and articles are immediately displayed while the customer types their search query, providing a better user experience.
To add this to your own store, all you need to do is install and activate the free SearchWP Live Ajax Lite Search plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, your WooCommerce search forms will automatically provide live search.
For more details, see our guide on how to add live search to your WordPress site.
Partial matching will help your customers to find what they are searching for, even if they don’t type the whole word or use the correct spelling.
For example, the Magna-Tiles online store has partial matching enabled. Customers only need to type part of a product name to find it in the search results.
To enable partial matching in SearchWP, you should navigate to SearchWP » Settings and click on the Advanced tab.
On this page, you can enable some settings that will make it easier for your users to find what they are looking for.
Check any of these options that you would like:
We hope this tutorial helped you learn how to customize the WooCommerce product search results page. You may also want to learn how to add wholesale pricing in WooCommerce, or check out our list of the best email marketing services.
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Google works very hard to make sure that actions on third-party sites do not harm your website. Some bad links can affect Googles page or site. you can remove as many spammy or low-quality links from the web as possible.