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wpMail.me wpMail.me issue#320 - The weekly WordPress newsletter. No spam, no nonsense. - August 10, 2017 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. News & Articles Publishers Are Moving Back to WordPress After Short Experiments with Medium (wptavern.com) The Awl, ThinkProgress, Film School Rejects, and several other publishers have moved back to WordPress after short experiments on Medium. In early 2016, Medium convinced a collection of small, independent publications to move to its platform but shortly thereafter discontinued its unsuccessful ad-driven publishing model without notifying publishers. Today The Awl, The Hairpin, and The Billfold announced the publications have moved back to WordPress after switching to Medium in April 2016. 44 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Blog – Which You Can Use to Grow Yours to 225,000 Visits / Month, Like We Eventually Did (www.codeinwp.com) Starting a blog for the first time is an amazing, yet intimidating experience. Thinking that people are actually going to read – and even share – something you wrote. It's unlike any other feeling I can describe. But it's not all rainbows and butterflies. Starting a blog is hard work, and there are a lot of pitfalls along the way. Especially if it's your first time. So many pitfalls, in fact, that we've come up with a full list of 44 things we wish we knew before starting our first blogs. That way, you don't have to make these mistakes yourself! WordPress Core Fields API Project Sees Renewed Interest (wptavern.com) As work continues at a feverish pace on Gutenberg, many developers throughout the community are engaging in discussions on how meta boxes will be handled in the new editor. The team is considering various solutions and some have suggested that a Fields API in core would have made the future of meta boxes less of an issue. Why Choose An Endpoint Firewall Like Wordfence (www.wordfence.com) GoDaddy Launches Premium WordPress Support (www.thewhir.com) WordPress.com Business Now Supports Plugins and Third-Party Themes (en.blog.wordpress.com) WordPress Ate My Life—In a Good Way (heropress.com) Call for Organizers: Introduction to Open Source (wordpressfoundation.org) Sponsored by Plugin News The Complete (and free) 'WordPress Plugin Business Book', By Freemius (freemius.com) Top selling WordPress plugins make somewhere between 20-80 times more, per year, than an average WordPress plugin! Your plugin's sales aren't going to just skyrocket on their own, so as a company that's focused on helping WordPress product developers explode their sales – we decided it was time to publish an action-oriented business book that focuses on the business and entrepreneurial side of developing and selling WordPress plugins. The Hybrid Plugin/SaaS Business Model (wpshout.com) Josh Pollock is the co-founder of CalderaWP, which authors top-quality WordPress plugins, including Caldera Forms, which is using the hybrid plugin/SaaS model Josh discusses in this article. What's the Difference Between Mergebot and WP Migrate DB Pro? (deliciousbrains.com) 7 CSS Image Filter Plugins for Instagram-ifying WordPress (premium.wpmudev.org) WordPress Plugin Roundup – August 2017 (ithemes.com) SUMO Subscriptions Offers Feature-Rich WooCommerce Subscriptions (www.wpmayor.com) 5 Best WordPress Landing Page Plugins Compared (2017) (www.wpbeginner.com) Theme Releases Materia Lite (wordpress.org)   Blog Expert (wordpress.org)   Noteblog (wordpress.org)   Theme News 24 Best WordPress Themes for Bars and Pubs (www.wpbeginner.com) Are you looking for the best WordPress themes for bars? A WordPress theme that matches your bar's real experience and ambiance can bring in more customers and help you grow your business. In this article, we have hand-picked some of the best WordPress themes for bars and pubs that will make your website stand out. 20+ Best WordPress Business Themes 2017 (www.wpexplorer.com) Beaver Themer Review: What Does It Do And Is It Any Good? (winningwp.com) Tutorials Network Latency – Comparing the Impact on Your WordPress Site (kinsta.com) A lot of articles around the web tend to primarily focus on front-end WordPress optimizations and quick ways to speed up your site. Server optimizations such as network latency are sometimes neglected or overlooked. Because of this, we thought it would be interesting to take a deeper look at the importance of network latency and the impact it has on your WordPress site when loading different regions. While a CDN can definitely help decrease network latency, your host server location is still very important, especially if you are serving visitors in a very specific geographical location. Latency matters and we'll show you a couple reasons why. How to Manually Update WordPress Plugins via FTP (www.wpbeginner.com) Do you want to learn how to manually update WordPress plugins via FTP? Sometimes the 1-click WordPress plugin update fails which can break your website. The only way to fix that is by manually updating the plugin. In this article, we will show you how to manually update WordPress plugins via FTP without breaking your website. How to Run WP-CLI Commands on a Remote Server (www.shawnhooper.ca) What's the Difference Between WordPress Categories and Tags? (YouTube Video) (winningwp.com) Add New Full Width Widget To Wellness Pro Front Page 1 Widget Area (wpsites.net) Why Verified Reviews Matter and How to Add Them to WooCommerce (www.wpexplorer.com) 5 Reasons You Might Want to Switch WordPress Hosting Providers (themeisle.com) Podcasts and Videos WordPress Hosting Explained: Shared, VPS, Dedicated and Managed WordPress Hosting | WinningWP (winningwp.com) Anthony D. Paul | Hallway Chats (hallwaychats.com) Key Takeaways for Buying and Selling SEO Services | SEObits.fm (www.seobits.fm) Live from Publish: Challenges Facing the WordPress Economy | Draft Podcast (poststatus.com) Boosting eCommerce with Opt-Ins with Scott Bolinger | WPblab (www.wpwatercooler.com) Catching Up with David Peralty | WPWeekly (wptavern.com) follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  wpMail.me is published by Cozmoslabs. Not a subscriber yet? Subscribe here. Want to advertise? View our media kit for info. Want to post a job? Use our self serve system or reply to this e-mail. Copyright © 2017 WPmail.me, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website wpMail.me for a weekly newsletter. WPmail.me Armoniei, nr. 26 sc.1 Ap 46 Timisoara 300291 Romania  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser