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Theme frameworks play a key role in the web design and development industry. WordPress theme frameworks are the most prevalent mainly due to their ability to eliminate various hassles involved in designing a website theme like coding and more. These frameworks also allow you to design a theme that is unique from all other available options.

Other advantages of using WordPress theme frameworks include the ability to increase website security and functionality, improved code quality, easy upgrades with no loss of styling, and extendability of plugins.

When choosing a WordPress framework to use, you have to choose from two types i.e. in-house framework which is popular among theme developers seeking to build their products and free theme frameworks that can be used by anyone (free versions).

Before using a theme framework, you need a child and parent theme. The Child theme duplicates both the code and design of a parent theme and can be personalized to suit your needs.

The advantage of this is that even if the parent theme is updated, the child theme will still retain modifications of parent theme.

Nowadays it is extremely hard to attract and engage internet users even for a one second. Is it necessary to create and customize your About Me page within your WordPress website in these circumstances? Obviously yes, because it represents one of the few opportunities to grab user`s attention where he wants it by himself.

Although you could have seen thousands of boring and useless About Us (About the Company, About Me or any similar suggested name) pages it does not mean that your own representation should also be so. We have gathered the most important tips on creating your unique About Me page to interest and intrigue your potential readers.

This article will show you why About Me page is essential for any type of a WordPress website and how could you use it for the sake of your website popularity and recognizability. Do not hesitate to spend an appropriate amount of time and effort on this part of your WordPress project because it could become your key to success.

It is always exciting to observe the trends changing from month to month and from year to year. WordPress is a very large platform that includes websites of all possible topics and types. That is why WordPress trends are really comprehensive: even website owners outside the platform always keep an eye on projects created and developed here.

WordPress themes represent great opportunities to observe and analyze trends. Premium themes for WordPress websites are always following the demands of the web market and the wishes of online audience. WordPress theme`s creators keep abreast of events and reflect the market`s dynamics as no one else.

We have gathered the best of the fresh WordPress premium themes created in March 2019 within this article. You can make lots of important decisions based on the trends these premium WordPress themes show. Do not hesitate to grab the exclusive information and be ahead of your competitors!

WordPress is already well-known as one of the best platforms for advertising your own experience with a neat portfolio, CV or resume website. It is true, that WordPress provides the optimal combination of features for a landing page or website with the goal of CV representation. These features include free basic services, ease of creation and customization, great variety of additional tools and much more useful options.

CV websites represent one of the simplest types of WordPress projects. They do not take a lot of time and effort for the creation and customization, do not require constant updates of content and do not need any special skills in web development or design to be sufficient. On the other hand, the competition in nearly any professional segment is now very tough. It means, that your CV websites need to be really outstanding to draw attention of the potential employers.

We have gathered the best sellers among WordPress themes for CV and resume websites for you in this article. This top will help you to select the best premium WordPress theme for any type of CV you could imagine. The themes from this list are tested by hundreds of users and have proved themselves as perfect tool for the advertising of your experience and skills.

WordPress gives great opportunities for the development of eCommerce projects. The chance to create your online store for free within a WordPress platform is really promising, but you would need much more than a WordPress theme with a bunch of plugins to make your eCommerce project successful.

One of the most important things on your way to the glory among thousands of competitors in online sales is your content. The ability of your WordPress website to attract visitors and convert them into loyal customers is mostly dependent on the quality of your content and its correspondence to your potential audience demands.

Product buying guides represent one of the most amazing opportunities to attract users’ attention and keep them engaged within your WordPress eCommerce project. We will observe the features of product buying guides and will look precisely at the first steps of creating your own product buying guide for a WordPress website.

The process of a WordPress website development implies a lot of communication with your potential audience by means of various texts. Lots of guides aim to teach how to draw and keep website visitor`s attention but only a few of them pay attention to the question of text readability. In other words, text readability is mostly underestimated.

Readability score is a measurable indicator of the success of your texts. This score shows you how easy or how difficult is it for your website visitors to understand what you say within your texts. The problem is that usually we can not estimate the difficulty level of a text written by ourselves. In this case modern WordPress tools can be very handy and do the analytics on an automated level, displaying tips on simplifying a text right inside your WordPress dashboard.

We will look at the term of readability score closer and learn how to use this knowledge for the sake of a WordPress project. Otherworldly, all you need to know about readability score is in the article below.

Brand strategy defines your whole attitude to a business you represent with a WordPress website. It is foremost important to determine and understand your goals and methods before coming to your target audience offering a brand strategy. Unfortunately, brand strategy remains underestimated by many businesses.

This article will be useful for the beginners in the field of WordPress administration and related marketing options. We will analyze the term of brand strategy and see how it can help your WordPress project to develop and earn more and more audience in the process. Moreover, we will take a look at 4 basic steps to create your own brand strategy within a WordPress website or blog you have or only are eager to create.

It is time to summarize the development results of 2018 for WordPress plugins. The year had its trends like new GDPR rules and cryptocurrency interest of many users, and these trends show themselves within the plugins created for WordPress administrators in 2018. What other trends had 2018 — find out in our top 10 WordPress plugins for WordPress list!

The actual information about WordPress trends is crucial for every website owner on the platform and beyond it. These trends will determine the development strategies of the most successful web project on the early 2019. Moreover, new 2019 trends will be surely born from the previous ones, which we analyze now. It is true, that only one who knows the past can rule the future. Enjoy our top 10 WordPress plugins’ list and make your own analytics and predictions of what we should expect in 2019.

Dark mode is not just a dark color scheme for your WordPress website. Dark mode reduces the amount of light produced by any user`s monitor when the feature is on. It can work perfectly not only for dark designs but also for any color pick you might be using for your WordPress website or blog.

Today we are observing the opportunity to add dark mode to your WordPress admin dashboard. There are lots of opportunities to add dark mode to your website and let your users enjoy it but there is no reason to decline such an amazing feature for yourself. We will introduce you the plugin that makes dark mode for WordPress admin dashboard a simple task with one-click fulfillment. Moreover, we will consider the cases when dark mode is useful and efficient for any WordPress administrator.

The first and only major WordPress update of 2018 has been released on December, 6th. It brings a lot of improvements to overall workflow of any WordPress administrator or author. The main change rebuilds the WordPress post editor completely, making it up-to-date and able to comprehend with most of the modern and future tasks of a web project.

We will summarize the most important new features of WordPress after the 5.0 update in this article. Moreover, we will show how these features influence your WordPress post creation process and how they upgrade it to a future level of interaction between you and your admin dashboard.

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WordPress is the web platform that constantly evolves. New trends in web developing and site administration never come beside WordPress. And this feature has become one of the decisive reasons to use WordPress and create billions of web projects within it.

Today we are taking a closer look at the new 4.9 update, which was called “Tipton” (for the memory of the outstanding jazz musician Billy Tipton). The update was released on November 15, 2017 and has already became a huge milestone in the WordPress platform history.

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Constant update and development is one of the hallmarks of the WordPress platform. Each new update strengthens the protection of your website or blog on the WordPress platform and brings new features to improve comfort while working with the admin panel. Global update 4.8 is no exception.

First of all, you should focus on the issue of protecting your WordPress site from hacking and spam. Attackers are constantly inventing new ways to crack existing security systems. The fight between hackers and developers of security software is not interrupted for an instant. In such circumstances, it is extremely undesirable to skip global updates. Each day of delay in the update threatens you with serious dangers in the form of loss of data on the site or the appearance of unwanted content hosted by hackers.

Nevertheless, the global updates of the WordPress platform are not only interesting with modern protection against hacking. Today, we will take a closer look at new features and changes in the existing functionality that will enable every WordPress administrator to work more comfortably and efficiently.

Update 4.8 pays particular attention to widgets. It includes new features for creating widgets and widening the functionality of existing widgets. This universal tool for creating content within the WordPress platform has become even more convenient and interesting, including for professional developers.

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In 2003 WordPress started out as a blogging platform built on PHP and MySQL to help bloggers do their thing. Back then, nobody could predict that it would become one of the most powerful CMS solutions on the planet.

I am not talking about The Chicago Manual of Style when I say CMS (also abbreviated as CMS), I mean a fully functional content management system. This list post contains 20 leading brands that use WordPress. You can check these sites out to get some ideas and what WordPress is capable of. Read more →