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People of WordPress: Olga Gleckler

The latest edition of our People in WordPress series features developer Olga Gleckler, who grew her interest in computers into a career as a tech entrepreneur.

Wordpress

8 Mar 2021

This week at GitHub InFocus: Code security and DevSecOps

Two weeks ago, we kicked off GitHub InFocus, a global virtual series just for software teams. Last week, we learned what powers a successful DevOps program. Next up: Security. We checked in with hosts Nigel,

Github

8 Mar 2021

This week at GitHub InFocus: Code security and DevSecOps

Two weeks ago, we kicked off GitHub InFocus, a global virtual series just for software teams. Last week, we learned what powers a successful DevOps program. Next up: Security. We checked in with hosts Nigel,

Github

8 Mar 2021

You feta believe we’ve got pasta Search Trends

Every season of quarantine can be marked by a food trend. Last year around this time, we were all experimenting with sourdough and banana bread. On the heels of our carbo loads came dalgona coffee. I’d be remiss not to mention the viral quesadilla hack...

Google

8 Mar 2021

Introducing WordPress Stories: A New Way to Engage Your Audience

Interested in a new way to create and publish engaging content on your WordPress site? Today, we're unveiling our new Stories feature, now available in the WordPress apps.

Wordpress

8 Mar 2021

Eight women kicking butt and taking (domain) names

Who do you think of when you hear the words sister, daughter, mother? How about when the words are leader, founder, CEO? As a mom of three, I want my kids to grow up in a world where the second set of words is as likely as the first to bring a woman to...

Google

8 Mar 2021

Improving the patient experience

Steps to improve patient experience

Clearly communicate the advantages of patient surveysFocus on the whole and not the individual.Use technology to make patient experiences seamlessMake analog tools digitalShow empathy

Improving the patient...

Wordpress

8 Mar 2021

The 5 best data analysis tools

Best 5 data analysis tools

TIBCOSisenseTableauDatabricksThoughtSpot

Data analysis is the process of curating, organizing, and presenting data in a meaningful way. Today’s businesses collect several terabytes of data each year if not each da...

Wordpress

8 Mar 2021

Google TV for everyone in the family

It’s Saturday morning and my son is pointing at the TV, cheerful as ever. The “You’re Welcome” music video from Disney’s “Moana” is playing for the tenth time. As a new father, I’m always thinking about the role technology will play in my children’s li...

Google

8 Mar 2021

Get the full news story with Full Coverage in Search

This past year has reminded us that the most important news stories are often complex and ever-evolving. Stories like the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. elections played out over many months, with myriad threads and developments all happening at once. ...

Google

8 Mar 2021

What is lead tracking?

Making a sale is a long game that requires many steps over many days, weeks, or months sometimes even years. To make the sales process as efficient as possible, it’s important to have a system in place that organizes all of your information.

Lead ...

Wordpress

8 Mar 2021

Solving common data workflow problems with JotForm Tables

For years people the world over have been using spreadsheets to keep track of projects and manage budgets, and as an overall reference point for team workflow. While spreadsheets are excellent at helping us manage numerical data at scale, they often f...

Wordpress

8 Mar 2021

How to Make a Gaming Website With WordPress in 2021 (Step by Step)

Do you want to learn how to make a gaming website with WordPress? Gaming has never been more popular. With your own gaming website, you can create a gaming community, start a popular gaming blog, and even earn a side income. In this article, we’ll… Read More »
The post How to Make a Gaming Website With WordPress in 2021 (Step by Step) appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

8 Mar 2021

How Google is helping Latina business owners like me

Making the leap to start a small business is daunting, to say the least. But I had a crazy dream and the drive to see it through, so in 2013 I left my law career and created Reina Rebelde, a makeup brand focused on Latinas. Latinas are a significant po...

Google

8 Mar 2021

These women-led businesses are finding new ways to thrive

The past year has been difficult for all kinds of small businesses. But it’s been disproportionately tough for women-led businesses, with women’s jobs nearly twice as vulnerable due to the fallout of the pandemic. On this International Women’s Day, we ...

Google

8 Mar 2021

The Case for Reading for Pure Pleasure

One of my most cherished summer traditions is taking off from my company, JotForm, and spending a week outdoors picking olives on my family’s farm in Turkey. I consider this time away from screens and spreadsheets critically important to my wellbeing,...

Wordpress

8 Mar 2021

On International Women’s Day, we’re supporting new “firsts”

Empowering women and girls has long been one of my personal missions. As the brave women who have been the “firsts” throughout history have proven time and time again, when we uplift women and girls, we uplift everyone. For me, that’s the spirit of Int...

Google

8 Mar 2021

Google.org’s call for a better future for women and girls

When women and girls have the resources and opportunities to turn their potential into power, it changes the trajectory of their lives and strengthens entire communities. I’ve seen this play out first hand while living in India, where public health pro...

Google

8 Mar 2021

Empowering Phenomenal Women Everywhere, One Shirt at a Time

Meena Harris launched Phenomenal in 2017 when her Maya Angelou-inspired shirt—Phenomenal Woman—went viral on International Women's Day. But it's 2021, and times have changed in many (but not all) ways. How is she evolving her brand?More

Shopify

8 Mar 2021

How to Optimize Your WordPress Robots.txt for SEO

Recently one of our readers asked us for tips on how to optimize the robots.txt file to improve SEO. Robots.txt file tells search engines how to crawl your website which makes it an incredibly powerful SEO tool. In this article, we will show you how… Read More »
The post How to Optimize Your WordPress Robots.txt for SEO appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

6 Mar 2021

Release Radar · February 2021 Edition

The open source community is always hard at work. February’s projects were super hard to pick since there are so many amazing releases. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around.

Github

5 Mar 2021

Five #BlackGirlsWhoBlog to follow now

In 2014, Morgan Pitts was a recent college graduate with a small following of fellow Black women on Twitter and a serious interest in blogging. When we recently caught up with Morgan, she recalled an off-the-cuff tweet that mobilized a community around...

Google

5 Mar 2021

A mini kudos gives a major boost to motivation

When it comes to feedback, Cambridge-based software engineer Jeff Gaston wishes real life was a little more like video games.“They give fast, clear feedback about your performance,” he says. “If I could compute a score for how my life is going, I think...

Google

5 Mar 2021

How to host a virtual hiring event

The pandemic has turned the business world upside down. But surprisingly, one aspect that hasn’t seemed to change is hiring it’s still challenging to find the right candidates.

Before the pandemic, the economic boom made it difficult to find avail...

Wordpress

5 Mar 2021

8 tools for building a positive remote culture

8 tools for positive remote culture

SlackZoomNectarJotFormFondThe Go GameBlinkLet’s Roam

The COVID-19 pandemic has made remote work both more necessary and more popular. In fact, you may find yourself managing a fully remote team for the fir...

Wordpress

5 Mar 2021

What Is Informed Consent?

In the healthcare field, informed consent is many things: It’s a legal doctrine, an ethical obligation, and a standard of care. According to oral maxillofacial surgeon Mughda Patwardhan, D.D.S., M.D., informed consent is a practice more than anything....

Wordpress

5 Mar 2021

7 Best Auction Plugins for WordPress (2021)

Are you looking for the best auction plugins for WordPress? An auction plugin allows you to run online auctions on your website and create an eBay like store using WordPress. In this article, we’ll show you our top pick of the best auction plugins for… Read More »
The post 7 Best Auction Plugins for WordPress (2021) appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

5 Mar 2021

4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is a powerful platform that empowers your team to go from code to cloud, all from the comfort of your repositories. In this post, I’ll walk through a few examples of how you

Github

4 Mar 2021

From stay-at-home mom to full-time creator

In 2015, Myriam Sandler had a problem many moms face: Her baby daughter Nicole refused to eat solid foods. Spaghetti, soup, rice … she wouldn’t have any of it. “That was driving me crazy as a first-time mom and I was determined to find a solution,” rec...

Google

4 Mar 2021

News Brief: February Updates from the Google News Initiative

At the Google News Initiative last month, we felt the love for new publisher tools, training programs and newsroom success stories. See February updates below.One World Media Fellowship opens for applicationsThe One World Media Fellowship is a year-lon...

Google

4 Mar 2021

Lessons from an MBA intern turned full-time Googler

Welcome to the latest edition of “My Path to Google,” where we talk to Googlers, interns and alumni about how they got to Google, what their roles are like and even some tips on how to prepare for interviews.Today’s post is all about Nikhil Nerkar, who...

Google

4 Mar 2021

How to Hide a Mobile Menu in WordPress (Beginner’s Guide)

Do you want to hide a mobile menu in WordPress? Most WordPress themes come with built-in styles that automatically transform your navigation menus into a mobile menu. However, you may not wish to use the same menu on mobile or may want to use a… Read More »
The post How to Hide a Mobile Menu in WordPress (Beginner’s Guide) appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

4 Mar 2021

How to create the right marketing goals for your business

If you’re a small business owner or solopreneur who doesn’t feel 100-percent confident writing a marketing plan, you may have decided to skip that step altogether and jump right into implementation. You try to do all the marketing you can to get tract...

Wordpress

4 Mar 2021

What is the document life cycle?

4 stages of the document life cycle

Document creationDocument storageDocument sharing and deliveryDocument archival or deletion

With enterprises constantly creating new documents, tracking and organizing them all can be a struggle. Eighty-tw...

Wordpress

4 Mar 2021

Salesforce Professional vs Enterprise

Salesforce is one of the most popular customer relationship management (CRM) platforms available today. It’s popular because it boasts a wide range of useful features. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to identify any gaps in functionality in Salesforce’...

Wordpress

4 Mar 2021

How Social Media Affects Mental Health

I was having an uneventful afternoon, so, like I often do, I reached for my phone. After 20 minutes on Twitter and a few more reading the news, I wasn’t bored anymore but I didn’t exactly feel good, either.

It was like someone had hijacked my body...

Wordpress

4 Mar 2021

Skip Product Development: Learn the Steps to Starting a Reseller Business (Plus 5 Opportunities for 2021)

You don’t need a revolutionary new product idea to sell things online. In fact, you don’t even have to manufacture your own products to start your own ecommerce business. Becoming a reseller is a great way to start selling online without starting from...

Shopify

4 Mar 2021

Shopify vs. WooCommerce: 3 Businesses on Why They Switched to Shopify

The technology you use to run your business should make your life easier, not harder. That’s why we’ve made it easier than ever to move from WooCommerce to Shopify—and everything you need to make the move is free.More

Shopify

4 Mar 2021

Good Customer Service Is About Doing the Common Things Uncommonly Well

The bread and butter of good customer support isn’t in flashy displays, free gifts, or long-winded phone conversations. Today, we explore what really matters.More

Shopify

3 Mar 2021

GitHub Availability Report: February 2021

Introduction In February, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide initial details around an incident from March 1 that caused significant impact and

Github

3 Mar 2021

Stadia Savepoint: January and February updates

It’s time for another update to our Stadia Savepoint series, recapping the new games, features and changes for Stadia.So far in 2021, players have traveled the world over in the spy thriller HITMAN 3, and they’ve gone long for touchdown passes in Madde...

Google

3 Mar 2021

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is now available

We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is available for you to download today. This release includes support for .NET 6 Preview 1, testing support for Unity applications, a preview of a new Quick Actions and Refactorings dialog,
The post Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is now available appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Visual Studio

3 Mar 2021

The Month in WordPress: February 2021

You don’t have to be rich to have an online presence. You don’t have to find loopholes in proprietary platforms and hope that they never change their terms of service. You own all of the content that you create on a WordPress site and have the liberty to move it to a new host if […]

Wordpress

3 Mar 2021

A strong network of women changed the course of my career

Kübra speaking at Women Techmakers Ambassadors North America Summit.In this post:Kübra Zengin found it difficult to break into tech in Turkey.She took a non-traditional career path into the industry.Networking can be a crucial asset to realizing your g...

Google

3 Mar 2021

Octoverse spotlight: Exploring the people and stories behind GitHub data

In January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of emergency. Even before the novel coronavirus had an official name, it set off global travel restrictions, widespread closures, and a near-instant shift in

Github

3 Mar 2021

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: March 2021, Part 1

New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the first week of March. This post covers the recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website. The WordPress Vulnerability Roundup is divided into three different categories: WordPress core, WordPress […]
The post WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: March 2021, Part 1 appeared first on iThemes.

Wordpress

3 Mar 2021

Frictionless repeated edits: IntelliCode suggestions in completion list

As a developer you make repetitive changes to your code all the time. In many cases you don’t even realize that you are doing a repetitive task or that Visual Studio IntelliCode suggestions can help you. IntelliCode suggestions can already do the edit and find other locations where the same edit applies,
The post Frictionless repeated edits: IntelliCode suggestions in completion list appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Visual Studio

3 Mar 2021

Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web

It’s difficult to conceive of the internet we know today — with information on every topic, in every language, at the fingertips of billions of people — without advertising as its economic foundation. But as our industry has strived to deliver relevant...

Google

3 Mar 2021

6 effective internal communication tools

6 best internal communication tools

SlackJotFormZoomZendeskAsanaGoogle Suite

If your team is struggling to communicate effectively, the tools you’re using might be to blame. In a 2018 survey on internal communication, 54 percent of responden...

Wordpress

3 Mar 2021

Automated lead generation: Growing your sales pipeline

Businesses are always looking for ways to make things a little easier. And as the economy continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, business owners and company executives are also looking to cut down on operating costs in any way they ca...

Wordpress

3 Mar 2021

How to improve customer satisfaction and retention

Tips to improve customer satisfaction and retention

Always over deliverFocus on customer successKeep track of customer satisfaction metrics

Customer satisfaction and retention are closely connected business terms that have a significant impa...

Wordpress

3 Mar 2021

How to Fix the Missed Schedule Post Error in WordPress

Do you want to fix the missed schedule post error in WordPress? WordPress comes with a built-in feature that allows you to easily schedule posts to be automatically published at a later time. However, sometimes you may notice that scheduled posts don’t get published at… Read More »
The post How to Fix the Missed Schedule Post Error in WordPress appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

3 Mar 2021

How to Scan NuGet Packages for Security Vulnerabilities

Open Source is everywhere. It is in many proprietary codebases and community projects. For organizations and individuals, the question today is not whether you are or are not using open-source code, but what open-source code you are using, and how much.
The post How to Scan NuGet Packages for Security Vulnerabilities appeared first on The NuGet Blog.

Nuget

2 Mar 2021

WordPress 5.7 Release Candidate 2

The second release candidate for WordPress 5.7 is now available! 🎉 You can test the WordPress 5.7 release candidate in two ways: Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (choose the “Bleeding edge” channel and Beta/RC Only” stream options) Or download the release candidate here (zip). Thank you to all of the contributors who tested the Beta/RC releases and gave […]

Wordpress

2 Mar 2021

New Dynamic Instrumentation Profiling for .NET

With the release of version 16.9 of Visual Studio, instrumentation profiling in Visual Studio just got better. Introducing our new dynamic instrumentation tool. This tool shows the exact number of times your functions are called and is faster than our previous static instrumentation tool.
The post New Dynamic Instrumentation Profiling for .NET appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Visual Studio

2 Mar 2021

New tools make children’s books easier to read

As a parent to two young kids, bedtime stories are a big part of our evening ritual. My daughter, who’s almost 4, can now recognize all the capital letters, but she’s still learning how to identify lowercase letters and put them all together in a compl...

Google

2 Mar 2021

An open call for aspiring computer scientists

For four weeks each summer, Google works with aspiring first-year college students interested in computer science, particularly from groups that have been historically marginalized from the tech industry. But this isn’t your typical summer school: It’s...

Google

2 Mar 2021

Intelligent Visual Studio Search Service

In Visual Studio (VS) 2019 v16.0 release, the Visual Studio Search shortcut Ctrl+Q, as shown in the screenshot below, was introduced as a Quick Launch for VS feature searches and expanded in v16.3 to support code searches. With millions of developers using the VS IDE,
The post Intelligent Visual Studio Search Service appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Visual Studio

2 Mar 2021

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1 are Available Today!

Whenever there is a conference such as Microsoft Ignite, there is a tangible excitement throughout our internal teams. We look forward to discovering what new, exciting products, product features, and educational opportunities are available for our customers. Carrying this excitement forward,
The post Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1 are Available Today! appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Visual Studio

2 Mar 2021

A modern mobile strategy for today’s hybrid work reality

During a turbulent year grappling with COVID-19, businesses leaned heavily on mobility to adapt to hybrid and work-from-home environments. As we look ahead, it's clear that mobility will be pivotal to how businesses thrive in this new workplace reality...

Google

2 Mar 2021