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Instagram Hashtags: How to Find the Most Popular Hashtags and Connect with New Followers

Using the right Instagram hashtags can help you extend your reach, engage your audience, and even boost your brand. Today, we're sharing how to create an effective hashtag strategy for your business.More

Shopify

15 Feb 2020

Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub Actions and more

In this deep dive, we cover how our daily schema migrations amounted to a significant toil on the database infrastructure team, and how we searched for a solution to automate the manual parts of the process.
The post Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub Actions and more appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Github

14 Feb 2020

People of WordPress: Kori Ashton

You’ve probably heard that WordPress is open-source software, and may know that it’s created and run by volunteers. WordPress enthusiasts share many examples of how WordPress changed people’s lives for the better. This monthly series shares some of those lesser-known, amazing stories. The beginning In 1998, Kori created her very first HTML website. Her dad […]

Wordpress

14 Feb 2020

Addressing equity in CS curriculum with Kapor Center

Editor’s note: This post is authored by Dr. Allison Scott, Chief Research Officer at the Kapor Center for Social Impact. The Kapor Center received a Google.org grant, as part of Code with Google’s $25 million commitment to increasing Black and Latinx s...

Google

14 Feb 2020

What is Lead Generation? A Beginner’s Guide

Most people have a passing knowledge of what a business lead is, but what is lead generation? Given the importance of leads, a passing knowledge of both of these important topics isn’t enough. Lead generation strategies can make or break a business in today’s competitive digital warfare between businesses. Without a solid understanding of both […]
The post What is Lead Generation? A Beginner’s Guide appeared first on iThemes.

Wordpress

14 Feb 2020

15 Best and Most Popular CMS Platforms in 2020 (Compared)

Are you wondering what CMS platform to use for building your website? A CMS (Content Management System) platform lets you easily create a website without understanding any code (at least for most of them). There are lots of CMS options available, which means you might… Read More »
The post 15 Best and Most Popular CMS Platforms in 2020 (Compared) appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

14 Feb 2020

A home-grown news site for Peterborough

Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from John Baker, Chief Reporter, Peterborough Matters. I’ve worked in local news for 15 years and experienced how meaningful it is to a community. As I’ve walked through the city from my home in Woodston and visi...

Google

14 Feb 2020

Instagram Tools: 20 Essential Apps for Growing Your Following

With more than one billion monthly active users, Instagram has opened up enormous opportunities for brands to find new customers. To help you supercharge your Instagram account, we’re sharing a list of the best Instagram apps for independent businesse...

Shopify

14 Feb 2020

Get the reach of TV and the relevance of digital with Display & Video 360

Connected TV combines the reach and familiarity of traditional TV with the relevance and measurability of digital. For marketers to get the best of both worlds, we’re investing in connected TV advertising solutions designed to reach households at scale...

Google

13 Feb 2020

Your Customers Have Adopted Digital Payments. Have You?

Digital payments are becoming more popular as shoppers increasingly rely on their smartphones to help manage their money. Retailers are responding by giving customers a more seamless experience at checkout – both online and in brick-and-mortar stores. ...

Magento

13 Feb 2020

GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups

We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.
The post GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Github

13 Feb 2020

One man’s mission to add civil rights history to Google Maps

“I think in another life, I would have been a private investigator,” says Paul Kang. The Nashville resident is a paralegal for an immigration law firm, but it’s his hobby as a Local Guide on Google Maps that’s brought out his inner detective, turning h...

Google

13 Feb 2020

GameSnacks brings quick, casual games to any device

Look around on the bus, in line at a coffee shop, or even at the doctor’s office. You’ll likely see people playing games on their phones—and they’re a few of the two billion people around the world who are doing it. Unfortunately, many games (especiall...

Google

13 Feb 2020

Project Witness shows life in prison from a child’s point of view

Editor's note: Today’s guest post comes from John Legend, artist, producer and activist; and Ty Stiklorius, veteran music manager, CEO of Friends at Work, Producer and ActivistAt the age of 17, Jarrett Harper was sentenced to life in prison without par...

Google

13 Feb 2020

The Suite Life: 4 tips for a more manageable Gmail inbox

The average person receives 120 emails a day, which means keeping your inbox under control can feel like an impossible task. Fortunately, G Suite gives you the tools you need to stay focused and organized. Welcome to the Gmail edition of The Suite Life...

Google

13 Feb 2020

How to Grow Your Email List

When choosing between billable work or marketing to create new business, solopreneurs often choose to focus on the paying clients. We get it! But there’s a way to do both by utilizing a few simple tools. For example, AJ Morris and Nathan Ingram recently shared some great tips for how to use the iThemes Combo […]
The post How to Grow Your Email List appeared first on iThemes.

Wordpress

13 Feb 2020

Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio

Have you ever found yourself debugging a .NET project or memory dump only to be confronted with a No Symbols Loaded page? Or maybe experienced an exception occurring in a 3rd party .NET assembly but had no source code to figure out why?
The post Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Visual Studio

13 Feb 2020

How to View the Mobile Version of WordPress Sites from Desktop

Do you want to preview the mobile version of your WordPress site? Previewing the mobile layout helps you see how your website looks on mobile devices. While you can certainly take a look at your live site on your phone, this doesn’t help during the… Read More »
The post How to View the Mobile Version of WordPress Sites from Desktop appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

13 Feb 2020

From Clicks to Customers: 16 Online Business Ideas You Can Start on the Side

Are you looking to start a business? As you may know, coming up with ideas that you can successfully monetize can be tricky. So today, we're sharing a shortlist of business ideas that anyone can test and try with little more than a laptop.More

Shopify

13 Feb 2020

How to Write Instagram Captions that Unlock More Likes, Comments, and Reach

We spoke with two Instagram marketing experts to get their best advice on how to write compelling captions that can help improve your reach, engagement, and sales.More

Shopify

13 Feb 2020

New! Save Time Securing WordPress With User Groups

The iThemes Security Pro plugin already helps you lock down your WordPress website down to the user-level with the User Security Check and User Logging features. Today, we are excited to roll out the New User Groups feature gives you the power to enforce the right level of security for the right people. Introducing User […]
The post New! Save Time Securing WordPress With User Groups appeared first on iThemes.

Wordpress

12 Feb 2020

Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS

One of the really cool aspects about .NET Core is the support for global tools. You can use global tools to simplify common tasks during your development workflow. For example, you can create tools to minify image assets, simplify working with source control,
The post Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Visual Studio

12 Feb 2020

Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta

We want your feedback about GitHub’s new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.
The post Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Github

12 Feb 2020

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: February 2020, Part 1

New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the first half of February, so we want to keep you aware. In this post, we cover recent WordPress plugin, theme and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you are running one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website. The WordPress Vulnerability Roundup […]
The post WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: February 2020, Part 1 appeared first on iThemes.

Wordpress

12 Feb 2020

Feeling all the feels? There’s an emoji sticker for that.

Have you ever been so overwhelmingly filled with love that it moved you to tears? Or, perhaps you’ve laughed so hard you felt sick—and wished your phone had an emoji to convey that feeling? Whether you’re sending a note to your galentines or your one t...

Google

12 Feb 2020

9 Best Free Logo Makers to Help You Look Like a Pro (2020)

Are you looking for the best free logo maker to create a new logo for your business? Whether you’re running a small business website or a starting a blog, you want to look like a pro. This means having a great logo that fits your… Read More »
The post 9 Best Free Logo Makers to Help You Look Like a Pro (2020) appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

12 Feb 2020

Announcing GitHub India

We’re bringing GitHub closer to communities in India to better serve students, developers, maintainers, enterprise customers, and everyone helping to create the future of open source.
The post Announcing GitHub India appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Github

12 Feb 2020

GNI Subscriptions Lab expands to Europe to help publishers grow revenue

The news industry continues to face tough challenges as the way people find and access information changes. At the same time, we’re seeing promising results from publishers who are developing new business models and ways of working to support high qual...

Google

12 Feb 2020

WordCamp Asia Cancelled Due to COVID-19

I’ve arrived at the difficult decision to cancel the inaugural WordCamp Asia event, which was planned to take place in Bangkok on February 21st. The excitement and anticipation around this event have been huge, but there are too many unknowns around the health issues unfolding right now in the region to explicitly encourage a large […]

Wordpress

12 Feb 2020

WordPress 5.4 Beta 1

WordPress 5.4 Beta 1 is now available for testing! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend running it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. You can test the WordPress 5.4 beta in two ways: Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (choose the “bleeding edge nightlies” […]

Wordpress

11 Feb 2020

GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20 is here

Additional security features, a new internal visibility option, and more with the latest updates to GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20.
The post GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20 is here appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Github

11 Feb 2020

Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source

Here at the Visual Studio Tools for Unity team our mission is to improve the productivity of Unity developers. In Visual Studio 2019 we’ve introduced our Unity Analyzers, a collection of Unity specific code diagnostics and code fixes. Today we’re excited to make our Unity Analyzers Open-Source.
The post Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Visual Studio

11 Feb 2020

Annie Jean-Baptiste keeps asking, “who else?”

As a child, Annie Jean-Baptiste wanted to be a pediatrician. But when her freshman year of college rolled around, her dream took a turn. “I started taking some of the classes and thinking ‘I don’t know if this is really what I should be doing…’” she la...

Google

11 Feb 2020

Helping families Be Internet Awesome on Safer Internet Day

Editor’s note: This is adapted from remarks Parisa gave today at the Grow with Google NYC Learning Center.When I was a kid, my brothers and I had to “take turns” using our family computer with slow, dial-up internet access. It wasn’t until college that...

Google

11 Feb 2020

How to Create Custom Raw Defaults in Adobe Camera Raw (v12.2)

Adobe Camera Raw’s new Raw Defaults Settings panel provides a much easier and more intuitive way to assign and manage the default rendering of your raw files across multiple camera models. For example, you may want to change the default rendering setti...

Adobe

11 Feb 2020

Updates to Lightroom for Mac, Win, Android, iOS, iPadOS, & ChromeOS (2-2020)

I’m excited to announce several updates and enhancements to Lightroom for Mac and Windows including improvements to Import, Export, PhotoMerge, and Shared Albums as well as improvements made to Learn and Discover content on iOS and Android, direct impo...

Adobe

11 Feb 2020

How to Customize Lightroom Classic’s Default Develop Settings (v9.2)

Lightroom Classic now provides an easier and more intuitive way to customize the default rendering of your raw files in order to streamline your editing workflow. For example, if you prefer to apply custom raw settings upon import (such as using camera...

Adobe

11 Feb 2020

How to Customize Lightroom Classic’s Default Develop Settings (v9.2)

Lightroom Classic now provides an easier and more intuitive way to customize the default rendering of your raw files in order to streamline your editing workflow. For example, if you prefer to apply custom raw settings upon import (such as using camera...

Adobe

11 Feb 2020

Updates to Lightroom Classic v9.2 (February, 2020)

I’m excited to announce several updates and enhancements to Lightroom Classic including a new interface to simplify the creation and application of custom setting for rendering raw files, support for large Photoshop (.PSB) files, secondary display enh...

Adobe

11 Feb 2020

Updates to Lightroom Classic v9.2 (February, 2020)

I’m excited to announce several updates and enhancements to Lightroom Classic including a new interface to simplify the creation and application of custom setting for rendering raw files, support for large Photoshop (.PSB) files, secondary display enh...

Adobe

11 Feb 2020

1,000 of the most stunning landscapes in Google Earth

Ten years ago, I was flying over San Francisco when this strange but kaleidoscopically beautiful vista opened up outside of my tiny airplane window. When I got home, I fired up Google Earth to investigate. The aerial wonder along the southern tip of th...

Google

11 Feb 2020

More protection for Nest accounts

Privacy and security are foundational to Nest’s mission to create a more helpful home. When you invite our products into your home, you trust us to help you solve everyday problems—whether that’s saving on your monthly energy bills, keeping an eye on t...

Google

11 Feb 2020

Searching for love this Valentine’s Day

Love is in the air this week as searches for “love” peak (as they do every year around this time!). Ahead of the most romantic day of the year, we looked at fun Valentine’s Day trends, from romantic comedies and love songs to gift ideas, that will get ...

Google

11 Feb 2020

Ultimate WordPress SEO Guide for Beginners (Step by Step)

Improving your WordPress SEO is crucial for getting more traffic to your website. Sadly most WordPress SEO guides are too technical for new users to get started. If you are serious about increasing your website traffic, then you need to pay attention to the WordPress… Read More »
The post Ultimate WordPress SEO Guide for Beginners (Step by Step) appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

11 Feb 2020

Teaming up with Defending Digital Campaigns on election security

Last week, we shared an overview of how we’re equipping campaigns with security tools like Project Shield and supporting programs like the new Election Security and Information Project. We also just announced a major update of our Advanced Protection P...

Google

11 Feb 2020

A safer internet for Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Chances are you’re reading this in a country that formally recognizes Safer Internet Day—an initiative that originated in the European Union two decades ago and is now observed in as many as 150 countries around the world. Whether you’re spurred into d...

Google

11 Feb 2020

Cooking as a Craft: How This Direct to Consumer Brand Disrupted the Cookware Industry

Childhood friends Chip Malt and Jake Kalick are the complementary co-founders behind Made In. With Chip’s experience in ecommerce and data analytics and Jake’s third-generation expertise in cookware manufacturing, the duo created a company that disru...

Shopify

11 Feb 2020

Hey Google, turn up the love

Whether you’re planning to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your partner or best friends (or maybe it’ll be a day of self-care), the Google Assistant can help transform your home from forgettable to festive. On your Assistant-enabled smart speaker or Sma...

Google

11 Feb 2020

A Review of CoBlocks: Extending WordPress Blocks

When the new WordPress editor was first released, we were all introduced to the idea of blocks. The idea of using a modular system to create pages was something we now had to endure. It puts more focus on your content while leaving behind the most conventional way of writing your content. The Gutenberg project […]
The post A Review of CoBlocks: Extending WordPress Blocks appeared first on iThemes.

Wordpress

10 Feb 2020