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What to Look for When Extending Magento with Custom Code or An Extension

Important considerations for customizing your Magento store with Magento Marketplace extensions and custom code

Magento

14 Jan 2021

[Guest Post] Visual Studio for Mac Helps You Write Tests

You’re writing tests for your code, right? No? Just say ‘yes’. It’ll make this blog post go a lot easier. So anyway, I’m happy to hear that you’re writing tests for all your code. Whether you’re following the “test first” / Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach or whether you’re just writing some unit tests or integration tests,
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13 Jan 2021

Guest Mode: An easy privacy control for your home devices

It's our responsibility to respect your privacy, no matter what device you're using. That's why Google Assistant is built to automatically keep your information private, safe and secure. By default, we don’t save your audio recordings and you can ask G...

Google

13 Jan 2021

Cloud Covered: What was new in Google Cloud in December

December marked the end of a tumultuous year, one that brought new challenges to work, school, and home. At Google Cloud, we helped our customers respond to the challenges and prepare for opportunities in the coming year with new tools, resources, stra...

Google

13 Jan 2021

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: January 2021, Part 1

New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the first half of January. 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 […]
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Wordpress

13 Jan 2021

How to Track User Journey on WordPress Lead Forms

Do you want to track user journey on WordPress lead forms? Tracking user journey allows you to see exactly which pages your visitors view before they fill out a form on your website. This information can help you capture more leads and grow your business.… Read More »
The post How to Track User Journey on WordPress Lead Forms appeared first on WPBeginner.

Wordpress

13 Jan 2021

Our continuing support for Dreamers

For generations, talented immigrants have helped America drive technological breakthroughs and scientific advancements that have created millions of new jobs in new industries, enriching our culture and our economy.That’s why we have long supported the...

Google

13 Jan 2021

What is an e-contract? Everything you need to know

People usually decide to start their own business because they’re really good at the key skill that business requires, like a chef deciding to open their own restaurant instead of just working at one.

But they quickly realize that running a b...

Wordpress

13 Jan 2021

How to write a professional estimate: Small business guide

If your small business focuses on service delivery, one way you can win business is by creating a professional estimate that outlines the service and pricing for the potential customer. To get the right price for your work and win potential clients, y...

Wordpress

13 Jan 2021

How one engineer went from startups to Google

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 Avital Zipori, a s...

Google

13 Jan 2021

The Founder’s Zodiac: Fail-Proof New Year’s Resolutions—a Guide for Every Sign

It’s time to predict your own future, Stargazer. Set new year’s resolutions that look less like vague ideas and more like a map, guiding you through each step toward greatness. You’re the driver—we’re here as your co-pilot, offering advice and inspira...

Shopify

13 Jan 2021

Submissions to the draft News Media Bargaining Code show significant concern

Last week, we gave you an update on the News Media Bargaining Code, a new law that would significantly impact the Google services Australians use every day. We’ve also shared a concrete proposal for practical changes to the law to help secure a strong ...

Google

12 Jan 2021

2020 in Review

The beginning of 2020 was paving a new way for the PSF to support its community. The PSF Board Directors strategically planned to devote funding to Python's core and to hiring staff. We expected a healthy revenue from PyCon US 2020 and had big plans fo...

Python

12 Jan 2021

Our work to keep you safe and in control of your privacy

Building helpful products starts with keeping you and your information safe online. The data you trust us with provides helpful and personalized experiences for you in Google products, whether it’s letting you know if you’ve been near someone with COVI...

Google

12 Jan 2021

9 best questions to ask a job applicant

Your ideal candidate strides confidently into the room wearing a neatly pressed suit, offers a firm handshake, and tells you everything you want to hear. You ask a few generic questions, snag some talking points from their resume, and decide that they...

Wordpress

12 Jan 2021

Hash Code 2021 is going virtual

Hash Code, Google’s flagship team programming competition, is back...and fully virtual. Join developers around the world as they grow their coding skills and work to optimize real Google engineering problems. Registration is open now — and whether you’...

Google

12 Jan 2021

An open fund for projects debunking vaccine misinformation

The uncertainty and developing nature of the coronavirus pandemic continues to generate related misinformation. Fact-checkers have been hard at work debunking falsehoods online, with nearly 10,000 fact checks about the pandemic currently showing up acr...

Google

12 Jan 2021

Lens Correction Controls in Lightroom Classic

Lightroom Classic includes numerous lens profiles, which can be used to correct common lens aberrations such as barrel and pincushion geometric distortion ("barrel" distortion causes straight lines to appear to bow outward, "pincushion" distortion caus...

Adobe

12 Jan 2021

How to accept payments via email with Square

The past 25 years have seen an explosion of new billing and payment options. “Gone are the days of mailing invoices and waiting for checks to arrive in the mail,” says David Blane of BrandGrow, a firm specializing in digital marketing. “Today’s electr...

Wordpress

12 Jan 2021

How to Create a Custom Page in WordPress

Do you want to create a custom page in WordPress? A custom page lets you use a different layout from your regular pages in WordPress. Many WordPress sites have custom page layouts for their sales pages, landing pages, webinar pages, and more. In this article,… Read More »
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Wordpress

12 Jan 2021

The Journey of Being a Distributor for a 100-Year-Old Brand

After a decades-long military career, Michael Hagen entered the business world when he noticed a gap in backcountry skiing with the lack of reasonably-priced and high-performance lightweight gear. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Michael shares wit...

Shopify

12 Jan 2021

The Launch Imperative

Five key areas of focus to ensure success with a rapid deployment package

Magento

12 Jan 2021

Meet the researcher creating more access with language

When you’ve got your hands full, so you use your voice to ask your phone to play your favorite song, it can feel like magic. In reality, it’s a more complicated combination of engineering, design and natural language processing at work, making it easie...

Google

11 Jan 2021

GitHub security features: highlights from 2020

We’ve made huge advances in our security features at GitHub in 2020, with launches for code scanning, secret scanning, Dependabot version updates, dependency review, and more.

Github

11 Jan 2021

Doodle for Google is back for its 13th year

2020 was a challenging year for many of us. As a mother of three young children, it was filled with important conversations and loads of feelings as we took on distance learning, quarantining and even changes like wearing masks. No one knew how to par...

Google

11 Jan 2021

How PSD2 is related to the Open Banking Standard

“Open banking” sounds a lot like online banking to most people, and unless you’re in the payment services business in Europe, the acronym PSD2 is probably a mystery. Nonetheless, the two terms are closely related.

The European Union initiated...

Wordpress

11 Jan 2021

How to create an effective B2B content marketing strategy

In business-to-business (B2B) companies, content marketing is no longer a luxury it’s a necessity. According to research from the Content Marketing Institute, 42 percent of organizations say their content marketing operations are mature, and 41 perce...

Wordpress

11 Jan 2021

How to Embed Facebook Albums in WordPress

Do you want to embed Facebook albums into your WordPress website? Embedding Facebook albums is a great way to boost social engagement on both your WordPress website and your Facebook page. In this article, we’ll show you how to easily embed Facebook albums in WordPress,… Read More »
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Wordpress

11 Jan 2021

PEP 649: Deferred Evaluation Of Annotations Using Descriptors

Author: Larry Hastings

Python

11 Jan 2021

How to sell raffle tickets online

Raffles have been effective for fundraising and generating enthusiasm since biblical times. The Old Testament notes that Moses used a lottery to distribute the land west of the Jordan River. The Hun Dynasty, circa 1000 BC, developed a lottery game in ...

Wordpress

8 Jan 2021

How to price your photography work

As a photographer, you thrive on the art of capturing moments in a single frame. Do you feel like your creativity flourishes when a camera is in hand but have a hard time keeping up with the administrative requirements of running a business? Not only ...

Wordpress

8 Jan 2021

What is proptech?

In 2009, the phrase “There’s an app for that” became so pervasive in techie culture that Apple trademarked it. The tagline represented the idea that our smartphones could fulfill our every need.

In 2020, we’ve expanded past single apps. Techn...

Wordpress

8 Jan 2021

Photoshop and Lightroom Classic Seminars at ImagingUSA 2021!

I hope you’ll join me - from the comfort of your own home - as I share my favorite techniques using the develop module in Lightroom Classic and demonstrate what's new ing Photoshop during PPA's Imaging USA 2021.

Adobe

7 Jan 2021

7 best practices for customer feedback management

Want to hear something shocking? Ninety-one percent of customers who have a bad experience with a brand will just leave without saying a thing! This group is known as the “non-complainers.”

Losing a customer is one thing. Not knowing why or what y...

Wordpress

7 Jan 2021

6 ways to prepare your theme park for reopening

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, “theme parks were one of the first places to shut down,” recalls Brad Kissling, RLA, principal, planning at Thinkwell Group. Now, theme parks are reopening, but things look very different than before. In some states, th...

Wordpress

7 Jan 2021

How to create a filtering search box for your Excel data

If you want to quickly calculate how much revenue your service-based business made this month, you can easily whip out your smartphone calculator. But if you need to calculate, sort, and filter a lot of data, spreadsheets are your best bet. Filtering ...

Wordpress

7 Jan 2021

How to Recover and Restore Deleted Pages in WordPress

Are you trying to recover deleted pages in WordPress? If you accidentally deleted a WordPress page, then it is possible to recover it from Trash. In this beginner’s guide, we’ll show you how to easily recover deleted pages in WordPress and WooCommerce. How WordPress Handles… Read More »
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Wordpress

7 Jan 2021

How to do a poll in Slack

Your Slack workspace keeps you connected to your team, and chances are pretty good it’s your go-to communication platform for updates. But have you considered using it for polls?

Polls are a valuable way to check in on everything from the tea...

Wordpress

6 Jan 2021

How to automate human resources processes

Human resources management is necessary for business success. Organized HR processes and systems are essential for hiring, training, and complying with labor laws. Many of these activities have traditionally been done manually, but technology now offe...

Wordpress

6 Jan 2021

GitHub Availability Report: December 2020

In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide a summary and follow-up details on how we addressed an incident mentioned in November’s report.

Github

6 Jan 2021

Top 6 task management software tools for productive teams

As your business grows, it can become increasingly difficult to juggle project tasks and maintain communication with stakeholders.

If you’re spending too many hours managing daily workflows, it may be time to automate some of those processes. As Da...

Wordpress

6 Jan 2021

Stadia Savepoint: December updates

It’s time for another update to our Stadia Savepoint series, recapping the new games, features, and changes for Stadia in December.Last month, the Stadia live hangout was hosted by YouTube creators Austin Creed and Katie Wilson and revealed new games a...

Google

6 Jan 2021

Building On-Call Culture at GitHub

GitHub’s engineering group moved from a monolithic, hero-based on-call rotation to a more balanced on-call culture in order to increase our on-call expertise and improve the experience for our customers.

Github

6 Jan 2021

The Events Calendar Plugin is Joining the Liquid Web Family

I’m so excited about today’s announcement that Liquid Web, the parent company of iThemes, has acquired The Events Calendar plugin and the team behind it from Modern Tribe. I wanted to share my thoughts with you and let you know why I’m so happy to have the team from The Events Calendar joining the family […]
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Wordpress

6 Jan 2021

How to Add Keywords and Meta Descriptions in WordPress

Do you want to properly add keywords and meta descriptions in WordPress? Meta keywords and descriptions allow you to improve your website’s SEO ranking. This means more traffic, leads, and sales for your business. In this article, we will show you how to easily add… Read More »
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Wordpress

6 Jan 2021

How to Find and Plug the Leaks in Your Conversion Funnels

Your conversion funnel, a path your visitors take from arriving at your store to making their purchase, is a leaky bucket. Before you pour more water into the leaky bucket, learn how to patch the holes. Here's how to find and plug leaks in your conver...

Shopify

6 Jan 2021

21 Ways to Get More Customers in 2021

To say that 2020 was a challenging year might be the understatement of the century. When thinking back to one year ago today, no doubt your life probably looked a lot different than it does right now. Not only were your ideas and goals probably a lot different a year ago than they are today, […]
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Wordpress

5 Jan 2021

Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran

All developers should be free to use GitHub, no matter where they live. At the same time, GitHub respects and abides by US law, which means government sanctions have limited our ability to provide developers

Github

5 Jan 2021

Just desserts: Baking with AI-made recipes

It’s winter, it’s the holidays and it’s quarantine-times: It’s the perfect recipe for doing a ton of baking. In fact, U.S. search interest in "baking" spiked in both November and December 2020. But being in the AI field, we decided to dive a little dee...

Google

5 Jan 2021

Just desserts: Baking with AI-made recipes

It’s winter, it’s the holidays and it’s quarantine-times: It’s the perfect recipe for doing a ton of baking. In fact, U.S. search interest in "baking" spiked in both November and December 2020. But being in the AI field, we decided to dive a little dee...

Google

5 Jan 2021

The importance of student attendance tracking software

Teachers are the lifeblood of our education system. They help mold our youth into knowledgeable individuals who are ready to take the next step in their lives, whether that’s advancing into higher education or moving into the workforce.

However, fo...

Wordpress

5 Jan 2021

5 tips to get into UX research

How did you break into your career? Maybe you followed a traditional path by going to college and majoring in what you wanted to do for a living. Or maybe you studied something similar to your current field and applied your skills to the position.

...

Wordpress

5 Jan 2021

Create and Save Your Own Tool Presets in Photoshop

Tool presets enable you save and reuse tool settings instead of having to constantly reselect frequently used options.

Adobe

5 Jan 2021

How to fix cURL error 28: Connection timed out after X milliseconds

Are you seeing the cURL error 28: Connection timed out error on your WordPress site? The cURL error 28 is a common WordPress REST API issue that can affect your website’s performance and may cause it to behave unpredictably. In this article, we will show… Read More »
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Wordpress

5 Jan 2021

The Month in WordPress: December 2020

We bid goodbye to 2020 in style with the release of WordPress 5.6 and the launch of Learn WordPress. But these weren’t the only exciting updates from WordPress in December. Read on to learn more! WordPress 5.6 is here The latest major WordPress release, version 5.6 “Simone”, came out on December 8. The release ships […]

Wordpress

5 Jan 2021

Learnings from Hidden 6-Figure Manufacturing Costs

Stay Sixty is the maker of stylish reusable water bottles created by Kirpal Bharaj. Driven by the environmental cause of reducing single-use plastic water bottles, Stay Sixty combines the ritual of hydration with thoughtful design. In this episode of ...

Shopify

5 Jan 2021

PHP 8: The Complete Guide

On November 26, 2020, we entered into the new world of PHP 8. Every PHP update brings an entire host of brand new, major features. While not all of the updates are important to the majority of casual users, even other updates are too niche for the majority of seasoned WordPress developers. But no matter […]
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Wordpress

4 Jan 2021

Python 3.10.0a4 is now available for testing

Happy new year to all of you. I hope you all have a great start of the year! And how to best celebrate that we have left 2020 behind that with a new Python alpha release? :) Go get it here:https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python...

Python

4 Jan 2021

What Makes a Great Business Idea?

You probably have a business idea or three rattling around in the back of your mind. Whether it’s monetizing a jewelry-making hobby or selling to a growing niche market, you’ve probably flirted with the idea of starting your own full-time business or ...

Shopify

4 Jan 2021