Understanding Churn Rate and Five Tips to Retain Engagement

Customer acquisition is one of the most important components of a successful business. Finding and attracting new customers is the only reliable way to sustain and expand a business’ performance. But what happens to customers after you have made a successful sale? Customer retention is the second half of business success. Being able to retain …
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Matt Mullenweg Delivers WordCamp Europe 2018 Keynote

Co-founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg took the stage in Belgrade to give a mid-year update on where the CMS has been and where it is going. He referred to this as a “summertime update.” Over the past six years, Mullenweg has held a Town Hall during WordCamp Europe, but this year he decided to present …
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Creating your own meme generator

Almost every time a new meme pops up in my Twitter feed, I think of a witty version to create. I’m not alone in this. Memes are often a way to acknowledge a shared experience or idea. In a variation of the “Is this a pigeon” meme that has been making the rounds online, a designer Daryl Ginn joked about the elementary nature of most applications that say they use artificial intelligence.

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— Daryl Ginn (@darylginn) May 16, 2018

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Questions to Ask a WordPress Developer You Want to Hire

It’s been 15 years since WordPress first launched. Back then, there were limited demands and limited choices when it came to WordPress development services. Since then, the CMS has grown to power over 30 percent of the web and there are a lot more developers to choose from. Because WordPress is so customizable, it can …
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More Unicode Patterns

Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

Anni Albers, On Designing

I recently wrote a post — that was shared here on CSS-Tricks — where I looked at ways to use Unicode characters to create interesting (and random) patterns. Since then, I’ve continued to seek new characters to build new patterns. I even borrowed a book about Unicode from a local library.

(That’s a really thick book, by the way.)

It’s all up to …

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Watch WordCamp EU for Free via Livestream

WordCamp EU 2018 is scheduled to take place this weekend in Belgrade, Serbia. Although the event is sold out, you can watch the event for free via livestream. Simply visit the WCEU tickets page and register a livestream ticket. Sessions begin on Friday, June 15th. To see a list of (more…)
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Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 6: Continuous Integration For WordPress Plugins

This article is a part of a series on writing object-oriented PHP for WordPress development. So far, we’ve spent two articles on writing the code and now we will test the code and systems. It takes an enormous amount of tooling to write code and back in my day I walked uphill both ways, in …
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