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WordPress Tutorials
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Troubleshooting
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Plugins worth installing, and the ones worth removing.
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Everything around the site itself: planning, launching, maintaining.
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Reviews and comparisons of the tools site owners actually use.
Latest guides
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PowerPress: Podcasting From WordPress
PowerPress turns WordPress into a podcast publishing platform by generating the RSS feed the directories read. Understanding that the feed is the product explains every decision around it.
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GiveWP: Taking Donations on WordPress
A donation is not a purchase, and running one through a shop shows. GiveWP models donations properly — which is its value, and the reason its donor records are the hardest data on the site to move.
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MonsterInsights: What You Are Paying For
MonsterInsights connects WordPress to Google Analytics and shows the reports inside your dashboard. The data is identical either way — the dashboard and the event tracking are the product.
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Social Warfare: Share Buttons and Whether You Need Them
Social Warfare is a share button plugin with an emphasis on speed and control. The harder question it raises is whether share buttons still earn the space and the requests they cost.
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WPScan: Checking a WordPress Site Against Known Vulnerabilities
WPScan checks what you are running against a database of known WordPress vulnerabilities. It answers one narrow question extremely well, and mistaking it for general security tooling is the usual error.
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UpdraftPlus: Strengths, Limits and What to Verify
UpdraftPlus is the most widely installed WordPress backup plugin, and the free version does the essential job. The part that matters is not which plugin you use — it is whether you have ever restored one.