Should you have a test environment?

Many of our customers run highly customized versions of WordPress and also WooCommerce (an ecommerce plugin for WordPress).  As customers enjoy their sites, plugins are routinely updated with bug fixes, new functionality and other changes.  Some of these plugins can...

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WordPress 3.7 (Basie) Changes

WordPress 3.7.1 has been released and the 3.7 release set (currently at 3.7.1) includes some great new features for WordPress customers. While maintaining your website on the most up-to-date release is a good security precaution, v3.7 brings three new features for end...

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The Cost of Free Plugins

As of today, there are 27,303 free plugins in the WordPress plugin repository. This isn't counting the thousands of plugins hosted elsewhere by authors who don't host their plugins with WordPress. Out of the 27,000 free plugins in the WP repository, I dare say that...

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WordPress on Plugin Drugs

It's commonly accepted that plugins slow down your WordPress install dramatically. They add extra resources, extra database calls, and lots of extra functionality - all of which adds to your loading time and slows down your site. I've always wanted to test out exactly...

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