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Full Stack Web Developer – Everything You Should Know
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Why Should You Consider Becoming a Full Stack Developer We live in a world that is more connected than ever before. We spend more time on social media, Amazon, real estate websites, how to websites, YouTube and other sites, than we do watching TV, going to movies, real life socializing Read full article…
Should Bloggers Learn How To Code?
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Here’s Why You Should Learn To Code I’m writing this article on January 22, 2019. It’s a Tuesday afternoon and as of this writing, there are nearly 2 Billion Websites online. Today, over 3.5 Million Blog Posts have been written, so far, not including this one. By the end of Read full article…
How To Make Money with WordPress – Top 10 Ways
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Top 10 Ways to Make Money with WordPress You have a website or your thinking about creating a website or blog. You might be wondering, how can you make money with your site? In the video above, I share with you, the top 10 ways to make money with a Read full article…
Gulp 4.0 & NodeJS, ImageMin, BrowserSync, SASS, SourceMaps, CleanCSS & More
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Gulp 4.0.0 is the current version of Gulp and with the update, significant changes have been made. This article will provide you with the code featured in the video on YouTube. In that video, I walk you through how to install NodeJS on your computer and how to configure your Read full article…
WordPress 5.0 aka Gutenberg – December 6th 2018 Release Date
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress 5.0 aka Gutenberg is now scheduled to be released on Thursday, December 6th 2018. That’s right, Gutenberg is almost here. Are you ready for this major update to the most popular blogging and website creation tool used by over 32% of modern websites online? Over the past few months, Read full article…
The WordPress Loop & How To Customize The Loop
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress makes it extremely easy to create content on your website and blog. All you have to do is log into your WordPress Powered Website, head over to the Add New Post and start blogging away. The Actual Steps of crafting your blog post are as follows: (I know, you Read full article…
Does a Web Developer Need a Computer Science Degree?
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Learn How To Code 10X Faster – Tips from a Full Stack Web Developer
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Learning to code can be one of the most difficult, yet rewarding decisions a person can make. The world around us is changing at a rapid pace, primarily because of our technological advances. Everything around us is connected in some way, to the internet and has a built in processor Read full article…
Troubleshooting WordPress – Error Establishing Database Connection
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Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 Billion – Is WordPress Next?
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Yoast SEO Update Causes Search Rankings to Drop in Google
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GDPR & WordPress – Is Your Website Ready?
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube Is your Website GDPR Compliant? GDPR aka General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect today, May 25, 2018. You might have heard about this over the past few weeks as you’ve opened up your email to find numerous updates to privacy policies. So the question is what should you focus Read full article…
How To Use The Duplicator WordPress Migration & Backup Plugin
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What To Look For in a WordPress Theme – A Developers Perspective
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube My Thoughts on Choosing a WordPress Theme Choosing a WordPress Theme can be difficult with all the options available. In the video above which is from my YouTube Channel, I share my thinking of what people should look for in a WordPress Theme. When choosing a WordPress Theme, you have Read full article…
Freelancing as a Web Developer in 2018
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Should you learn WordPress in 2018?
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube This question seems to come up every single year because people want to know if WordPress is here to stay. The basis of this article, is whether or not a person should consider becoming a WordPress designer, developer or consultant. As a freelance WordPress developer, I spend a significant amount Read full article…
Top 10 Programming Languages to Learn
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Two WordPress Updates in 24 Hours 4.9.3 to 4.9.4 What Happened?
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube As many of you might have noticed, this week we had two updates to WordPress from 4.9.2 to 4.9.3 and then in less than 24 hours 4.9.4 was rushed out. Why did we have two updates back to back? WordPress 4.9.3 This update resolved 34 bugs in WordPress 4.9 including Read full article…
Top 10 WordPress Plugins 2018
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube The Best of the Best, WordPress Plugins 2018 One of the greatest things about WordPress is the sheer number of themes and plugins available, for free, on the official WordPress website. There are tens of thousands of free plugins that empower you to extend the functionality of your website with Read full article…
WP Optimize vs WP Sweep vs Optimize Database vs Advanced Database Cleaner
Subscribe To PixemWeb on YouTube WordPress Database Optimization Plugins, faceoff! Having a well optimized database is extremely important for those who own and manage dynamic websites. Fortunately with WordPress, there are several really good WordPress Database Optimization Plugins that do a really good job of making the whole process, easy. In this post and the Read full article…