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WordPress updates can be applied manually or automatically. The default behaviour is for smaller security related updates to be applied automatically, and bigger updates are left for you to apply manually when you are ready. This can however be customized according to your preferences – we don’t recommend turning off the automatic security updates. However …

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Sometimes you need to tweak and customize a WordPress theme. Then you need to be able to update that theme without losing your customizations, so here’s how you do that. The key to setting this up properly is to use what WordPress calls a ‘child theme’. What’s a child theme? A child theme is the …

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ThemeForest (also known as Envato) is a popular site to buy WordPress themes that are not available in the main WordPress theme directory. These themes have their own developers so new features and fixes happen just like they do with other WordPress themes. So how do you know about ThemeForest theme updates and how do …

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Updating a WordPress theme that has a child theme can be either simple or a total nightmare. Which it is depends on what kind of child theme you’re dealing with, and what kind of customizations have been made. Custom child theme specific to your site If you created your own child theme that’s unique to …

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If you ask any web developer who learned their skills in the last 5 years, you are quite likely to get an answer of ‘yes’. WordPress is undeniably an extremely popular way to build websites, but that does NOT of course automatically make it the best way to build websites. What Is WordPress? WordPress is …

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There’s a lot of competition in the tech space generally, but none more so than for website hosting. Companies will tend to choose a host that is located in their own country – or at least, one they think is located in their own country. Just because it bills in your currency and shows what …

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If you’ve ever wondered about that Hollywood technology you see in the movies that picks out all your beautiful faces from a crowd, just by using fairly low resolution cameras. Wonder no more. That isn’t just Hollywood at work. It lives and breathes right now in the USA. And it’s proved so effective that privacy …

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Solar power has been a long time in getting good. For far too long it had been more of a novelty than a mass market product. Then it slowly moved into the green enthusiast arena. And finally, we really are now starting to see systems that not only make some sense, but due to significant …

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I’m not sure if you can really call it a skin secret, but exfoliation is definitely something that many women forget about – and most men would never dream of doing. Yet both men and women can greatly benefit from exfoliating regularly. So why wouldn’t they? I think it’s because it sounds just that little …

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