To be able to modify headers in a testing environment is a great thing to have. It allows control over your application as one can bypass authentication, set cookies, and so on. In this article, Nafees Nehar explores some methods which allow modification of headers in an automation testing setup.
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WordPress has a few significant limitations — it requires time and coding skills to create a website. Building a website used to be a complex exercise only professionals could do, but the situation changed. Today, Nick Babich will review a tool that will allow us to work smarter. Imagine WordPress without design and technical limits. In this article, Nick reviews the Visual Composer Website Builder tool that helps simplify the process of page building in WordPress.
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Have you been looking for a way to create a notification system when using WordPress? Meet the ‘Notification’ plugin, an all-in-one solution for any custom WordPress notification system. In this article, Jakub Mikita will show you how to create your own notification system within minutes with the free Notification plugin. By notification, he means any kind of notification. Most of the time, it will be email, but with the plugin you’ll be using, you can also send webhooks and other kinds of notifications.
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Is there a better way to make direct changes to your WordPress website? Yes, there is! In this article, Nick Schäferhoff will show you local WordPress development. You will learn about the benefits of building a local WordPress development environment, how to set one up and how to move your local site to the web when it’s ready. Learning how to install WordPress locally is super useful. It enables you to make site changes, run updates, test themes and plugins and more in a risk-free environment (and it’s free thanks to open source software).
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WordPress is a free and open-source software (also known as FOSS) project. There are plenty of ways you can contribute some of your time back to the WordPress project without having to look at a line of code. Pick your favorite, and you’re off! You would be surprised to find that there are many ways that people can contribute back to the project without even writing or understanding a line of PHP. Interested? Then let’s get cracking, shall we?
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Migrating to or from multisite is hard. In this article, Nícholas André simplifies the whole migration process by reducing the endeavor to a couple of CLI commands. The WordPress Importer works reasonably well for smaller, simpler sites, but leaves room for improvement. The MU-Migration tool, a WP-CLI command that helps developers migrate sites to or between multisite instances. Multisite migrations have various technical complexities, and this tool can help alleviate them.
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We asked our readers and the community to use everything they could to make their websites and projects perform blazingly fast. Today, Cosima Mielke is thrilled to show off the results of this challenge and announce the winner who will be awarded with some smashing prizes indeed! Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge! We were quite happy with the quality of the submissions we received, and it honestly wasn’t easy to choose a winner. Keep up the brilliant work!
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All webmasters should strive for improving the performance of their website, and increasing their website’s security. If you’re looking for ways to increase your website’s performance and security, Jonas Krummenacher brings you five methods that are great options. Not only are they all relatively easy to implement, but they’ll also modernize your overall stack. Some of these technologies are still in the process of being globally adopted; however, as demand increases, so will compatibility. Thankfully, there are ways to implement some of the technologies for browsers that support them, while falling back to older methods for browsers that do not.
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HTTPS is a must for every website nowadays: Users are looking for the padlock when providing their details; Chrome and Firefox explicitly mark websites that provide forms on pages without HTTPS as being non-secure; it is an SEO ranking factor; and it has a serious impact on privacy in general.
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WordPress is a very robust, easy to use and feature rich content management system (CMS). Everyone from stay at home bloggers to fortune 500 companies rely on it every day. Just like with most platforms, if it isn’t properly used or optimized it can turn into a big headache very quickly. In this article, Brian Jackson has compiled a list of bad web practices and recommendations on what not to do on your site, based on thousands of hours of customer interactions, support tickets, and troubleshooting he experiences on a daily basis. Picking the right web host is very important. But your decision also goes hand-in-hand with educating yourself on how to best optimize your WordPress site.
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