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Bluehost Open Sources Script Used to Update 2.5 Million WordPress Sites
During the 2015 State of the Word address, Matt Mullenweg highlighted Bluehost‘s recent efforts to update its customers’ outdated WordPress sites. After finding that 80% of their WordPress installations were not on the latest version, Bluehost wrote a Perl script that uses WP-CLI to update sites, even those running on versions as old as 1.0.2. The company successfully updated more than 2.5 million customer sites.
43 Expert Bloggers Weigh In: What’s the Most Powerful Social Media Marketing Strategy for 2016
In today’s digital economy, practical business knowledge is more than powerful. It is essential for survival and elementary for thriving! And it’s no different when you’re looking for a social media marketing strategy for 2016. We propose you meet with and learn from the experts instead. And then, possibly steal their best social media marketing strategy for 2016.
Customizer Responsive Preview and Selective Refresh to be Merged Into WordPress 4.5
Developers who build customizer settings will be able to use a postMessage transport, which is much faster than the default refresh transport. The plugin’s description page includes a video demonstrating the faster previews with an example of adding smilies to the site title.
