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WordPress.com Rattles Freelancer Community with New Website Building Service Launch (wptavern.com) WordPress.com launched a new website building service with prices starting at $4,900. Automattic has been beta testing the service since the last quarter of 2020. The product announcement invites customers to let WordPress.com’s professional team “translate your vision into a compelling and modern website” but does not specify pricing for more customized websites.
Best WordPress SEO Plugins for Multilingual Sites (translatepress.com) Translating a website involves a lot of challenges. Not only do you have to translate the content of all your pages, but you also need to ensure that users can find the versions in their preferred languages. To do this, you’ll need to put some work into multilingual Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Fortunately, WordPress offers several SEO plugins that are multilingual-friendly.
A Guide to the WordPress Template Hierarchy (2021 Edition) (kinsta.com) If you want to customize themes or build new ones from scratch, it’s important to understand how the WordPress template hierarchy works.
First and foremost, this WordPress system helps keep everything organized. Once you know what all the theme template files are, what they do, and how they’re prioritized, you’ll be able to alter almost every aspect of how your WordPress website looks.
Want to Get Started with Dynamic Content in WordPress? (chrislema.com) You might think that WordPress doesn't do dynamic content. But that's not true. And even though it's not a default feature of the software, several plugin providers have created solutions to help you with personalized content.