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Before the apps, we built the web for other people.
This is the blog from those years: notes on WordPress and the web, and the sites we launched, from November 2018 to October 2026. The posts are kept as they were published.
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2026
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Papercraft App for iPhone and iPad: How Unfold Works
Unfold is our papercraft app for iPhone and iPad. This guide covers choosing a template by its difficulty, pieces, pages and build time, printing it with AirPrint, and cutting, scoring, folding and gluing your first model.
2022
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5 Best Social Media Plugins For Your WordPress Website
The advent of social media has undeniably transformed how people share information via the internet. Keeping up with a business or media on Twitter or Facebook has become customary in the digital age.
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Best E-Learning Plugins for WordPress in 2022
We have realized a lot of things since the worldwide pandemic hit last year. At the same time, so much has changed in our way of life, especially when it comes to acquiring knowledge and skills. For most of us, online education has become the standard.
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How Web Push Notifications Help Improve User Retention Rate
It’s hard to make money with a WordPress site if no one knows about it. In order to improve brand loyalty and income, you need to be able to create organic traffic as well as maintain a high user retention rate.
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Project Launch: Shutterstock Blog
With over 390 million images on its platform, Shutterstock.com is arguably the biggest global supplier of stock photography and footage.
2021
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The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Membership Websites
It’s easy to appreciate the advantages of membership websites from a business perspective. They allow you to recognize your regular visitors while also raising the revenue from your website. The trickiest part is figuring out how to make one from scratch.
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Tips and Tools You Need For A Successful Affiliate Website
The most in-demand website builder among affiliate marketers and bloggers is WordPress. Primarily, because you have accessibility to the most useful and effective plugins and tools to advertise both your partners and your website.
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Why You Should Consider Using A Chatbot On Your WordPress Website
When it comes to customer service, you may be concerned that chatbots could damage your reputation or reduce the quality of support you provide. However, chatbots can help you streamline and improve customer service by employing AI technology.
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Headless CMS Explained
It is no secret that the term “Headless CMS” has become increasingly prevalent in the world of digital content management. The abundance of digital content has also led to a shift from traditional or legacy content management systems to more modern, “headless” solutions.
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How To Be Resilient In A Cookie-Less World
According to Google’s announcement in January 2020, it plans to phase out third-party cookie support in Chrome over the next two years in order to better protect user privacy and security online.
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What Elements To Assess When Performing A Website Audit
As digital marketing and technology evolve, it is important for you to stay on top of your game by maintaining your website’s content, calls-to-action, landing pages, and all other elements relevant and updated.
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Different WordPress Hosting Plans Explained
There is no denying that WordPress is the most popular platform for creating blogs and websites, therefore it is no surprise that there is a wide range of plans available. Because it is so simple to use, WordPress.com is a popular choice for new bloggers.
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The Top Six WordPress Security Threats and their Solutions
Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress have been increasingly popular in recent years. WordPress, the most popular content management system, is used by the majority of all websites.
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Why Enterprises Choose WordPress
WordPress has a long history as a blogging platform or as a tool that gives new entrepreneurs and small business owners a lot of flexibility. Fast forward today, WordPress has grown a lot since its debut in 2003 and is now perfectly suitable to meet even the complex needs of large-scale enterprises.
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Project Launch: SSportPlus.com
As a part of Saran Enterprises, SSportPlus is the leading cross-streaming platform for Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, NBA, F1, UFC, and NFL in Turkey.
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How To Create A Landing Page In WordPress
A landing page is something you might not be familiar with if this is your first time creating a website. If a visitor comes to your WordPress website and ends up on your landing page, then that page is practically the entrance point to your website.
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Why WordPress Maintenance Matters
Just as with WordPress, operating a business is quite similar. Maintenance and upkeep are critical for every business. To be effective, you stay abreast of the latest developments in both information and service delivery.
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What Are WordPress Development and Support Retainers?
When it comes to duties, routine maintenance, and technical assistance, running a website requires a significant amount of effort. It’s difficult to operate a WordPress site since the development of your website does not stop once it’s live.
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Proven Strategies To Get More Page Views And Lower Bounce Rate
Many people assume it’s simple to get website traffic. Although the majority of WordPress professionals think it’s simple to bring users to the website, there are some who disagree. It’s more difficult to retain people on your website, though.
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WordPress Blocks Explained
When you have already updated your WordPress to version 5.0 or later, you’re probably familiar with what ‘blocks’ are but don’t exactly know its purpose. So what exactly are WordPress blocks? What are the things that users can do with them and how are they used?
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10 Tips for Designing a Great Website Header
A site header, which is displayed on each and every page of the website is the very first thing that users notice when they visit a website. An excellent website header has a clean design and easy to navigate menu that leads to the inner landing pages of the website.
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A Complete Guide to WordPress VIP
Perhaps you already know about WordPress.com, but there is a premium alternative called WordPress VIP. There is a long-standing contention about its purpose and features so we intended to weigh in and determine if subscribing to this service is really worth the cost.
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5 Common WordPress Misconceptions Debunked
WordPress, being the biggest and most popular content management system (CMS) is revered by many website developers. Microsoft, Sony Music, Facebook News, Vogue, and even The White House are just a few of the companies and government institutions that use WordPress to run their websites.
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What Is Gated Content and How to Use It for Lead Generation
Ever thought of generating thousands of leads for your business as an online marketer? In spite of all of your efforts, there is always something that doesn’t work out as planned. Most marketers, however, wonder how to offer content in a way that will create more quality leads for them.
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The Hows And Whys Of Using A CDN Service For WordPress
No matter how long you’ve been doing WordPress SEO, chances are you’ve heard about Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). When it comes to WordPress, CDNs may be a strong tool that some SEO experts highly recommend to use them.
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Why WordPress Is Great For E-Commerce
Many company owners are interested in creating an online store. As a result, most companies now provide visitors the ability to purchase items and services straight from their website. An online marketplace’s ease and accessibility appeal to both customers and entrepreneurs.
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7 Reasons Why WordPress Websites Are Getting Better Search Results Ranking on Google
One of the best sources of web traffic is search engines. A website found on the first page of the search engine results page (SERPs) can drive tens of thousands of people to your website. As a result, almost every website owner would want to be concerned about SEO.
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WordPress And Other CMS’s Market Shares Continue To Grow in 2021
Staying true to its moniker of being the giant of popular content management systems (CMS), WordPress continues to dominate the market by a large margin. In July 2021, WordPress powers 42.1% of all websites.
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What is CLS, Cumulative Layout Shift?
When the contents of a web page shift unexpectedly, it is definitely a real hassle for a user since it may disturb what they are doing on the website.
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What is FID, First Input Delay?
Google’s algorithms and ranking factor requirements are constantly changing to guarantee that consumers receive the greatest possible user experience and important data.
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What is LCP, Largest Contentful Paint?
The amount of time it takes for a page’s content to be rendered is an important aspect of the User Experience. However, although it is wonderful to create sites that load swiftly in general, visitors don’t expect all of the content to load at the same time.
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Top 10 Websites Using WordPress CMS in the World
WordPress has become a perfect match for companies all over the world that want to build an online presence since it is a free, open-source, responsive, SEO-friendly, and user-friendly content management system (CMS).
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What Is A WordPress Multisite And How You Can Utilize It
WordPress is highly regarded as a website builder and a content management platform for independent websites as well as personal and commercial applications of all types.
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Top Tips On Improving Your Website Speed
User interface, SEO, and conversion rates are all determined by how fast your website is. Truth is, everything boils down to speed in today’s digital environment. It’s useless if your site is comprehensive and visually appealing if it takes hours to load.
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Why Website Speed Matters
No matter what industry you are in, every business needs an outstanding user experience on its website. A website that satisfies potential or returning users will almost certainly outshine one that does not. You can’t undervalue the significance of website speed as online user behavior evolves.
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7 Things To Know Before Starting An E-Commerce Business
With the introduction of e-Commerce platforms, the process of starting an online business from scratch is no longer necessary. However, there are a few things to remember in order to successfully launch your online business idea.
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What Is New In Google’s Core Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals, a new set of indicators that measures web performance, will affect SEO ranks on Google starting in June 2021. Google, as the most widely used search engine, has conducted extensive research to determine what factors contribute to a positive user experience.
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Get Your Site Ready For A New Google Update
It’s high time to get your website up to speed with Google’s new ranking requirements since the expected changes in page experience are on their way.
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Project Launch: ShiftDelete.net
Asquared was tasked to deliver a suite of tools to accelerate the publishing process, better support editorial teams, and increase time spent on-page as well as increasing the engagement between the website and their YouTube channel, with 1.6 Million subscribers.
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7 Reasons Why WordPress Is The Best CMS For Small Business Websites
Gone are the days when a business owner needs to hire a developer just to do a minor adjustment to their website. Good thing that we can finally say that it is now a thing of the past. For product owners, WordPress for small businesses has proven to be a blessing.
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Creative Commons Search Finds New Home in WordPress.org
WordPress.org will soon to be the home of Creative Commons Search. With 500 million free-to-use photos, it will help the search engine maintain its place in the Internet.
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Project Launch: Marketing Turkiye
We’re proud to announce the completion of our latest project, the redesign of the Marketing Turkiye website. Marketing Turkiye is the leading online source covering the latest marketing & advertising news, opinion, trends, jobs, and challenges facing the marketing industry.
2020
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Considering Using A WordPress Content Locker? Here’s What You Need To Know
What’s the best way of maximizing the traffic to your website? Not too many years ago, it was still possible to make your website’s traffic explode with shady link-building and other spammy techniques.
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Announcing Our Exciting New Partnership With Digital River
The team at Asquared Agency is thrilled to announce our exciting new partnership with Digital River. If that name rings a bell for you, there’s a good reason why – every year, Digital River processes billions of dollars of transactions on behalf of their clients around the globe.
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How Secure Is Your WordPress Site? Follow These 7 Tips To Stay Safe
If you’re concerned about the security of your WordPress website, it’s for a very good reason.
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Isolated At Home? Maybe It’s Time To Launch Your New WordPress Idea
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is only a few months old and it’s already had an enormous impact on the world.
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Manage Multiple Contributors and Multi-Author Blogs in WordPress
You’ve probably heard the phrase that when it comes to successful websites, content is king. Gone are the days when it was acceptable to write an initial set of content for a new website, add no new updates, and expect the website to continue to perform well.
2019
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8 Ways To Stop WordPress Content Theft
Content theft is an enormous issue for website owners. As the push for new, fresh content continues, instances of content theft continue to rise.
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WordPress Launches New Recurring Payments Feature, But Is It Right For Your Site?
Subscription-based websites are a big business today. Gone are the days of the world’s most successful websites relying on advertising revenue to sustain their business.
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Essential And Unique WordPress Plug-Ins
WordPress plug-ins are an essential way of customizing and adding functionality to your WordPress site. Best practice – especially for site security and loading speed – is to limit the number of plug-ins installed on a WordPress site to the bare minimum.
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WordPress To Forcibly Update Old Websites To Latest Release
In an unprecedented move, WordPress developers are working on implementing a plan to forcibly update outdated versions of the WordPress CMS to the latest version to provide greater security features
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The Future of Tumblr
What does this acquisition mean for the future of Tumblr? Is the reported purchase price of $3 million really true?
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Web Design Best Practices for 2019 and Beyond
Website design is multifaceted and difficult to perfect. By doing your best to follow the web design best practices for 2019 and beyond, you can optimize your website’s design and dramatically increase the chance of people who click on your website.
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2019 WordPress SEO Cheat Sheet
If you run a WordPress website, you know just how important SEO is. The problem is, SEO best practices continue to change and evolve, and what worked a year ago is considered old news today.
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Why You Need To Update WordPress
When was the last time you updated WordPress on your website? According to figures released by WordPress.org, only 19.1% of WordPress users have updated to version 5.0.
2018
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What Does It Take To Set Up A WordPress Blog?
Whether you are looking to generate a six-figure sum and/or are really passionate about something – makeup, lifestyle, food, etc. – that you would love to share it with the world then take a leap of faith in your ability to do so by starting a blog.
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Who Owns WordPress, And How Does It Make Money?
We talk a lot about WordPress on this blog (with good reason, since we specialise in some of the best premium WordPress themes on the market) and we’re always quick to tell you that WordPress is free to use, and give you advice on some of the best free WordPress plug-ins and tools to take your site…
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The World’s Biggest WordPress Sites Revealed
Almost everyone who has dabbled in digital marketing to any extent has used WordPress. While there is certainly some viable competition in the DIY blogging and web hosting space, WordPress maintains its tightly-held grip on the digital marketing industry.
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Five Ways to Market Your WordPress Blog
Good marketing is the cornerstone of every business and it can single handedly bring a failing company at the height of financial success.
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5 Easy Ways To Grow Your Email List With WordPress
There’s no denying that WordPress offers plenty of amazing features. Giving almost anyone the tools to create a self-hosted website in as little as 20 minutes, customise an online store using any one of the amazing free WooCommerce extensions, or create a perfectly responsive website using little…
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