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How to Set Up GrabPay Payments in WordPress (2 Easy Ways)

If you run an eCommerce site and cater to customers in a certain region, then offering the right payment methods is super important. For online stores in Southeast Asia, accepting GrabPay payments can be a game changer. This digital wallet is growing in popularity in… Read More »
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The Spotify Partner Program Is Here, Offering New Ways for Creators to Monetize in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia

With more than 640 million users and more than 250 million subscribers, Spotify is one of the largest platforms in the world for creators. We’re also continuously building new offerings to help creators grow their audiences and better monetize their content on Spotify. Today, we officially launched the Spotify Partner Program, a powerful new monetization... Read more »
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How to Backup WordPress to Amazon S3 (Free + Paid Methods)

As WordPress experts who have helped thousands of website owners protect their website data, we know how important it is to have secure, accessible backups of your WordPress site. Many of our readers ask us about using Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3) for their WordPress… Read More »
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Dock the Code Search window in Visual Studio 2022

Ever felt frustrated with the search window cluttering your workspace? The latest feature in Visual Studio 2022 gives you more control over the behavior of the Code and Feature Search window, making your search experience smoother and more efficient. Some users have shared that the search window feels intrusive, interrupting your work by appearing mid-screen […]
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Crawling out of December: the 2024 recap



It might happen that by the end of this post you're going to try to decide who wrote this blog
post, a large language model (LLM) or Gary. And you'd be right to ponder that and delve into the
intricacies of the language ...
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Go to line anywhere with Code Search for Visual Studio 2022

Finding the exact line of code where an issue is occurring can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether you are debugging an error on line 43 of a file or diving into a specific section of code, you can efficiently jump to the right places with this newest addition to Code […]
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Meet Jetpack: Fueling Your WordPress.com Website

Jetpack provides WordPress.com with tons of value. It makes sure your site performs well so you can build and create with confidence. But what exactly does Jetpack do and why should you care? Let’s look at just some of the ways Jetpack gives your WordPress.com site superpowers.  
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Connect securely to your Azure resources

Visual Studio 2022’s Connected Services features are being updated to help you start secure. In the past, for example with Azure Storage, we’d inject the entire connection string into your configuration. With this update, we’ve removed the secrets from the UX – and from what we save to configuration – altogether. This means your code […]
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Crawling December: CDNs and crawling



Content delivery networks (CDNs) are particularly well suited for decreasing latency of your
website and in general keeping web traffic-related headaches away. This is their primary purpose
after all: speedy delivery of ...
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Security updates to Azure publishing from Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2022 introduces a new feature to improve the security of publishing applications to Azure App Service. This feature is designed to disable Basic Authentication and enable integrated security for a more secure publishing process. Basic Authentication has been identified as a less secure method for managing app deployments. Visual Studio 2022 addresses this […]
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9 Business Challenges Every Small Business Struggles With (And How to Fix Them)




In the first few years of business, small companies come up against many different problems. And – you’ve probably guessed it – some are harder than others to overcome. According to Shopify, the average annual business rate of business failure from 2019 to 2023 (for companies started only half a decade ago) is a scarily small 12.1%. This means that between 2018 and now, starting a small business hasn’t been the easiest task; if anything, it tells us that maintaining a business is a hell of a lot harder than starting one.
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Why Alt Text Matters: Boost Accessibility and SEO with Every Image

Alt text is exactly what it sounds like—a description of an image that appears on the page. Simple, right? But there’s more to it than that. To write truly effective alt text, it’s important to understand why it matters, when an image needs an alt attribute (spoiler alert: not every image does!), and the best tools to help you make sure your images are covered.
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