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Weighing in on Gutenberg
Gutenberg is coming to WordPress. If you haven’t heard about it yet, you’re not reading enough WordPress news. 😉 However, for the sake of completeness, it overhauls the default content editing for WordPress. The new content editor is akin to stacking Legos simulating more of a page building experience. How it Works The Gutenberg experience…
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The Circle of WordPress Website Development
We’ve been developing websites as a company since 2004. Pixel Jar has a collective experience of 50+ years within the team. We’ve experimented with many CMSs over the years, but in 2007 we began working with WordPress. We were pleased with the results and continued down the WordPress path. Currently the bulk of our work…
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WordCamp U.S. 2017 – Nashville
This year WordCamp U.S. was held in Nashville, Tennessee. The event happened at the Music City Center, an enormous conference center that dominates the center of downtown Nashville. As the second destination for the traveling WordCamp, Nashville was an amazing choice. Some of the Sites in Nashville Nashville is all about two things: music and…
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Understanding the GDPR
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a new law in the European Union (EU) going into effect May 25 of 2018. There are provisions of the new regulation that make it relevant for all countries with websites that do business in the EU. What You Should Know About the GDPR The GDPR was written…
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Website Design and Development – Two Disciplines, One Goal
Website design and development are often seen as one service. However, design and development are actually two disciplines that support one another and work together. Combined, website design and development provide the structure to maximize your website’s potential. Website Design Website design is all about the appearance of the site. Don’t underestimate the value of…
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Taking the Temperature of Medical Website Design
Medical website design may seem like a single discipline to focus on. The reality is that there are several distinct markets that can require their own type of website. While this list of markets isn’t exhaustive, (for example prescription drug fulfillment services also have their own set of requirements) it does serve as an excellent…
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Ecommerce Website Development – Next Steps
We previously wrote a post designed to help you make some initial decisions about starting out with ecommerce website development. These are definitely questions that we ask when we’re approaching a new project – whether it’s an internal project for one of our plugins or for a client. Once we’re past the basics, understanding how…
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Being a WordPress Developer
We consider ourselves to be WordPress developers here at Pixel Jar. While we’ve certainly used other tools over the years, as a company, we focus our learning, marketing, and teaching efforts on the WordPress platform. This means that we focus on a specific platform that handles many of the core requirements for any project. We’ve…
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Redesigning MemberPress, the Best WordPress Membership Plugin
MemberPress is simply the best WordPress membership plugin. When we have clients who need a membership product, MemberPress is almost always the solution that we use to help the client achieve their goals. It has a flexibility and common-sense approach that makes it incredibly robust. As we’ve mentioned previously, we’ve known Blair Williams, the owner…
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