WordPress for Nonprofits: Samaritan Web Designer Micah Blumenthal Provides a Checklist

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As a growing nonprofit, community center or organization, your ability to broaden your presence beyond your local region relies almost solely on your website. Understandably you’re most likely strapped for time, money and even manpower to get a sleek and motivating site up and running, but that doesn’t mean you should settle for a second-rate website. Your initiative has an important underlying story driving its mission and an integral way of sharing that story and gaining more momentum in terms of funding and participants is with a website that is informative and inspiring.

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10 Unbelievably Creative Uses of Artbees Themes Features

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Here in the Artbees Hive, our team’s focus is constantly fixed on optimizing the performance and capability of our products and services. We pour over each post-type, shortcode and plugin to make them more functional and easy-to-use for our customers. We question what else can be added to provide more customizability, more user empowerment. After all, at the end of the day it is our hope that our customers will be able to experience the freedom to grab hold of the steering wheel themselves and kick their site into full drive.

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Memoirs of a Tech Company: 2015’s Worst Mistakes

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Right around the time New Year’s Eve rolls around, teams led by their management in companies all over the world generally come together to write goals and resolutions for the upcoming year. They discuss next steps to take, targets to hit and how they can be even better! Oftentimes though this ritual can inadvertently allow teams to skip over the failures and mistakes of the past year lest they compromise their enthusiasm to get a fresh start.

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6 ways WordPress Theme Updates Can Dramatically Improve Website User Interface

WordPress theme Updates are usually known to only offer technical improvements and back-end additions. Though there are some WordPress updates which address visual deficiencies, add website user interface trends and elements or increase the customizability of an existing component by more and possibly newer options. Many WordPress theme updates are missioned to introduce new templates that cover a wider range of niches and many are simply technical back-end improvements. So just how did we decide to improve the Jupiter user interface and what strategy did we use to create our plan of attack?

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How Our WP Theme Was Reborn: A Success Story of Leveraging Modular Architecture In WordPress

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As we celebrate final stages of development for the Jupiter V5.0, we are excited to reveal more of what has happened in the core team all the way from the beginning up to the few days before we announce the long-awaited public beta. In the first article ‘The Curious Case of Updating Large WordPress Themes’ which began examining the development of the Jupiter V5, Bob discussed the path we took to conceive the Jupiter V5 as a major update to our popular WordPress theme Jupiter. Additionally he elaborated on the problems it could address, why it’s important to the product and its community of users and the challenges we could expect during the way.

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A Virtual Summit Expert Talks About How To Run Event Websites With WordPress

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Online events are nothing new to us, and they come in many different forms. We are constantly bombarded by product and service websites featuring online “how to” webinars which detail the key points and advantages of the product. Or there are the online training courses that happen in the form of one-time online sessions. Additionally, one may find that many tech conferences are held up virtually as online events or that independent brands will deliver their service in the form of online events for which people can register and attend.

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The Curious Case of Updating Large WordPress Themes

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The announcement of the next big update for Jupiter WordPress theme is imminent. We cannot wait to launch a product for which we have run one of our most complicated ideation and brainstorming sessions. The resulting proposal was a clear depiction of the current status of our product, its shortcomings, and possible ways to improve it. This post introduces a series of blog posts we wrote to discuss the ideation process, the methods we employed in development of the update and its results.
Starting with a post from our head of development, Bob Ulusoy explains the multiple steps of the ideation process for Jupiter V5 and how it helped to designate the mission objectives. The most important of which was a modular framework that provides a brand new experience of speed, power and extendibility.

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