WordPress and Tech News, August 31, 2017

WordPress

• Makes no sense to us why anybody would build their own CMS, given that you can do almost anything with WordPress, Drupal or Joomla. But hey, we’ve been doing web development for over 20 years, so we always hear about the young fancypants programmer who foolishly insists on re-inventing the wheel. How I built a CMS, and why you shouldn’t
• How to Make the Most of WordPress’s Bulk Editing Functionality
• Expired Domain Leads to WordPress Plugin Redirects
• WordPress.org Now Allows Plugin Authors to Specify a Minimum PHP Version Requirement

Marketing

• Fake followers are ruining influencer marketing
• Social Media Marketing Best Practices From 25 Experts Who Have Been There and Done That

Sexism in IT and Science

• Why Men Don’t Believe the Data on Gender Bias in Science
• These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism

Monopoly Google

• Google, don’t be evil.
• Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The Economy
• Google’s Disturbing Influence Over Think Tanks
• How I Got Fired From a D.C. Think Tank for Fighting Against the Power of Google

Javascript

• Truthy and Falsy: When All is Not Equal in JavaScript
• JavaScript Scope and Closures
• 10 JavaScript concepts you need to know for interviews
• Higher Order Functions: Using Filter, Map and Reduce for More Maintainable Code
• Is Vanilla JavaScript worth learning? Absolutely.

Data Visualization

• Visualize Large Date and Time-Based Datasets with AnyStock
• User Interfaces for Variable Fonts

Tips

• How the plus sign can save your Gmail inbox from becoming a pit of doom’
• To code, or not to code?

Publishing

• Facebook wants to end the ‘I read it on Facebook’ problem

Security

• Mining Adminers – Hackers Scan the Internet For DB Scripts
• Google Warnings For Form Input Over HTTP Coming in October
• Security Checklist for Full Stack Web Developers — Part 1

Analytics

• Google Analytics New User Interface: How Has It Changed?
• How to Determine if a Page is “Low Quality” in Google’s Eyes

Social Media

• 7 Trends That Will Change Social Media in 2017
• 25 Best Nonprofits on Social Media 2017

CSS

• Liberating Layout Through CSS Grid

Web Design

• 10 guidelines to improve your web accessibility
• How to approach branding strategy for your website redesign
• How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Design Thinking

React.js

• All the fundamental React.js concepts, jammed into this single Medium article
• Set Up a React Environment, Part 1

Sysadmin 101

• 20 Linux commands every sysadmin should know

Design/Development Business

• 21 Tips for Running Your WordPress Business from Your Laptop

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