A recent thread in a Facebook group for a specific WordPress Plugin (Learn Dash) led to some interesting conversation. Specifically, was this plugin causing slow load times for users? I had noticed some issues with this very site, and previously I had run tests and saw issues with the Learn Dash plugin. However, I wanted…
At its base level, a content management system (CMS) manages your content. However, that merely realigns its name. A content management system will, as a minimum, perform several key tasks: Allow you to add, edit, and remove web pages from your website. Allow you to manage uploaded content for your site, be it pictures, audio…
When people talk about web development roles, you often here about three types of web developers, Front End, Back End, and Full Stack. Let’s look at what each of these means. Front End A Front End developer is one which works with the part of the web application which is visible to the end-user. They…
We’ve already looked at databases. However, you might be interested to know a little more about the two most common types of databases, relational and non-relational. Relational Databases A relational database works by having groups of data, called tables, that can be related to another table, or tables. For example, you might have three tables:…
In the most simplest of terms, a database is a piece of software used to store information. The database program is responsible for ensuring that data, or information if you prefer, is stored correctly and accurately. These applications can be very simple, or quite complex depending upon a variety of factors. Some of them run…
WordPress is broken into two parts depending upon how you want to use it. They are commonly referred to as WordPress.Org or WordPress.Com. In reality, you will use the same software, it is just how you host and manage the software that changes. WordPress.Org WordPress.Org allows you to download WordPress to your local machine, or…
This comes from our partner site, Walt Design & Development. Transpose data allows us to convert rows of data into columns or columns of data into rows. Watch the video below, or follow along. So let’s take this table in Excel as an example here. We have sales people by an amount of sales that…
This information comes from our partner site, Walt Design & Development. Now transposing data is simply converting columns into rows or rows into columns So lets say, we have a set of data. We have salespeople and months for which they made sales Let’s say our new sales manager wants to take this data and…
