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Perspective From Beneath the Waves

Our comfort zone is beneath the surface, and it offers a unique point of view. We’re down here churning and learning, working and lurking—and always watching.

  • Why We Love WordPress: The Four Freedoms

    Why We Love WordPress: The Four Freedoms

    The WordPress core provides an excellent foundation for a site with basic features out of the box, but what’s really great about it is just how customizable this content management system can be. We mentioned this in our previous post about custom plugins. If you know what you are doing,…

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  • Why We Love WordPress: [Custom] Plugins

    Why We Love WordPress: [Custom] Plugins

    To continue our series, WordPress is our Jam and Let Us Tell You Why (we know, it’s a ridiculous name), we thought we’d talk next about one of our favorite WordPress features: plugins. Specifically, custom plugins. You’re probably familiar with plugins—programs that can be installed in your site’s WordPress backend…

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  • Why We Love WordPress: Security

    Why We Love WordPress: Security

    So, we sat down to write a post about why we love and use WordPress. Easiest task ever. I mean, we really love WordPress. And it is the content management system of choice for over 30 percent of the top 10 million websites on the internet, which means we aren’t…

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  • Defend Yourself Against Lurking Hackers

    Defend Yourself Against Lurking Hackers

    Hackers. We all know they are lurking behind the code. And while some are “the good guys” and have the public’s best interest at heart, there are many (way too many) looking to steal information or just create chaos. As a website owner, it is your responsibility to make your…

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