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WordPress
Project Gutenberg – Subverting WordPress.org for .com marketing
WordPress is fast becoming the F35 of CMS. Over-budget, overfeatured and unreliable.
How to optimize your video for Facebook
If you’re trying to breakthrough on Facebook with your videos here are some tips on how to gain success.
Creating custom video splash screens: Best practices
When it comes to video splash screens, you should always customize and pick something easily recognizable.
How to Setup LastPass On Subdomains
LastPass has its issues, but still, it is the best option we found so far to secure our passwords.
Bad UX: How Medium’s comment system kills engagement
Medium should think less about page views and more about making it easy for its community to interact with each other’s stories.
Alec Kinnear Interviewed about Running a WordPress Business and FV Player
Last week, Alec was interviewed by John Overall about WordPress, running a WordPress business and our products—FV Player and BusinessPress.
10 Best WordPress Podcasts You Should Start Listening to
We decided to create our own list of the WP podcasts that rock and you should start listening to right now.
2017 Year in Review: a Look Back And New Year’s Resolutions.
In 2017 FV Player got lots of new features and became the most feature-rich video plugin for WordPress on the market. Here is how it happened.
Why WP Rocket fails on high traffic sites and how to fix it
We are big users of WP Rocket (licensed through 2020). WP Rocket works great on our clients’ normal busy sites (up to 5 million visitors/month). We run one very high traffic network with up to 40 million visitors in one week or even a million visitors/hour. On this site, WP Rocket fails miserably. When new […]
WordPress Plugin Pricing
Is $75 too much money for a video plugin or too low or just right? There’s a free FV Player Pro license for the best answer to that question.
6 Great WordPress Newsletters You Should Subscribe to Today
As much as we love to stay updated on what’s hot in the WordPress world, newsletters can be tricky. By signing up for a newsletter, you risk being spammed with commercial content or simply having your inbox cluttered with the information you don’t need. Sometimes, there is a way to check what you sign up for by reading the previous issues online, but in most cases, there is no way to know what you get until you press subscribe.
So how do you know which WordPress newsletters are worth subscribing to? To answer this question, we’ve subscribed to almost all WordPress newsletters that we could find and got our inboxes full of them for a few weeks so that you don’t have to do the same. (Unless you want to!) We’ve carefully reviewed them and put together the ultimate list of top six best WordPress newsletters, all extremely helpful and free of charge.
Case Study: Richard Silver’s Torontoism
When Foliovision first got acquainted with Richard Silver back in 2013, we knew we were at the start of a very fruitful relationship.
Why Desiblitz dumped JW Player 7 for FV Player Pro
When JW Player introduced a much more complicated interface, Desiblitz.com decided to turn to a faster, simpler alternative – FV Player.
Case Study: How FV Player keeps CreativeScreenWriting.com’s videos safe from pirates
How to protect your videos from being downloaded? Here’s a quick and efficient solution we prepared for one of our clients.
WordPress 2017 Security Roundup: Shield, Sucuri, iThemes, WordFence
All WordPress security plugins are too complicated. Making certain sensible hosting setup obligatory would make sites more secure.
How to use WordPress with CDN
Don’t just blindly remove query strings from JS and CSS files as you will lose control over what JS and CSS files your visitors get.
Foliovision at WCEU Paris 2017
Foliovision attended Wordcamp Europe 2017 in Paris. It was a great adventure, we met a bunch of new people and learned a lot about Wordpress.
How to restore missing WordPress Featured Image Screen Option
The issue is not in any of Settings –> Media, in Appearance, in the Customizer or in wp-config. Here’s the code to drop into functions.php.
Yoast SEO vs FV Simpler SEO review or How Joost de Valk undermines WordPress.org
Eventually WordPress will die under the weight of the carpet baggers like Yoast. Watch Joost de Valk beg, steal and sell out his users.