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WordCamp is coming to Ann Arbor, taking place on October 14th and 15th Hosting.com is going to be there Will we see you there This years WordCamp Ann Arbor will be hosted at the Michigan Rackham Graduate Building. Tickets are going fast Make sure to buy your WordCamp tickets before theyre sold out Its the cant miss event for WordPress users.

WordPress popularity makes it the perfect target for hackers locating a single vulnerability is enough to compromise an alarming number of sites. How is the average WordPress user supposed to secure his site against these odds There are plenty of ways to secure your WordPress sites, but the priority should always be to keep the WordPress core files, plugins, and themes up to date.

PrestaShop is one of the leading platforms for integrating ecommerce into your website. It provides its users with a range of unique features including opensource software, a passionate community and tons of customization options. The customization is what sets PrestaShop apart from similar programs. Not only are there templates to choose from but there are hundreds of themes available.

Bringing traffic to your WordPress website means little if you cant get visitors to take action and convert into paying customers. To help achieve this, its important to know how users react to your websites various elements, and how to optimize them to improve your conversion rate. If you think that sounds like a psychics job description, youre not alone.

As you may know, W3 Total Cache is pretty awesome when it comes to providing a highly configurable landscape for WordPress caching. W3 Total Cache generates static cache pages for each page that is loaded so they are not being dynamically loaded for every page load. This vastly decreases your sites load time while increasing performance.

OpenCart is one of the most popular eCommerce shopping cart programs out there because its easy to setup, cheap to operate, and flexible. The software offers everything you need to create a fullyfunctional online store and can be further modified using extensions and integration.