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How to Unlock and Transfer a Transferable WPEngine Install
Use this easy to follow step-by-step tutorial and see how easy it is to unlock and transfer your WPEngine transferable install to another WPEngine account.

eCommerce Categories vs. Attributes
Understanding the difference between categories and attributes when setting up your eCommerce website is vitally important (if you want the User Experience to be just right).

Website User Experience Questions
Understanding UX before building a website can help your project come together with minimal frustrations. These questions can help.

WordPress’ Native Video Player
We recently had a request from a client to use WordPress’ native video player (media embed). To be honest, even though it’s been around since WP 3.6 (August 1, 2013), We had never used it. We always recommend using Wistia, or at the very least Youtube or Vimeo. Google was unhelpful, so we put together a post explaining how to use it.

Providing a Website Development Brief
Often times the project brief doesn’t get the attention it deserves. To avoid miscommunication and conflict it’s best to iron out each and every knowable detail before work on a website build begins.

How to Add a Blog Post in WordPress
Adding a blog post in WordPress is about as easy as sending an email. Once you understand the basics you’ll be well on your way to creating your first post.

Guide to Increasing Local Leads (Landing Pages & Posts)
Creating local landing pages may be one of the best methods in growing your lead source in a local, targeted area. This post will overview exactly what to do and how to do it.

What is the difference between plugins and widgets?
Plugins and widgets play a large part in the flexibility of WordPress, created by a large community intent on helping others customize their website and add necessary functions.

Creating and Using a Staging Site on WPEngine
We’ve created a step-by-step tutorial on how to use your Staging area, giving you the freedom to add, edit, modify, delete, create, update, and test your site to your heart’s content without affecting the live site until you are 120% ready to make those changes live. And the best part is? It’s so easy!

The Fine Line Between Effective and Invasive Online Advertising
Banner blindness has most businesses giving up on the “ad at the top of the page tactic,” and looking at more invasive, hard to disregard strategies. Naturally, these intrusive approaches are annoying to everyone. So what is the solution?