The benefits and disadvantages of using Gravatars in WordPress

Have you enabled Gravatars on your WordPress website? If so, you might want to rethink that decision again. And if you haven’t enabled Gravatars on your website yet, you might want to consider possible alternatives to Gravatar first. Now allow us to explain these thoughts … What are Gravatars for WordPress? What’s the benefit to user avatars? The key disadvantage to using Gravatars Alternatives to…

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Is RSS dead? The uses and benefits of RSS feeds for websites today and beyond

You would be forgiven if you had forgotten that RSS ever existed. The small orange button that became so familiar to website visitors in the early 2000’s was as dominant as a Twitter button on any of today’s websites. RSS is the abbreviation for Rich Site Summary, and was later often referred to as Really Simple Syndication. RSS was responsible for bringing digital content to…

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