Handmaidens tale

The devil is indeed in the details when it comes to setting up a WordPress eCommerce store. You need to get really specific with your needs – the ecommerce plugin you ultimately choose should meet all your business requirements. You must have a spot on definition of what you expect your online shop to achieve, long before choosing your shopping cart. Without a sound plan, you won’t get far. You will choose the wrong ecommerce platform, fail miserably if you don’t make changes, and then close shop. In today’s post, we will shine light on some of the considerations you need to keep in mind when selecting a WordPress ecommerce solution. We will go a step further and review some of the best WordPress ecommerce solutions in the market, so you can start your online biz on the right note. Enjoy! Price It takes money to make money, that’s very true. Don’t get it twisted, there’s nothing wrong with bootstrapping your business from the ground up, but you shouldn’t look into saving on your … [Read more...] about How to Choose the Best WordPress eCommerce Solution

As a content curator, one of the biggest and most embarrassing) mistakes I made in 2014 is to repeat the known mistakes when it came WordPress and blogging in general. Every New Year calls for new resolutions. Some (try to) lose weight – “I’m going to weigh 130 pounds by the end of this year”, some make adventurous plans – “I’m definitely going skydiving in March”, while some decide to finally tie the knot – “It’s time we eternalized it”! Not that we’re a month into this year, let us all add a resolution to the list – “WordPress mistakes never to repeat in 2015 (or the years to come)”. I’ve been contributing to WPExplorer for over a year now and I’d like to kick off this year with a brand new post series which deals with the most common WordPress mistakes. We start by looking at 5 crucial factors that deal with launching a WordPress site and move on to recommendations that will bear fruit in the long run. These well-known points can be easily classified under “been there, done … [Read more...] about 25+ Common WordPress Mistakes to Avoid

High in the Himalayas, a four-to-five-day trek from the nearest village, sits an unassuming glacial lake called Roopkund. The spot is beautiful, a dollop of jewel-toned water amid rough gravel and scree, but hardly out of the ordinary for the rugged landscape — except for the hundreds of human bones scattered within and around the lake. These bones, belonging to between 300 and 800 people, have been a mystery since a forest ranger first reported them to the broader world in 1942. Lately, though, the mystery has only deepened. In 2019, a new genetic analysis of the ancient DNA in the bones, detailed in the journal Nature Communications , found that at least 14 of the people who died at the lake probably weren't from South Asia. Instead, their genes match those of modern-day people of the eastern Mediterranean. Related: 11 famous places that are littered with dead bodies What's more, these bones were far newer than most of the others at the lake, which date to … [Read more...] about Hundreds of skeletons fill this remote Himalayan lake. How did they get there?

Everything’s bigger in Texas. That includes the scale of a tragedy like last week’s winter storm, the reach of an infrastructure collapse that left millions of people without heat and running water for days — and the size of the spotlight on the immediate suffering and on the storm's costly aftermath. The people affected deserve every bit of sympathy they’re getting. And the state’s politicians deserve all the scorn that’s coming their way, for setting up a system that left ordinary citizens vulnerable, for trotting out ideological talking points to explain away the crisis, and in one case, for flying to sunny Cancún in the midst of the disaster. If what happened in Texas is a huge story, though, that doesn’t mean the disaster in parts of Louisiana is less of one. While the storm’s impact here didn’t make national headlines, it was also harrowing. Ice, rolling power outages and freezing pipes caused massive damage in the northern and western parts of the state. As of Monday, … [Read more...] about Our Views: Texas is hurting, but don’t ignore crisis closer to home

Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images You’re a winner, Baby Yoda ! We’ve now crossed the halfway mark of the Creative Arts Emmys five-night extravaganza hosted by Nicole Byer, and the big winner on night three was The Mandalorian , which won five statues including Best Special Visual Effects (tip of the hat to the honorable Baby Yoda ). The Disney+ series was followed closely by HBO’s Watchmen , which took home four trophies, including Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie. HBO picked up another trophy for Succession , while Netflix picked up three for Stranger Things and The Crown and the now-canceled comedy The Ranch . The third night’s categories ranged from cinematography, editing, and production design to costumes, makeup, and hairstyling. Check out the full list of Creative Arts Emmys nominees and winners from night three below. Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie Gregory Middleton, ASC, … [Read more...] about All the Winners From Night 3 of the Creative Arts Emmys