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Steps To Take For A Social Media Strategy - #infographic

Business Insider estimates that Americans spend more of their time on social media than any other online activity, including email. Because of this user engagement, using social media to promote your business can be one of the lowest cost channels in your marketing toolbox — but realizing a business benefit from it demands that you have a plan.

Here are the steps you need to devise an impactful social media strategy:

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Hemingway Editor 2 Review

As SitePoint’s editor for the PHP channel, I deal with a lot of text. Hundreds of emails and dozens of drafts fly before my eyes every week. This may not be obvious, but a lot goes into making the drafts publishable. There’s formatting, language corrections, image processing, code testing, syntax highlights, and more.

So it's important to be able to automate as much of the low-mental-effort work as possible. Automation allows editors to focus more on content and code. This, in turn, prevents the wasting of time. It is where tools like Hemingway can help most.

What is Hemingway?

Hemingway is a writing assistance tool. It keeps an eye on one’s phrasing and sentence structure, and suggests fixes. Typical fixes include shorter sentences, active instead of passive voice, and fewer adverbs. The app is also coupled with a built-in spellchecker for several English dialects.

I've taken a thorough look at Hemingway Editor 2, and what follows is a list of pros and cons. The list may or may not apply to you; it depends on how much writing or editing you do and in which format. As I programmer, I'm also interested in how Hemingway handles things like code and Markdown (MD) syntax. My hope is that the list will serve as a useful guideline when considering the tool for daily use.

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by Bruno Skvorc via SitePoint

5 Minutes to Min-Safe Angular Code with Grunt

Optimizing page speed is undoubtedly a primary focus for any developer building web applications. Task runners such as Grunt can play a pivotal role in the development process as they automate the activities of code concatenation and minification, which will be the main topics of this tutorial. Specifically, we’re going to use a set of Grunt plugins that will ensure our AngularJS application is safe for minification. Before I begin to discuss about AngularJS and minification, I want to highlight that developers of all skill levels can benefit from this tutorial, however basic knowledge of Grunt is desirable. In this article, we’ll be generating new folders with Grunt, so those new to using task runners will get a nice feel for how things work.

The Problem with Minifying Angular Applications

AngularJS applications are not min-safe by default. They must be written using the array syntax. Don't worry if you're confused as to what the array syntax exactly is, you have probably already written code that utilizes it. Let's take a look at two examples of AngularJS controllers that are being passed the $scope and $http parameters.

In the first example below, the module's factory and controller are wrapped in arrays that begin with DI annotations, and as you can see it does not follow the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.

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by Thomas Greco via SitePoint

Video: Designing a Simple Navigation Based App

In this video I'll demonstrate how to create a navigation based app.

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by Brett Romero via SitePoint

Tapatar – jQuery Avatar Picker

Tapatar is a lightweight, extensible jQuery plugin, that lets users pick an avatar from a social network, disk, or other source. By default, Gravatar, Local and Facebook sources are included. Tapatar has been built to make it very easy to add additional sources.

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The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Part 3: The Last Steps

In the second part of this series, we prepared simple admin facing functionality for our plugin. We provided the users with an options page where they can tweak the plugin according to their preferences.

If you missed part 1 and 2, please find them below:

• The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Part 1: Speed up Development Using the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate
• The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Part 2: Developing a WordPress Plugin

For this article, we're going to implement the public facing functionality of the plugin. This means that we're going to retrieve the user preferences, determine whether that specific post is outdated or not, and display the notice accordingly on its single post view. Let’s get started!

Preparing the Theme

We need to prepare our theme so that we can test it out later. We are going to use the Twenty Fifteen theme that is shipped by default with WordPress. Rather than populating the posts manually, we are going to use the theme unit test data provided by the Theme Review team to populate the posts.

We need to download the theme-unit-test-data.xml provided on the above Codex page and import it into our WordPress installation. The WordPress built-in import functionality can be found by navigating to Tools > Import from the sidebar.

We will be presented with various choices, and since we are importing the WordPress export file, we are going to choose WordPress. Depending on the WordPress installation, a plugin popup will be displayed if we do not have the WordPress Importer plugin installed. Just go ahead and install the plugin first if you do not have it and we will proceed with the actual importing process once it is done.

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by Firdaus Zahari via SitePoint