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Agentic AI for Agencies in 2026

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For those of you who've recently updated to WordPress 5.1, you may be screaming in frustration due to an issue getting back to your dashboard once the upgrade is complete.
Numerous users are reporting issues with this particular screen below creating a loop and preventing them reaching their dashboard.
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If you click continue on the screen above, it redirects to your homepage and a second attempt to enter your dashboard will reach the same screen.
<h2>The Fix</h2>
The only way to fix this is to log into your cpanel or hosting provider back-end and find the object-cache.php file located in the /wp-content/ folder and rename it to object-cache.php.bak.
Once you've done this, retry accessing your dashboard. You'll get the same screen telling you you are up to date. Click continue and you should now be able to access everything.
I have to say I'm rather shocked that this major issue slipped by the QA process but hopefully Automattic will get their butts in gear and resolve it quickly.
Let me know if this helps and if so, spread the word for others!

WordPress 5.1 "No Update Required" Bug - We've got the Fix!

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The latest version of WordPress is out for public use. This new version brings a long needed feature to the popular open source CMS, Site Health.
<h2 id="what-is-site-health">What is Site Health?</h2>
The new Site Health feature will start showing notices to administrators of sites that are running outdated versions of PHP, leading to potential security risks. It will also perform checks on new plugins to ensure that they are compatible with the existing version of PHP. If they are not, WordPress will prevent installation (and possible site breakage).
This is a big step in the right direction for WordPress and I'm hopeful that even more features are introduced to the Site Health feature as it matures.
Other improvements within this release include:
<ul>
<li>Speed and performance improvements for the Gutenberg editor.</li>
<li>Multisite metadata – 5.1 introduces a new database table to store metadata associated with sites and allows for the storage of arbitrary site data relevant in a multisite / network context.</li>
<li>The Cron API has been updated with new functions to assist with returning data and includes new filters for modifying cron storage. Other changes in behavior affect cron spawning on servers running FastCGI and PHP-FPM versions 7.0.16 and above.</li>
<li>WordPress 5.1 features a new JavaScript build option, following the large reorganisation of code that started in the 5.0 release.</li>
<li>And more!</li>
</ul>
For a full list of improvements, see here: <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-1/">https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-1/</a>

WordPress 5.1 is Out - Brings Site Health and More to Bloggers Everywhere

BuddyPress 4.2.0 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release. All BuddyPress installations are strongly encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.
The 4.2.0 release addresses two security issues:
<ul>
<li>A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed that could allow users to send malicious code in the content of private messages. Discovered and reported independently by <a href="http://www.klmunday.com/">Kieran Munday</a> and <a href="https://security-consulting.icu/">Tim Coen</a>.</li>
<li>A privilege escalation vulnerability was fixed that could allow users to reply to unauthorized private message threads. Discovered by <a href="http://www.klmunday.com/">Kieran Munday.</a></li>
</ul>
These vulnerabilities were reported privately to the BuddyPress team, in accordance with <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-security-vulnerabilities/">WordPress’s security policies</a>. Our thanks to the reporters for practicing coordinated disclosure.
BuddyPress 4.2.0 also fixes 4 bugs. For complete details, visit the <a href="https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-4-2-0/">4.2.0 changelog</a>.

BuddyPress 4.2.0 Maintenance and Security Release

Enterprise SEO is one of the best ways to increase revenue and drive more traffic to your site. The term itself is used in reference to search engine optimization for larger organisations with comprehensive websites (usually 1000+ pages).
Every business should have an SEO strategy in place, but enterprise SEO is absolutely essential for organisations with 1000s of products or services to ensure everyone and everything is working in sync. This means that the digital marketing team managing enterprise SEO will be much more specialized than that of a smaller company.
Rather than managing multiple areas of the site, each team member takes accountability for their own specific niche in order to increase traffic. Given the size of enterprise organisations, even the most minimal increase in website traffic can account for a significant number of new visitors.
Whilst the general SEO principles are the same as when dealing with non-enterprise businesses, these larger sites require SEO strategies that can scale. So let’s take a look at 3 key strategies that are proven to provide optimal results.
<h2 id="3-key-enterprise-seo-strategies">3 Key Enterprise SEO Strategies</h2>
<h3 id="1-keyword-selection">1. Keyword Selection</h3>
Keyword selection is a fundamental part of traditional SEO and it’s even more important when applied to enterprise. In addition to keyword volume, enterprise SEO managers also have to analyse ranking difficulty, search intent, and existing results.
<h3 id="2-template-optimisation">2. Template Optimisation</h3>
When managing 1000s of website pages in enterprise SEO, it’s essential to use a template containing all of the necessary tags so that you don’t have to go through each page individually. Anyone familiar with WordPress will have used these tags before, such as meta descriptions and image ALT.
<h3 id="3-constant-content">3. Constant Content</h3>
Creating and publishing quality content is instrumental to enterprise SEO and a company blog is one of the best ways to bring visitors to your site. All content types such as videos, images, and text can be utilized here. Studies suggest the users engage more with longer content, but resourceful short-form content that aligns with keywords in the user’s search shouldn’t be overlooked.
A mix of short and long-form content is usually best, but it’s a good idea to test different types and variations of content to see what works better for your audience when starting out. Always ask these two questions when you create a piece of content for your site:
<ul>
<li>Does the content provide value to the user?</li>
<li>Is the content original, engaging, and informative?</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="using-an-enterprise-seo-platform">Using An Enterprise SEO Platform</h2>
Large-scale SEO projects will benefit immensely from using an enterprise SEO platform. A good platform will help the digital marketing team to maximize productivity and results whilst minimizing errors. Finding the right software to support your Enterprise SEO efforts is one of the best ways to achieve your objectives and a worthwhile investment.
<h2 id="the-bottom-line">The Bottom Line</h2>
<a href="https://www.devhub.com/enterprise-seo-pages/">Enterprise SEO</a> can be tricky but it can provide a high ROI once it’s done correctly. With a well-structured team and a detailed enterprise SEO plan in place you can guarantee that your site will receive a significant increase in high-quality traffic. And with the right software, you can maximize your results even further.

What is Enterprise SEO?

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Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, today announced new competitively priced automation apps – Nintex Drawloop DocGen® and Nintex Drawloop DocAutomation™ – designed to increase productivity for sales professionals worldwide.
“Every sales team can benefit from automation,” said Nintex CEO Eric Johnson. “By automating the creation, routing and execution of data-driven documents with our Nintex Drawloop DocGen and DocAutomation apps, sellers can generate accurate proposals, quotes, invoices, welcome letters, contracts and NDAs, and execute any document requiring electronic signature fast with built in Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign.”
<h2 id="new-productivity-apps-for-sales-professionals">New Productivity Apps for Sales Professionals</h2>
Nintex Drawloop DocGen works behind the scenes to merge data entered via customizable forms with any custom or standard object stored in a company's CRM system or in any system of record. The information easily flows into pre-approved templates in Word, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF formats to ensure every document is accurately generated. Pricing starts at $20 per month per user.
Nintex Drawloop DocAutomation accelerates end-to-end sales processes with Drawloop DocGen®, Nintex Forms, and Nintex Mobile Apps with built-in Nintex Workflow routing to eliminate delays, drive collaboration and make the capture of electronic signatures fast and secure with new <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2375365-1&amp;h=902548351&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintex.com%2Fworkflow-automation%2Fe-signature%2F&amp;a=Nintex+Sign%E2%84%A2+powered+by+Adobe%C2%AE+Sign" rel="nofollow">Nintex Sign™ powered by Adobe® Sign</a>. Workflows can be easily customized to sales tasks like updating CRM records, storing or routing documents for internal reviews and approvals. With the app, users can auto-assign tasks, alerts and follow-ups to ensure sales activities are prioritized and completed. Pricing starts at $40 per month per user and includes 500 free Nintex Sign transactions in first year contracts. Volume-based pricing is also available.
“Seventy percent of organizations are in the midst of digital transformation initiatives,” says 451 Research VP Sheryl Kingstone. “Apps that automate time-consuming, error-prone processes and document-centric workflows help sales teams realize greater revenue performance and deliver better customer experiences.  In conjunction with CRM systems and other sales-oriented applications, Nintex's Drawloop DocGen and DocAutomation offerings eliminate the manual processes that distract sellers from identifying, nurturing and closing deals.”
The automation of document-centric business processes also helps sales organizations accelerate sales-to-cash, increase sales effectiveness and realize higher ROI from CRM investments. Additionally, it helps sellers capture and better utilize customer data, improve compliance, identify process inefficiencies, simplify document execution and quickly onboard new customers.
Download 451 Research's Business Impact Brief “<a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2375365-1&amp;h=3601599003&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintex.com%2Fresources%2Fdocument-automation-sales-success%2F&amp;a=The+Impact+of+Document+Automation+on+Sales+Success+and+Digital+Transformation" rel="nofollow">The Impact of Document Automation on Sales Success and Digital Transformation</a>” to learn more or to start a free trial of Nintex Drawloop, visit <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2375365-1&amp;h=1341199014&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintex.com%2Ftrial%2F%23salesforce&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintex.com%2Ftrial%2F%23salesforce" rel="nofollow">https://www.nintex.com/trial/#salesforce</a>.

Nintex Introduces New Automation Apps for Sales Professionals

<a href="https://www.contentstack.com/?utm_source=prnewswire&amp;utm_medium=press%20release&amp;utm_campaign=2019_02_13_contentstack_best_year_history">Contentstack</a> today announced that sales grew by 300 percent year-over-year in 2018, with 100 percent customer retention. The results were fueled by strong market demand for headless content management systems (CMS) to replace outdated, inflexible content management systems from legacy vendors.
According to Forrester, content microservices and APIs point toward the future architecture of digital experiences. Compelled by the need to deliver content-rich digital interactions on mobile, web, and everywhere, companies are taking an API-first approach and adopting headless CMS.
“2018 was a historic year for us — we set an impossible goal and then exceeded it,” said Neha Sampat, chief executive officer for Contentstack. “We accomplished this by expanding our sales team, hiring top talent into our marketing, product management, and customer success departments, and making operational improvements that enabled us to onboard new customers in record time. Based on our early 2019 efforts, we are already strongly positioned to deliver another record-breaking performance this year.”
<h2>Customer Wins and Funding for Global Expansion</h2>
Leaders across industries such as retail, financial services, energy, gaming and aviation joined Contentstack’s roster, which now includes customers in every geography around the world. Beyond websites and mobile apps, major companies are powering voice, virtual reality, support, and in-game experiences with Contentstack.
Validating the company’s growth trajectory, Contentstack secured funding, led by Illuminate Ventures and backed by GingerBread Capital. The funding enabled Contentstack to double go-to-market operations and open new offices in Austin, New York City, Phoenix and San Diego in the U.S. and Pune in India.
“Contentstack has attracted dozens of marquee customers based on its API-first content management technology that creates personalized experiences across the web, mobile, chatbots and more,” said Cindy Padnos, founder and managing partner at Illuminate Ventures. “We are confident that Contentstack will continue to innovate and grow at the impressive speed they’ve already demonstrated and we are excited to be an early partner.”
<h2>Product Innovation and Accolades</h2>
Contentstack won the 2018 Aragon Hot Vendors™ Award in Dynamic Experience Management: From Headless CMS to Personalized Customer Journeys. The awards recognize new and emerging technology providers that are noteworthy, visionary, and innovative. Contentstack was praised for having extensive support for both developers and business users, support for workflows, automated publishing schedules, and project spaces, and a rapidly growing partner network — it was chosen as the preferred API-first CMS for the SAP Cloud.
On the product front, Contentstack delivered 120 releases to customers in 2018, including many “first and only” innovations, including its award-winning Experience Extensions for turnkey integrations with third-party technologies. The company now offers in-line insights and tools – such as personalization and recommendation engines, analytics suites, and translation software – and Modular Blocks for drag-and-drop creation of sites and apps.
“Our approach is paving the way for Digital Experience Platforms,” added Sampat. “We now live in a time where businesses expect flexible content management and publishing capabilities that break away from the content being tied to the design. With our amazing team, we are constantly bringing to market countless features and enhancements for enterprises to manage their content and create a better customer experience.”
<h2>About Contentstack</h2>
Contentstack™ – the pioneer in API-first, headless CMS technology and a leading Digital Experience Platform – accelerates and simplifies content management across today's and tomorrow's digital channels, including web, mobile and IoT. Contentstack's award-winning technology has been recognized by leading industry analysts as a catalyst for a new generation of digital customer experiences and for its ability to power omnichannel content management. From desktops to smartphones, from kiosks to smartwatches, from billboards to jumbotrons, from dashboards to VR headsets – content is delivered with the push of a button and optimized for every screen, device and channel. Learn more at <a href="https://www.contentstack.com/?utm_source=prnewswire&amp;utm_medium=press%20release&amp;utm_campaign=2019_02_13_contentstack_best_year_history">www.contentstack.com</a>.

Contentstack Delivers Best Year in Company History

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Joomla 3.9.3 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 6 security vulnerabilities and contains 30 bug fixes and improvements.
<h2 id="what-s-in-3-9-3">What's in 3.9.3?</h2>
Joomla 3.9.3 includes 6 security vulnerabilities fixes and several bug and improvements, including:
<h3 id="security-issues-fixed">Security Issues Fixed</h3>
<ul>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Lack of URL filtering in various core components (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/765-20190201-core-lack-of-url-filtering-in-various-core-components.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Browserside mime-type sniffing causes XSS attack vectors (affecting Joomla 1.0.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/766-20190202-core-browserside-mime-type-sniffing-causes-xss-attack-vectors.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Additional warning in the Global Configuration textfilter settings (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/767-20190203-core-additional-warning-in-the-global-configuration-textfilter-settings.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Stored XSS issue in the Global Configuration help url #2    (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/768-20190204-core-stored-xss-issue-in-the-global-configuration-help-url-2.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – XSS Issue in core.js writeDynaList (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/769-20190205-core-xss-issue-in-core-js-writedynalist.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Implement the TYPO3 PHAR stream wrapper (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/770-20190206-core-implement-the-typo3-phar-stream-wrapper.html"> More information »</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="bug-fixes-and-improvements">Bug fixes and Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Prevent renaming/deleting the template index.php file <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23654">#23654</a></li>
<li>Smart Search improvement <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23736">#23736</a></li>
<li>Contacts banned fields removed <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23585">#23585</a></li>
<li>Improvement of the Integration tab display <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23711">#23711</a></li>
<li>Fix the category filter for featured articles <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23454">#23454</a></li>
<li>Fix for the Template Style field in the menu manager <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23556">#23556</a></li>
<li>Breadcrumbs for tags <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23599">#23599</a></li>
</ul>
Visit GitHub for the full list of<a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/milestone/41?closed=1"> bug fixes</a>.

Joomla 3.9.3 Released

<a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/cc-sitejet">Sitejet</a> is a comprehensive website builder that combines web design, content management, and project management into one complete platform. The brains behind the operation are a group of friends from Germany who initially developed the product as an in-house tool to support their own web design agency before deciding to launch it to the public in 2018.In this review, we will give you an overview of how Sitejet actually works so you can decide if it’s the right fit for you.<h2>Getting Started</h2>Setting up your Sitejet account is a simple process of filling in a few fields with your name, email, and company details. It’s as easy as that. You’ll start off with a 14 day free trial which gives you full access to “try before you buy”.<h2>Usability</h2>As soon as you log into Sitejet you’ll notice that it appears much more advanced than the standard website builder. This indicative of its primary market of designers and agencies.There are an extensive range of customization options available which could be overwhelming for newbies and the WYSIWYG editor uses some technical terms that may initially confuse the less experienced user. However this shouldn’t be an issue for the professional market that Sitejet is targeting.For the web design pros who aren’t interested in the drag-and-drop feature, manual coding is also available with HTML, CSS, or Javascript coding options.It’s also worth noting that new users are presented with a checklist guide to help navigate the website creation process step-by-step, so the learning curve is manageable regardless of your level of experience.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2019-02-11-at-12.png" />Editing the website is pretty intuitive once you get started and everything is very cleanly laid out. When you’ve chosen your template (see next section below), its added to a list in your dashboard where you select the “edit” button to view your site. At this point you can add/replace images and/or text blocks, move elements, change backgrounds, and more, in just one click.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2019-02-11-at-13.png" />I did notice one particular issue with usability which was the menu font size. The font is very small and might be difficult to read for some users.<h2>Templates</h2>To begin building your site, you can select a template out of the selection available or choose a blank template to work from. I’ve heard people say that the range of templates isn’t great, but I thought there was a good selection of high quality options. Personally, I’d rather be given the option of 70+ top-notch templates than have to navigate through 1000s of often dubious options on WordPress.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sitejet-review---5.png" />If you’re not happy with the selection available or need help with building your own custom site, you can work with one of the Sitejet design team by contacting them directly.<h2>Dashboard</h2>The Sitejet dashboard will take you from start to finish on each of your website design projects. This is an impressive system that facilitates collaboration, project management, and site maintenance all in the same place.You can work with multiple websites at once, manage the status of each project, create a to-do list that checks off each stage of development, and monitor the progress of each project you’re working on.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sitejet-review---3.png" /><h2>Collaboration Features</h2>Sitejet makes client management a breeze for web designers. There are three collaboration options available depending on your requirements:Collaborate With Colleagues: This function is allows design teams to work together on projects by leaving notes for each other, etc. without the need for individual logins.Collaborate With Customers: With this function, customers can follow your workflow through each stage and leave project feedback as needed during construction.Customer Self-Service Portal: Using the self-service portal, designers can hand the website off to the client whilst retaining control of the account and limiting any potential damage by restricting the access the client has to site elements.<h2>Customer Support</h2>The customer support available to users is better than I’ve seen in many other website builders. The Sitejet support system includes a wide range of tutorials (including video), a comprehensive FAQ section, and a step-by-step onboarding system. The support team is also on hand 24/7 on live chat.<h2>Pricing</h2>There are three plans to choose from after your 14 day free trial has ended: Professional, Team, and Agency.Professional: Manage 1 website with free hosting and an automatic website generator. $5 p/mTeam: White label tools, all professional features, and multi-user permissions for up to 3 users. $19 p/mAgency: White label tools, all professional features, multi-user permissions for up to 10 users, and an additional website export option. $89 p/mThe Professional plan is a good starting point but you’ll need to upgrade to the Team or Agency plan if you want to avail of the collaborative features available.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sitejet-review---4.png" /><h2>The Final Verdict</h2>Score: 4/5<a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/cc-sitejet">Sitejet</a> is a refreshing alternative to WordPress and an excellent tool for any designer or agency to have in their kit. The interface is clearly designed with its target market in mind and offers powerful customization tools that really set it apart from the rest. The high quality templates also demonstrate that this product was developed by designers for designers.Sure, there’s a bit of a learning curve in comparison to less comprehensive website builders on the market. But this is more than just a website builder. It’s a CMS, website builder, and project management system combined. So the extra bit of time it takes to get used to navigating the platform is definitely worth it.I highly recommend <a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/cc-sitejet">checking out Sitejet</a> if you’re in the web design game. Have you tried it out yet? Let us know in the comments section below.

Sitejet Review - A Website Builder for Designers

Elcom today unveiled the new version of its Digital Transformation Platform – Elcom V11. This release supports the need for staff to consistently deliver meaningful and superior digital experiences, by giving them the enterprise tools to elevate their performance.
Ryan Bloch, COO and General Manager at Elcom, explains, “Both internal and external audiences are demanding improved digital experiences. Our goal has always been to make it easier for all staff to meet this need efficiently and securely. With 80+ enhancements to existing functionality, as well as the addition of several new capabilities, organisations can now execute their digital strategy faster and smarter, without sacrificing the usability they have come to expect of the platform.”
This feature-rich update provides a new level of flexibility and security to the content creation and management experience. Some highlights organisations can look forward to:
· New Suite of Enterprise Reporting. Several new reports enable administrators to easily keep track of system errors, as well as security permissions for groups and individual users on both a granular and high level. Publishers and content owners gain detailed insights into digital assets across their sites including content downloaded and updates made, to monitor content activity and drive smarter insights for the future.
· Enhanced Security. An extra layer of security can be added to the login process with Two-Factor Authentication. This requires a user to enter a secure pin, one-time QR code or other information only known to that user, protecting private account information from external threats.
· Powerful Compliance Tool. Highly customisable, the new Acknowledgements module can be used for an external audience to request consent to use cookie tracking or to request staff or other internal audience acknowledge they have read an important article or message. Coupled with detailed tracking, Acknowledgement is a powerful and easy way to meet both regulatory standards and corporate compliance.
· More Identity Management Options. Along with integration to SAML and Active Directory, administrators can now use Okta as an identity provider. This offers administrators a new way to securely and automatically import users into their Elcom platform, as well as providing single-sign on capabilities to offer end-users a seamless experience across their connected platforms.
· Full Video Sharing Support. V11 offers full support for popular video sharing platform, Vimeo, to easily share Vimeo hosted videos on an Elcom site.
· Flexible Corporate Directory. Emerging from a major revamp, the new corporate directory brings with it completely configurable fields and organisation charts. Administrators can easily display information where and how they want it, with complete flexibility over the look and feel, making it easier than ever for staff to find the right person to assist them.
To learn more about how Elcom V11 can help elevate your digital performance, <a href="https://hubs.ly/H0gxKC00">click here</a>.

Elcom Version 11 Brings New and Enhanced Digital Performance Capabilities

<a href="https://umbraco.com/apps/">Umbraco Apps</a> launched today at Umbraco.com, offering web developers and content editors easy access to “best of breed” extended features and functionalities for the open source Umbraco content management system (CMS). The new online catalog of Umbraco-compatible extensions—both free and fee-based—provides third-party software that has been selected as the best among the 1000+ available from Umbraco’s vast and active community of independent developers and commercial technology partners.
Umbraco Apps demonstrates the versatility of the “Friendly CMS,” which gives developers the flexibility and freedom to build websites, apps and other solutions with the look and features they want, while enabling editors and content creators to easily and quickly get content in front of their customers.
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“We believe in a ‘best of breed’ strategy, so as a company, Umbraco focuses on making our CMS the easiest and friendliest available for developers, content editors and end-users alike,” said Niels Hartvig, founder and chief unicorn, Umbraco. “At the same time, we recognize that many end-users want additional capabilities such as e-commerce and personalization solutions built into their sites, so we embrace third-party software that adds these features to Umbraco. While Umbraco can do much on its own, adding functionality from one or more of our trusted partners gives users the ability to accomplish even more tasks so they can get exactly what they want from their websites.”
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Umbraco Apps starts with 20 extensions offering capabilities such as analytics, translations, e-commerce, personalization, Intranet, SEO, communications and social media. Several dozen more apps will be added to Umbraco Apps over the next few months.
“While other companies boast thousands of extensions, this makes it incredibly difficult for end users to pick the right one for them; and in any case, a good number of those may be outdated, redundant, and unsecure,” Hartvig added. “While more than 1000 solution providers have built Umbraco-compatible solutions, we are limiting Umbraco Apps to those that meet a certain quality standard, with documentation, so end-users can trust they’re getting real value.”
Umbraco Apps will be available as “Community Apps,” extensions created by the community and offered without cost or product support, and “Premium Apps,” which are created by the community or third-party technology companies, offer professional support and have a commercial purpose, with some requiring a fee.
<h3>Become an Umbraco App Partner</h3>
In addition to providing easy access to the Umbraco Apps, the catalog opens a new promotion channel for the featured apps and their providers. Companies interested in submitting their own solution to become an official Umbraco App Partner must have a solution that: * Completes a task or solves a problem for an Umbraco end-user. * Is not provided “out of the box” with the core CMS. * Is compatible with one of the latest versions (3 minor) of Umbraco CMS, ideally also Umbraco Cloud. * Offers user-friendly documentation.
More details on requirements can be found here: <a href="https://umbraco.com/become-an-umbraco-">https://umbraco.com/become-an-umbraco-</a> app-partner/
<h3>About Umbraco</h3>
Umbraco is an open source CMS built on the Microsoft .NET platform. Often referred to as the “Friendly CMS,” Umbraco gives developers the flexibility and freedom to build website, apps and other solutions with the look and features they want, while enabling editors and content creators to easily and quickly get content in front of their customers. Created in 2005 by Danish developer Niels Hartvig, Umbraco also offers the Umbraco Cloud, providing all-in-one Azure hosting and predictability in cost, performance and time. More Than 500,000 websites run live on Umbraco CMS and the Umbraco Cloud, supported by more than 220,000 very active Umbraco community members.  For more information, visit <a href="http://www.umbraco.com">http://www.umbraco.com</a>

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Standing in the way of fresh digital products and speed to market are outdated workflow and business processes bound by legacy technology and siloed content.
Companies need to move beyond traditional waterfall models of product development, where each team waits in line to contribute their part. The modern model is agile, as people work in parallel on a cross-functional team that includes anyone who plays a part in the customer lifecycle—each doing his or her part in what can be likened to a “digital factory.”
Customers are now accustomed to a continuous stream of innovative digital products that are tailored for their individual needs. Companies that can meet these expectations are repaid with a highly engaged customer base whose interactions with the aforementioned digital products feed the targeted development of new digital products—not to mention the bottom line.
It’s the best kind of virtuous cycle, but it doesn’t come easily. In fact, for some companies it doesn’t come at all.
The demand chain and digital factories
Digital products — ranging from apps and services to websites, digital signage and customer touchpoints that haven’t even been invented yet — are now core components of businesses, brands, markets and customer value.
Organizations are spinning up new digital products on a continuous basis in response to market demand. Some of these products may be a way to build loyalty with a customer base, expand current market share, take risks and enter new markets or product lines. And it’s not just startups causing this disruption,, incumbents are striking back by building these digital factories as well. Companies that fail to do so risk losing time, money, market share, customers and even staff as talented existing and future employees look for dynamic (and profitable) workplaces using the most current technology.
The digital factory approach enables the kind of agility and flexibility this dynamic model requires. However, for many companies this means a complete re-evaluation of how teams, processes and technologies interact.
Why? For one thing, it’s likely that existing monolithic systems and architectures run counter to the digital factory concept. The goal of digital factories is to unleash teams to spin out digital products quickly. Creating a viable product with plenty of features requires not only a transformation in processes and culture, but supporting technology that compliments developer workflows, speed and agility.
Most monoliths either address a fraction of customer needs by supplying millions of unused and cumbersome features that do not necessarily reflect the goal of organizational agility and velocity, or the monolithic solutions require significant modification and customization. Worse yet, monolithic systems being operated today within the enterprise may not be able to handle the needs of customers even a year down the line – even with massive customization efforts. Right when a customer has completed one endeavour for a particular touchpoint or audience, the next touchpoint or audience is already interacting with their competitor that is already in that next space.
Spinning up a new product or service could take weeks or even months in this model. If something isn’t quite right with the product and it has to be tweaked, the entire cycle begins again, leading to huge deficits in time and expenditure for the company.
Building the digital factory
The cloud brings companies a big step closer to a working digital factory because it enables them to decouple services and continuously deploy software using a stack of primitives. Organizations can pick and choose solutions based on how well they accomplish a specific task, rather than playing catch-up with technology and trying to add feature upon feature to an already bloated offering.
Companies can make the final leap to a larger digital transformation with a digital factory that breaks down silos and connects developers, designers, content creators and other strategic digital contributors.
Some of the major benefits include:
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<li>A digital factory’s modular, services-oriented architecture enables continuous deployment — not to mention speed and resiliency — by breaking everything into small pieces.</li>
<li>Teams are encouraged to experiment — the digital factory model enables teams to fail fast and inexpensively.</li>
<li>Digital factories mitigate the risk that comes with vendor lock-in and the need for significant customizations, putting companies in a position to change direction quickly and lead emerging markets and channels.</li>
<li>Digital factories increase internal morale, innovation, and the quality and quantity of talent coming inbound to help these organizations in this new world.</li>
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Why your organization’s ability to compete depends on its ability to reinvent itself as a digital factory

As an advertiser or marketer, you have a lot on your plate. And it’s not just you; <a href="http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/03/10/the-drum-launches-webinar-tackle-overworked-marketers">53% of marketers</a> say they have “too much to do with too little time.”
You’re probably looking for ways to streamline your work and get marketing results faster. You don’t want to spend hours monitoring and analyzing metrics like time on page, bounce rates, etc. to determine the quality of traffic coming into your site.
And you don't have to anymore.
The <a href="https://www.finteza.com/en/integrations?utm_source=www.cmscritic.com&amp;utm_campaign=0773.en.finteza&amp;utm_medium=articles&amp;utm_term=finteza.wordpress.plugin&amp;utm_content=learn.more">Finteza WordPress plugin</a> provides a faster and better way to track traffic quality.
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It saves you hours you’d have wasted monitoring multiple metrics to determine traffic quality. It does this by analyzing visitors’ behaviour on your pages, showing you what percentage of them — from specific sources — are relevant and non-relevant.
Finteza displays traffic quality this way:
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The colours in the traffic quality bar represent the following:
●      Green represents quality traffic.
●      Yellow indicates visitors coming from proxy servers, VPN, Tor Browser, etc.
●      Red symbolizes traffic you don’t want; it covers traffic from spammy IP addresses or hackers and visitors trying to falsify request parameters and cookies.
●      The grey colour represents traffic from social networks, instant messengers, and search engine bots.
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You can also dig deeper by tracking the quality of traffic from specific sources like Facebook Ads, Instagram Stories and so on.
For example, here’s how the tool shows the rate of quality vs inferior traffic from Facebook Ads for a certain site:
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This way, you get the real gist of how much quality traffic is coming from every channel you’re spending your advertising and marketing budget on.
Even more, the plugin is free; you can download it <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/finteza-analytics/">here</a> or simply search for the Finteza plugin from your WordPress admin dashboard and install it.
To use the Finteza WordPress plugin, you’d need to get a website ID which you can easily register in the plugin’s settings page.
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Once you’re registered, you can begin tracking your site traffic quality right away.
<h2>In conclusion</h2>
You need a web analytics tool that gives you blatantly accurate reports. The more accurate reports you have, the better you’re able to allocate your marketing spend. And the better you’re able to allocate your marketing budget, the more revenue you’re able to make.
Get your <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/finteza-analytics/">Finteza WordPress plugin here</a>.

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<a href="http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ioxeugnhjrhphki1/3/http://www.nuxeo.com/?utm_source=LTS2019&amp;utm_medium=press%20release&amp;utm_campaign=LTS2019%20announcement" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">Nuxeo</a>, the leading cloud-native Content Services Platform (CSP), today announced the immediate availability of <a href="http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ioxeugnhjrhphki1/4/https://www.nuxeo.com/about/what-is-new/?utm_source=LTS2019&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=LTS2019%20announcement&amp;utm_content=Press%20Release#lts-19" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">LTS 2019,</a> which delivers the latest features and functionality to the low-code Nuxeo Platform.
With major enhancements in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), integration to leading productivity and creative applications, and extended content connectivity options, LTS 2019 reinforces Nuxeo’s focus on helping enterprises transform their businesses with content and data.
“Nuxeo has long been a widespread exponent of artificial intelligence and LTS 2019 delivers cutting-edge capabilities that raise the stakes in the AI game for CSP vendors,” said Chris McLaughlin, chief product and marketing officer at Nuxeo. “The improvements we’ve made in AI and other areas enable us to deliver the industry’s most modern and extensible Content Services Platform, but they’re only the beginning. With a move to a continuous delivery mechanism in 2019, we’re striving to ensure that new features will be rolled out even faster than ever before.”
Updates and enhancements featured in <a href="http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ioxeugnhjrhphki1/6/https://www.nuxeo.com/about/what-is-new/?utm_source=LTS2019&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=LTS2019%20announcement&amp;utm_content=Press%20Release#lts-19" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">LTS 2019</a> include:
●      Strengthened AI framework. A streamlined pipeline is now available to make building and training AI models much more accessible. Nuxeo customers can employ custom data models as well as train 3rd party AI engines (i.e., Google Vision, Amazon Rekognition or Amazon Comprehend) on their own data sets to deliver real business insights, even on business-specific content.
●      Federation Blob Provider: The Nuxeo Platform can now manage binary content “in place” (i.e. content stored in external ECM or EFSS systems). In addition to extending Nuxeo’s content federation strategy, this enables its customers to get all the benefits of a modern CSP (scale, search, workflows, automation, permissions) without the cost and pain of forced migrations.
●      Office365 Integration: Nuxeo users can now benefit from advanced metadata management capabilities, deep AI functionality, powerful search, permissions management, and more – all while transparently editing files from within the Office 365 suite.
●      Enhanced Annotation Capabilities: LTS 2019 includes enhanced capabilities for annotations, including the ability for users to annotate office documents, images, videos, and PDFs for review/validation processes or for media enrichment.
●      New Adobe CC Connector: A new Adobe Creative Cloud connector has been rebuilt from the ground up to improve the user experience and leverage the full capabilities of Adobe CC 2018.
●      Pluggable Accelerated Transfer for Upload Services: Nuxeo can now be easily plugged into any direct upload service that provides file or object transfer acceleration. As a result, Nuxeo users will enjoy faster uploads of large content assets like 4K video files via Web UI (the Nuxeo Web client). Transfer acceleration is now available for AWS S3, and connections to additional services can be easily created (such as for Azure or other specialized vendors).
●      Identifying Similar Content: Nuxeo now supports “More Like This” type queries, which enables intelligent searches across a repository for content that’s close to the content of a given image, document, case or other business object. This is particularly useful in case management projects where finding similar cases can reduce resolution time.
●      Bulk Actions Framework: Nuxeo has streamlined bulk operations with a Bulk Action Framework built on a Kafka-based streaming infrastructure. This allows customers to execute custom actions on millions (or even billions) of content items easily, and in a highly-scalable and robust manner. This can be particularly useful for enterprises that have high-availability solution requirements, or that have specific needs around bulk or volume processing of content or data.
About Nuxeo
<a href="http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ioxeugnhjrhphki1/8/https://www.nuxeo.com/?utm_source=LTS2019&amp;utm_medium=press%20release&amp;utm_campaign=LTS2019%20announcement" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">Nuxeo</a>, developer of the leading Content Services Platform, is reinventing enterprise content management (ECM) and digital asset management (DAM). Nuxeo is fundamentally changing how people work with data and content to realize new value from digital information. Its cloud-native platform has been deployed by large enterprises, mid-sized businesses, and government agencies worldwide. Customers like Verizon, Electronic Arts, Capital One, and the Department of Defense have used Nuxeo's technology to transform the way they do business. Founded in 2008, the company is based in New York with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Learn more at <a href="http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ioxeugnhjrhphki1/i/http://www.nuxeo.com/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">www.nuxeo.com</a>.

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