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The Top 10 AI Tools for Small Business: From Automation to a Coordinated Team of AI Agents

matt-garrepy

The list building needs of large publications and high-traffic sites — the ones that get hundreds of thousands to millions of pageviews per month — are different from most websites.
Among all the other things, such sites require a <a href="http://digioh.com/">list building solution</a> that is scalable, speedy, and reliable. If you too are looking for a lead generation tool but don't really know what features to look for in it, run the options you’ve shortlisted through the following feature checklist. It lists the must-haves and nice-to-have features in a lead generation tool that actually gets results.
How do I know?
Well, at <a href="http://digioh.com/">Digioh</a>, we serve some of the biggest online publishers including the likes of <a href="http://www.healthline.com/">Healthline</a> and <a href="http://www.nascar.com/">Nascar</a>. We talk to publishers every day and work with them to help them meet their list growth targets with Digioh.
I hope I’ve got you on board now. So, let’s look at the features.
<h2>#1. Doesn’t affect ad revenue</h2>
Lots of publishers show interstitial ads (ads that cover the full screen). These ads generate a large part of their revenue. Publishers almost always reserve such ad slots for ads and don’t even consider showing opt-in forms in them because they view it as REVENUE LOSS. Which it is … but ONLY when there’s an ad to show. But the truth is that it’s not always that a publisher has an ad to feature.
In such cases where a publisher doesn’t have an ad to feature, the publisher doesn’t just not make ad money, but also loses an excellent chance to get subscribers because interstitials are awesome at getting subscribers.
The biggest publisher in the faith marketplace, Salem Web Network, <a href="http://digioh.com/blog/how-salem-web-network-averages-5k-engaged-subscribers-a-day-with-digioh/">lost thousands of subscribers</a> because of reserving the interstitial slot exclusively for ads. But when it switched to Digioh, it was able to use the same interstitial slot for showing both ads and signup forms. This became possible because of Digioh's ad suppression feature. Digioh can understand when an interstitial ad is about to fire, and it suppresses the signup form in all such instances. Likewise, at times when there are no upcoming ads, Digioh shows signup forms.
Samantha Royer, Senior Marketing Manager, Salem Web Network tells:
<blockquote>
“We’ve historically lost out on anywhere from 5-10k subscribers in a month having this suppression feature available to us. Now that we’ve more than doubled our email growth, that could cost us anywhere from 10-20k+ monthly subscribers pending the duration of the ad buy.”
</blockquote>
Feature check:
Ability to use the same interstitial slot to show ads as well as opt-in forms (and making sure no ad revenue is lost)
<h2>#2. Is mobile friendly (and has lead generation tools that are safe to use despite Google’s latest mobile lightbox guidelines)</h2>
Until now, publishers mainly complained about how browser-based ad blockers got in the way of their ads and signup forms (especially interstitials). However, they now have a new challenge to overcome to save their mobile subscriptions. From next year, Google will penalize <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-on.html">sites that use intrusive lightboxes on mobile devices</a>.
So, your mobile organic traffic could get hit if you use wrong lead generation tactics on mobiles like:
<ol>
<li>
Show a lightbox that covers the full screen
</li>
<li>
Display an interstitial that a user has to dismiss to be able to access content
</li>
<li>
Use welcome mat kind of opt-in forms, where the fold area of your mobile site is nothing but an opt-in form
</li>
</ol>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/capture.png" />
While you’ll have to be cautious, you obviously can’t stop showing opt-in forms on mobiles because a big part of your audience could, in fact, be accessing your site from their mobile devices. The leading publisher in the trucking domain, Overdrive, <a href="http://digioh.com/blog/how-overdrive-collects-100-emails-a-week-on-mobile-alone-with-digiohs-mobile-friendly-lightboxes/">gets as many as 400+ subscribers a month from its mobile popups alone with Digioh</a>.
Digioh doesn't just have mobile friendly popups, but we’ve recently rolled out an entire suite of mobile lead generating tools to keep our users’ mobile list growth potential intact.
Feature check:
SEO-compliant set of mobile lead generation tools
<h2>#3. Can read cookie values to identify subscribers from other visitors</h2>
Publishers often have multiple offers to promote to their visitors. Not only that, they’ve several offers to cross-sell to their existing subscribers too. For example, if a visitor is a subscriber, you’ll try to cross-sell another complimentary subscription to them. Or, you might try to sell tickets to the latest online or local event. In case they aren’t a subscriber, you might want to give them a personalized subscription offer.
But to make the right offer to the right visitor, you need information about the visitor’s subscription status. This information can be found via cookie data.
A tool like Digioh can read cookie data to understand if someone has already subscribed. And you can use this knowledge to decide which offer to show — the cross-sell offer or the subscription offer.
Paul Daniel from the Overdrive team tells how Overdrive uses information about a user’s subscription status to determine the offer to make:
<blockquote>
“Right now, we are primarily segmenting non-subscriber visitors to our website so that we can target them for newsletter and magazine subscriptions. We have also run a limited amount of promotions to current subscribers that cross-sell paid products. The conversion rates have been excellent.”
</blockquote>
Feature check:
Cookie data reading
<h2>#4. Can make targeted offers</h2>
One of the biggest list building challenges that a publisher site faces is to engage a highly diverse audience. Even though the audience is specific to a niche, it still has many segments that have varied interests.
Take the popular gaming niche publisher GameRant, for example. Although the site is about gaming in general, its readers comprise lovers of different games. There are readers who love Pokemon, while there are those who’re fans of Call of Duty. When Gamer Rant showed a generic opt-in lightbox to its visitors, it got just 30 signups/day. Vic, GameRant chief, observed, “A generic sitewide pop up did not work very well.“
But once it started making targeted offers, i.e., personalizing opt-in offers on the content of the pages a user was reading, it saw its <a href="http://digioh.com/blog/how-game-rant-jumped-to-120-signups-a-day-with-digiohs-advanced-targeting-features/">subscriptions jump to almost 120 signups each day</a>.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/capture-1.png" />
Digioh helps you make targeted offers based on:
<ul>
<li>
The posts or pages a reader lands on
</li>
<li>
Their browsing or site visit history 
</li>
<li>
Location
</li>
<li>
Referral source
</li>
</ul>
And many other parameters.
Of all these targeting parameters, the referral detection feature deserves a special mention because every publisher has online partners that send dedicated recurring traffic. Obviously, different referrals send different kinds of traffic that have different interests and content preferences.
Showing a generic opt-in offer to such a diverse referral traffic doesn’t get great results. To maximize the lead generation opportunities in these cases, it’s important to personalize opt-in offers based on the referrals.
Digioh offers referral detection right out of the box.
<h2>#5. Integrates with Google Analytics (or other analytics software)</h2>
Sometimes the biggest challenge that publishers face is not to get emails, but it’s to get quality subscribers. It’s to find subscribers who don’t just sign up for the free version but also upgrade to the premium one, or those who buy the recommended or advertised services and products.
Calculating a subscriber’s quality in terms of the money they spend or their engagement metrics with your site is possible with mapping their journey and tracking their purchases and interactions with your website.
Digioh can gauge such quality because it can fire goals in any analytics software and track them to conversion. These goals could be monetary values or ad clicks too.
Feature check:
Measuring lead quality
<h2>#6. Can create accounts for subscribers</h2>
Creating subscriber accounts helps publishers in monetizing their lists better. Moreover, when these accounts have a subscriber’s information like their city or country, they’re even more helpful in pitching advertisers or for giving them more insights into your lists (so they can pay you higher).
However, you’ll agree that it’s one thing to get an email … but getting someone to signup for an account is a completely different story.
But a well-thought-out lead generation tool like Digioh can dynamically create a user account once a visitor signs up for your list. Also, Digioh fetches the subscriber’s location from their IP address and adds this information to the account. (The account password is generated in real time by Digioh.)
Feature check:
Automatic backend account creation
<h2>#7. Can create thousands of personalized opt-in offers dynamically</h2>
Online publishers have thousands of articles contributed by hundreds of writers. Not only that, there are also tens of categories, and many more tags.
All these are excellent parameters for personalizing opt-in forms. For example, you can personalize an opt-in form based on the name of the columnist whose story a visitor seems to be reading.
But as you can imagine, this could mean creating 100s of opt-in form copies, which is almost impossible. Dynamic personalization is the solution here. In dynamic personalization, all you need to do is create a template opt-in form. You can create something like:
Sign up to get all our &lt;tag&gt; stories in your inbox.
And then the lead generation tool fills out this tag by fetching the relevant values from the content the user is currently browsing.
For example, in Digioh, a user can set Digioh to choose the value of the category a user is reading and fill it into the template. So, ‘Sign up to get all our &lt;tag&gt; stories in your inbox’ becomes ‘Sign up to get all our presidential campaigns stories in your inbox’ if the reader is reading a story from the presidential elections category.
You can use any value to set this rule. Tags, author’s name, anything.
Feature check:
Dynamic opt-in offer personalization
<h2>In addition to these features, you’ll also need a dedicated account manager…</h2>
Just checking a tool for its support options might not be wise. Because although most lead generation solutions of this scale offer good support, it’s not the same as having a dedicated account manager. A dedicated account manager can help you get started immediately and work with you to devise a personalized lead generation plan.
Digioh has been assisting lead generation of several thousands of publishers and is proud to offer a dedicated manager and priority 1-on-1 access to all our customers.
<h2>So are these all the features you need in your list building solution? And is Digioh perfect for your website?</h2>
Well, it turns out that no list of features can actually cover everything you need. At Digioh, we’ve custom coded a lot of features based on the needs of our readers.
In fact, our power users tell other users that “[they shouldn’t] be afraid to ask for help or pitch new ideas, because even if Digioh doesn’t have the capability to fulfill a specific need, they always have suggestions with suitable alternatives or are willing to help brainstorm how to make it possible.”
We understand that different publishers have different KPIs, and so we don’t just help them setup lightboxes according to their needs, but also help them optimize their lead generation efforts.
Now to find out if Digioh is the best list building solution for you, <a href="https://digioh.com/Demo">signup for a free Digioh demo</a>. Once you fill the form, our marketing team will contact you about the next step.

The publisher’s 7-point checklist to choosing a list building tool (and how Digioh scores on it)

mike-johnston

<img title="typo3" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/typo3-150x150_bfwyyo.png" style="max-width:150px" />The TYPO3 core team has just released TYPO3 version 4.3.3, which is now ready for you to download. It is a maintenance release of the current stable branch 4.3 and contains bugfixes and security fixes.
IMPORTANT: This version includes important security fixes to the TYPO3 core. A security announcement has just been released: 
<a href="http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-sa-2010-008/" target="_blank">http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-sa-2010-008/</a>
For details about the release, see: 
<a href="http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/TYPO3_4.3.3" target="_blank">http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/TYPO3_4.3.3</a>

Typo3 4.3.3 Security Release available

<a href="http://www.telerik.com/" target="_blank">Telerik</a> – the company behind <a href="https://www.progress.com/sitefinity-cms" target="_blank"> Sitefinity</a> – have released major mobile advancements to its award-winning <a href="http://www.telerik.com/devcraft" target="_blank">DevCraft</a> suite of UI controls.
Notably, approximately 130,000 customers from 40,000 organizations across 94 countries make use of Telerik products, including 450 of the Fortune 500. DevCraft is of course one such product.
With this update, Telerik is aiming to optimize mobile development for <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET</a> projects by providing responsive, adaptive and elastic capabilities; mitigating the challenges of developing for multiple devices and screen sizes.
The release also includes document processing and cloud capabilities for UI, as well as additional updates designed to meet the ever-evolving needs of today’s .NET developers. Let's take a closer look at what's new.
<h2>Responsive, Adaptive and Elastic</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/devcraft700x0.png" alt="DevCraft" />
Here's an overview of what you can expect to see in the all new DevCraft Q2’14:
<ul>
<li> Responsive, Adaptive and Elastic:  With the latest Telerik DevCraft release, UI for  <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank"> ASP.NET </a>  AJAX controls will gain responsive capabilities in Rotator and Slider, adaptive capabilities in Lightbox and Slider and elastic capabilities in several controls to help developers build applications with a professional UX, tailored for any device.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Document Processing:  Now standard in Telerik UI Controls for  <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank"> ASP.NET </a>  AJAX, WPF, Silverlight and WinForms, new APIs for processing the most common document formats: DOCX, RTF, XLSX, CSV and PDF, enabling developers to embed, load, create, convert and print documents directly within the app, without Microsoft Office or other external libraries.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> New Controls: In addition to the more than 420 controls currently available within the DevCraft suite, Telerik is adding new Map, Gantt and Diagram controls for  <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank"> ASP.NET </a>  AJAX, making it highly customizable for individual projects.</li>
</ul>
In addition to the advancements listed above, Telerik is releasing additional improvements in Silverlight, WPF, Cloud, the Just product line, WinForms, Reporting and Data Access, all based on user feedback collected throughout the year.
In relation to the release of Telerik's Q2'14 DevCraft, Todd Anglin, EVP at Telerik, made these comments:
<blockquote>“Our development community is asked to do more with less, every day. Our focus at Telerik is to make development a more productive experience in which quality apps can be created and deployed across multiple screens, with minimal rework. With the latest DevTools release, our one million-strong developer community is further empowered to focus on the core of their applications, with the knowledge that Telerik has their back with industry leading UI.”</blockquote>
All of the details of the DevCraft Q2’14 release will be expanded upon during Telerik’s online conference series, “ <a href="http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/devcraft/q2-2014-release" target="_blank"> Be Responsive: .NET UI for Any Device </a> ,” June 24 beginning 11:00am EST.
The three-part series will introduce a wide range of capabilities now available in Telerik DevCraft to help build .NET apps using any technology—established or evolving. The full lineup includes:
<ul>
<li>Tips for Building Mobile-Optimized  <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank"> ASP.NET </a>  Projects.</li>
<li>Manage Documents within .NET Apps.</li>
<li>Build Line-of-Business Apps with Maps, Gantt and Diagram Controls.</li>
</ul>
For more details, and to register for Telerik's upcoming online conference series <a href="http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/devcraft/q2-2014-release" target="_blank">right here</a>.
You can also find out more about DevCraft via the <a href="http://www.telerik.com/devcraft" target="_blank"> Telerik website</a>.

New Telerik DevCraft Release Brings About Enhanced Responsive Design Capabilities

Online portfolio website builder Format.com recently launched their latest campaign, <a href="https://www.format.com/classics">Format Classics</a>. By recontextualizing classical figures like Vincent van Gogh, Hokusai, and Helen of Troy, they’re highlighting the idea that sharing work is central to the creative process. Whether work is new or old, it is imperative that creators share in order to learn, grow, inspire—and create more.
The campaign’s concept of making old work new again is echoed in the design decisions. Much of the design takes something familiar and presents it in new ways. On the landing page, the artwork is teased as a way to hint at the historical figures without showing them completely, and as you dive further into the campaign you’re rewarded with more information. 
Since much of the work is well known (everyone with a smartphone will recognize Hokusai’s wave), Format frames the work differently—even down to the way the figures are silhouetted, with shapes that enhance perception through the presentation. Van Gogh is wearing a large, wide-brimmed hat that creates horizontal lines and a square frame is used to emphasize that shape. Hokusai is known for his wave, so he’s framed by a large curve. Helen’s pulled-back hair creates a circular shape, echoed by a circular frame.
The portfolios themselves showcase each figure both visually and through the copy. Van Gogh’s vibrant work contrasts his dry wit, Hokusai takes his role as a creator very seriously, and Helen merges the worlds of high fashion and high followers as a supermodel-meets-Instamodel. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/classics-article-l_b2tn5s.jpg" />
“With van Gogh’s portfolio,” says creative lead Josiah Bilagot, “we felt it was important to showcase his worldview through his work as well as his personality. Many creators choose to show their audience who they are via captions, blogging, or an about page, and we wanted to give van Gogh the same opportunity. 
“We also wanted to show how sharing work is a key element of being a creator. We were deliberate in our selection of paintings—you won’t see Starry Night, for example—to highlight the idea that sharing can breathe new life into old work to encourage creators in any stage to look at their entire body of work through a new lens.”
Hokusai is a master of ukiyo-e, a type of Japanese art that embraces negative space, so his portfolio includes a lot of enforced negative space. “Instead of crowding everything together, there is a lot of intentional space around his work,” says Bilagot, “which is how we think he would do it himself.”
Helen’s profile tackles the question of presenting three-dimensional work in a two-dimensional space. Bilagot solved this by letting the sculptures stand alone, apart from any framing elements, leading with four different angles of her face and giving the audience a glimpse into Helen’s world—which is all about Helen.
Small details go even further to really personalize the portfolios. For van Gogh, the Iris theme is very recta-linear, so his signature is used as the wordmark—similar to the way he might sign one of his paintings. In Helen's case, her personality shines through her integrated Instagram account, while Hokusai's journal includes how he felt about himself as an artist in his own words.
The portfolios were created solely using Format as a way to showcase old work in a fresh way. Each portfolio uses a different theme, as well as highlighting Format features like Galleries, Store, Blog, and Instagram integration.
About Format
Meet Format, the online portfolio platform that empowers creatives to succeed. A website builder and so much more, beautiful themes showcase your work alongside integrated business tools. Whether you’re just getting started or you’re a full-time professional, Format has the tools and support you need at every stage of your business. Build the website you want to share, promote, and sell your work all in one spot.

Format is Using Portfolios for Historical Figures to Inspire Creators

LightCMS have released a Partner Platform designed to empower web designers and resellers.
The popular website builder gives users everything they need to quickly build and manage a website, blog, or online store.
This Partner Platform unveiling comes after a string of LightCMS updates. In a little over a month, LightCMSm have introduced <a href="/lightcms-announce-new-social-features-interface-changes/" target="_blank">interface changes</a>,  <a href="/lightcms-improve-website-security-through-ftps/" target="_blank"> security improvements</a>, and most recently, <a href="/lightcms-rolls-out-blogging-enhancements/" target="_blank"> blogging enhancements</a>.
Here's a very nicely done introductory video for the LightCMS Partner Platform:
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iRBbtHYprak?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<h2>Full CMS Capabilities &amp; A Hefty Discount</h2>
LightCMS' Partner Platform can serve as a foundation for your business.
Using the platform gives you unlimited pages for each website, unlimited storage, every LightCMS feature (from eCommerce to blogging), FTP access, automatic updates and even hosting.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/lightcms.png" alt="LightCMS " />
What's more is, the price of this unlimited package has been discounted by over 80%, at just $19 per month per website. Perhaps more importantly though, LightCMS enables you to manually set a markup on that $19, giving you all the room you need to make a profit.
Here's a quick overview of how LightCMS can benefit your business:
<ul>
<li>Multi-Website Management</li>
<li>No-Cost Sites While In Development</li>
<li>Automated Client Sign-Up &amp; Billing</li>
<li>White Label / Private Label</li>
<li>Site Copy Functionality</li>
<li>A Free Website for Your Business</li>
<li>Dedicated Account Manager</li>
<li>Gold Level Support</li>
</ul>
Check out the LightCMS Partner Platform page for more information.
Additionally, don't forget to explore more of LightCMS via our CMS Directory.

LightCMS Launches New Partner Platform

<img title="585px-Tikiwiki_logo.svg" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/585px-tikiwiki_logo_svg_-150x150_emkc7p.png" />The Beta release of the latest generation of Tiki CMS/Groupware is now available. This 5.0 Beta includes many new features and functionality, including:
<ul>
<li>New themes (skins)</li>
<li>Many fixes and updates</li>
<li>Beta release of Tiki workspaces</li>
<li>Beta release of shopping cart and payments&lt;</li>
</ul>
Tiki Community members are encouraged to download and explore this new release. You can obtain the Beta (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tikiwiki.org/download. For information on this and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tikiwiki.org/roadmap.
About Tiki
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. Actively developed by a very large international community, Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. TikiWiki is managed by the Tiki Software Association. For more information, visit <a href="http://tikiwiki.org">http://tikiwiki.org</a>.

TikiWiki Announces Tiki 5.0 Beta

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<img style="max-width:100px" title="sitefinity" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/sitefinity1_y0ruw2.jpg" />The new release of Sitefinity 3.7 Service Pack 3 is now available with impressive performance improvements and several new features.  Among the highlights of this release are: improved performance for large, enterprise websites, ability to store images &amp; documents on the file system (instead of the database), streaming for large files and the latest version of Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX.
Full details on what's new in this release are available <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/VersionNotes.aspx?id=2183" target="_blank">here</a>.
You can download Sitefinity v 3.7 SP3 from <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/account/downloads.aspx" target="_blank">your account</a>.
If you're upgrading from a previous version of Sitefinity, review the <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/support/upgrade-instructions.aspx" target="_blank">Upgrade Notes</a>.

Sitefinity 3.7 Service Pack 3 is now available

A new release of the open source content management framework (CMF) Kajona is now available. Version 4.5 of Kajona brings with it a number of changes. Below is the release announcement from the Kajona development team:
Besides the advancement of the index-based search, Kajona V4.5 “gitorious” focuses on the restructuring and enhancement of central components. In addition the project finished the transition from SVN to git.
The index-based search engine, introduced to the backend in V4.4, is now available at the portal, too. This means that the powerful engine is now available to all end-users including all functionalities. The indexer was partly rewritten and is now much faster when it comes to creating and updating the search-index.
The way how events are created and processed within Kajona was changed fundamentally and rewritten from scratch. While the old implementation founded on listener-interfaces, the new approach is based on a fully decoupled mechanism using named events. New event-types are added declaratively, making single packages even more independent. An overview of events available and a description of the new api is available at http://www.kajona.de/en/v4_events.html.
A new template-mapper simplifies the export of objects to templates by extracting all designated properties and providing them to a template directly. Additional, programmatic steps are no longer required. If necessary, the value of properties may be transformed using custom renderers before they are placed into the template.
The database layer was complemented by a new method to handle combined inserts. Inserting multiple records into a table is now possible in a single query using a special api call. The database-layer takes care to generate the sql code matching the current database system in use.
With Kajona V4.5 the team finished the transition from subversion to git. The projects' sourcecode is now available on Github:  <a href="https://github.com/kajona/kajonacms "> https://github.com/kajona/kajonacms </a>
Since Kajona 4.5 includes several bug fixes, security updates and updates for compatibility with current web browsers and web server systems, the upgrade to 4.5 is recommended to all users. The update is available and recommended via the integrated package-management.
The documentation was updated to the latest release. The download of the system is possible on the projects website <a href="http://www.kajona.de"> http://www.kajona.de </a> .
<h3>Screenshots</h3>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/v4_5_portalsearch1635x0.png" />
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/v4_5_mediamanager1635x0.png" />

Kajona CMF 4.5 Now Available

A new release of the popular open source content management system, WordPress, is upon us. Version 4.7 brings with it a new default theme as well as a slew of usability and design enhancements. Let's take a look through some of the changes in this latest release.
<h3>New Theme – Twenty Seventeen</h3>
The new theme, aptly named Twenty Seventeen is a theme designed for business websites that focuses on a creative home page and an easy site setup experience for users.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/twenty-seventeen-top.png" />
Features include:
<ul>
<li>multiple sections on the front page, selected in the Customizer.</li>
<li>a striking asymmetrical grid.</li>
<li>custom color schemes, built on top of a monochromatic foundation, and adjustable via a hue picker.</li>
<li>different headline placement for pages, changeable in the Customizer, via them options.</li>
<li>a great experience in many languages, thanks to language-specific font stacks.</li>
<li>SVG icons (a first for a default theme).</li>
<li>support for custom logo, custom header image and many post formats.</li>
<li>the use of <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/09/09/new-functions-hooks-and-behaviour-for-theme-developers-in-wordpress-4-7">new functions in Core</a> for making child theming easier.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other updates in this release include:</h3>
Theme Starter Content
Starter Content is the theme-specific selections of content to help showcase a theme to users and serve as a starting point for further setup of new sites. The initial view of a theme with starter content will only happen for “fresh sites” – new installs that have not yet had any posts, pages, widgets, or customizer settings updated (<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/30/starter-content-for-themes-in-4-7/">read more</a>).
Edit Shortcuts
Visible icons appear to show you which parts can be customized right there while live previewing. Click on a shortcut and get straight to editing, no decoding of widget area names or extra clicks needed. Paired with starter content, getting started with customizing your site is faster than ever (<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/10/visible-edit-shortcuts-in-the-customizer-preview/">read more</a>).
Video Headers
WordPress 4.7 extends the Custom Header feature to introduce support for video. Video headers play automatically, loop by default, and don't have sound. They work best when paired with an image, so they can progressively enhance the experience when video is supported (<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/26/video-headers-in-4-7/">read more</a>).
Smoother Nav Menu Building
Many primary navigation menus for sites contain links to the pages of your site. But what happens when you don't have any pages yet? Now you can add new pages while building nav menus instead of leaving the customizer and abandoning your changes. Once you've published your customizations, you'll have new pages ready for you to fill with content (<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/06/16/feature-proposal-content-authorship-in-menus-with-live-preview/">read more</a>).
Custom CSS
Sometimes you just need a few more visual tweaks to make your site perfect, or a plugin adds something that doesn't quite look right with your site. WordPress 4.7 allows you to instantly see changes while adding custom CSS to give your site that polish (<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/11/feature-proposal-better-theme-customizations-via-custom-css-with-live-previews/">read more 1</a> and <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/26/extending-the-custom-css-editor/">2</a>).
User Admin Languages and Locale Switching
Users can select their preferred locale (language) when editing their profile. The back end will be displayed in the user's individual locale while the locale used on the front end equals the one set for the whole site (<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/07/user-admin-languages-and-locale-switching-in-4-7/">read more</a>).
PDF Thumbnail Previews
Managing your document collection is easier with WordPress Version 4.7, which now shows preview thumbnails instead of a generic icon for PDFs in the media library (<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/15/enhanced-pdf-support-4-7/">read more</a>).
For additional details on this release visit <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7" target="_blank">https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7</a> or to download visit <a href="https://wordpress.org" target="_blank">https://wordpress.org</a>

WordPress 4.7 Now Available - Features a New Default Theme & Usability Improvements

Looking to save time, we expect to find the solutions that can ease our pain when customizing WordPress websites. Indeed, overloaded with an abundance of advanced options and extensions, it's hard to make the best decisions. Yet, you might be happy to know that it's far simpler with plugins for Elementor page builder.
This time around we'll explore the power of JetBlog, JetElements, JetTricks, JetEngine, JetReviews, JetParallax, JetMenu, JetTabs, JetWooBuilder and JetBlocks plugins. Well, there are ten of them. The best part is that you can use them in your designs and boost its functionality big times. Need more? Don't shy away from checking other <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-elementor-plugins/?aff=cmscritics" target="_blank">Elementor plugins</a> for your project.
Created by highly skilled developers, numerous helpful plugins for Elementor page builder come in handy for a variety of purposes. If you are still new to Elementor add-on plugins, find out more useful information with tips on this video. That's easy, right?
https://youtu.be/MjEL9BX09ew
This time around, though, to help ease your work &amp; save the day, we'll go over the best 10 plugins for Elementor. Stay tuned and find the solution that fits your particular needs best.

<h2>JetBlog – Blogging Package for Elementor Page Builder WordPress Plugin</h2>

To help you enrich your website pages with stylish content widgets, JetBlog comes in handy. Better yet, JetBlog is one of the best plugins for Elementor page builder to trust. Designed to showcase your posts in a more eye-catching way, JetBlog allows you to create and customize text tickets, smart tiles and smart lists.
<ul>
<li>works with Elementor;</li>
<li>supports RTL;</li>
<li>offers multiple typography settings;</li>
<li>is totally responsive.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/69506-big_v1no7y.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jetblog-blogging-package-for-elementor-page-builder-wordpress-plugin-69506.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/demo/69506.html?aff=cmscritics">Demo</a>

<h2>JetElements – Addon for Elementor Page Builder WordPress Plugin</h2>

JetElements is here to ease your worries and assure that creating content is easier than you might imagine. The thing is that it comes with multiple elements, Contact Form 7 and tons of high-class modules. The latter, besides, contain an awful lot of style options and functional settings to help you enhance your content with animation, gradient backgrounds and custom fonts.
<ul>
<li>integration with WooCommerce;</li>
<li>WPML + RTL support;</li>
<li>multiple home page templates;</li>
<li>multiple pre-designed blocks at hand.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/69508-big_mr2krm.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jetelements-addon-for-elementor-page-builder-wordpress-plugin-69508.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/demo/69508.html?aff=cmscritics">Demo</a>
<h2>JetTricks – Visual Effects Addon for Elementor WordPress Plugin</h2>

Keep your visitors needs in mind when empowering your website with eye-catching visual effects. Look no further, add JetTricks plugin to your collection. No extra coding skills needed, instead, the extended functionality of the plugin can make your page look more striking.
<ul>
<li>satellite functionality;</li>
<li>tooltip effect;</li>
<li>section particles;</li>
<li>Parallax effect.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/69529-big_iz1udq.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jettricks-visual-effects-addon-for-elementor-wordpress-plugin-69529.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/demo/69529.html?aff=cmscritics">Demo</a>
<h2>JetEngine – Adding &amp; Editing Dynamic Content with Elementor WordPress Plugin</h2>

Used to work with dynamic content? With JetEngine plugin, it's easy to create custom post types, taxonomies, Elementor-built templates and showcase them. Moreover, you can easily jazz the different types of content to match your company's identity or add important information even without bothering with code.
<ul>
<li>offers 40+ easy-to-use widgets;</li>
<li>multi-layered Parallax for sections;</li>
<li>full responsiveness;</li>
<li>WPML + RTL support;</li>
<li>grid, masonry &amp; justify image layouts.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/71125-big_ej37cs.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jetengine-adding-editing-dynamic-content-with-elementor-wordpress-plugin-71125.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/demo/71125.html?aff=cmscritics">Demo</a>
<h2>JetReviews – Reviews Widget for Elementor Page Builder WordPress Plugin</h2>

JetReviews is a go-to tool when it comes to creating review blocks and rating bars. In addition, it comes with multiple styles, layouts, and, what's more, tons of customizable elements for rating and review blocks.
<ul>
<li>responsive to the boot;</li>
<li>multiple eye-catching styles of rates &amp; rating bars;</li>
<li>compatible with WP Review;</li>
<li>immaculate typography.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/69510-big_m50iip.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jetreviews-reviews-widget-for-elementor-page-builder-wordpress-plugin-69510.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a>Demo</a>
<h2>JetParallax – Addon for Elementor Page Builder WordPress Plugin</h2>

Designed to help you create as many Parallax layers as you need, JetParallax plugin is second to none to make it happen. It allows you to create eye-catching pages by applying countless Parallax layers to different sections. Thus, you can enjoy a variety of behavior triggers, speed, animation effects and custom positioning.
<ul>
<li>immense Parallax layers usage;</li>
<li>animation speed;</li>
<li>mouse move and scroll behavior type;</li>
<li>custom position settings;</li>
<li>Parallax background rich functionality.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/69511-big_ag1aew.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jetparallax-addon-for-elementor-page-builder-wordpress-plugin-69511.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/demo/69511.html?aff=cmscritics">Demo</a>
<h2>JetMenu – Mega Menu for Elementor Page Builder WordPress Plugin</h2>

To help you make it big in creating a Mega Menu in a drag'n'drop way, JetMenu plugin is always at hand. Being one of the best plugins for Elementor, JetMenu includes an awful lot of style settings to apply for different menu presets.
<ul>
<li>easy-to-use stylization process;</li>
<li>fully responsive design;</li>
<li>exquisite badges;</li>
<li>diverse colors;</li>
<li>customizable backgrounds;</li>
<li>Mega Menu module.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/69509-big_l1kyuf.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jetmenu-mega-menu-for-elementor-page-builder-wordpress-plugin-69509.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/demo/69509.html?aff=cmscritics">Demo</a>
<h2>JetTabs – Tabs and Accordions for Elementor Page Builder WordPress Plugin</h2>

Do not shy away from creating and implementing outstanding tabs and accordion blocks to your website. Do it right &amp; enjoy creating breathtaking tabs &amp; accordion widgets in a jiff. Besides, tons of easy-to-use customize settings can help you showcase your content the best way.
<ul>
<li>multiple tabs layouts;</li>
<li>full responsiveness;</li>
<li>intuitive appearance;</li>
<li>image accordion.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/69512-big_uhiqe0.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jettabs-tabs-and-accordions-for-elementor-page-builder-wordpress-plugin-69512.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/demo/69512.html?aff=cmscritics">Demo</a>
<h2>JetWooBuilder – WooCommerce Page Builder Addon for Elementor WordPress Plugin</h2>

Help your online store stay ahead o the curve by creating WooCommerce Product pages on a go. With JetWooBuilder, it's easy to display the products and create single pages. Besides, it applies 4 WooCommerce layout widgets and can be used to any page created with Elementor.
<ul>
<li>intuitive appearance;</li>
<li>easy-to-use functionality;</li>
<li>tons of style settings;</li>
<li>versatile customization options.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/69528-big_ltqpzv.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jetwoobuilder-woocommerce-page-builder-addon-for-elementor-wordpress-plugin-69528.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/demo/69528.html?aff=cmscritics">Demo</a>
<h2>JetBlocks – Elementor Header &amp; Footer Widgets WordPress Plugin</h2>

Enough bothering with code when creating headers &amp; footers. Enjoy simplicity and flexibility with one of the best plugins for Elementor JetBlocks. Thus, it comes with 9 exquisite widgets required for building and applying login forms, search boxes, WooCommerce carts or registration forms.
<ul>
<li>designed to work in perfect sync with Elementor 2.0 PRO;</li>
<li>multiple style settings;</li>
<li>the go-to tool for building headers &amp; footers;</li>
<li>simplicity &amp; no coding skills.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/69867-big_ntodrs.jpg" />
<a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-plugins/jetblocks-elementor-header-footer-widgets-wordpress-plugin-69867.html?aff=cmscritics">Details</a> |  <a href="https://www.templatemonster.com/demo/69867.html?aff=cmscritics">Demo</a>

<h2>CrocoBlock – Elementor Addons</h2>
In fact, the entire site can be built based on your page builder and its extensions to make it function much better. This is how Elementor drag and drop plugin and <a href="https://crocoblock.com/?ref=93&amp;campaign=cmscritics"> CrocoBlock </a> subscription work. If you use them together, you can build new page templates, theme parts, MegaMenus, work with WooCommerce Single page templates with ease. In this case, building a website requires zero programming skills and isn't restricted to the features of your theme.
In the end, you can design your WordPress site without hiring a designer. Come rain or shine, these 10 plugins for Elementor page builder can get you through that day job with ease. The best part is that even non-tech-savvy users should not worry about a thing. Just use any of them to your benefit.
Have you already tried Elementor plugins? Well, it's a right opportunity to grab it.
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Axinom, European WCM vendor, today announced the next version of its WCM solution AxCMS.net 10, which streamlines the processes involved in creating, managing and distributing corporate content on the internet. The new solution helps reducing ongoing costs for managing and distributing to large audiences, while at the same time drastically reducing time-to-market and one-time setup costs.
Axinom’s WCM portfolio, based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Silverlight 4, allows enterprises to increase process efficiency, reduce operating costs and more effectively manage delivery of rich media assets on the Web and mobile devices. Axinom solutions are widely used by major European online brands in IT, telco, retail, media and entertainment industries such as Siemens, American Express, Microsoft Corp., ZDF, Pro7Sat1 Media, and Deutsche Post.
Brand New User Interface built with Silverlight 4 
By using Silverlight 4, Axinom’s team created a new user interface for AxCMS.net 10 that is optimized for improved usability and speed. WYSIWYG mode, integrated image editor, extended list views, and detail views of objects allow a substantial acceleration of typical editor tasks. Axinom’s team worked with Silverlight Rough Cut Editor for video management and Silverlight Analytics Framework for extended reporting to complete the wide range of capabilities included in the new release.
“Axinom’s release of AxCMS.net 10 enables developers to take advantage of the latest features in Silverlight 4,” said Brian Goldfarb, director of the developer platform group at Microsoft Corp. “Microsoft is excited about the opportunity this creates for Web developers to streamline the creating, managing and distributing of online corporate content using AxCMS.net 10 and Silverlight.”
Rapid Web Development with Visual Studio 2010 
AxCMS.net 10 is extended by additional products that enable developers to get productive quickly and help solve typical customer scenarios. AxCMS.net template projects come with documented source code that help kick-start projects and learn best practices in all aspects of Web application development. AxCMS.net overcomes many hard-to-solve technical obstacles in an out-of-the-box manner by providing a set of ready-to-use vertical solutions such as corporate Web site, Web shop, Web campaign management, email marketing, multi-channel distribution, management of rich Internet applications, and Web business intelligence.
Extended Multi-Site Management 
AxCMS.net has been supporting the management of an unlimited number of Web sites for a long time. The new version 10 of AxCMS.net will further improve multi-site management and provide features to editors and developers that will simplify and accelerate multi-site and multi-language management. Extended publication workflow will take into account additional dependencies of dynamic objects, pages, and documents.
“The customer requests evolved from static html pages to dynamic Web applications content with the emergence of rich media assets seamlessly combined across many channels including Web, mobile and IPTV. With the.NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4, we’re on the fast track to making the three screen strategy a reality for our customers,” said Damir Tomicic, CEO of Axinom Group. “Our customers enjoy substantial competitive advantages of using latest Microsoft technologies. We have a long-standing, relationship with Microsoft and are committed to continued development using Microsoft tools and technologies to deliver innovative Web solutions in the future.”

Axinom Announces AxCMS.net 10 with Microsoft Silverlight 4 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

The Joomla development team is forever tweaking and adjusting for a better user experience. Among the improvements to Joomla's recent 3.4 release are front-end module editing, extension beta testing, decoupled com_weblinks, and composer integration. They've also has cleaned up their reCAPTCHA, making it easier for us non-robots to navigate the web. The release of Joomla 3.4 brought a new development strategy to the table, with more frequent updates in shorter intervals.
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Of course, with every CMS upgrade comes bugs – usually lots of them. As of March 2015, the Joomla team resolved approximately 150 issues after the new release. For those who were hoping that your recent upgrade would take care of all the little quirks, think again. Newer and less-experienced Joomla users will especially benefit from learning how to handle these minor, but nonetheless, frustrating issues.
<h3>Style Formatting</h3>
Joomla users of any version may be familiar with frustrating style issues in the editor. You might try to make a line of text into a heading, while Joomla seems to ignore your request completely. Or maybe you've clicked “Times New Roman” 500 times only to see that on your website, the font is obviously displaying as Verdana.
Essentially, you want to pay attention to exactly what coding is being used and where. <a href="https://www.pcwdld.com/firebug-alternatives-javascript-debugging-tools" target="_blank">Firebug</a> is a great tool for Firefox browsers that allow users to inspect and edit CSS, HTML, and Javascript on any website. (If you don't have Firefox, download Firebug Lite for other browsers).
Once you have an application like Firebug installed, you can view the code to see what styles are in what hierarchy. Make sure there are no styles specified in the &lt;header&gt; section, as these will override any changes you try to make in lower hierarchy style sheets. Always remember that if your editor doesn't seem to be listening to you, you can manually insert style codes by simply toggling the HTML editor – in this case, it has to listen to you.
<h3>Slooooooooow Going</h3>
If you recently upgraded to Joomla 3.4 and grabbed a new theme, you might be wondering why your website is loading painfully slowly. This isn't the fault of Joomla, and has more to do with the content of your site.
<a href="http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt" target="_blank">Pingdom</a> is a great tool for measuring the speed of your Joomla site. You can review your results instantly, and determine what is causing the slow loading on your page. Whether it's HTML, CSS, text, redirects, or images, you'll have a much better understanding of your site after performing the test.
Another option is to log in to your Joomla account and switch GZip Compression on. Go to the main menu, click Global Configuration, and then click the Server tab. Switch GZip to “on” if is isn't already. This can be especially helpful for users with lots of images on their site.
If you want your loading speeds automated without having to worry about them, consider the Joomla extension, <a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/hosting-a-servers/database-management/optimize-your-tables" target="_blank">Optimize Your Tables</a>, which is now available for 3.4. The extension checks in once every day to ensure your speed is optimized by removing MySQL overhead.
<h3>Pasting Content</h3>
This is an old and well-known issue in Joomla, but if you think upgrading to the latest version will suffice, you'll probably be disappointed. Copying and pasting content from Word documents into Joomla's editor can cause some odd glitches to occur on your website. Content can disappear, appear with inappropriate formatting, and needlessly confuse your code.
So how do you know if the problems you're experiencing are related to some accidental copying and pasting? The first thing to do is single out the problem area: Is your whole site acting funky, or just one page? Is it a recently edited page, or something you haven't touched? In some 3.4 themes, links to PDF or Word documents can cause unexpected errors.
Next, toggle the code and see if there is anything that shouldn't be there. If you see “if gte mso 9,” in your code, get rid of it promptly. This is leftover code from Microsoft Word, which directs your site to only display that content in Internet Explorer 9 or higher.
Joomla 3.4 does have a “paste as plain text” option in the Article Manager, but some have reported issues with this feature. The simplest solution is to get into the habit of always copying and pasting your text into Notepad first. This will remove all formatting and allow you to paste from Notepad to Joomla without problems. Alternatively, you can save your Word document as a text file (.txt.) to remove unwanted formatting that way.
If you keep getting caught up with errors that are over your head, check out <a href="https://www.siteground.com/index.htm?afcode=4414e5e2bb3a9b580cba4638686fc849" target="_blank">SiteGround</a> for tutorials and videos on building your site, migrating your site, and performing basic tasks in Joomla 3.4.

Joomla 3.4: Problematic Quirks and Simple Solutions

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TYPOlight version 2.8.2 is available. The maintenance release updates TinyMCE, TCPDF and MooTools More to their latest versions and includes a couple of new callbacks and hooks. It also fixes a potential request forgery vulnerability in the back end, therefore it is recommended to update.
<h2>Updated plugins</h2>
The following plugins have been updated:
<ul>
<li>TinyMCE to version 3.3.2</li>
<li>TCPDF to version 4.9.011</li>
<li>MooTools More to version 1.2.4.4</li>
</ul>
<h2>New interfaces</h2>
The following DCA callbacks and hooks have been added:
<ul>
<li>oncut_callback: Calls a custom function when a record is moved.</li>
<li>oncopy_callback: Calls a custom function when a record is duplicated.</li>
<li>addComment hook: Is executed when a comment is added.</li>
<li>loadDataContainer hook: Is executed when a Data Container Array is loaded.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Important bug fixes</h2>
The following issues have been fixed (for a complete list, please refer to the ticket system):
<ul>
<li>The PDF export function partially generated wrong links.</li>
<li>The custom navigation module was not displayed in certain situations.</li>
<li>The Config class incorrectly treated certain text values as numbers.</li>
<li>The news and event modules did not override the page meta description.</li>
<li>Regular users could not move multiple content elements at once.</li>
<li>The newsletter module did not embed all images in the newsletter.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Find out what has been done</h2>
Get an overview of all changes in the <a href="http://dev.typolight.org/versions/show/28">ticket system</a> or the <a href="http://www.typolight.org/news/items/changelog.html">changelog</a>.
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161263">Download</a> the release at sourceforge.net.

TYPOlight 2.8.2 is available

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