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Like many website owners, you may think that your site isn’t high- profile... - [WordPress Plugin or Custom Development: Which Should You Choose?](https://buildcreate.com/wordpress-plugin-or-custom-development-which-should-you-choose/): When do you need an out-of-the-box WordPress plugin, and when should you invest in custom dev? You've put a lot of resources into the buildout of your new... - [Your Proprietary CMS Is Killing Your Website](https://buildcreate.com/your-proprietary-cms-is-killing-your-website/): Building a proprietary content management system is a terrible idea. Here’s why. If there is any innovation that has cracked the Internet wide open to public... - [Why Enterprise CMSs Are Not the Solution You’re Looking For](https://buildcreate.com/why-enterprise-cmss-are-not-the-solution-youre-looking-for/): Think twice before you sign yourself up for needless complexity and endless frustration. It's common for many businesses, as they begin to expand, to assess... - [How to Super Charge Your Ecommerce Search on WordPress](https://buildcreate.com/how-to-super-charge-your-ecommerce-search-on-wordpress/): Want to build a more powerful, customizable search function for your ecommerce store? Welcome to Elasticsearch. Any ecommerce store owner with a large enough... - [Word, the Web, and the Dangers of Pasting HTML](https://buildcreate.com/word-the-web-and-the-dangers-of-pasting-html/): Why won't copy/paste work with my CMS? If you’ve spent any amount of time working with a CMS, you’ll probably have encountered some form of this problem: ... - [Introduction to WordPress Hooks – WordCamp Chicago 2016 Slidedeck](https://buildcreate.com/introduction-to-wordpress-hooks-wordcamp-chicago-2016-slidedeck/): Special thanks to everyone who made it out to hear me talk about WordPress Actions & Filters, I hope everyone got something out of it and is excited to... - [A Comprehensive Website Launch Checklist (Part One)](https://buildcreate.com/a-comprehensive-website-launch-checklist-part-one/): Hi, everybody - today, we're going to go over my comprehensive checklist for launching any website. Part one will focus on the basics that you want to cover... - [Why you should join your local WordPress community](https://buildcreate.com/why-you-should-join-your-local-wordpress-community/): What I learned about WordPress at WordCamp Jackson, 2017 This weekend has been the inaugural WordCamp Jackson. WordCamps are casual conferences put on by a... - [Top 3 WordPress Tools Developers Can’t Live Without](https://buildcreate.com/top-3-wordpress-tools-developers-cant-live-without/): 3 of Ann Arbor’s Top Developers Weigh in on the Tools They Use for Success Scour the repositories and the Reddit channels and you’ll find a wide range of... - [Top 4 WordPress Plugins to Boost Your Content Marketing](https://buildcreate.com/top-4-wordpress-plugins-to-boost-your-content-marketing/): If you’re a content marketer you’re always looking for more ways to get your content out there to increase website traffic. 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