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How WordPress Is Changing The Fashion Industry
WordPress & The Fashion Industry

People often make the mistake of classifying WordPress as just a blogging platform. Although that used to be true in the past, WordPress has evolved throughout the years into a versatile content management system (CMS). While you can still use WordPress to create a simple blog, now it also allows you to create fully functional websites and mobile applications.

The best part about WordPress is that it’s easy to use and flexible enough for just about anything. That’s the main reason why WordPress has grown so much in popularity. WordPress and CMS platforms have changed the world of Fashion. It has taken the place of the old Flash sites and static HTML to bring together interactivity and easy of use for the Fashion Industry. Some time ago WordPress was associated with just blogs. Today it has boomed into a strong tool for just about any type of website.

Flash sites were the norm and the #1 choice when it came to fashion designer’s choice. This was due largely in part to the animated graphics which Flash has been largely identified with. One of the main problems that it had was ease of use/editing and SEO. Flash made it difficult for users to show up in search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing.

Advantages of WordPress vs Flash Websites
1. Save Money– You can make most changes to your site or even have your own staff add new pages for you. You can make the edits yourself whenever you want to save time and money especially if these changes are urgent and do not have time to wait on emails.
2. Greater Accessibility– Make changes or add content from any computer in the world with Internet access and a browser without the need for additional software.
3. Speed of Communication– At least for simple changes, you don’t need to wait for your webmaster or designer to make those basic changes, the content on your Web site can be altered immediately by you.
4. Consistency – By following a basic structure or design, no matter how many pages you add the site can keep a consistent look and feel.
5. Better Time Management– Add content and then schedule those pages/posts. You could write an entire season worth of posts on the site and automatically have them scheduled for a specific day or time.
6. Ease of Membership Site Rollout– With the addition of a few plugins, a WordPress blog can evolve into a full-service membership site with as many levels as you would like.
7. Social Network Friendly– Integrate your sites posts with social media like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube.
8. Engage with Current Media– Easily add audio and video to posts and pages.
9. Creative Welcoming– Integrate new designs faster in comparison to other CMS (Content Management System).
10. SEO Friendliness– The construction of WordPress is streamlined without excessive HTML code that Google finds very attractive for indexing. With the right setup, you’re able to customize every page or post you make to give you the highest advantage of getting your pages in search results positions.
Another reason that WordPress is great for the Fashion industry is that it is written using standard compliance high-quality code and produces semantic mark up. What does that mean? It makes your site very attractive to search engines such as Google. By design, WordPress is SEO friendly, and you can make it even more SEO friendly by using additional WordPress SEO plugins.

The Fashion industry is a fast-paced and media heavy industry. It needs to be on the cutting edge and have the latest and the greatest as fast as possible. WordPress is not just limited to writing text only. It comes with built-in support to handle images, audio, and video content. It can also easily be used for document or file management. WordPress supports embed YouTube videos, Instagram photos, Tweets, and Soundcloud audio by just pasting the URL in your post. This helps manage the amount of media that the Fashion industry is accustomed to.
March 11, 2015
Tips that can lower the likelihood of having your WordPress site Hacked

WordPress is one of the easiest content management systems to set up and use. That’s why people like it. It’s easy to add functionality without having to know how to code php because there is such a large developer community that makes tons of free plugins. WordPress is the largest self-hosted blogging platform in the world, powering more than 60 million websites worldwide.

That fact may be a key reason why WordPress is in the news right now as the subject of a large-scale attack from a huge number of computers from across the internet – known as an automated botnet attack – attempting to take over servers that run WordPress.

WordPress’ popularity comes at a price in a situation like this, as a perceived vulnerability in the platform’s ease of use is weak security by users. If you or your company have sites that use WordPress, there are two things to consider. First is to avoid having your own site hijacked and second is to avoid becoming part of a larger problem. Think childhood immunizations.

So what can you do to make your site secure enough right now to deter such attacks in the future?

Avoid Obvious Passwords: Hackers mostly go after novice Web users who don’t take the time to switch from their default login information. A secure password is a mix of at least eight upper and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters (^%$#@*)!

Loose The Admin Username: The attackers are in possession of 90,000 IP addresses from which they are trying to crack the default “admin” accounts on WordPress installations. So if you are still using “admin,” create a new user with admin privileges (you will need to use a different email address than the one attached to the current admin) and give it a strong password as defined above. Then log back in as the new user and delete the old admin account and assign all of the posts in that account to the new user. Five minutes, tops.

Use Two Step Authentication: Take advantage of two-step authentication which assures that you are a human logging in, not a bot. To enable Two Step Authentication, head on over to the new Security tab in your WordPress.com account settings, and go through the setup wizard. The wizard will help you make sure that everything is configured correctly.

Update WordPress: Many hackers exploit holes that have been identified in older versions of WordPress, so keeping your install up to date is another easy way to avoid trouble.

Don’t let spammers, hackers or botnets mess up your presence on the web. You can be secure.

There’s a lot more you can do to protect your site. Figment Design has amazing security packages to protect your WordPress site from hacking attempts this includes reports on your website security.

February 26, 2015
Figment Group 2013

Figment Group launches it’s new site and embraces the WordPress platform as it’s CMS. For many years we used several types of High end, Mid range and even fully custom CMS (Content Management Systems) for our client and ourselves. Recently with the explosive growth and demand of WordPress sites and all of it’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization) advantages built into it’s platform, Figment Group decided to embrace this platform with open arms and fully use it to its potencial. The ease of use and growth of these types of sites have have made a tremendous change in several of our clients day to day use and growth of their sites. We’re able to provide our clients with an easy to use affordable solution, enhancements, customizations, flexibility and customized look/feel we’ve always offered while staying within their budgets.

What is WordPress?

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes, this type of CMS is limited only by your imagination or how we like say a Figment of your imagination.

November 30, 2012