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Testing and research lie at the heart of all best-laid plans to develop a high-converting website, but sometimes you have to set the data aside, embrace your inner Sigmund Freud and pair up your experiments with a little bit of good old-fashioned psychology.

I should start with the fact that I’ve always hated the word “outsourcing” – I can’t understand how being an outsourcing software development company might be a business goal. There are a lot of companies (particularly in Ukraine) who proudly position themselves as “outsourcing companies” and consider that part of their branding strategy. Moreover, there are even communities and successful conferences utilising this word.

Since January of 2014 we have been building a successful partnership with StartupCommons (a member of GrowVC group) – a global, non-profit, developing startup ecosystems with shared platforms, knowledge and data, to help create & accelerate growth in efficient and transparent way.

While working with a variety of WordPress custom themes and building sites through WordPress system, we are often asked how to change the small text titles on the page. For example the call-center number is put on the top of the page and it has just changed, or the footer has an address or link to social networks.

Custom Post Types, announced in WordPress 3.0, boosted the popularity to WordPress sites among clients and developers in 2010. WordPress is quite easy for newbies in web to use, and it’s very simple and self-explanatory for content editors. With Custom Post Types we can improve standard functionality in times and add more sections.

During the last few weeks, we’ve found that a few of our clients’ sites are infected with malicious javascript code – code which appeared to be the result of a virus. The virus behaviour is similar to the Gumblar virus. Here is a short summary of what this virus does.

With this article, we continue to share our experience of implementing websites with free popular engines like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla etc. After delivering hundreds of such projects to our clients, we have amassed a number of tips/solutions which we think may be useful for other developers or clients.

IMPORTANT: This article was written for WordPress sites using versions 2.1 to 2.7. Starting from WordPress 2.8 this issue has been resolved in WordPress cor