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A freely available eCommerce plugin that enables shop facilities on your WordPress website.

A simple library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms.

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to focus on what you do best. Create and publish great content. We’ll take care of the rest.

A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

WordPress Page Builder

A jQuery slider toolkit.

CloudFlare is a global CDN and DNS provider that can speed up and protect any site online.

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

Online Form Builder with Cloud Storage Database

A flexible Wordpress form builder.

Websites with cart functionality on them

PayPal is a American international e-commerce service that enables companies and individuals to send money and to accept payments without revealing any financial details.

Stripe is a developer-friendly way to accept payments online and in mobile apps.

Google Pay lets you make purchases at thousands of online stores.

Websites that accepts payments with Visa.

Websites that accepts payments with MasterCard.

iDEAL is a payment method made up of a collection of agreements and standards for an immediate online transfer from a purchaser’s bank account to the bank account of a webshop or organisation.

Maestro is a multi-national debit card service owned by MasterCard.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

Websites using Google technologies

Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.

Marketing services such as Internet Marketing, Design, SEO and Writing.

Previously Google Apps for Business. G Suite is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It's simple to setup, use and manage, allowing you to work smarter and focus on what really matters.

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.

A web page. Every web page is implicitly assumed to be declared to be of type WebPage, so the various properties about that webpage, such as breadcrumb may be used. We recommend explicit declaration if these properties are specified, but if they are found outside of an itemscope, they will be assumed to be about the page

A scheme.org entity that represents a person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).

A scheme.org entity that represents the most generic kind of creative work, including books, movies, photographs, software programs, etc.

A scheme.org entity that represents a blog.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

By adding rel="home" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears.

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook

Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.

The iconic font and CSS toolkit