Below you'll find a list of all posts from April, 2017
So you want to make an accessible WordPress website? Congratulations – your site will be available to the widest possible audience! Not sure why accessibility is valuable? Accessible sites have benefits including faster load speed, better SEO and being good for PR. Plus making an accessible site is just the right thing to do. Themes […]
While many WordPress developers rely on the convenient and customizable functionality of widgets, they are often a second thought to plugins. In fact, some beginners probably couldn’t even tell you the difference between the two! To give a brief primer, some widgets come standard with a WordPress install, many are included through the use of […]
So you want to start a WordPress business. That’s exciting! If you have to work in a single platform all day long, I’d say WordPress is a great one to be “stuck” inside of. Aside from the benefits of working in an intuitive platform that comes chock-full of integrations that make your job easy, you’re […]
If you’ve ever heard your parents say something like,”My son works for the internet,” or “My daughter owns some kind of computer company,” then you know the struggle. Many parents have a difficult time understanding the professions of their grown children, especially when they are in the tech industry. This can also be compounded by the novelty of remote work, …
All entrepreneurs have, or should have, an elevator pitch. That pitch is their market hook, their story. What’s yours?
Over the past few weeks, I’ve written quite a bit about SEO here on the WPMU DEV Blog because what’s not to love about getting free website traffic from Google? Yet so many people get discouraged when it comes to SEO because they are under the impression that it is insanely hard to get right. […]
WordPress contributors to the customizer have published a merge proposal for a new JavaScript and REST API-powered core image widget. The new widget interfaces with the WordPress media library to provide a simpler, more intuitive experience for adding images. No new widgets have been added to core since the Custom Menu widget was included in 3.0 nearly seven years ago. …
Animations are cool. We’ve seen them at play in gamification, in page transitions, and also in the latest navigation design trend. The best part about animation? You don’t see them all too often in web design, which is sure to give your WordPress site an edge over the competition. I think part of the reason […]
Thank you to everyone who took part in our annual survey! We sent it out via email and you all responded in droves. So much so that our CEO James Farmer has spent all week poring through pages and pages of responses, making notes, laughing at some of the funnier responses, and thinking seriously about […]
The Advanced WordPress Facebook group (AWP) is making a radical change. After three years of allowing members to post freely, the group’s administrators voted to restrict posting to admin-approved content only. The popular WordPress watering hole has amassed more than 28,000 members and plays host to many lively conversations. Over the years some have suggested the group switch to using …
