User Testing Your WordPress Site or Product on a Budget

There are a lot of different tests you can perform on your WordPress website – A/B testing, mobile/responsive design testing, browser testing. And then there’s usability testing. Usability testing is a hot topic for web design and SEO, and for good reason. Bad usability impacts how a person uses your website, which can affect conversions and, ultimately, rankings […] View original post at …

What the New Webmention and Annotation W3C Standards Mean for WordPress

Commenting on blog posts and other website articles is a divisive topic in web circles. WPMU DEV has as many articles about dispensing with comments altogether as it does with fostering conversation through WordPress! I am firmly in the blogs-as-conversation camp, so I was excited to learn about two new standards seeking to enhance conversation […] View original post at …

Gutenberg 0.5.0 Adds New Verse Block for Poetry and a New Display for Recent Blocks

Another round of Gutenberg updates was released today. Last weekend brought version 0.4.0, which didn’t have too many noteworthy visible changes on the frontend but introduced an API for handling pasted content. Gutenberg developers are aiming to have specific handling for converting pasted content from applications like Word, Markdown, and Google Docs to native WordPress blocks. Version 0.4.0 also added …

Building a Successful Self-Service Support Website with WordPress

Have you been inside a restaurant like Applebee’s or Red Robin lately? Well, if you haven’t, I’d urge you to do so because a lot has changed in the past few years what with rising costs. One of the ways these restaurants have been successful maintaining profits? By removing the human element and installing self-service […] View original post at …

CoKinetic Systems Pursues $100 Million GPL License Violation Case Against Panasonic Avionics

photo credit: Paper Plane – (license) Open source software has made its way into nearly every industry, but a recent open source security and risk analysis shows widespread license compliance risks, with 75% of the audited applications including GPL license conflicts. Although most violations are unintentional, there are some cases where companies do not comply with the license in order …

The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Security

Hackers attack WordPress sites both big and small with over 90,978 attacks happening per minute. Fortunately, there are numerous ways you can protect your WordPress site. Today, I want to share with you how you can make your WordPress site’s security air tight with basic through to advanced techniques. I’ll also explore how WordPress can […] View original post at …

WPWeekly Episode 281 – In Memory of Jesse Petersen

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Ben Meredith. Over the past few years, Ben has established a friendly and professional relationship with Jesse Petersen, who passed away due to complications from Cystic Fibrosis. Ben shares his unique perspective on who Petersen was as a person and describes the challenges of taking over his business. We …