Below you'll find a list of all posts from August, 2017
If you’re a regular user of large e-commerce or news sites, you’ll have noticed that they have section menus, with links to all of the pages in the section that you’re currently in. Adding one of these to your site helps users find related content and will reduce your bounce rate. But setting up a […] View original post at …
One of the keys to success in digital marketing is to ensure that the right hand is always talking to the left. This means that if you’ve spent time building a beautiful WordPress site and regularly write high-quality content for it, you’ll want those efforts shared across other marketing platforms. Social media is one of […] View original post at …
WordPress developers and implementers are a pretty lucky bunch when you think about it. You get to work on a platform that’s inherently intuitive, secure, and chock-full of features. How many people get to say that about their digital platforms? Sometimes, though, all that “stuff” clogging up the WordPress admin can get in the way of […] View original post at …
Last month React users petitioned Facebook to relicense the project (and its other open source projects) after the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) added Facebook’s BSD+Patents license to its Category X list of disallowed licenses for Apache PMC members. Participants and subscribers to the GitHub thread waited weeks for a decision on re-licensing while Facebook’s engineering directors discussed the matter internally. …
“Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.” is the first reported instance of the English language idiom that most of us know as “A picture is worth a thousand words”. In other words, why waste your breath (or fingers) when you could use a single picture to tell your story? A beautiful example of […] View original post at …
WordPress’ Core PHP team has created a new GitHub organization for initiatives focused on improving the use of PHP in the project. The first one they are tackling is a new page on WordPress.org dedicated to educating users about the benefits of upgrading PHP. Contributors are collecting third-party articles and tutorials on PHP upgrades to find inspiration for the project, …
It’s always fun to experiment with CSS and website design. But manually fidgeting with colors, buttons, and other thingamabobs can get very old very fast if you want to implement or test something quickly. And that’s why plugins like Microthemer exist. Microthemer is a visual CSS editor plugin that allows you to see any changes […] View original post at …
Over the past few months the WordPress Support Team has been brainstorming ways to improve support across various aspects of the community. One new idea they are pursuing is hosting workshops where WordPress.org theme and plugin authors can present how they approach supporting their free, open source products that have been released to the community. Some users approach WordPress.org plugins …
Let me take you back about 10 years ago. You suddenly get a hankering to go out to eat, but aren’t sure where you want to go. Rather than drive downtown without a plan, you hop on the internet to check out your options. You stumble across a website with cheesy background music meant to […] View original post at …
The WordPress mobile apps are sporting a new login experience that Automattic’s mobile designers and developers released in the latest versions. The login flow has been completely redesigned to provide a more unified experience for connecting both self-hosted and WordPress.com-hosted sites. These flows were completely separate in the past and users were often confused about which one to select. The …
