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How to Use the WordPress Loop to Style Your First Post Differently
Being able to edit the WordPress Loop gives you lots of control over the design and content of your WordPress site. I often create custom loops, sometimes by editing the standard loop and sometimes using WP_Query to create completely new loops. But in some cases I want to take things further. I want to display […] View original post at …
Jetpack 5.4 Introduces Beta Version of New Search Module Powered by Elasticsearch for Professional Plan Users
Jetpack 5.4 was released yesterday with many small enhancements to existing modules and an expansion of features for users on the paid plans. A new date picker field is available for the Contact Form, allowing administrators to request additional information such as project timelines, event reservations, or any other date-related data. This release also fixes a bug with Jetpack’s Comments …
Getting Smart With: Google Autocomplete and WordPress
If your business or website is brand new, it can be difficult trying to figure out what your audience wants or expects from you—mostly because they don’t exist yet. Until you have large droves of traffic coming to your site that you’re able to analyze or a huge database of email subscribers or social followers […] View original post at …
Drupal Core Maintainers Propose Adopting React for Administrative UI’s
Both the Drupal and WordPress communities are now knee-deep in weighing JavaScript frameworks to modernize underlying architecture for building user interfaces in 2018 and beyond. Yesterday Drupal founder Dries Buytaert published a summary of his discussions with core committers, framework managers, JavaScript subsystem maintainers, and JavaScript experts at DrupalCon Vienna. Together they concluded that Drupal should consider adopting React. “We …
6 Best Support Ticket Plugins for WordPress We Love
Customer experience is incredibly important in today’s competitive landscape. A Gartner survey reported that 89% of businesses now compete with one another mostly on the quality of customer experience they provide. A few years back, only 36% of companies used that as a differentiator. No matter how independent you want your visitors to be when they […] View original post at …
Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin Passes 5 Million Downloads, Rewrite in the Works
Regenerate Thumbnails, written by prolific plugin developer Alex Mills, has passed 5 million downloads. The plugin was first released nearly a decade ago in August 2008 during the days of WordPress 2.6. Regenerate Thumbnails is used to retroactively generate new thumbnail sizes for past uploads. It has become an indispensable utility over the years, helping millions of users successfully transition …
Gutenberg 1.2 Adds Postmeta Support and Extended Settings Placeholder
WordPress contributors have not yet made a final decision on the JavaScript framework to adopt for core, but Gutenberg development continues on with version 1.2 released this week. The update provides a better experience resolving block conflicts when switching between the “classic editor” and Gutenberg. Previously, if a user had created some paragraph blocks in Gutenberg but switched to the …
14 Creative Examples of Website Testimonials Done Right
Case studies aren’t always easy to compile or create, though they do convey an incredibly powerful message about what you can do. User-generated content is pretty powerful stuff but requires sifting through social media to collect and then get permission to use. Video testimonials are great, too, but require your customers to know how to […] View original post at …
DigitalOcean Partners with GitHub to Support Open Source Projects during Hacktoberfest October 1–31
DigitalOcean is organizing its fourth annual Hacktoberfest in partnership with GitHub. The event was created to support open source projects and participants can earn a free t-shirt by contributing four pull requests during the month of October. More than 29,000 people signed up for Hacktoberfest 2016 from 114 countries and 10,227 people completed the challenge. The event tracked a record-breaking …