Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2017
WordPress has come a long way since it first launched back in 2003. It’s now the most popular content management system and has become a become a dominant force online, now powering 28.6% of all websites. What follows is a huge round-up of some of the most interesting stats and facts about WordPress divided into […] View original post at …
Gutenberg contributors continue marching forward this week on their relentless drive to improve the usability of the controversial new editor that will ship with WordPress 5.0. Meanwhile, discussions about Gutenberg’s timing, implications, UI, architecture, and other aspects of the project continue across the web, as the community grapples with what this new editor will mean for the future of WordPress. …
We live in a high-definition world. And since most of us spend more than eight hours a day staring at different types of screens, the quality of the images and characters contained within those screens is very important. Although they’ve only been around for a few years, Retina displays are the way of the future. […] View original post at …
Jetpack 5.3 was released with compatibility for PHP 7.1, a task the Jetpack team has been working on since January 2017 after they received multiple reports of failures with PHP 7.1 when opcache was enabled. This interfered with XML-RPC requests and some users reported issues managing their sites from WordPress.com and connecting to third-party apps. Downgrading to PHP 7.0 or …
Smush recently compressed its 11 billionth image. Huge! So to celebrate, we’ve given our Smush Pro super servers a major speed upgrade – images are now being pushed out a whopping 200% faster! The server upgrade means you can do all the things you already do with Smush, just much faster, including: Super Smushing – You get […] View original post at …
While attending WordCamp Grand Rapids I had the opportunity to interview developers and business owners about their first impressions of the new Gutenberg editor. Many attendees I spoke to had not yet heard of the project but were intrigued and decided to install the plugin on a test site. A few attendees were developers who have already contributed to Gutenberg …
Social proof is kind of a scary thing. It’s the idea that, despite any gut feeling one might have to the contrary, people are more willing to go along with a decision if the majority of their peers agree with it. Take movies, for instance. You’ve got the original The Fast and the Furious movie […] View original post at …
The whole idea of this post might seem crazy. After all, don’t you want search engines to find your site? That’s why you optimize it for search and why you create an XML sitemap to improve your chances of ranking in search. That said, there are a number of reasons why you might want to […] View original post at …
One reason WordPress is such a popular CMS is that it’s so easy to get started with a site. Pick a name and a login password and you’re in. While the first bump in the road is choosing a theme, the Customizer goes a long way toward solving some of those initial issues of “what […] View original post at …
Moving a WordPress site, although a very common requirement, continues to put developers in a fix. The myriad of WordPress plugins and endless possibilities of WordPress implementations further complicate this process. Fortunately, plugins like WP Migrate DB, can do all the heavy lifting, making migrations smooth and easy. In this article, I’ll walk you through […] View original post at …
