Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2017
The invention and widespread use of the internet has changed millions of lives thanks to: Unlimited information availability at the click of a button Facilitating connections through social networking sites and email The ability to start businesses without a physical storefront (or the associated expenses), empowering people to offer products and services to almost anyone […]
photo credit: WordCamp Nairobi Six WordCamps were held over the weekend in cities across the globe, including two in Africa where WordPress events are just starting to take off. Harare and Nairobi hosted their second WordCamps in areas where the WordPress community was virtually non-existent two years ago. Harare’s first camp was part of the WordCamp Incubator program the first …
David Haigh, CEO of Brand Finance, gives insight into the international standard that defines how all brands are ranked.
There are a number of ways in which your site could become the victim of a security breach. Unsupported and outdated plugins and themes are one way. Weak password rules and unfettered access to WordPress is another. Hackers could also get in through your hosting server. And on and on the possibilities go. Needless to […]
photo credit: Closed square box, variation – (license) A lively and productive discussion regarding Gutenberg’s use of iframes for meta boxes is happening on GitHub. Yesterday, WordPress developer Kevin Hoffman created an issue titled “Are iframes a viable long-term solution for meta boxes?” Gutenberg 1.5 introduced initial support for meta boxes. Hoffman identified several issues with iframes that have been …
The broader brand community needs to work more closely and more constructively together to help brands explore more effective ways to grow.
In Q3 of 2016, Sucuri reported that WordPress again led all content management systems with the number of hacked websites. WordPress alone claimed ownership of 74% of all detected infections and vulnerabilities. Ugh. That’s always a huge let-down. With people already looking for reasons not to use WordPress or hearing horror stories about this very […]
The WordPress Foundation has awarded Bianca Welds with the Kim Parsell travel scholarship to attend WordCamp US 2017. Welds lives in Jamaica and has been using WordPress since 2005. We featured her on the Tavern in 2015 when she provided insight into the Jamaican WordPress community. Welds will be presenting at WordCamp US on how a couple is using WordPress to …
Sometimes it doesn’t matter how many restrictions you put on the WordPress admin area for your clients. Even if they’re prohibited from causing (too much) harm to their site, that doesn’t mean they won’t be left feeling helpless once you hand over their new and improved site to them. It’s that feeling of helplessness that […]
The Gutenberg plugin’s Halloween release (version 1.6) includes major updates to the writing experience and many performance improvements. The block toolbar has been relocated to the top of the editor, a suggestion that was mocked up and described in detail in a post on the Yoast SEO blog proposing an alternative approach for Gutenberg. Prior to version 1.6, users could …
