Liquid Web, a managed hosting service founded in 1997, has acquired iThemes. iThemes recently celebrated its 10th year in business. PostStatus reports that it was an all cash deal and sources confirmed to the Tavern that it was a multi-million dollar acquisition. iThemes will continue to operate as an independent unit within Liquid Web. Cory Miller will remain as General …
5 Click-to-Tweet Plugins for Adding Social Sharing to WordPress
Here’s a statistic that might blow your mind: there are 500 million tweets sent out each day. Obviously, for users that only tweet a few or even a dozen times a day, what are the chances anyone will see your posts amid all that incessant activity? If you’re using Twitter as part of your website’s […] View original post at …
WordPress 4.9.3 Rescheduled for February 5th
WordPress 4.9.3 is a maintenance release and was originally scheduled to be available on January 30th. However, due to ongoing tickets and a short time frame to test the release candidate, it has been pushed back to February 5th. WordPress 4.9.3 RC 1 is available for testing. This release removes JSHint from the code editors due to conflicts with the …
WordPress Development: Working with Arrays
If you’re creating variables to save values in your WordPress code, there may well come a time when it’s more efficient for you to use an array. An array (or more specifically, an array of variables) lets you save multiple pieces of data using just one variable. It means you can save multiple records in […] View original post at …
WPWeekly Episode 303 – Interview With Zac Gordon, Technology Educator
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Zac Gordon. We discussed a wide range of topics including, balancing freelance work with educating, an overview of Gutenberg from an educator’s perspective, and potential brand issues if the Gutenberg name was deprecated. We also talked about some of the difficulties involved with creating a course around a feature …
8 Old-School Branding Techniques That Will Still Work for You Today
The ‘Mad Men’ days are long over, but what survives are such Don Draper trademarks as business cards, snail mail and testimonials., View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Grow a WordPress Site: Run It Like a Business
When you think about the best way to manage your WordPress site, your first thought probably goes to the three S’s: security, speed, and SEO. While these are essential parts of maintaining and managing the outward appearance of a WordPress site, there is a lot more you should be aware of behind the scenes in […] View original post at …
WooCommerce 3.3 Increases Theme Compatibility, Auto Regenerates Thumbnails
WooCommerce 3.3 is available and is considered a minor release. Based on the project’s new release process, it should be fully backwards compatible with previous releases up to 3.0. The orders screen has been redesigned with large buttons that indicate an order’s status. You can also view an order’s details from the order screen without having to edit the order. …
Brutalist Web Design: Where Did It Come From and Why Is It Back?
It’s the start of a new year, which means everyone is making predictions on which new web design trends we’ll see pop up on WordPress sites this year. One of the predictions I’ve seen a lot of and originally was not too thrilled about is brutalist web design. Here’s the thing: I don’t want to […] View original post at …
The 17 Best Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers
Though it may seem like forever, Google Chrome has only been around since 2008. Regardless, in its 10 short years, Google Chrome has become the most used and most popular web browser of all web browsers available. Although Chrome hasn’t ever matched (or bested) the same popularity Internet Explorer (IE) once enjoyed in the early […] View original post at …