Bringing in external help may seem overwhelming, but a branding expert can provide a lot of insight that you may not be able to provide from an internal perspective. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Remove Menus From the WordPress Dashboard
The WordPress codex is full of fun things that you can experiment with. Have you ever wanted to remove a menu page from the WordPress dashboard to prevent clients getting confused by the settings menu? Blow the dust off of your handy codex and check out the function references for removing menu pages. Here’s what you’re looking for: Replace the …
New Gatsby Source WordPress Plugin Now in Beta
Gatsby announced its new source plugin (v4) for WordPress is now in beta. The plugin has been completely revamped to improve headless WordPress setups where Gatsby powers the frontend. It also integrates with Gatsby Cloud to provide real-time previews and incremental builds. The Gatsby team has had a long journey towards creating an integration for WordPress sites that would satisfy more complex …
3 Tools to Help You Build a Strong Website and Brand
It’s easier than ever to build your own digital presence. We tested and reviewed some of the latest offerings. View original post at Entrepreneur…
WordCamp Attendance Badges Could Be a Good Thing, but That’s the Wrong Discussion
WordPress profile badges. On July 3, Timi Wahalahti opened a discussion on the Community WordPress blog on whether WordCamp volunteers, WordCamp attendees, or Meetup attendees should be awarded a WordPress.org profile badge. The discussion stemmed from a nearly two-year-old Meta ticket that was recently resurfaced. The general consensus from the comments on the post seems to be that volunteers should …
How to Get the Most Out of Smush Image Optimization
Optimizing your images manually would involve a lot of resizing, a fair bit of coding, and heaps of time. Luckily, Smush does all the hard work for you and plenty more besides, all of which you will find covered in this guide to help you get the most out of the plugin. Smush offers an abundance of features to help …
New Block-based Navigation and Widgets Screens Sidelined for WordPress 5.5
The new navigation block and navigation and widget screens that were originally planned for WordPress 5.5 have been pushed back to the next release. These projects are currently available in the Gutenberg plugin experiments screen but are not yet ready to land in core. Converting the widget-editing areas and updating the widgets UI to use the block editor is a project that …
WordPress Contributors Seek Sponsorship for Improving Gutenberg Developer Docs
WordPress developers Milana Cap and Jonathan Bossenger are starting a fundraiser for improving Gutenberg developer documentation. The conversation began yesterday when Cap tweeted about how documentation is often overlooked when companies hire full-time contributors to work on WordPress. I wish someone pay people to work on Gutenberg Docs. All devs who understand Gutenberg are working on building it and no …
Build Static or Dynamic Blocks With the WP Block Builder Script
Today, Jeffrey Carandang released WP Block Builder, an npm script for developers to begin building WordPress blocks. It is just one of many such scripts in a sea of block scaffolding tools, but Carandang may just have the experience and clout to rise above the rest. Thus far, developers have downloaded his custom setup over 500 times. Developers wanting to …
Web File Management Comes to WPMU DEV Hosting
We ran our 2020 survey. We asked you what you’d like. You told us, among other things, a web-based file manager for your managed WordPress hosting. So, here you go. Basically you were looking for the ability to simply upload and edit files in your hosting account using a file manager interface instead of SFTP. We get that. It’s a …