Yesterday, Alex Shiels posted an update to the proposed guidelines for the WordPress block directory. The document adds eight rules for plugin authors to follow if they plan to add their one-off blocks to the directory. The guidelines are additional requirements on top of the existing plugin directory guidelines. While the wording and organization of the block guidelines received a …
How To Bulk Optimize Images With Smush
Using full-sized images on your WordPress site not only takes up storage space but slows down your site, too. Instead of wasting time and effort compressing them manually, see how Smush can help you do it in bulk. Smush is an award-winning image optimization plugin that focuses on compressing and resizing your images. It saves storage space and takes some …
Google Delays Mobile-First Indexing Deadline to March 2021
Google had set September 2020 as the deadline for when it would begin to fully switch over to crawling and indexing sites using mobile-first indexing but announced today that site owners will have more time to prepare. The deadline has been extended to March 2021. Mobile-first indexing is a long-term plan that Google began rolling out in July 2019 by …
The #1 Reason Nobody Wants to Hear from You
Putting yourself out there is not about you. It’s about those you serve. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Unsplash Launches Official Plugin for WordPress
Unsplash has released its own official plugin for WordPress, co-developed with the team at XWP. The plugin seamlessly connects Unsplash’s 1 million+ free high-resolution image library with the WordPress editor. Users can easily search Unsplash directly inside the custom block and insert images with attribution and alt description info automatically filled in. The selected images are download and added to …
Merge Multiple Articles into One and Get More SEO Juice With 301 Redirects
There are many things to consider when managing a website nowadays. Because the competition is diverse, you’ll need to put out quality content regularly, but that’s only part of it. For a site to truly be successful, you’ll need to consider your SEO rating, which in turn takes into account domain authority, site stability & speed, keywords, etc. Put all …
WordPress 5.5 to Remove Hulu from List of Supported oEmbed Providers
WordPress 5.5 will be dropping Hulu oEmbed support after Hulu silently disabled its oEmbed API. This is the API that allows users to copy and paste a link into the editor and have it automatically embed the content, as opposed to copying a chunk of embed code. Documentation contributors discovered that it wasn’t working while attempting to document the Hulu …
All in One SEO Pack Plugin Patches XSS Vulnerability
All in One SEO Pack patched an XSS vulnerability this week that was discovered by the security researchers at Wordfence on July 10. The popular plugin has more than 2 million active installs, according to WordPress.org. Wordfence researchers categorized it as “a medium severity security issue” that could result in “a complete site takeover and other severe consequences:” This flaw …
The 10 Commandments of Podcasting
How to build your brand and cultivate a loyal following through a podcast. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Astra Becomes the Only Non-Default WordPress Theme With 1 Million Installs
On Tuesday, Brainstorm Force announced its Astra theme passed 1 million active installations. It is the only non-default theme in the official WordPress theme directory to reach such a height. Popularity breeds popularity. Once the theme broke 50,000 installs in January 2019, it was a quick hop and skip to 500,000 in October and 1 million less than a year …