Earlier today, version 1.0 of 10up’s Publisher Media Kit went live in the WordPress plugin directory. It is a preconfigured set of blocks and patterns for jump-starting a media kit page for small and medium-sized publications. When I first noticed the plugin, my mind immediately jumped to press kits and branding pages for businesses. Not enough companies within the WordPress …
WP Tavern Is Sporting a New Website Design
We are back with a brand-new edition of WP Tavern. Technically, we have a spiffy new coat of paint that I hope you all can see if viewing from your browsers. If you are reading this post via a feed reader, email, or something else, hop over to the site and check it out. The Tavern received a few updates …
Lead Generation Without Brand Trust is a Losing Game
If your business lacks a solid foundation of brand awareness and trust, your leads are far more likely to fall on barren ground. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Surge: A New Page Caching Plugin for WordPress with No Configuration Required
WordPress Core Contributor Konstantin Kovshenin has released a new page caching plugin called Surge. Searching the WordPress plugin directory, you will find hundreds of caching and cache purging plugins, but this one stands out from competitors in that it requires no configuration. The plugin starts working as soon as it’s activated, and there are no options. What kind of performance …
5 Challenges Confronting Every Business and Their Personal Brand
Personal branding is the most important factor in creating a trustworthy relationship with key players in the industry View original post at Entrepreneur…
Ask the Bartender: Is There a Starter for Building Block Themes?
I read some posts from “Ask the Bartender,” and I appreciate it a lot! Thanks. I have a question now. 🙂 I want to refine my WordPress theme development process, which is: To make a unique-creative design with Adobe XD or Figma. To convert it to static HTML using VS Code with Bootstrap. In WordPress, create custom post types with …
Gravatar Says It Was Not Hacked After “Have I Been Pwned” Service Notifies Users of a Breach
Gravatar is fielding questions today after “Have I Been Pwned,” a data breech checker service, tweeted “New scraped data: Gravatar had 167M profiles scraped in Oct last year via an enumeration vector. 114M of the MD5 email address hashes were subsequently cracked and distributed alongside names and usernames.“ It claims 72% of these email addresses were already logged with the …
What Working With A-List Celebrities Has Taught Me About Running a Fintech Company
At first glance, the fintech industry has nothing to do with the hospitality and entertainment industry. But a keen entrepreneur should always reflect and take a closer look. View original post at Entrepreneur…
FSE Outreach Round #11: Going on a Site Editing Safari
Anne McCarthy announced Round #11 of the FSE Outreach Program on November 11. The latest test, dubbed Site Editing Safari, calls on volunteers to run through a step-by-step list to find strengths and weaknesses around the upcoming WordPress 5.9 site editor. Volunteers are still welcome to provide feedback until Tuesday, December 7. This is actually my second attempt at Round …
PHP Foundation Gains Momentum with $280K Estimated Annual Budget on Open Collective
At the end of November, prominent members of the PHP community formed a new PHP Foundation as a non-profit organization, “to ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language.” The founding members include Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Craft CMS, Private Packagist, Tideways, PrestaShop, Symfony, and JetBrains—a group of companies with products that rely heavily on PHP. In just …