Personal branding is a smart strategy for ambitious entrepreneurs. View original post at Entrepreneur…
7 Useful Plugins for Adding Features to Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is a fantastic free plugin for adding contact forms to a WordPress site. But despite its ease of use and reliability, it’s missing a lot of features out-of-the-box. I recently showed how you can style Contact Form 7 with the help of plugins. In this post, I’ll show you how to extend Contact Form 7 even further to …
WordPress Community Designers Create the Museum of Block Art
Anne McCarthy announced the launch of the Museum of Block Art earlier today via the Gutenberg Times blog. The site’s goal is to showcase creative uses of blocks and inspire the WordPress community to push the limits of what is possible with the block editor. The site showcases 22 pieces of block art from 11 people in the WordPress space. …
5 Tips for Creating Innovative UX Design
These intangible principles should be in place to guide you through the fairly ambiguous realm of UX design. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Play the Piano and Other Instruments via the WordPress Block Editor
Tetsuaki Hamano released the Piano Block plugin for WordPress on Monday. It allows users to insert a piano-based interface into the editor for playing music. Mostly, it is just a lot of fun. Hamano launched RichText Extension, his first submission to the WordPress plugin directory, in the spring of 2020. At the time, block-related plugins were still scarce, but he …
Gutenberg 12.7 Adds Multi-Block Selection in List View and Brings Margin Support to Group Blocks
Another two weeks have flown by, and another Gutenberg plugin update is in the books. This release is not as feature-heavy as the last, but it feels solid overall. Other than one breaking issue, version 12.7 includes several nice-to-have enhancements. The latest update includes some early work for a new style engine. This is a longer-term project that should improve …
7 Plugins to Encourage User-Generated Content Submissions on Your WordPress Site
There are a number of reasons why companies use content marketing to power their lead generation efforts. While a business’s services or products are what a customer ultimately needs from them, a high-quality content offering increases the value of that company’s solution. Content marketing helps businesses establish themselves as thought leaders and stay top-of-mind with their audience. In a recent …
WordPress Ditches “Pee” and “Tinkle” Jokes in Favor of More Inclusive Language and Clearer Code
It feels like the end of an era. Last week, core contributors merged a patch that removed PHP variables named $pee and $tinkle from the WordPress codebase. Yes, the software that powers 43% of the web has pee-pee jokes in its code. I know how it sounds. I felt silly writing that sentence. My job as a writer for WP …
39 Must-Have WordPress Development Tools
WordPress isn’t just for blogging. It’s a full-fledged CMS and undoubtedly a strong platform for developers. But the world of related trends and tools can be exhaustive when you just need a solid solution real fast. Given the fact that WordPress is used by millions of people, it’s only natural many use it to make a living, too. From plugin …
The WordPress Web Fonts API Has Arrived
The journey toward a web fonts API in WordPress has been a rollercoaster of emotions for developers. After being punted from the WordPress 5.9 release, it was moved to the Gutenberg project, where it could be built alongside related features that relied on it. The API has been merged into the Gutenberg plugin and should land in version 12.8. Theme …