Google announced an expansion of listener engagement metrics today for those using its Podcast Manager. Previously, audience insights included data about the types of devices listeners are using, where listeners tune in and drop off during a given episode, total number of listens, and listening duration, but the service lacked analytics regarding how visitors were discovering the podcast. Google is …
Introducing: New and Improved Hub Tabs!
Since we released The Hub 2.0 in March, we’ve been working hard to improve the experience, and we think you’re gonna love the new look and functionality we’re releasing for you today. In a nutshell, we’ve refreshed the design and functionality of your Security, Performance, SEO, and Overview tabs to give you, and your users, a much more elegant and …
WordCamp Austin 2020 Finds Success with VR Experience for Sessions and Networking
WordCamp Austin 2020 attendees are raving about their experiences attending the virtual event last Friday. It was no secret that the camp’s organizers planned to use Hubs Virtual Rooms by Mozilla to create a unique environment, but few could imagine how much more interactive and personalized the experience would be than a purely Zoom-based WordCamp. After selecting a custom avatar, attendees entered …
How To Optimize WordPress For Speed With Hummingbird
Optimizing a WordPress site for speed can seem daunting even for advanced users. Here is a complete guide on how to make your web pages load incredibly fast with Hummingbird, our WordPress speed optimization plugin. Make your WordPress sites blazing fast with Hummingbird One thousand and one…one thousand and two… That’s all the time you’ve got to ensure that your …
WordPress 5.6 to Introduce Application Passwords for REST API Authentication
In 2015, WordPress 4.4 introduced a REST API, but one thing that has severely limited its broader use is the lack of authentication capabilities for third-party applications. After considering the benefits and drawbacks of many different types of authentication systems, George Stephanis published a proposal for integrating Application Passwords, into core. Stephanis highlighted a few of the major benefit that …
WP Agency Summit Begins Its Second Annual Virtual Event October 12
Jan Koch, the founder and host of WP Agency Summit, is kicking off his second annual event on October 12. The five-day event will feature 37 speakers from a wide range of backgrounds across the WordPress industry. It is a free virtual event that anyone can attend. “The focus for the 2020 WP Agency Summit is showing attendees how to …
Cloudflare Launches Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress
Just a day after launching its new privacy-first web analytics product last week, Cloudflare announced Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) for WordPress. The new service boasts staggering performance improvements for sites that might otherwise be slowed down by shared hosting, slow database lookups, or sluggish plugins: Our testing… showed a 72% reduction in Time to First Byte (TTFB), 23% reduction to First …
Create a Free Track and Trace COVID-19 Form for Businesses with Forminator
Whether you or your client runs a cafe, boutique, hair salon, a place of worship, or practically any business or organization, with the help of our 5-star rated plugin, Forminator, you can track & trace and help manage COVID-19. We’ve developed an easy-to-implement track and trace template that you can use or add to your clients’ websites using Forminator. It …
Jetpack 9.0 Introduces Loom Block, Twitter Threads Feature, and Facebook and Instagram oEmbeds
Jetpack’s highly anticipated 9.0 release has landed, introducing some of the new features the team has previewed over the past week. Users can now publish WordPress posts to Twitter as threads. This new feature is available as part of the Publicize module when you have connected a Twitter account. Posting Twitter threads is a feature that only works with the …
Exploring Full-Site Editing With the Q WordPress Theme
I have been eagerly awaiting the moment when I could install a theme and truly test Gutenberg’s full-site editing feature. By and large, each time I have tested it over the past few months, the experience has felt utterly broken. This is why I have remained skeptical of seeing the feature land in WordPress 5.6 this December. The Q theme …