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Think about how many times you click or tap or press on something over the course of a day. In fact, it’s probably so ingrained in you to click before trying any other action that it can be confusing to encounter something that looks clickable but in actuality doesn’t do anything. Buttons are generally the […]
Contributing to WordPress or other open source projects can be intimidating for first-time contributors. Sometimes, all you need is a helping hand to overcome fear, intimidation, or other barriers. In 2013, with the help of Konstantin Obenland, a WordPress core developer, I overcame my fear and contributed my first patch to WordPress. This is one of the principles behind a new …
We’re celebrating Smush surpassing 800,000 active installs with a killer new feature! Now you can Smush and optimize images that you are storing on Amazon S3. Smush is the clear choice when it comes to WordPress image compression and optimization. Thanks to your support, it has been named the 2017 plugin of the year. So with 1 million […]
The Apache Software Foundation issued a notice over the weekend, indicating that it has added Facebook’s BSD+Patents license to its Category X list of disallowed licenses for Apache PMC members. This is the license that Facebook uses for most of its open source projects. A representative from Facebook’s RocksDB team commented on the Apache Foundation’s post to advise that the …
There are a lot of different tests you can perform on your WordPress website – A/B testing, mobile/responsive design testing, browser testing. And then there’s usability testing. Usability testing is a hot topic for web design and SEO, and for good reason. Bad usability impacts how a person uses your website, which can affect conversions and, ultimately, rankings […]
Do you remember when black hat SEO was a major problem? Google eventually caught on to these unethical SEO tactics employed by shady (and, let’s be honest, lazy) people, so it may not have had a chance to get too close to you. Nevertheless, if you’ve ever had a client ask if you knew where […]
Commenting on blog posts and other website articles is a divisive topic in web circles. WPMU DEV has as many articles about dispensing with comments altogether as it does with fostering conversation through WordPress! I am firmly in the blogs-as-conversation camp, so I was excited to learn about two new standards seeking to enhance conversation […]
Another round of Gutenberg updates was released today. Last weekend brought version 0.4.0, which didn’t have too many noteworthy visible changes on the frontend but introduced an API for handling pasted content. Gutenberg developers are aiming to have specific handling for converting pasted content from applications like Word, Markdown, and Google Docs to native WordPress blocks. Version 0.4.0 also added …
Have you been inside a restaurant like Applebee’s or Red Robin lately? Well, if you haven’t, I’d urge you to do so because a lot has changed in the past few years what with rising costs. One of the ways these restaurants have been successful maintaining profits? By removing the human element and installing self-service […]
photo credit: Paper Plane – (license) Open source software has made its way into nearly every industry, but a recent open source security and risk analysis shows widespread license compliance risks, with 75% of the audited applications including GPL license conflicts. Although most violations are unintentional, there are some cases where companies do not comply with the license in order …
