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After seven years of developing and supporting the WangGuard/SplogHunter service, José Conti has shut down the server permanently due to the stress and trauma associated with maintaining it. Conti is a WordPress plugin developer and consultant, and a member of the WordPress España translation team. His WangGuard plugin identifies and blocks sploggers, unwanted users, and untrusted users on WordPress, Multisite, …
Much of my time on here generally focuses around reviewing and comparing a handful of WordPress themes or plugins against one another. In today’s post, however, I want to take a closer look at one new WordPress plugin: the Gutenberg editor plugin. Some of you may be wondering what makes this plugin so special that […] View original post at …
Petersen Family Jesse Petersen, founder of Genesis The.me and Petersen Media Group, has passed away at the age of 38. Petersen had been battling Cystic Fibrosis for the past several years and suffered a massive lung bleed earlier today. He passed out before paramedics could reach him and could not be revived at the emergency room. Petersen was on a …
People are naturally drawn to the visual aspects of a WordPress website, just as much as they are drawn to the written content you share. In fact, according to internet marketer Jeff Bullas, articles with images get 94% more views than articles without images. That’s a huge increase in pageviews if you ask me. And […] View original post at …
Got a serious need for speed? Satisfy it – for free! – with Hummingbird. We’re excited to announce today that our speed optimization plugin is now available to download at WordPress.org. Hummingbird is the ultimate performance optimization plugin for WordPress. Once activated, it scans your site for potential speed improvements and provides fine-tuned controls for […] View original post at …
photo credit: WP Tavern WordCamp Europe 2017 organizers have posted attendance and budget data compiled after the conclusion of the event. Despite being promoted as “the largest WordPress event to this day” with more than 3,000 expected attendees, WCEU 2017 fell short with 1,900 people on the ground. Attendees were 5% fewer than last year’s 2,000 in Vienna. Expectations ran …
OK, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for: there’s a huge surge in traffic on your WordPress site. Success! But then you get a message from Hummingbird or your web host or whatever uptime monitoring service you use, and it’s saying your site’s gone down. What the H-E-double-hockey-sticks? Right. So let’s focus on the […] View original post at …
Mega menus are a common design pattern on large WordPress sites. Such sites may have a complex information architecture with many different sections and subsections. By grouping similar links together, mega menus make it simple for the user to find relevant information quickly. About mega menus, usability expert Jakob Nielsen says: “[Mega menus] are an […] View original post at …
photo credit: ruudgreven DSC_0012 – (license) The new Gutenberg editor has an open ticket for allowing users to sort blocks via drag and drop. Blocks can currently be sorted with up and down arrows located to the left of the content but the beta only allows for single-column stacking. One of the goals for Gutenberg is to provide “a page …
Gutenberg development is marching ahead with version 0.3.0 released today. New releases are shipping out on a weekly basis, so testers will get to discover another round of new additions after updating to the latest. The changelog has a full list of the 50 additions and improvements included in this release, but here’s a quick visual tour of a few …
