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Is freelancing all it’s cracked up to be? Sure, it is! But it takes a lot of hard work. And I should know. I started freelancing in 2004 when I was 20 to help pay for college. My very first paying writing gig was an article for a teen arts magazine about Irish dancing. I’ve […]
Shopify’s official plugin for WordPress was removed from the plugin directory this week. The plugin allowed users to create “Buy Buttons” for products from their Shopify stores and insert them into WordPress posts and pages using a shortcode. It was built by WebDevStudios and had approximately 9,000 active installations before it was removed. Shopify’s documentation says the plugin has been …
There are currently about 3 billion smartphone users worldwide. Even if your site only taps into the tiniest fraction of those global users, I’m willing to bet there’s a significant portion of mobile visitors that comprise your overall site traffic. Why do I say this? Because in the U.S. alone, smartphone users access the Internet, […]
It’s time to start optimizing your images for lossy compression if you haven’t already because Google PageSpeed Insights has quietly started recommending this form of image optimization. Google has updated the documentation for its popular pagespeed insights tool to include lossy image compression. Fortunately, you can compress the images on your WordPress website and go lossy in just […]
WordCamp Europe 2017 organizers are counting down 50 days until the largest planned WordPress event to date. Speaker announcements continue to roll out and the recommended hotels are getting booked up at the height of tourist season. As of yesterday, more than 300 of the 500 tickets for Contributor Day have been claimed. This year organizers are experimenting with sponsor …
Recently, I showed you how to create a staff intranet using the BuddyPress social networking plugin. The tutorial walked you through setting everything up, but your intranet won’t be a truly useful tool unless you populate it and manage it. So that’s what we’re going to cover today. In this post, I’ll follow on from […]
Over the weekend, Matt Mullenweg announced that the upcoming WordPress 4.8 release will drop support for IE versions 8, 9, and 10. Core contributors have been discussing browser support for the past two months in relationship to setting technical requirements for the new editor. Microsoft discontinued support for IE 8, 9, and 10 in January 2016, which means these versions …
Parallax scrolling is something we commonly see in modern web design. Why? Because it gives the illusion of movement and depth, which, when paired with an otherwise static and long scrolling site adds intrigue and excitement—perfect for when you want to grab your visitor’s attention. For those of you thinking, “What about all the other […]
How many of you took WPMU DEV’s Implementer vs. Developer quiz last year? If you haven’t done so already, I’d suggest you go right on and test your skills with these 20 questions. If you have time, I’d also encourage you to keep reading as there’s valuable information there on the distinction between a WordPress […]
After the controversial changes to Twitter’s @reply feature, which no longer counts usernames towards the 140-character limit, Mastodon registrations rose sharply. Mastodon is a free, open source, decentralized network that has many similarities to Twitter. The software, named in honor of its creator’s favorite metal band, was launched in October and registered 24,000 users in the first six months. A …
