Bradley Kirby released version 1.0 of his Wallace WordPress theme today. The theme is built using the WP REST API and Angular 2. Kirby has been working on Wallace for the past two years and has rewritten it several times in order to keep pace with changes in the REST API and Angular. If you view the Wallace demo, you’ll …
6 Little-Known Image Compression Tips for Making the Most of Smush Pro for WordPress
Your WordPress site needs to load in a flash just like the Flash since 40% of people leave slow sites. Fortunately, WP Smush Pro is the image-smushing super power you need to speed up your website without breaking a sweat. WP Smush Pro compresses your images to reduce their file size and speed up your site. All without having to […] View original post at …
The WordPress.org Homepage is Getting a Redesign
A WordPress.org homepage redesign is now in the works with a strong focus on marketing to new users. As the face of the open source project, the site is long overdue for some design attention. Mark Uraine, a designer at Automattic, posted on the Make/Meta blog about how quickly the project is coming together: “During the Contributor Day at WordCamp …
A Guide to Geotargeting and Geographic-Specific Content for WordPress
Is all traffic to your website “good” traffic? When you’re starting out it may seem that way (superficially anyway). However, it’s best to look at your WordPress site’s traffic as you would publicity: any publicity doesn’t necessarily make for good publicity. There are a variety of reasons why you may want to control where your […] View original post at …
How to Change the Default Members Landing Tab in BuddyPress
For the past two weeks, I’ve been helping a friend build his site. The site uses WordPress and BuddyPress and is the first opportunity I’ve had to use BuddyPress for a project. The site is dedicated to a Hockey League league that’s specific to a video game. The league has a number of players and teams. By default, when a …
How to Cope with WordPress Coding Overwhelm
Web development is not easy work. New themes. New plugins. New responsive design techniques. New platforms. New JavaScript frameworks and libraries. And so on. No matter how experienced you are, web development work can be downright frustrating and overwhelming at times—especially when you’re starting out or simply trying to nail down a new technique. Here’s […] View original post at …
How to Create a Custom Taxonomy for Departments or Divisions on a Company WordPress Site
I often get asked if WordPress Multisite is a suitable solution for a company website that has different divisions with unique identities. The answer is usually yes – Multisite can do this excellently. But it isn’t always necessary to create a separate site for each of the divisions in your company website, even using Multisite. If […] View original post at …
Podcast Motor Acquires Seriously Simple Podcasting Plugin
Seriously Simple Podcasting, created by Hugh Lashbrooke in 2012, has been acquired by Podcast Motor. The plugin is actively installed on nearly 20K sites and out of 104 reviews, has an average rating of 4.9 stars. Lashbrooke no longer has the time to dedicate to the project, “I am in fact selling the plugin (along with all of its add-ons) …
Why Trying to Get a 100 Score on Google PageSpeed Insights for WordPress Is Never Going to Happen
I’m a woman obsessed. So once I decided I wanted to get that perfect 100 score from Google PageSpeed Insights, I went for it and wouldn’t. Let. Go. I challenged myself to make it happen with a larger site because, well, you gotta just go for it sometimes! I figured it would be easy given […] View original post at …
WP-CLI Project Launches Patron Support Model to Fund Ongoing Development
WP-CLI contributors have been working towards a more sustainable future for the project throughout 2016. Daniel Bachhuber, the project’s official maintainer, has launched an experiment to fund ongoing maintenance and new development, asking potential patrons, “How much is WP-CLI worth to you?” Options for contributions range from $100/yr – $7500/yr. This particular funding experiment is not asking for one-time contributions …






