The first official WordCamp in Ukraine will be held in Kyiv at the Incom Business Center on September 24-25. For the past three years, the WordPress community in Ukraine has gathered for conferences and meetups organized under the WP Kitchen name. The WordCamp Kyiv organization team, led by Anna Kramar, includes three members of the WP Kitchen team and three …
Should You Use a CDN for Your WordPress Site? Your Questions Answered
Site speed is important. Like, really important. In fact, a slow site could be the death knell of your business. That might sound dramatic, but it’s the truth. When a visitor lands on your site, they want to find what they’re looking for quickly. And if your site is loading slowly, they’re much more likely to bounce off to another …
The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Caching
As a savvy website owner, I’m certain you understand how important it is for your website to load quickly. And if you run your website on WordPress, you’ve probably at least heard of the need for caching plugins before. Caching is a critical aspect of your website’s performance as it can greatly improve loading times. By a lot. In layman’s terms, a caching plugin creates …
In Case You Missed It – Issue 10
photo credit: Night Moves – (license) There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post. Bob Dunn Launches Theme and Plugin Roundups Bob Dunn, founder of …
Creating a Manual Backup of WordPress When It’s Down or Locked
So your site is down and you can’t log in… and you just realized you don’t have a recent backup. Dammit. Before you launch into panic mode, though, it’s safe to say you’re not completely screwed. In an ideal world, you would have a working backup that you could use to restore your site, but we don’t exactly live in …
WP Mobile Detector Plugin Patched for Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability, Exploits Ongoing
Researchers at Sucuri are reporting that the WP Mobile Detector plugin has been patched for an arbitrary file upload vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. The plugin, which was temporarily removed from the WordPress Plugin Directory, had more than 10,000 active installs before the exploits began. According to Sucuri, the majority of compromised sites have been infected …
How to Build Custom Faceted Search for Big WordPress Sites
Sites that use lots of categories to organize lots of content need faceted search. Without a way to filter through that mountain of content, and pinpoint exactly what they are looking for, visitors may grow frustrated and seek out other options online. eCommerce sites are the obvious application for faceted search. Ebay, Amazon, Zappos, Etsy, and virtually every other successful …
WordPress for Android 5.4 Adds Gravatar Updating and New Smart Lock Feature
WordPress for Android version 5.4 was released this week with a couple of exciting new features and the eagerly anticipated new visual editor. The editor received a complete rewrite to use WebView, which allows the app to render and edit HTML via ContentEditable. The app’s developers had to work around a few bugs with WebView in order to make the …
Is Smart Slider 3 the Best WordPress Slider Plugin on the Market?
I rarely write plugin reviews, and I never write about sliders. But today I’m making an exception for Smart Slider 3. It’s not just the best slider plugin available, it’s also an example to all free and premium plugin makers of how a plugin should be made. So let’s take a look at why I think Smart Slider 3 is …
Smush Solves Internet-Old Problem (By, Erm, Now Resizing Images!)
We’ve all been there, volunteered to put up a website for the parents or taken a look at the local footy club page and wondered to ourselves WHY DID YOU UPLOAD FOUR HUNDRED 2.8MB IMAGES???? Well, wonder no more! No more searching for bulk image resizing desktop utilities and no more fretting about your server space. Because now Smush, in …