While the post is in jest, the points highlight what we often see when people submit tickets for paid plugins. That said, these five steps will ensure you get your money back.
Syed Balkhi and Awesome Motive have acquired Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress, which according to Syed is the second most popular analytics plugin in the WordPress.org repository. Its new name is ExactMetrics. The move fits within the goals of Awesome Motive to expand into product lines that fit into their broader line of business to…
Facebook has enabled search that allows you to search all public posts. This means you might finally be able to see where those Facebook referrals are coming from, if not from a group. TechCrunch has the full story. They had to index 2 trillion posts… Also this look inside the search team at Facebook is…
Here’s an eye-opening study from Princeton University that analyzed over 53,000 product pages from 11,000 shopping websites. What they found was 1,818 instances of dark patterns, which are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users. 💩
Salesforce Ventures has invested an incredible $300 million as the sole investor in Automattic’s Series D, their first raise since 2014. Total investment is now $491 million over 15 years.
Navigation is one of the most challenging battles for doing responsive design well. To preface this article, I highly recommend you study Brad Frost’s collections of responsive navigation patterns and complex responsive navigation patterns. In this post, I’ll cover two methods for handling the “toggle” method for responsive navigation in WordPress. Common responsive navigation patterns…
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It’s an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook’s “Instant Articles” feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it’s a not HTML but like HTML implementation of web pages that supports limited web features, and importantly…
