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Business Case for Performance

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Dan Knauss
BusinessWordPress News
Here's an idea for a handy performance business case calculator. The eCommerce fashion Farfetch correlated Core Web Vitals and their own performance metrics with their business metrics, which let them identify an increase in KPIs. They built a "Performance Business…

TEST – block theme builder plugin

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Dan Knauss
WordPress News
This sounds great. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'd love to hear from you if you have. This tool basically saves your current settings and layouts to wrap them up as a theme or child…

Nice weather they’re having

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Dan Knauss
BusinessHosting
Apparently unaffected by downward trends elsewhere, GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) posted some bullish numbers for their second quarter with revenue up 9% year-over-year, and net Income up 93% year-over-year. See the presentation slides and other prepared remarks from CEO Aman…

Future thinking

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Dan Knauss
WordPress News
Josepha Haden Chomphosy on the future of WordPress (SEJ) and Do the Woo's series of visionary WordPress thinkers are worth a listen. Taking a long view is important when there's so much short-term thinking.

SEO Client Reports

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Dan Knauss
Notes
What should go into any SEO report for your clients who don't have time or patience for any jibber-jabber or lengthy stuff: Traffic SourcesConversion Rate and Progress on GoalsTop Performing ContentPage Speed InsightsBounce Rate and Dwell/Loiter TimeRankings and BacklinksWhat you…

Don’t Go Alone and Burnout, the Book

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Dan Knauss
Notes
Cory Miller reflects on his Burnout and Recovery Journey, sharing the framework for understanding it and working through: to know you’re not alone, to help others think about their own journey, and “most importantly, to not go it alone.” Check…

Barn2 Releases WooCommerce Product Filters

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Dan Knauss
Notes
Although there have been some recent enhancements in WooCommerce in this area, product filters have not been a strong feature. If you've struggled with that missing feature, you'll be glad to know Barn2 Plugins has rolled out WooCommerce Product Filters.…

SVG and WebP…finally

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Dan Knauss
HostingNotes
I'm looking forward to lots of good things coming in the future on the new WordPress core Performance Team blog, and I'm glad SVG and WebP are finally going to be usable in WordPress by default. (This is already the…

How Green is WebP, really?

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Dan Knauss
Notes
WebP is pretty green! In most cases, it will really save on bandwidth, but when it's using lossless compression, it's often not the most efficient in terms of power consumption. Here are some interesting tests Olivier Philippot of Greenspector ran…

Barriers to Contributing

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Dan Knauss
FeaturesMake WordPress
Small teams face frustrating barriers trying to make their contributions count TL;DR: Small teams have common barriers to contributing to Five for the Future. Making efficient use of their time and team members is hard when tooling and communication can…

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