WordPress News

Are you ready for “WordPress: The…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Are you ready for “WordPress: The College Years?” As WordPress turns 18, David takes a look at some of the lesser-known historical milestones that have stuck with him. Remember Kubrick and The Trojan Emoji? 🐴

Newly released Gutenberg 10.7 includes the…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Design

Newly released Gutenberg 10.7 includes the first iteration of responsive menus in the navigation block and new design tools to support the existing ones in blocks. Now you can insert block patterns from the WordPress.org Pattern Directory too. ✨

Anne McCarthy has put out the…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Anne McCarthy has put out the seventh call for testing in the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. 🧪 Now is a great time to help on the way to the 5.8 release. Just head over to #fse-outreach-experiment in Make Slack…

Kevin Ohashi shared the results of…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi shared the results of his latest (2021) WordPress Hosting Benchmarks — and he has hauch a new website dedicated to his annual reports. WooCommerce hosts get their own section and separate benchmarks. Plans from different hosting companies are…

BuddyPress 8.0 will introduce personalized membership…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

BuddyPress 8.0 will introduce personalized membership invitations and a new notification email that will automatically welcome new members into your community. 🤝

Pagely introduced its Really Rich Results…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Pagely introduced its Really Rich Results plugin. It generates Schema.org structured data, empowering you to take advantage of Google’s Rich Results and featured snippets. ✂️

Understrap, a WordPress theme framework, has…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Understrap, a WordPress theme framework, has been acquired by Howard Development & Consulting. Rob Howard, who owns the firm, shares why he made the purchase — for around $50,000 USD — and he offers some insight into his commercial plans:…

Stripe announced its new Payment Links…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Stripe announced its new Payment Links recently. They allow you to create a payment page without a website or much (if any) code. 🔗

🙅‍♂️ Bernhard Kau reminds us why…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

🙅‍♂️ Bernhard Kau reminds us why you shouldn't put theme code in plugins: "Running theme code in plugins (and vice versa) can very easily cause issues... which might be hard to debug, especially when they only occur in rare cases…

Peter Davis writes about the results…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Peter Davis writes about the results of an SEO experiment on the Kapwing site. He offers "seven different ways to identify articles that could benefit most from updates with minimal overlap and identifiable metrics for improvement." 📏 Nicole Kohler pointed…

Chris Coyier shares some insights on…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Chris Coyier shares some insights on how to tackle auto-generated social media images. One way in WordPress is with the Social Image Generator plugin, which Chris describes in detail. 🔌

Chris Johnson has designed a tool…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Chris Johnson has designed a tool to identify ways to improve the flow of your site, which he calls "Logical Content Flow." This describes "the natural hierarchal flow when headings are applied to HTML content correctly as per the Web…

Low Tech Magazine demonstrates the sustainability…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Low Tech Magazine demonstrates the sustainability of solar-powered websites by building one. This detailed post is based on their own self-hosted, solar-powered, off-grid website that has been running for 15 months now. ☀️

CSS Hell is a blog that…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

CSS Hell is a blog that holds a collection of common CSS mistakes and how to fix them. Love the title font. 😈

Eric Wu open-sourced his SEO tool…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Eric Wu open-sourced his SEO tool that bulk checks IPs to validate Googlebot IPs. 🤖 Why is this important? "Often there are various requests by spoofed user-agents pretending to be official search engine crawlers like Googlebot. In order to have…