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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 Sources Conversion Rate and Progress on Goals Top Performing Content Page Speed Insights Bounce Rate and Dwell/Loiter Time Rankings and Backlinks What you should consider doing now More details at SEO Journal….
Patrick Daly has written a plugin called Email that allows site administrators to build custom text-based email templates to be delivered to users based on specific user activity. Based on the screenshots, this seems like it could potentially be a really useful plugin for delivering specific messages to users. You can download it on .org…
All the buzzwords, right? Wordless is a plugin and theme structure to help you integrate Haml, Sass, Compass, and Coffeescript into your WordPress web development workflow. Check out the Github for more info. (h/t David Bisset)
One more security update: Ninja Forms had a pretty nasty bug that allowed arbitrary file uploading. They worked with a security researcher — who tells his tale here — and the WordPress plugin team to get forced-upgrades to all users.
Joe Foley posted on WPMU about news curation and their Autoblog plugin, and it’s relevant to this space. He discusses the value of curated news sites (which I agree with) and says how their plugin can help make one great (which I disagree with). To me, the value of curation is when it’s curated with…
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. News WP Briefing: Episode 27: Is WordPress Made…
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I’d just like to see the return of something simple, but VERY useful. Namely the ability to add margins and a border to images. We had it in previous versions of WP. But know it’s gone again.
Sure I can add a plug-in like ‘Advanced image styles’ to get it back. But why should I need to?
Sometimes it’s the little things that can make all the difference. Not much to ask for ,,,