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What is WP Cloud?

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Dan Knauss
WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind WP.com, Pressable, and WordPress VIP with GridPane soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane.

2022 Web Almanac CMS Report

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Dan Knauss
According to the CMS chapter of the just-released 2022 Web Almanac from the HTTP Archive, sites using a CMS — and WordPress — are still steadily increasing globally, and 34% of all the sites with an identifiable CMS were using…

Tech Roundup for the Week of September 12

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Daniel Schutzsmith
Fresh off the heels of WordCamp US, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space. There were several fantastic talks about design, accessibility, WP-CLI, blocks, and FSE at the event. We’re looking forward to highlighting some videos once they’re online.

Now that SEO is taking performance…

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Dan Knauss

Now that SEO is taking performance optimization much more seriously thanks to Google‘s Core Web Vitals, some people think a web page’s Lighthouse performance scores correlate with their Core Web Vitals score. But is this really true? Rick Viscomi dives…

If you’ve done any testing or…

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Dan Knauss

If you’ve done any testing or optimization with your site with Google in mind you’ve likely heard of Lighthouse — a popular open-source tool for auditing performance. Karolina Szczur describes what has changed between Lighthouse 7 and 8 — and…

Jamie Indigo has written a technical…

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Dan Knauss

Jamie Indigo has written a technical SEO guide to Lighthouse performance metrics. Jamie offers some instructions for testing your performance and understanding the metrics behind Lighthouse's Performance score.

Executive Code When President Joe Biden…

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Dan Knauss

Executive Code When President Joe Biden took office this week, the official White House website was completely replaced — and it's still using WordPress. Of course, this sparked a public conversation (and also some private ones) about the theme and…

Google has provided a target date…

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Dan Knauss

Google has provided a target date in May 2021 for when "Core Web Vitals" will be an official ranking factor in Google search results. 🎯 They recommend doing a sitewide audit of your pages. Identify where there is room for…

WordCamp US will be happening next…

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Brian Krogsgard

WordCamp US will be happening next week — officially December 7th, 8th, and 9th — for the second year in Nashville. If you are not attending, free livestream tickets are available. There's a certain feeling in the air that this year's…

Susty WP is an experiment by…

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Brian Krogsgard

Susty WP is an experiment by Jack Lenox to see how small a WordPress theme can get. Jack got the homepage of his website to about 7KB of data transfer earned — not at all surprisingly — top scores in…
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