WordPress Biz Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
WordPress Business News and Insights 2022 Web Almanac CMS Report 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%…
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What is WP Cloud?
Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
WP Cloud has been flying under the radar for a while. At the WP Minute, Matt Medeiros spoke with Jesse Friedman, Director of Innovation at Automattic, to find out what it is. In brief, WP Cloud is a Platform as…
2022 Web Almanac CMS Report
Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
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
Daniel Schutzsmith
DesignDevelopment
WordPress Design & Development Around the Web Who Put Block-Based Template Parts in my Classic Theme? At the WP Tavern, Sarah Gooding breaks down the importance of having classic theme authors try out block-based template parts “without breaking their whole site design.” This is…
Now that SEO is taking performance…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
