User engagement is an important determinant of a successful website. Typically, this means that visitors landing on your website should read through your content, interact with various forms, and click through a call-to-action that suits their search intent. To create… Continue Reading →
Anne McCarthy announced Round #11 of the FSE Outreach Program on November 11. The latest test, dubbed Site Editing Safari, calls on volunteers to run through a step-by-step list to find strengths and weaknesses around the upcoming WordPress 5.9 site… Continue Reading →
Hello! This is the 74th weekly roundup of theme-related discussions, fixes, and developments in Gutenberg. This week we are trying a digest format. Please let us know what you think in the comments. New directory names for block themes In… Continue Reading →
What is a digital product? When your business is WordPress plugins and themes (as ours is), you’re bound to see a ton of different product types that website owners are selling. And the most common of these products are digital… Continue Reading →
While businesses have always had many threats to contend with, cyber attacks are becoming increasingly worrying. A zero-day exploit is one of the severest malware threats. Try a free demo {“@context”:”http://schema.org/”,”@id”:”https://kinsta.com/wp-content/themes/kinsta/images/mykinsta-demo-video.mp4″,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”duration”:”PT5S”,”name”:”MyKinsta Demo Overview”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https://kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/zero-day-exploit.jpg”,”embedUrl”:”https://kinsta.com/wp-content/themes/kinsta/images/mykinsta-demo-video.mp4″,”uploadDate”:”2021-12-02″,”description”:”Want to test out the MyKinsta dashboard without… Continue Reading →
In version 5.8, WordPress duotone filters launched. Duotone filters allow content creators to add unique appearances to their photos without editing the photo files. Here you will want to consider how clients can make use of these colors. What options will… Continue Reading →
A few days ago, the big tech news was that Jack Dorsey was stepping down from his role as Twitter CEO to focus on Square, the payment processor he founded in 2009. Two days later, it was announced that Square… Continue Reading →
Cyber Monday Ends In… Cyber Monday Happening Now! It’s finally here! This is the ultimate Divi Cyber Monday sale. We are offering our biggest discount ever on Divi memberships, upgrades and renewals. But that’s just the beginning…we are also giving… Continue Reading →
TL/DR As of the currently available WordPress 5.9 Beta 1 release the directory names in block-based (FSE) themes are changing. The name for the directory containing template files will be templates, and the name for the directory containing template part… Continue Reading →
At the end of November, prominent members of the PHP community formed a new PHP Foundation as a non-profit organization, “to ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language.” The founding members include Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Craft… Continue Reading →
After a call for themes team representatives and a themes team meeting in WordPress slack, we can finally announce our 3 Themes Team representatives. They are, Ganga Kafle (@kafleg)Acosmin (@acosmin)Benachi (@utz119) At first, let’s congratulate them and wish them a… Continue Reading →
Luke Carbis and Rob Stinson, two of the three-person Block Lab team that WP Engine picked up in 2020, are back together on a new project. This time, they are joined by Byron Keet. The trio is taking on the… Continue Reading →
If you want to make your online content as appealing to site users as possible, it’s important to master the art of using visuals. And WordPress SVG plays a big role in perfecting your online image content. Fortunately, there are… Continue Reading →
TL;DR: The rest of this stuff is just a short list of other things I would tell my previous self (or maybe someone else just entering the industry) if I were just getting started. At the beginning of the month,… Continue Reading →
About this episode. On the podcast today we have something new. Until now I’ve interviewed one person at a time, but today there’s three people on the call, Birgit Pauli-Haack, Marcus Kazmierczak and Zack Krida. Birgit is a Developer Advocate… Continue Reading →
When you’re browsing the web, the last thing you want is to run into an error message. If you’re a macOS user, one of the issues you might come across is: “Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server”… Continue Reading →
The post The ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR In WordPress: How to Fix It For Good is written by Tom Rankin and appeared first on WPKube. In the early days of the web, security wasn’t a primary concern. Though, as more information shuttles about… Continue Reading →
Despite the holiday season being around the corner, the WordPress project didn’t slow down. In a recent episode of WP Briefing, Executive Director Josepha Haden shares the first thing she wants people to notice about WordPress, which is also the… Continue Reading →
Cyber Monday Ends In… Cyber Monday Happening Now! It’s finally here! This is the ultimate Divi Cyber Monday sale. We are offering our biggest discount ever on Divi memberships, upgrades and renewals. But that’s just the beginning…we are also giving… Continue Reading →
WordPress 5.9 beta 1 is now available for testing. With just eight weeks remaining until the official release lands, the team is focusing on testing, an important part of the development process that will keep 5.9 on track. Due to… Continue Reading →
Last month, Josepha Haden Chomphosy announced the annual WordPress survey. If you have not gotten around to participating, it is still open for the rest of 2021, leaving everyone another 30 days to answer. The survey is relatively short. I… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, December 3, 2021, 17:00 UTC. Updates from working groups Design Documentation General Gutenberg Media Meta Themes Open floor If you want to have a topic added to… Continue Reading →
The agenda followed for the meeting. The meeting was led by @marybaum and summary written by @webcommsat. The full meeting starts at this link in the Core Slack channel 1. Welcome 2. Announcements WordPress Beta 1 is out (30 November… Continue Reading →
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates there are more than 1,469,000 software developers around the country. According to data from 2021, 35.35% of those developers use Java, one of the world’s top five most widely used programming languages. Try… Continue Reading →
With the appearance of blogs, channels, and social media accounts, affiliate marketing has quickly become a key digital marketing strategy. While it has been around for some time, the popularity and practice of affiliate marketing significantly took off back in… Continue Reading →
Media buying is the process of purchasing the most suitable advertising space, depending on the type of audience the company wants to target and the funds it can put into its marketing efforts. Many firms hire professional media buying agencies… Continue Reading →
Vulnerable plugins and themes are the #1 reason WordPress websites get hacked. The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report powered by WPScan covers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities, and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes… Continue Reading →
Note: To receive disclosures like this in your inbox the moment they’re published, you can subscribe to our WordPress Security Mailing List. On November 11, 2021 the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability we… Continue Reading →
As a UX designer, you get to work on creative, rewarding, even life-changing projects. It’s an industry with flexible working and countless opportunities. All this, and you get paid well too. It doesn’t matter if you’re not a creative prodigy,… Continue Reading →
Hi all, This weeks Block-based Themes meeting has been rescheduled to next week due to some scheduling conflicts. Instead, try out 5.9 Beta 1 which includes the first default block theme! Time: Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 16:00 PM UTC Channel: #themereview +make.wordpress.org/core/ #agenda #meeting #block-based-meeting
