Next week(!) is WordSesh. For those who aren’t familiar, WordSesh is a free online-first (has been doing it since before it became how all events are ;p) WordPress conference. It is totally free for live (and nearly-live attendance). (If you’re a more-than-24-hours-after-conference-end slow poke on a talk, you’ll just have to become a WPSessions member […]
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Longtime readers may have caught on to the fact that I’m a big sucker for cool CSS techniques I would have never come up with or figured out. And this is one more example on that. Over at CSS-Tricks, Silvia O’Dwyer offers a guide to making some really compelling “neon light” effects with CSS. Honestly […]
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I really enjoyed watching this little interview with between Mark & Keith from Highrise Digital and Matt Mullenweg and Josepha Haden Chomposy (who are probably the two most influential people shaping WordPress today). Nothing that anyone said was really a surprise or revelation to me, but it was all helpful and “orienting” to hear again […]
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There are many many ways you can change the look of a specific page on your WordPress site. You can change the content inside the WordPress content editor. You can change the CSS rules that affect the site. Or create a new file in your WordPress theme’s template hierarchy to correspond to the specific page. […]
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Este ensayo también está disponible en español. I would have never imagined that working with WordPress would be a vital part of my current life and that I would be organizing the first WordCamp of my city Cochabamba, and the first of Bolivia. To start with my story, let me clarify that I don’t have […]
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Jetpack 9.8 was released this week, introducing WordPress Stories as the headline feature. The Story block, which allows users to create interactive stories, was previously only available on mobile. It can now be used in the web editor. Stories went into public beta on the Android app in January 2021, and were officially released on the […]
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Whether you run a personal or business site, there is no doubt that calls to action play an important role in your website. They help readers and visitors follow the path you want them to take and take a desired action. Depending on the purpose of your website, you might want to add a call […]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week marks the 18th anniversary of WordPress’ launch. The platform has continued to grow over the years and as of this writing, WordPress powers more than 40% of the web. Beyond that, a new Gutenberg version has been released. Gutenberg […]
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Accessibility and creating websites that are accessible to everyone are often overlooked by most. While the subject is gaining more and more popularity in recent years, due to a significant increase in web-based ADA lawsuits, it is still far from being a widely implemented practice. But why is that? One reason is that making websites […]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, there were a couple of acquisitions in the WordPress space. Iconic has been acquired by the Liquid Web Family under their new software brand, StellarWP. Meanwhile, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) joins Delicious Brains. For the people that are […]
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