[ad_1] Earlier today, Yoast CEO Marieke van de Rakt announced the company had been acquired by NewFold Digital. Yoast and its SEO-related business are expected to continue operating as usual with its current team and maintaining its product line. Newfold Digital is a global web solutions provider that serves small-to-medium businesses. The company has many […]
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WordPress vs Blogger: Which One Is Better? 2021 Comparison
[ad_1] Trying to decide between WordPress vs Blogger to make a blog in 2021 or beyond? That’s the question we’re going to answer in depth in this post. But first, a spoiler alert – in 2021, WordPress is almost always a better choice to start a blog or website. But to understand why we say […]
Continue readingGoogle Site Kit Plugin Ships Hot Fix for Critical Error That Caused Broken Websites – WP Tavern
[ad_1] Google published an update to its Site Kit plugin for WordPress this afternoon with a hot fix for a critical issue affecting an unknown number of users. Reports of broken websites were popping up on Twitter and in the plugin’s support forum on WordPress.org. Users affected by the issue reported having a critical error […]
Continue readingBuilding a Higher Ed Header – WP Tavern
[ad_1] It feels like it has been ages since the WordPress community has had a call for testing Full Site Editing (FSE) features. The FSE Outreach Program was on a small hiatus. However, the WordPress 5.8 launch was also underway last month. The program is an open call for testing various components of FSE. Thus […]
Continue readingHonest Review of WPX Hosting (2021)
[ad_1] A fast website is vital to your online success. No matter what the purpose of your website, from blogging for fun to selling products online, your site will benefit from quick loading times. Improving website speed can help you get more visitors thanks to an increased visibility in the search engines. Faster websites also […]
Continue reading#6 – Cory Miller on the WordPress Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape – WP Tavern
[ad_1] So in 2016 or so I started to think, what does the future look like? It feels like one day somebody at all the hosting companies goes, I wonder how much this thing called WordPress, what kind of footprint is it in our customer base, in our stack and somebody came back and probably […]
Continue readingElastic Hits Back at OpenSearch, Making Client Libraries Incompatible with Amazon-led Open Source Fork – WP Tavern
[ad_1] After Elastic, makers of the search and analytic engine Elasticsearch, re-licensed its core product so that it was no longer open source, Amazon led a community effort to fork it. In July 2021, contributors to the project announced the first general availability (GA) release of OpenSearch 1.0, an Apache 2.0-licensed fork of Elasticsearch 7.10.2 and […]
Continue readingEmoji Toolbar Plugin Brings an Emoji Picker Back to the WordPress Editor – WP Tavern
[ad_1] Earlier today, theme.es released its Emoji Toolbar project to the plugin directory. It is a simple picker that integrates with the WordPress Rich Text toolbar, allowing users to insert emoji directly from the editor interface. After Nick Hamze pulled his Emoji Conbini plugin from WordPress.org last year, there has been an emoji-sized hole in […]
Continue readingAutomattic Invests $30M in Titan, a Business Email Startup – WP Tavern
[ad_1] source: Titan.email Automattic has invested $30 million in Titan, a professional email suite aimed at businesses and companies offering white-labeled email solutions for customers. At WordCamp India 2021, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said that the company had just made “a pretty large investment” in the India-based startup and stated that it “will be a […]
Continue readingIs WordPress Development Really All That Hard To Get Into Today? – WP Tavern
[ad_1] Oh, how easily we forget the WordPress of 10, 15 years ago. We are spoiled. We are spoiled by the gluttony of documentation and tutorials, a wealth of knowledge created over more than a decade. We are spoiled by our own expertise, built-in our more vigorous youth, now sitting on our haunches as we […]
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