Since the GDPR came into effect in 2018, website owners have been scrambling to get their site up to par and avoid hefty fines. While the race to GDPR-proof the Internet has calmed somewhat, it’s important for new sites and existing ones that skipped out to start taking steps to protect user data. Three years later, GDPR fines are continuing to be issued, and small businesses are certainly not immune. While you’re likely to receive a warning before being fined, there’s no reason to take chances. If you haven’t taken steps to protect your site yet, you need to do […]

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]

Using a managed WordPress host is an effective way to run your website with minimal hassle. However, it can be challenging to know which company to trust with your site. If you’ve never used a managed hosting service before, you may even feel overwhelmed by the number of options available. Fortunately, it’s relatively easy to distinguish between different managed WordPress hosts. You can evaluate key factors such as technical support, scalability, site speed, and price, to determine the provider that best suits your business. In this guide, we’ll look at what managed WordPress hosts are and why you should consider […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life. This week’s special guests is Jake Goldman from 10up. We asked Jake about recent 10up projects, how 10up decides which plugins to develop, and why 10up gives so much back to the WordPress community. Jake was an open book for this interview and I think we covered a ton of interesting topics. Join us each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour.

Can you use WordPress categories and tags to improve your website’s SEO? That is the question we will explore in this post. Why would that be relevant in the first place? Because while WordPress taxonomies are a way to bring order to your content and make it more accessible, using them also automatically creates archive pages that will show up in search engines. In order to help you make the most of them, in the following we will talk about the differences between categories and tags, their effect on SEO, and best practices on using them. Let’s get to it. […]

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]

Evergreen content is a powerful tool for building traffic, earning links, and improving rankings. If you want to create a successful blog, it should be part of your content strategy. In case you don’t yet know what evergreen content is, how it can help your marketing, and – most importantly – how to create it, that’s exactly what we will cover in this post. Stay tuned! What Is Evergreen Content? The term “evergreen” comes from the world of plants. It describes those plants that don’t lose their leaves with the seasons and instead stay green all year round. That is […]

The WordPress admin toolbar comes with a standard look and set of functions that are generally very useful, so why customize it? Well, sometimes the standard layout doesn’t suit the needs of every WordPress user or developer. Perhaps there are menu options listed you never use. Or maybe it doesn’t have links to your most-used dashboard sections.  No matter the specific reason, making customizations to the WordPress toolbar can streamline your workflow and improve how WordPress functions for individual users, teams, and developers.  For that reason, today, we’re discussing why someone might want to customize the admin WordPress toolbar and […]

Social media platforms are one of the most effective ways to share your content and attract new readers to your website. However, you have little control over how your articles appear when someone else shares them. The resulting posts may be poorly presented and deter users from clicking on them. The Yoast SEO plugin 16.5 update has introduced social media templates that enable you to adjust post titles, descriptions, and featured images across your site. You can control how users see your content by using them, even when someone else shares it. In this guide, we’ll look at what the […]

Did you want to attend WP Engine’s developer-focused conference DE{CODE} earlier in the year but live in the Southern Hemisphere? Well you’re in luck. The hosting company is putting on a second conference for developers “down under” called DE{CODE} APAC. Look forward to great WordPress content that you don’t have to stay up all night for. The conference starts on September 8 at 11 am AEST, and registration is free. Learn Check out any of the expert-led talks that will take you through how to set up, build, launch, and optimize your site. You definitely won’t want to miss the […]