Come one, come all to the third annual WordPress Accessibility Day happening Sept. 27 and 28. The 24-hour free event covers all of the best practices to make your site as accessible as possible. Talks range from data visualization, audio descriptions, user tests, and more. The event was originally started by the Website Core Accessibility Team back in 2020 and has been carried on by volunteer organizers since. According to the website, “Our mission is to demystify website accessibility for WordPress developers, designers, content creators, and users so that they can more easily build websites that work for everyone, regardless […]

Ever felt like you’re stuck in a time loop while waiting for your WordPress dashboard to load? If you’re dealing with a WordPress back end slow down, you’re not alone. A sluggish admin panel isn’t just a minor inconvenience — it’s a significant roadblock to effective website management.  But here’s the good news: a laggy dashboard isn’t a life sentence. This article will guide you through a comprehensive set of strategies to optimize your WordPress dashboard’s performance.  Say goodbye to slow load times and hello to a more efficient WordPress experience. 1. Check Your Connections Your Internet connection can be a […]

Get ready to dive deep into the world of affiliate marketing for WordPress companies with our special guest, Dustin Howes, the Chief Coach at PerformanceMarketingManager.com. Join us as we explore the fundamental purpose of affiliate marketing and how it can be a game-changer for businesses using WordPress. Dustin shares invaluable insights, strategies, and best practices that WordPress users can implement to leverage affiliate marketing effectively.

What are must-have, essential pages for every website? Every website consists of different web pages (or at least one, the homepage). However, they are not always the same for every type of site. For example, a website without eCommerce capabilities does not need a shop page. Having one would only confuse and frustrate your audience. At the same time, there are a number of pages that almost every kind of website needs to function properly, fulfill visitor expectations, or even legal reasons. And in this post, we will go over them, define why each page matters, what to put on […]

There are so many ways to reach your customers these days, but newsletters still stand out as one of the best ways to engage with your customers. In this episode of Press This, we talk to Lesley Sim, the co-founder of Newsletter Glue, about how you can easily integrate and send newsletters from your WordPress site. Lesley also tells us about why you should use newsletters for some things, and social media for others.

Mastodon and WordPress seem like a pretty good match for each other. Both are open source platforms based on similar philosophies: To give users a way to build their own piece of online real estate and help democratizing publishing. Considering their commonalities, wouldn’t it make sense to find ways for the two platforms to work more closely together and integrate with each other? That’s exactly what we want to explore in this post. The following article talks about how you can use your WordPress site to verify your account on Mastodon, how to display Mastodon content in WordPress, automatically post […]

Ever since Faust.js officially came out of beta in June of 2023, the team has been collecting RFCs (or requests for comments) on Github to steer the direction of the project. In this episode, we talk with Joe Fusco, a Senior Software Developer at WP Engine, who tells us how listening to users will help to create a project for the community. We also talk about some recently added features and the state of headless WordPress

Landing in Washington DC you immediately feel the history. You feel the weight of the decisions being made in the city and it gives you a sense of pride for belonging to something bigger than yourself. That’s why it was such an apt setting for WordCamp US 2023, on the heels of the 20th anniversary of the CMS. Being around community members and seeing the work they’re doing shows how far we’ve come in 20 years and where the CMS can go in the future.  The Gaylord National Resort was buzzing with the excitement of WordPressers eager to discuss the […]

How can WordPress help keep the web weird? In this episode of Press This, we talk with David Wolfpaw about the IndieWeb, a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web” that aims to keep the web independent. We talk about the philosophy behind the IndieWeb movement, how it can benefit the web for everyone, and what plugins and tools WordPress users have to take advantage of it.

If you want to rank well in search engines, links, specifically backlinks, are essential. They signal to Google and other search engines that others like your content and endorse it. Besides content, they are the most important ranking factor that Google considers. The search engine uses links to gauge the relevancy of you pages for different topics and also to discover new pages to index. Usually, Google is not super forthcoming about their algorithm and how exactly they judge websites, however, they recently published a guide for link building best practices. The earlier version only contained information about how to […]