The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. This week’s guests is Jono Alderson, who does Special Ops for Yoast. We dive into the future of AMP for WordPress and Google’s soft launch of the Core Web Vitals update. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour with Lindsy Farina from New Relic. We’ll be chatting about prepping your WordPress site for Core Web Vitals and her upcoming Summit/2021 talk.
In this post, we will review TranslatePress, a popular plugin to build multilingual websites. Not only was it a nominee of plugin madness 2021, it also boasts over 100,000 installs in the WordPress directory and a solid 4.6 out of 5-star rating. Why use a multilingual plugin and translate your WordPress site in the first place? Well, there are some compelling reasons: Though English is the most commonly used language on the web, ¾ of Internet users don’t speak it as their primary language – that’s 3.8 billion people! 56.2% of consumers say the ability to obtain information in their […]
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, […]
Every year, web design trends subtly shift and 2021 is no exception. While there aren’t often radical changes on a year-to-year basis, 2020 ushered in plenty of new design trends to experiment with. Now it’s time to take a look at how they’ll evolve this time around. WordPress sites have followed close behind the popular trends, with a few unique ones to reflect its users’ interests. For example, you’ll be surprised to learn how the theme building community is changing. Look out for these popular trends, as they’re already in full effect or soon to come to many WordPress sites. […]
WordCamp Europe 2021 just happened (June 7-9) and I am here to report that it was dominated by one topic: full-site editing. This was my fifth WordCamp Europe overall (read my other reports from 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020) and the second one I attended online. The decision to run WCEU 2021 online again was made shortly after the successful debut last year. It turned out to be the right one. Something that was new this year was that there was a dedicated online conference space. So, while anyone could follow the event on YouTube (find all recordings here), only […]
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, […]
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. This week’s guests are Matt and Devin from GiveWP. GiveWP was recently acquired by Liquid Web so we’ll talk about what that means for the future of the project. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour with Jim and Simon from LoginID.
Just like last year, the WordCamp Europe organizers have decided to once again hold the conference online. That means anyone around the world can access it for free from the comfort of their desk, couch, bed, or neighborhood cafe. Tune in Monday, June 7, at 15:00 CEST to enjoy the workshops, talks, interviews, and sponsor booths. Talks run all day on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday on Track 1, while Track 2 features discussions and workshops. A standard ticket gives you access to both tracks as well as the virtual sponsor booths where you can catch up with your favorite companies […]
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, […]
The developers journey in providing security without compromising customer convenience is a delicate balance to consider. Password breaches leading to account takeovers and attacks such as business email compromise, social engineering, phishing of all sorts and other attacks are running rampant and have been for some time. Criminals and scammers have become extremely skilled at exploiting the inherent weaknesses in traditional systems which include the “human system” as well. Developers must consider for their product roadmap how they will integrate stronger security, while at the same time giving convenience to customers and not creating friction in interactions. Customers nowadays are also […]