WordPress powers 28 percent of the entire internet. What started as a blogging platform is now used to run everything from The New York Times to Beyonce.com. From enterprise sites, to personal blogs, portfolios, and beyond, WordPress is used to build dynamic digital experiences. The International WordPress Awards (IWP) aims to honor the best WordPress sites online today. Backed by WordPress agency Pragmatic, the International WordPress awards is a community project that aims to showcase the best of WordPress. According to Founder and Director David Lockie, “We are pushing the boundaries of what people thing is possible with WordPress in terms of […]

I am very specific about my workflow. I like things a certain way. DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself, has been the core philosophy behind the way I work. If anything seems like a grunt task, something that I find myself doing, again and again, I will work to automate it. Thankfully, WordPress automation tools and scripts allow you to optimize several tasks. Once automated, things become easy and error-free. Manual work, with less modular code, is always hard, takes a lot of time, and gives me a great deal of pain. One of the most tedious problems is reloading your browser everytime […]

As of 2017, WordPress powers over 28 percent of the internet. The success of WordPress, like all open-source projects, is a testament to the collaborate work of the community that surrounds it. Since WordPress first launched more 14 years ago, tens of thousands of people have participated in the project. While we couldn’t find a specific number indicating exactly how many people have participated in creating WordPress, consider this, in 2016 alone there were 115 WordCamps in over 41 countries and 3,193 Meetups in 52 countries. And, in November of 2016, 17,000 people got together to help translate WordPress into […]

Building and running an enterprise website presents a unique set of challenges. Enterprise sites often represent large, multinational business entities and as such need to work on a similar scale as their parent companies. That usually means lots of pages, subdomains and subsites, high traffic, and localized content. In the past, enterprise websites would often rely on proprietary custom solutions. Closed systems that make users dependent on their vendors and, as commercial products, also represent a financial commitment. However, if your goal was to build a site for your business, this was the way to go. WordPress, on the other […]

WordPress was and continues to be the most popular CMS on the market. Countless bloggers are using it to manage their content-centered platforms. WordPress provides the best features and possibilities for creating and maintaining high-quality websites. There’s an entire market for WordPress tools, and most of the time, leveraging these tools is very profitable in terms of time, effort, and money. Whether you’re a blogger, a content manager, or anyone who deal with the creation, publishing, and distribution of content on a WordPress website, you need to be aware of the content creation tools which are one click away from […]

PHP 7  has been around for well over a year now, and yet only 4.5% of sites have made the upgrade from PHP 5. With users and their hosts lagging behind, a large number of sites remain more vulnerable to hacking and performance issues than their updated counterparts. As a WordPress developer, you hold much more sway and influence than you might think. Brands such as Yoast are asking you to use that power to help upgrade the internet as a whole. You can do this by adding nudges to your plugins using Yoast’s WHIP framework. This helps you inform the user […]