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How to Implement Web Accessibility Guidelines in WordPress

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Nick Schäferhoff

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January 11, 2016

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When building a WordPress website, you probably already have a laundry list of things that need to be done. Layout optimization, social icons, Google Analytics, SEO settings — to name just a few. Not to mention, content creation when the site has gone online. Probably the last thing you want is to add more to the list. However, here is an important one, web accessibility. What’s that you ask? Making your site accessible means setting it up in a way that anyone can use it, regardless of limitations like visual, aural, or other cognitive impairment, learning disabilities, limited movement, speech disabilities, […]

What’s New In WordPress: 1/11/2016

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Emily Schiola

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January 11, 2016

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Have a news tip or an upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly ‘What’s New In WordPress’ roundup? Write us at [email protected]. WordPress Multilingual Finally Explained: This is a great look at different multilingual plugins and how to use them to make your site more accessible. Planning For WCUS 2017 Underway, Applications For Host City Now Open: You can now nominate your city to host WordCamp US in 2017 and 2018. Here is all the info on how to apply and what you need to submit. How To Add Settings To WordPress Default Settings: You can customize everything […]

Planning For WCUS 2017 Underway, Applications For Host City Now Open

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Marie Dodson

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January 8, 2016

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Planning for WordCamp US 2017 has commenced. Applications for the WCUS 2017 and 2018 host city are now open! Applicants are asked to provide names and contacts for organizing teams as well as proposed venue information and average hotel and flights costs. The survey also requires details on contributor day, including venue and wifi information. You can read the full list of requirements here. The call for a host city for the inaugural WCUS opened in June, 2015, just six months before the event. Regardless of the tight deadlines, organizers were still able to pull off a very successful WordCamp. For WCUS 2017, organizers […]

What’s Next For WordPress?

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Brandon Yanofsky

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January 8, 2016

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In the tech world, we’ve seen it over and over again. Large, incumbent technologies and companies are overtaken by newer ones. And those older ones fall into near obscurity. It makes you wonder: what will happen to WordPress? Will something come along and uproot WordPress’s dominance or will it continue to take over the Internet? To truly understand the future direction of WordPress, we need to take a look at the main three end-users of WordPress: The Casual Bloggers/Hobbyists — These are the WordPress users who blog without any type of profit in mind. Most of the time, their blog […]

Free WordPress Themes: December 2015

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Sufyan bin Uzayr

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January 7, 2016

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December was a big month for the WordPress world: we got a new version of WordPress, updated WordPress.com, and a new Twenty Sixteen default theme, which I have omitted from this roundup, though you can find a detailed review of it here. It was also a big month for themes, and I have found the best free ones. Let’s take a look. Willow Willow is a simple child theme of Twenty Sixteen, with the major stylistic change being that it showcases content in a single column layout, rather than two columns. Download Amethyst Amethyst is a simple and fully responsive WordPress […]

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