Hot on the heels of last Tuesday’s Chrome 44 release for desktop, on Wednesday, Google released Chrome 44 for iOS, available from the app store. Although the latest iOS update saw patches for 43 known critical security vulnerabilities, the headlines understandably focused on two new features: Improved navigation, Safari-style Physical Web support Today I want to take a look at the new features, as well as talk a little more about the Physical Web project. Swipe Navigation The users spoke and Google listened. Chrome 44 for iOS will enable users to swipe left and right to navigate forwards and backwards through their […]

On Monday, the core team announced that they were discussing the potential of committing the Shortcake plugin to the WordPress core. For those unfamiliar with Shortcake, the plugin enhances the way shortcodes are added to your content. From the plugin description, “Shortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake.” But how does Shortcake work, and should we be excited about this news? A Little Background on Shortcodes and Shortcake WordPress users were introduced to shortcodes in version 2.5, and the interface has remained largely unchanged since. Shortcodes offer an intuitive way for users to action complex code with minimal coding know-how—you’ll […]

Today, SEO specialist Yoast has released a brand new WordPress plugin: Yoast Comment Hacks. As the name implies, this plugin adds improved functionality to the default WordPress commenting system, making public some of the functionality already used by the Yoast team. This comes at a time when many WordPress bloggers are turning their comments off for good—now where’s the fun in that? By making the default commenting system more bearable to use, Yoast hopes that their new plugin will encourage WordPress users to value website community. The plugin is split into five modules, each focusing on a different comment ‘hack.’ Let’s […]