Embedding social content is a simple yet effective way to make your WordPress site more engaging. However, Facebook has announced a change to its API that could potentially break all your website’s embedded Instagram and Facebook content. If your website features any Facebook or Instagram embeds, then the upcoming oEmbed Application Programming Interface (API) change will affect your website. Luckily, there are steps you can take to ensure this update doesn’t leave you with empty pages. In this post, we’ll discuss what this controversial API change is, and what it means for WordPress. We’ll then share how you should be […]
WordPress Automatic Updates: How to Get the Most Out of Them
When it comes to site management, security is of the utmost importance. As such, making sure everything is up to date is a large part of keeping your website secure. Automatic updates are WordPress’ way of trying to help with that. If you already have lot of tasks on your plate (like most of us), it’s all too easy to let an important WordPress update slide. Yet, the longer you postpone the update, the more your website becomes exposed to security vulnerabilities due to outdated themes and plugins. In fact, outdated software components are one of the most common reasons for […]
WebP Images & WordPress: Why and How to Use Them (+Plugins)
The WebP image format is a great way to speed up your WordPress site. Large photos are often the main cause of slow loading times, but even an image compressor can leave your users forced to load megabytes of image files and slowing their connection to a crawl. Plus, compressors can also make your images blurry. But there’s an often overlooked file format that can compress images down to nothing while barely affecting quality at all. If you hate how lossy JPEG compression makes your photos look, or the huge file sizes of PNGs, WebP might be just what you’re […]
Maintaining your WordPress Website: 5 Tips to Follow
The internet is an exciting place. With new developments and improvements happening every day, marketing leaders have to constantly maintain their website and keep a fresh online presence. If you work with WordPress, you know all too well that maintaining your site could be its own 40 hour/week job, especially if you want long-term security and online organizational growth. As an open source software, WordPress is home to around 63% of CMS users, with its code open to study, use, change, or redistribute. Anyone can take advantage of its convenient features and customize the platform with a variety of themes, […]
PHP 8: What’s New? (JIT Compiler, Attributes, and Other Features)
PHP 8 is coming and WordPress runs on PHP. It’s the core to absolutely everything the platform does, from its underlying functions to add ons like themes and plugins. Out of all the languages WordPress uses, PHP is by far the most important. As a consequence, you can imagine that major PHP updates are a big deal. From speeding up your website to adding new attributes and functions for developers to work with, it’s important to keep up with it all. Even if you’re not a developer yourself, you should have a general idea what to look out for when […]
WordPress 5.5: How to Troubleshoot jQuery Migrate
WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine“ brought several awesome features to the platform’s core, which made it a success – well, mostly. As with any update, there were undeniably problems. The main issue stems from WordPress’s decision to remove the outdated jQuery Migrate. In fact, many developers were caught unprepared for this update despite recommendations for developers to test and update their code. Scaling one’s website to generate higher amounts of traffic by attracting visitors became even challenging due to messed-up performance optimization and caching plugins. Examples of these include Yoast, Classic WordPress Editor, and Social Welfare. Read on as we determine the […]
The ADA and Universal Design: Building a Better Blueprint
This is the second in a series of articles I’m writing on accessible web experiences. In the first article, “The ADA and Universal Design: Why Do We Develop Accessible Web Experiences?” I discussed the “why” of accessible digital design. In this article and those that will follow, we’re looking at the “how.” In the early days of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it became common to see wheelchair ramps retrofitted to the entrances of stores, restaurants, libraries, government centers, and other businesses and public buildings. They were often added as an afterthought to architecture that had not been designed […]
How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources in WordPress
“Render-blocking resources” — if you’ve seen this pop up while speed testing your website, or heard about it as a common cause of slow loading speed, you’re probably baffled. You’re looking for ways to speed up your website and get rid of any extraneous code slowing it down, but where do you even start in fixing this? Lucky for you, eliminating render-blocking resources isn’t so hard once you know what you’re dealing with. A simple plugin can do the trick, or you can even take care of it manually if you’d rather do that. Totally lost? We’ll explain in simple […]
How to Perform a Search and Replace in WordPress
As a website owner, you may sometimes need to make changes en masse. Whether you’re migrating a site between local and live servers, switching domains, or stripping all the shortcodes from your site, these bulk modifications can be time-consuming. If you’ve ever used a word processor, then you may be familiar with the concept of ‘search and replace.’ You can create a similar effect in WordPress. If you need to change a particular element across your website, then this functionality can potentially save you hours of frustration and tedious busywork. In this article, we’ll cover why you might want to […]
9 Plugins to Prepare your WooCommerce Site for a Pandemic
While finance experts are predicting the deepest financial crisis of this century due to the Covid-19 pandemic, that doesn’t mean it will hit everyone as hard. Although the future might not seem very bright for some companies and individuals, we have to remember that all previous recessions have started a new era and new opportunities for business and innovation. If your company’s online business was not built on a well-designed strategy at this point, you might want to adopt some of these tools and tactics to stay in the game so that your market share would not be taken by […]
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