As a site owner, it’s important that you learn how to speed test your website. Page loading speed influences many things, from user experience …
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Why and How to Increase Dwell Time on Your WordPress Website
Dwell time and how to increase dwell time are often neglected elements of search engine optimization. You, too, probably mostly concentrate on how to …
Make Your Articles Heard with Amazon Polly: Q & A with AWS
You have a dedicated audience that comes to your site every day to read your content. They take the time to sit down and …
The Beginner’s Guide to Writing Your Own Custom Shortcode
Shortcodes are a popular feature included in many plugins and themes. However, if you’ve never built your own shortcodes before, you may have no …
Matt Mullenweg on the Gutenberg Editor, Feature-Focused Releases, and More [Interview]
At WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris, I had the opportunity to sit down with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg for an interview on feature-focused releases, …
Introducing Faces of WordPress, the People and Projects behind WordPress
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 …
Solving the Theme Default Confusion: Interview with Primož Cigler
WordPress theme authors spend a lot of time practicing to make sure their theme demos go smoothly so that they can acquire new users and …
Q&A with WPMU DEV CEO & Co-Founder James Farmer
Last month we launched our second annual Plugin Madness competition, where we pit 64 plugins against each other. Voted on by the community, this …
The Future Of WordPress In 2017
WordPress has come a long way since its 2003 inception as a nascent blogging platform, forked from b2/cafelog. Now a full-fledged CMS, WordPress enjoys …
WordPress Vs. Tumblr – Which One Is Right For You?
WordPress isn’t the only free publishing platform out there. By now, anyone who wants to start publishing online has many different platforms to choose from. …
44 of the Best SEO Tools and SEO WordPress Plugins of 2016
Search engine optimization is a complex topic involving many different disciplines. No wonder we have written extensively on this topic before, for example here, …
How WordCamp Denver Connected The Community
Last weekend, WordPressers met at the SpringHill Suites Denver Downtown Auraria Campus Hotel & Hospitality Learning Center in the Mile High City for WordCamp …
