The WordPress 6.1, dubbed as “Misha” with lots of goodies and new features is finally landed yesterday.
Twenty Twenty-Three: A New Kind of Default Theme
Starting discussion about Twenty Twenty-Three default theme, WordPress design contributor Channing Ritter proposed to have a new kind of default theme for 2023. The idea is to use a simplified version of TT2 theme as base (blank canvas) theme and modify its look with curated opinionated styles variation contributed by the WordPress community. Style variations, […]
WordPress 6.0 Landed Today
The WordPress 6.0 “Arturo”, the second major release of 2022, landed today with more than 1,000 enhancements and bug fixes. Justin Tadlock wrote in this twitter thread “WordPress 6.0 is one of the most exciting releases we’ve had in a while, especially for folks in the theming world. So many goodies to play with“. Expanding […]
The Future of Work
The Wall Street Journal Science has an interesting article on The Future of Everything | Wordk Edition where the author Te-Ping-Chen writes that “The next generation of work: Flexibility in location – and hours“. This is profile article of Matt Mullenweng, CEO of the Automattic.
Finally, WordPress 5.9 is Here
The much waited WordPress 5.9 named as “Josephine” with Full Site Editing (FSE) features is landed yesterday after some technical delay. Because I have been playing with it since its beta-1 release, I was familiar with its interface for a while. I updated this site to WordPress 5.9 immediately this morning and nothing broke. Because […]
Creative Common Images Available from WordPress Openverse Search
Though using free images from Unsplash, Pixabay and other sources in personal website is common and however using in commercials or themes is restricted due to their copy right restrictions. Because my sites are personal and I have been using images from Unsplash and Pixabay for a while. Most free content is either classified as being in […]
Twenty Twenty-two WordPress Default Theme Announced
A new WordPress default theme Twenty Twenty-two development that is expected released with WordPress 5.9 was announced yesterday. It’s development is lead by Automattic theme team members — Kjell Reigstad, design director and Jeff Ong, creative technologist. The announcement has received positive feedback on Twitter and as well as in the comments of the announcement.
WordPress and Wix Tensions
Two recent posts (one, two) in WordPress Tavern related to Wix‘s deceptive advertising practices got quite a buzz in the WordPress community. These two articles invited many comments from the Tavern readers. Matt mullenweg also wrote about recent Wix’s advertising practice in his own blog, which to received above 30 comments. There is a very […]
A primer on JavaScript SEO for WordPress
The Yoast blog has a very interesting and useful detailed documentation on JavaScript SEO for the WordPress. The documentation discusses single page application (SPA) as well as headless WordPress too.
The technologies which power the web, and which power parts of WordPress, are changing. It’s increasingly common for developers to use JavaScript to make our websites behave more and more like apps. Done well, these approaches create rich, interactive experiences. When built poorly, they can be catastrophic for SEO.
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“JavaScript SEO is a huge, complex, and technical topic – and exploring its relationship with WordPress adds even more moving parts,” writes Yoast digital strategist Jono Alderson.
Future of WordPress vs Jamstack Debate
Since the Jamstack popularity is slowly gaining popularity especially among developers, sharp competing views on the WordPress vs Jamstack are appearing in blog posts. On that context, a recent blog post by Netlify‘s co-founder Matt Biilmann is interesting. Many JavaScript, Node.js, React developers find the WordPress CMS blotted and buggy, whereas WordPress CMS user community […]