If you have been familiar with the WordPress community for more than a year, there is no way you haven’t heard about the whole WordPress drama that started with Matt Mullenweg taking shots at WP Engine at an event they sponsored. The situation escalated very quickly, with the Automattic CEO quicking long-time contributors from the […]

Let’s face it, Gravatar should have been a plugin from the start, but Automattic chose to shove it down our throat from the very start in 2007. If you use WordPress as a blog, you may want to keep it to get the commenters’ profile picture in a simple way, if you use WordPress as […]

Depending on the size of the event, organization can quickly become overwhelming. Coordination, ticketing, marketing, media requests, speakers management,… tasks add up very quickly. An event website can play a role in every one of these tasks, but it’s not always appropriate. As you can guess, it’s worth taking some time to properly plan everything […]

As you’ve probably noticed, a slow website will make your experience miserable as a visitor of that website. Same goes for the WordPress admin. If you are a website owner and need to wait several seconds on each page load, you will have a problem, as the user experience will be very frustrating and totally […]

In Western countries, we tend to forget about how the rest of world functions, so we focus on optimizing for our markets. It’s understandable, and actually quite normal, as our country usually is our primary source of business. In the case of online businesses, this can extend to all regions that speak our website’s language, […]

It is a rare instance, but sometimes the error message “another update is currently in progress” will display on your screen instead of the update you requested. In most cases, the message will go away by itself after a while, but it could happen that it just stays there. In that case, you should do […]

Video embedding is a technique that has been used for a very long time. People have been using YouTube videos embedded into blogs. They aim to make them feel more engaging and captivating to read. Your blog can benefit from having a YouTube video on it in many ways. Most notably, it brings more user […]

For those who are not yet convinced of the beauty of Gutenberg as an editor for WordPress, I believe this Chart Blocks For Gutenberg plugin could change your mind. How would you do this in such an easy and elegant manner with the classic editor? (hint: you don’t). With this plugin, you can create all […]

Since 2015, with the version 4.2 of WordPress, emoji support has been integrated in our favorite open source CMS. However, not everyone enjoys the use of emojis, so it may be a good idea to remove it in that case and make small performance gains by removing a few requests. Let’s see how you can […]

For any design, whether it’s for the Internet or for print, typography is a core element that can make or break your design. Although web design doesn’t allow as accurate type as print, it’s still important to keep your web typography well-designed. Let’s see what you should keep in mind when it comes to typography […]