WordPress is an ecosystem. At times it however feels like an egosystem, like when Wix turned into Weaks. Wix Or Weeks Wix – the website builder – ran a marketing campaign comparing itself to WordPress. The campaign was snarky and…
Is it WordPress or Jamstack? Matt Billman (CEO of Netlify) and Matt Mullenwag debated the issues. Most people in the WordPress and Jamstack were confused as to why this level of disagreements exist. Richard MacManus from The New Stack provides…
After the 24 October your routine of embedding Instagram photos to your WordPress blog will no longer be a simply copy and paste. From the 24 October 2020, FaceBook will not longer support the near universal approach to embedding content.…
My presentation at WordCamp Johannesburg 2018.
Buying on ThemeForest and CodeCanyon can be tricky, as I was to learn. Recently Envato – the company that runs ThemeForest and CodeCanyon – announced that authors of themes and plugins would be required to provide support for six…
One fine day, I discovered I was locked out of WordPress. At least, that is how I described it to myself. Furiously, I blamed the new theme I had installed. I changed the theme and found the same problem. I…
Toggling between WordPress editor and preview screen has been painful, until now. WordPress 3.9 brings major improvements to visual editing. Better Visual Editing in WordPress So what is the big deal you may be wondering? Easier pasting from…
An interesting discussion ensued on WPTavern, on whether taking the time to fix broken links on websites was worth the effort. Long established blogs with lots of content would spend their time more productively in other areas than fixing broken…
This is so useful. The domain w.org redirects to WordPress.org. Try it by clicking the link below: or just type it into your browser. It is short enough! (I cannot remember where I heard this first, so kudos to…