ACF 5.10 Introduces Block API v2 Support, Block Preloading, and Security Improvements
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has released version 5.10, the first major release since the plugin was acquired by Delicious Brains. It introduces several new features that were previously experimental, closing out ...
How to Apply Localized Marketing to Your WordPress
For blogging, it doesn’t get any better than WordPress. WordPress is an extremely popular site. It has over 409 million people viewing more than 20 billion pages each month. And its ...
Google’s New Ad Tracking Tech FLoC and WordPress
Google announced that it would no longer support third-party cookies and has now come out with its own alternative ad tracking technology: FloC. In the wake of third-party cookies, a type ...
Adding Custom HTML Attributes With the Block Attributes Plugin
Earlier this week, websevendev released its fourth WordPress plugin to the official directory named Block Attributes. The extension allows end-users to add any HTML attribute to nearly any block. One of ...
WordPress Classic Editor Support Extended for at Least Another Year
Last week, I reached out to several members of the core WordPress committers to see if we could get an official word on whether Classic Editor support would continue beyond the ...
Google Search Completes Rollout of Link Spam Update
Google announced today that it has completed its rollout of the link spam update, which was started a month ago. In an effort to combat sites using spammy links to manipulate ...
Why Did You Start Using WordPress?
If there was a question that ever made me start feeling old, it might be this one. Last week, Marcel Bootsman asked via Twitter, “Why did you start to use WordPress?” ...
Gallery Block Refactor Expected To Land in WordPress 5.9
Last week, a GitHub pull request I had been watching since October 2020 on the Gutenberg repository was finally merged into the codebase. It changes the structure of the WordPress Gallery ...
How to Improve Domain Authority of Your WordPress Site
If you’re a marketing expert and know about SEO, you have surely come across the term Domain Authority. It’s a useful metric that many SEO professionals use to assess how likely ...
How to Create Accessible Web Forms for WordPress
According to the CDC, 26% of adults in the United States have some form of disability. Failing to make your website accessible to those with visual or cognitive impairments can result ...