WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world (by far – over 60% of all sites which use any CMS use WP) which is installed on over 32% of the top 10 million websites.
In other words, WordPress is the absolute market leader in terms of publishing and promoting content on the web.
In this website, WP and WooCommerce expert, Robin Scott posts about Open Source, WordPress, and related subjects.
Subject to limited availability, you may also find out more about hiring Robin as a WordPress developer and a WordPress consultant for your next business project.
If you’re running AMP for fast loading pages on the mobile web (and, if you’re not, you should give it a try, it’s awesome!), you maybe got a notification in Search Console (AKA Google Webmaster Tools) that “Image size smaller than recommended size” for some or all of your AMP content.
The latest version of WordPress – WP 5.0.3 – went live on Wednesday 9 January 2019, and it’s working fine and as expected on my site here, and several clients who have minor version updates turned on.
Here’s an interesting explanation of the “Eternal Struggle” between Technical Debt and Backward Compatibility (in a WordPress context) from WP CLI maintainer, Alain Schlesser.
Another one of those quick announcement posts, but this one is really important and an interesting step in the right direction for the Open Source WordPress community.
The WooCommerce core team just shipped WooCommerce 3.5.3, which is really a 1 issue patch release, which resolves the not-so-insignificant issue of the Orders list table (in wp admin) going missing on upgrade to last night’s WordPress 5.0.2 release.
WordPress 5.0 is live and kicking, and brings with it a new editor experience, in the form of Gutenberg.
Here’s a quick post for all time… its about where to download the latest version of WordPress – the most recent, stable, release.
A while back I wrote a thing about using the More tag in Twenty Seventeen theme, and because this site uses a (hastily put together) child theme of WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme, and I described that in a little detail, people started coming into this site looking for that.
Hey isn’t there a simple Twenty Seventeen child theme I can just download and get hacking away at? I wondered. There wasn’t. At least, I couldn’t see one.
So today, I released my own.
Looking for someone to just pay and fix a WordPress issue or problem?
WooCommerce 3.4.5 is now available. It is a security release, and you should update asap.
Full information here.
You may do so here. Under Development > Advanced View, scroll down, and select version 3.4.5 and click the “Download” button.
This applies to any version of any plugin in the official WordPress repo. Mind blown? Leave a positive comment, below 🙂