WordPress Vulnerability Report: August 2021, Part 2
Vulnerable plugins and themes are the #1 reason WordPress websites get hacked. The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report powered by WPScan covers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities, and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes...
How to Wireframe Inside WordPress
When it comes to wireframing a new page design, you usually have to use a separate tool or application (or maybe even an old-school sketchbook!) if you want to accomplish the task. But what if you could wireframe with WordPress,...
Thoughts Drive Actions: 3 Ways to Drive Positive Action
Thoughts drive actions, so you really are what you think. The question then becomes what are you thinking and where are you letting those thoughts drive you? Negative thoughts will drive you into a ditch or off a cliff, and...
Widgets in WordPress 5.8 and Beyond
Copy and Design by @critterverse WordPress 5.8 brings the power of Gutenberg blocks to widget areas — which means the highly customizable layout and styling options bring you closer to a WYSIWYG editing experience. I made a test site based on...
How to Find Your Unique Selling Points
Do you know your unique selling points – those things that make you stand out from all of the others trying to share, sell, or otherwise catch the attention of the audience? As any seasoned marketer knows, you can’t write...
What are Contact Pages: 7 Best Practices
Contact pages can make or break any business, especially businesses that rely on digital leads as their primary revenue source. Unfortunately, documentation on the web is pretty sparse when you research what you should include (and perhaps also what you...
What is a Website Backdoor? 4 Ways to Prevent the Hack
Have you ever wondered about your website backdoor? Or did you know your website even had doors? Try to imagine for a moment that twelve months from now, your website has become so successful that your profits have doubled and...
The Month in WordPress: July 2021
WordPress is global in reach and open source in nature. And you would assume that what allows the software to be used by anyone would also enable it to be built by anyone. After all, your location doesn’t matter, and...
How to Evaluate the Cost of Your Actions: 3 Tips for Getting the Most Value
Do you think about the cost of your actions today? It’s easy to get caught up in doing things without considering the foundation those actions are laying for tomorrow or the resources those actions require. Every action you take right...
WP Briefing: Episode 14: The Art and Science of Accessibility
In this episode, Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses the nuances of building accessible software, the differences between access, usability, and accessibility, and how this all applies to the WordPress project. Have a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to wpbriefing@wordpress.org,...
Know the Causes of Burnout: 5 Ways to Avoid Catching Fire
Don’t burnout. Catching Fire might be a good thing if you are a teenage girl who is the face of the revolution against the capital. It’s not a great thing if you are trying to find balance in your business...
Configuring Theme Design with theme.json
Starting in WordPress 5.8, a new tool — “theme.json” — is available to use in your theme. Maybe you’re hearing about it for the first time, or maybe you’re testing and developing themes with it already. Either way, I’m glad you’re...