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WooCommerce SEO (search engine optimization) plays a huge role in how your e-commerce store appears in search results. Why put effort into it? Because even a little bit of extra WooCommerce SEO strategy can help your store rank higher (hello first page of Google!), reach more people, and close more sales. WooCommerce + SEO In…
The new Gutenberg editing experience for WordPress can’t come soon enough for writers, bloggers, and marketers that create content on a regular basis. Later this year, WordPress 5.0 will be arriving with an all-new block editor that takes advantage of the best the modern web has to offer. The project, codename “Gutenberg,” represents a huge…
The new WordPress block editor is on its way, and although it won’t officially be available until WordPress 5.0 is released, the Gutenberg plugin is available for you to start testing right now. Your Step-by-Step Checklist If you haven’t started testing the new block editor yet, this step-by-step checklist will help you get your site…
Securing your site against potential hackers is super important these days. Although the rewards of investing in site security are not always obvious—if you do things right, you won’t see any visible effects because you won’t get hacked and you won’t have to spend dozens or hundreds of hours repairing the impacts of identity theft,…
Page speed has a major effect on search ranking, site abandonment, and sales conversion. Today’s web users have zero patience for sites that are slow to load—according to a survey by Akamai and SOASTA, even a 100-millisecond delay (0.1 seconds) can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. The importance of making sure your website…
In the upcoming WordPress 5.0 release, the post editor will be redesigned and rebuilt from the ground up. This new editor is called the block editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg), and it’s been no small task to ensure The Events Calendar and our other plugins are ready for it. While we’ve written about some of the challenges…
Broken links happen when content on your site is relocated or when URLs are changed without setting up a redirect. This leaves a trail of links that go to 404 error pages that can negatively impact your site’s search engine rankings and annoy users. The good news is that fixing—and preventing—broken links is simple and…
“Gutenberg” is the code name for the new block editor coming in WordPress 5.0, a major update that will fundamentally change the way content is created in WordPress. You’ll no longer put text and images into a wp-admin form and hope it looks good on the front end; you’ll instead build content visually in the…
WooCommerce is one of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the world. And you can add even more oomph to your site by enhancing it with extensions and add-ons. Out of more than 290 official extensions in their library, we’ve narrowed down the top four to help event organizers boost ticket sales. Name Your Price…
One of the biggest concerns about Gutenberg is how its arrival will affect WordPress sites’ preexisting content. Watching the Gutenberg team think through this problem and implement robust backwards compatibility has been both interesting and comforting. As we thought about our 600,000+ users of The Events Calendar, and what the process of transitioning to Gutenberg…
Access to the internet is a basic human right. With that in mind, we’ll show you how to make your site more accessible with our favorite tips to improve usability for all of your visitors, regardless of ability or disability. “Accessibility” is the term used to describe this project of making websites more inclusive—a big project,…
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about our process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. In Going Gutenberg: Chapter IV we talked about thinking of blocks as having distinct “preview”…
Short on time? Click down to the Recap of this post for the essential bullet points of this important announcement. As you may know, Google Maps no longer supports keyless access to their maps. Users will need to have a valid API key and enter their credit card information for all projects. With this change…
Continuing education is an important part of any professional’s career. For WordPress developers and designers who often work solo, conferences also provide the rare opportunity to network and possibly collaborate with other professionals in the field. Conferences also provide a much-needed push to step away from the screen, and from the development and design challenges…
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about our process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. In Chapter III of the Going Gutenberg series, we announced the release of Events Gutenberg,…