We recently started off a new series on Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics with a post on Largest Contentful Paint. Here, we want to continue with the next candidate in line: First Input Delay or FID for short and how Continue reading How to Improve First Input Delay (FID) on Your WordPress Site
WordPress 6.3 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing. This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, you should evaluate Beta 4 on Continue reading WordPress 6.3 Beta 4
Bringing real-time collaboration or collaborative editing to WordPress will be the focus of the third phase of the Gutenberg project. It started off with the block editor in WordPress 5.0 and has by now progressed to Full-Site Editing aka the Continue reading Real-Time Collaboration in WordPress: Here’s What to Expect
Want to learn more about WordPress 6.3, planned for release on August 8, 2023? Join the WordPress community for a first look at 6.3 in action during a live product demonstration. 6.3 release squad members, Anne McCarthy and Rich Tabor, will team up Continue reading 6.3 Live Product Demo
This post is the first in a three-part series about Core Web Vitals. In it, we want to go over each of the three metrics that are at the heart of Google’s new yard stick for website quality. Our first Continue reading Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and How to Improve It in WordPress
WordPress 6.3 Beta 3 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you evaluate Beta Continue reading WordPress 6.3 Beta 3
WordPress 6.3 Beta 2 is ready for download and testing. This is the first release of the 6.3 cycle, as there was no Beta 1 due to technical issues with packaging the release. Rather than further delaying a beta release, Continue reading WordPress 6.3 Beta 2
With the advent of the WordPress Site Editor (aka Full-Site Editing) and block themes, the way WordPress users have to think about how to modify their websites and themes has changed dramatically. These days, instead of style.css and functions.php, there Continue reading How to Modify WordPress Block Themes (JSON Beginner’s Guide)
End-to-end headless eCommerce just got easier! After launching the Atlas BigCommerce Blueprint earlier this year, WP Engine has doubled down on end-to-end headless eCommerce with the Shopify Blueprint, a complete headless storefront starter project that seamlessly connects to Shopify. The Continue reading Expanding Atlas Commerce With the Shopify Blueprint
Widgets are a popular way to add extra functionality, features, and information to different locations of WordPress websites. They allow you to put anything from contact forms over calendars to lists of your latest blog posts on your web pages. Continue reading How to Add Widget Areas to WordPress (Block & Classic Themes)
Automattic has published a new project called wp-now that creates a local development environment in seconds. The tool is a NodeJS app that is powered by WordPress Playground, an experimental project that uses WebAssembly (WASM) to run WordPress in the browser. Continue reading Automattic Releases wp-now: A Local Development Environment Powered by WordPress Playground
Trying to come up with strategies for enhancing user engagement, boosting conversions, and achieving your business objectives can seem intimidating. It’s a lot of effort to stay on top of all the details. Thankfully, there is a way to streamline Continue reading WordPress A/B Testing: How to Run Split Tests in WordPress
At the end of 2021—and in alignment with WP Engine’s core value of “Committed to Give Back”—the block-based Full Site Editing theme, Frost, was acquired and open-sourced. By freely distributing Frost to a growing user base, it became an experimental Continue reading Introducing Frost Version 1.0
There’s a small chance you may have missed the news, but last year, we had a very exciting team and line of products join us here at WP Engine. One of those products, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), is the industry’s Continue reading The Annual ACF Survey: Help Us Shape the Future of ACF
Growing a website is not an easy undertaking, especially if you are on a budget. While there are plenty of tools out there to help you attract visitors to your site, most of them are paid. So, what are you Continue reading 57 Free Marketing Tools: A No-Cost Website Traffic Growth Toolkit
Studying examples of hyperlink design is more significant than you would think. Links are what turn the Internet into “the web” and connect otherwise unrelated pages and websites to each other. They also lead visitors around your site, allow them Continue reading Hyperlink Design: 9 Examples from Real-Life Websites (Incl. CSS)
This week, popular plugin Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), announced the release of version 6.1. This update marks a huge win for functionality of the plugin and WordPress development as a whole. Site developers can now register custom post types and Continue reading ACF 6.1 Adds Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies
SVG images have advantages that should make them an essential part of any developer’s toolkit. While they share a few similarities with JPG, PNG, and WebP image types, SVGs have very different DNA. In this article, we’ll highlight the characteristics Continue reading Why Developers Should Use SVG Files
In this post, I will review the WordPress block editor, that has found its way into the platform as part of the Gutenberg project. It has been around for four years and was one of the most controversial changes to Continue reading Gutenberg Block Editor Review (By a WordPress Power User)
While using custom web fonts is a great way to make your site more unique and distinguish your branding, it can also come with certain problems — from privacy to performance. The solution: host your fonts locally on your WordPress Continue reading How to Host Fonts Locally in WordPress (Classic & Block Themes!)