Any time I see a new block-ready WordPress theme, I am like a toddler in a toyshop. I cannot wait to bring it home, rip off the packaging, and play with it. Sometimes it is the type of fun that will create lasting, years-long memories. Other times, the toy is not all it is cracked up to be. It does not deliver on the promises on its packaging. It is too hard to play with or just not what you expected. You discard it and move on to one of your other trusted toys, ones with guaranteed fun built-in.

The latter feeling is where I am at with Guten Blog by Avid Themes. I want to love it….

Google has updated its official Web Stories plugin for WordPress with the ability to embed content on webpages.

Since the launch of the Web Stories plugin it has offered robust creation tools, but users were on their own when it came to embedding the content they created.

WordPress site owners can now create Web Stories and embed them using the same tool. The update also offers the ability to embed Web Stories from other sites.

In addition to easier embedding, the plugin update makes it possible to integrate Web Stories into the theme customization process, and they can now be used with the…

Google’s push for AMP-powered Web Stories saw a boost with the launch of a WordPress plugin in September. A recent update makes it easy to embed Web Stories into sites, while there are now WordPress themes that natively display carousels of AMP content.

Version 1.5 of the Web Stories Editor for WordPress makes it “very easy to embed Web Stories into your site.” In posts or pages, this takes the form of a more advanced Web Stories block. Creators could previously only enter an individual story URL to have it displayed. That’s now joined by two other options: 

• Latest…

For much of WordPress’s history, the foundational elements of building a theme have been slow to change. Every so often, developers would get a new feature, such as child themes, featured images, nav menus, and template parts. Each of these was epic in its own way. However, theme authors had ample time to adapt to these single feature introductions.

When the block editor landed, it did so with a bang. Love it or hate it, it shifted how we think about design for the web. It was not one of those one-off enhancements, regardless of how many times we were told it would “just work”…

A smooth web browsing experience relies on the speed and performance of the websites. If you are looking forward to offering your website visitors a great web surfing experience, you need to speed up your website. At least, you have to offer them zero lagging web…

Bernadine Racoma, Content Manager at WorkSmartr.com, looks at the usability and reliability of two big names within the world of website building: Wix and WordPress.

We enter into a complicated relationship with our chosen website builder. If done right, it can be an incredibly productive and fruitful relationship. If, on the other hand, we choose incorrectly, we can begin to feel pinned down by an unreliable, confounding and, of course, frustrating programme.

Whether we are building a personal site or an entire platform for eCommerce, it is the nature of building a…

Raise your hand if you work on your WordPress website every day. 🙋‍♀️

Keep it raised if you have an embarrassingly large amount of plugins, unpublished blog content from early 2015, too many broken links to count, spam-filled comments, and multiple ugly URLs. 🙋‍♀️

Don’t worry; I’m guilty, too. Between my 9-to-5 gig and helping my freelance clients, ignoring my WordPress site has somehow become the norm.

But it doesn’t have to be.

Like doing taxes or crafting the perfect business plan, there are some things every small business owner should know how to do. And those…

Raise your hand if you work on your WordPress website every day. 🙋‍♀️

Keep it raised if you have an embarrassingly large amount of plugins, unpublished blog content from early 2015, too many broken links to count, spam-filled comments, and multiple ugly URLs. 🙋‍♀️

Don’t worry; I’m guilty, too. Between my 9-to-5 gig and helping my freelance clients, ignoring my WordPress site has somehow become the norm.

But it doesn’t have to be.

Like doing taxes or crafting the perfect business plan, there are some things every small business owner should know how to do. And those…

I simply do not understand it. For at least the better part of a decade, theme authors have asked for the tools to create more complex layouts with WordPress. They have asked for the ability to allow end-users to more easily recreate their demos. They have wanted methods to bypass the “restrictive” theme review guidelines.

Over the past couple of years, WordPress has consistently delivered features that theme authors have asked for. Yet, themes that use them are few and far between.

During my weekly perusal of the latest themes to land in the directory, a new wedding theme…