WordPress is one of the most widely used content management systems on the market today. It powers 40% of the web. And WordPress, among other features, is much loved for its wide assortment of themes.

As of 2020, WordPress has 31,000+ themes available. (More than 10,000 of them are available for free!)

Recently “block-based themes” has become a common term. You can see it being casually thrown around in WordPress development circles.

Are you a developer who awkwardly gawks at others discussing block themes? Are you a business owner looking for advice about using…

WordPress is one of the most widely used content management systems on the market today. It powers 40% of the web. And WordPress, among other features, is much loved for its wide assortment of themes.

As of 2020, WordPress has 31,000+ themes available. (More than 10,000 of them are available for free!)

Recently “block-based themes” has become a common term. You can see it being casually thrown around in WordPress development circles.

Are you a developer who awkwardly gawks at others discussing block themes? Are you a business owner looking for advice about using…

WPZOOM is coming in strong with its first block theme approved for the WordPress Themes Directory. UniBlock is a beautifully designed theme that is well-suited for businesses and freelancers. The company plans to adopt the concept of full-site editing in other WPZOOM themes as well, following the release of UniBlock.

UniBlock’s default look is sporting a darker color palette in the navigation and above the fold, with a lighter background for the rest of the website. The video on the sample homepage uses the free WPZOOM Video Popup Block plugin, which supports Vimeo and YouTube….

WordPress 6.1, arriving November 2022, is jam-packed with performance improvements, signaling that this may be the update that many have been waiting for.

WordPress performance scores from the beginning of 2022 until the end of September have been relatively stable, going up a few percentage points in the spring then dropping in the summer, ending September roughly 3 percentage points higher than from the start of the year.

WordPress Core Web Vitals Performance in 2022

Most other platforms have enjoyed more substantial performance improvements month after month in 2022:

• Wix up by 13…

WordPress 6.1, arriving November 2022, is jam-packed with performance improvements, signaling that this may be the update that many have been waiting for.

WordPress performance scores from the beginning of 2022 until the end of September have been relatively stable, going up a few percentage points in the spring then dropping in the summer, ending September roughly 3 percentage points higher than from the start of the year.

WordPress Core Web Vitals Performance in 2022

Most other platforms have enjoyed more substantial performance improvements month after month in 2022:

• Wix up by 13…

Posted on October 13, 2022
  
Posted by John Scalzi   
 

And that is because it was around this time, fourteen(!) years ago now, that I switched over to the service to host Whatever. Previous to the switchover I had been beset by issues with the site, stemming from backend hiccups and rough patches that never quite resolved themselves. But once I switched over to WordPress, things have gone swimmingly; the number of times the site’s been down since 2008 can be counted on one hand, and even then it was quickly back up to…