Microsoft Store gets an official WordPress app that’s rated M for Mature

WordPress.com has arrived on the Microsoft Store in the form of an official app released by Automattic, Inc.‬, the company behind WordPress (via WalkingCat). The app is, by all accounts, virtually identical to the traditional browser-based experience, so your mileage with its utility may vary. Here’s the app’s official description, as stated by Automattic.

“Give your big ideas a home on the web. Manage or create your WordPress blog or website right from your desktop.

  • Pick the right look and feel from a wide selection of WordPress themes.
  • Create updates, stories, photo essays…

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An official Windows WordPress app just launched in the Microsoft Store app store

WordPress finally added their Windows desktop app to the Microsoft Store app store this week. The app listing was first spotted by popular Microsoft leaker, WalkingCat, on Twitter and it appears to be the same app that can be downloaded an installed from the official WordPress website which is itself mostly just a copy of the WordPress web experience.

Here’s the app’s official description:

Give your big ideas a home on the web. Manage or create your WordPress blog or website right from your desktop.

  • Pick the right look and feel from a wide selection of WordPress themes.
  • Create…

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WordPress Pros, Cons, and Benefits

When choosing a content managing system (CMS) to build a blog or website, you need to weigh the pros and cons to ensure you make the right pick for your needs. We’ll do just that with WordPress to help you see if it’s the right for your upcoming projects.

WordPress Pros

If you’re looking for reasons to give WordPress a try, here are plenty of them:

Instant Creation

Whether you want to make a new site go live quickly to capture an opportunity or you want to create new and current content for your site’s visitors, it can all be done with ease via WordPress.

 

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Refreshing Old Twenty* WordPress Themes With Block Patterns – WordPress Tavern

What began as a project in August 2020 has now become a reality. All past Twenty* default WordPress themes now have their own unique block patterns. In recent weeks, Twenty Ten through Twenty Fifteen received updates.

Designer Mel Choyce-Dwan kick-started tickets for all previous 10 default themes before the WordPress 5.5 release, the first version to support patterns. Twenty Twenty, Twenty Nineteen, Twenty Seventeen, and Twenty Sixteen each made the cut for that update. However, the remaining default themes were left to languish, at least for a few months and WordPress…


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Google Launches Search Console Insights, a User-Friendly Content Performance Overview – WordPress Tavern

Google Analytics is powerful if you know exactly what kind of metrics you want to investigate, it but can be overwhelming if you just need a simple overview of your traffic and referrals. Search Console Insights is a new tool from the Google Web Creators team that is aimed at making content performance easier to understand at a glance. It combines data from Search Console and Google Analytics for a user-friendly overview of important metrics for content creators.

Search Console Insights can help users quickly ascertain which pieces are their best performing content, how…


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Google Launches Search Console Insights, a User-Friendly Content Performance Overview – WordPress Tavern

Google Analytics is powerful if you know exactly what kind of metrics you want to investigate, it but can be overwhelming if you just need a simple overview of your traffic and referrals. Search Console Insights is a new tool from the Google Web Creators team that is aimed at making content performance easier to understand at a glance. It combines data from Search Console and Google Analytics for a user-friendly overview of important metrics for content creators.

Search Console Insights can help users quickly ascertain which pieces are their best performing content, how…


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8 ways to speed up your WordPress site in 2021

For businesses small and large alike, WordPress has consistently ranked among the top Content Management Systems (CMS) tools on the market. Its free, fast to set up, easy to manage, and there are a plethora of developers and extensions to help with all your website needs.

As sites age, however, the one downside we at The James Agency hear from our clients is that their WordPress site is performing slowly on the frontend of the site (consumer-facing) and/or the backend of the site (developer-facing). Its no surprise that slow sites frustrate users and increase bounce rates….


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Getting To Know the Upcoming WordPress 5.8 Template Editor – WordPress Tavern

WordPress 5.8 is slated for release on July 20. In just over a month, many users will get their first taste of one of my favorite new features: template-editing mode.

The template editor is a new tool that allows end-users to create custom templates without ever leaving the post-editing screen. It exists as a stepping stone toward the eventual site editor, a feature that will hand over complete design control to those who want it.

The downside to the new feature in WordPress 5.8 is that users will not have access to their theme’s header, footer, sidebar, or other template…


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