mBlog.my Free Wordpress Hosting

More than half of all WordPress sites (50.5%) are using translations for non-English speaking locales. It’s only natural that these users would want the ability to register, log in, and reset their passwords in their own languages. A new language switcher on the login screen has finally made its way into core, four years after the ticket was opened.

WordPress 5.9 will introduce a new dropdown on the login screen that will display all the languages that are currently installed. (New languages can be added under the Settings > General screen in the admin.)

In a dev note for the…

In last week’s annual State of the Word address, WordPress project lead Matt Mullenweg announced the WordPress.org photo directory. Officially, it has not yet “fully launched.” However, it is live on the site, and anyone with an account can submit their photos.

Thus far, the directory has 103 submissions and are under the CC0 license. Unfortunately, there is only a single photo of a house cat. Perhaps I will need to contribute to the commons that this project has made possible.

This is a separate project from Openverse, a search engine for finding open-source media,…

Kellie Peterson of Automattic discusses domains at WordPress, her .xyz sales, and what distributed workforces are like.

This week we talk with Kellie Peterson, head of domains at Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress and offers domains through WordPress.com. Kellie was last on the podcast in January 2018, and a lot has happened since then at WordPress.com. On today’s show, Kellie explains how WordPress.com approaches domains, what top level domains do well, and how the company experiments with domain search. Before that, Kellie talks about some of her five-figure .xyz…

Readers were drawn to timely analysis on rooftop solar, the Texas power crisis and building electrification.

Over one million California households and businesses have put solar panels on their roofs. A dozen other states such as Arizona, Texas and Florida are following a similar trajectory. Government policies have helped fuel this boom, but multiple studies have pointed out that these policies are raising the bills of lower income households. Stakeholders are debating a new proposal from the California Public Utilities Commission that would make major changes. Energy Institute blog…

WordPress is one of the most popular platforms, with 50% of all the websites built on it. Like every other digital platform, websites also need maintenance to ensure higher performance and uptime. Web developers work hard to ensure that websites do not face downtimes due to maintenance issues. However, there are maintenance costs even for a WordPress website that you need to keep in mind.

There are several costs associated with website maintenance, like framework updates, the cost of app monitoring, testing, and more. Knowing these WordPress maintenance costs can help you save on expenses…

WordPress comes with default post types for blog posts, pages, attachments, revisions, and so on. However, when you want to make more unique content that suits the specific needs of your business or personal site, you might find these default custom post types limiting.

You can overcome this limitation by creating your own custom post types to extend the functionality of WordPress. You can create pretty much any custom post type, ranging from custom events to products testimonials, staff profiles, and so on.

In this post, we’ll show you a few methods to create custom post types in…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about moving an SMB site from Wix to a self-hosted WordPress environment. He offered his opinion on this specific scenario and within this context discussed the relative merits and shortcomings of managed and self-managed WordPress for SMBs.

Small and Medium Businesses (SMB)

SMB means small and medium businesses and what those sizes mean is not anything set in stone, there are multiple definitions.

In general small businesses are those with under 100 employees. Medium size businesses are those with between 100 to 500 employees and some…

One of the best things about WordPress is the hundreds of ways of turning things off. There are likely dozens of plugins for disabling various items, each with its own unique set of options. No Nonsense is no different. It is a plugin that allows users to control whether they want to use over a dozen features.

The plugin was developed by Room 34, a Minneapolis-based web development and creative consulting studio. No Nonsense is the team’s 11th free plugin available through the WordPress.org plugin directory.

The team’s plugin caught my eye because it has options for features…

Found a WordPress theme you really like but want to customize its appearance a little? You can easily do this by writing some custom code in your theme’s CSS stylesheet. However, these changes may easily get lost when you update the theme.

To prevent this, you can create a child theme, allowing you to do as much customization as you like without running the risk of losing these changes when you eventually update the parent theme.

We’ll walk you through every step of the process. First, let’s clear up a bit of jargon.

What Exactly Is a Child Theme?

A child theme is a fully…