This week in WordPress news is more about tips and advice than new developments. First up is a story from WPShout that discusses how much a WordPress site really costs. This subject is something that isn’t often discussed mainly because the WordPress platform itself is free to install and use. This story does a pretty good job of breaking down those costs:
Just because WordPress is free doesn’t mean it’s cheap to launch a great site. If you’re a new developer, or jumping into freelance for the first time and don’t know how to set your prices, here’s a solid overview by Codeable of the ideal procedure for launching a site. When you’re a jack-of-all-trades it can be easy to forget how valuable all the skills you bring to the table are actually worth. This article is a great read before you set your prices. How much does a WordPress site really cost?
The next story from TutsPlus dives into how to build quality day one within a WordPress project.
Building Quality Into WordPress Projects: A Practical Example
One of the best things about learning a new skill in software is that you often undergo this process of getting something working, learning about a few of the mistakes you’ve made, refining the code, and then repeating the process.Ultimately, it’s about improving the quality of what you’re doing such that the end result is better than it would’ve been had you just left it as it were in its first iteration.And, really, when it comes to writing software, one of the things that we often hear and often talk about is quality. More specifically, we talk about building quality into our software. But my guess is if you ask ten developers what quality means to them, you would get ten different answers.The word “quality” offers three definitions:How read more…
WordFence has a post and some good advice on how to block password attacks:
6 Million Password Attacks in 16 Hours and How to Block Them
Last week in the President’s cyber security op-ed in the Wall Street Journal he implored Americans to move beyond simple passwords and to enable two factor authentication or cellphone sign-in. One of the things we monitor at Wordfence is the number of brute force attacks on WordPress websites. Brute force attacks are password guessing attacks, where an read more…
Mobile is here to stay and here are some good mobile first themes chosen by WPMUDEV:
15 Great Mobile First WordPress Themes to Boost Your Site Performance
Mobile first theming isn’t just about making your site work well on mobile devices: it will also make your site faster and so enhance SEO. Here’s our round-up of the best mobile first themes available for WordPress. read more…
This next story while not completely WordPress related it does have implications for your site. Now Google Translate is available in over 100 languages:
Google Translate Now Available in Over 100 Languages
Google announced it has updated Translate with 13 new languages, now offering translations between 103 languages in total. read more…
This dev news caught our eye as two core libraries have been updated in WordPress:
Backbone and Underscore updated to latest versions
WordPress trunk upgrades Backbone and Underscore to the latest versions (they were last updated two years ago in [27233]). Backbone is upgraded from 1.1.2 to 1.2.3 and Underscore is upgraded from 1.6.0 to 1.8.3; see #34350 and [36546]. The new versions of Backbone and Underscore offer numerous small bug fixes, some optimizations and some small improvements. Check read more…
Here’s a tip on adding some speed to your site using the JetPack for WordPress plugin:
Are You Using Widget Visibility in JetPack for WordPress?
In this new post, BobWP (one of our favorite WordPressers) shares a section from his course All You Need to Know About JetPack. If you need to control where on your site a widget will show (hint: it comes in handy for marketing), Bob’s clear tutorial will make the whole process feel easy! read more…
Along the lines of the story above here are the best translation plugins for this year:
11 Best WordPress Translation Plugins 2016 For Multilingual Websites
With a share of almost 26 percent of worldwide Internet users, English is the most spoken language online (as of November 2015). That means if your WordPress site is set up in this particular language, read more…
WPMayor 15 trends they believe will effect WordPress sites this year:
15 Trends that Will Rule WordPress Sites in 2016 (Cool Site Examples + WordPress Themes)
The New Year has come, and this means that it’s high time to see which predictions and suggestions, relating to 2016 web design trends (and WordPress design trends in particular), have gained traction among the web audience. It has become tradition for us to share such posts with WP Mayor fans. Last year we shared a compilation of 2015 WordPress design trends with examples of real sites and ready-made themes. This year we will focus on the trends that are new to the web community and which are intended to impress the audience with their creative looks. read more…
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