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The date outputting when you open a widget is a common sign that Wordfence, for whatever reason, has incorrectly flagged the request.

SiteOrigin Support Forum » Date appearing when trying to edit widgets in Page Builder

How to completely disable comments using functions.php

Keith Greer » WordPress: Disable Comments

Currently shipping in Chrome Canary, and thus soon to be in Blink-based browsers including Edge, is a relatively new CSS declaration which promises to virtually end typographic widows.

Clagnut » An end to typographic widows on the web

Essential migration steps for Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics 4 is replacing Universal Analytics. On July 1, 2023 all standard Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new hits. 360 Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new hits on July 1, 2024.

GOOGLE.COM » Make the switch to Google Analytics 4

WordPress är en av de mest använda CMS systemen på marknaden, vilket också gör att WordPress ofta blir attackerat. Därför är det bland annat viktigt att öka din WordPress säkerhet med hjälp av säkerhetsåtgärder, t.ex. de som finns tillgängliga via WordPress Toolkit i Plesk.

BEEBYTE » 17 steg: Uppnå bättre WordPress säkerhet med hjälp av WP-toolkit!

What Is Image SEO? Image SEO refers to the optimization of images to get more traffic from search engines. For example, optimizing for image SEO can help your site rank higher on Google Images.

Semrush Blog » Image SEO and Alt Tags: 10 Image Optimization Tips

WordPress SQL Injections are a common hack method. Often used to insert malware and spammy links on your website. When it comes to protecting your WordPress site, this is a threat you need to be ready for! It's hugely important to have a good WordPress security plan. In this post, I will explain in more detail what an SQL injection is and how you can minimise it happening to your website.Gavin Pedley

ThriveWP » .htaccess Rules to Protect from WordPress SQL Injections

Having a bank of the best website design inspirations has proven a huge asset to my workflow. With a go-to list of inspirational resources, I can jump into projects faster and more effectively with a surplus of design ideas, and better meet the demands of any creative brief.Marshall Taylor

Webflow » 21 unique places to find web design inspiration

Recently, two of the sites I manage had a burst of referrals show up in Google Analytics from a suspicious looking source: in one instance 'websitebottraffic.pw' and in the other 'bottraffic4free.xyz'. Both of these domains, if you visit them in the browser, redirect to gammatraffic.com. What are these referrals and should I be worried?James Clark

TECHNICALLY PRODUCT » What are these 'bot traffic' referrals in Google Analytics?

Think of your Genesis site’s structure as a map. No matter what child theme you’re using, there are certain areas included in all Genesis sites – header, primary and secondary navigation, content area, sidebar, footer, etc.

salferello.com » What the Hook?! What Are Genesis Hooks and How Do I Use Them?

When I first heard about Google Tag Manager (GTM) in early 2013, I felt a bit confused. At that time I had no idea that tag management was a thing at all, so naturally, I found myself questioning what Google Tag Manager was anyway? What’s the difference between Google Analytics events and GTM events?Julius Fedorovicius

analyticsmania.com » Google Tag Manager vs Google Analytics: What’s the difference?

In a perfect world, you’d never have a single issue that required debugging. But in the real world, you’ll almost certainly run into issues on your WordPress site that require a look under the hood.Jon Penland

kinsta.com » WordPress Debug: A Complete Guide (Plus Other Helpful Tools)

You can quickly create a WordPress child theme by creating a new theme directory and adding these two files.

This link is to remember just how easy it is to start a new child theme.

salferello.com » Create WordPress Child Theme

Discover how CSS Houdini's APIs are bringing CSS and JavaScript closer together, plus how to use them.

CSS Houdini gets its name from the world-famous Harry Houdini. Why? A group of developers – from well-known organisations such as Apple and Google, and the CSS Working Group – wanted to demystify the magic of CSS and get better control of website rendering. So they formed the CSS Houdini Task Force.

creativebloq.com » All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS

An excerpt field in WordPress post and page is a section used for an article summary. In this blog post, we are going to share about how to enable the Excerpt field in WordPress Post and Page.

For both the Gutenberg & the classic editor

WPENTIRE » How to Enable Excerpt Field in WordPress Post and Page

The man behind The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web at Web Conferenses Amsterdam. This talk will give you a set of guidelines that deftly combine implement­ation details with typographic theory and set you on the road to designing beautiful and effective responsive typography.
 
 

Moving your website to a new host can be a daunting and stressful experience, but it doesn’t need to be.

Many people are faced with the need to move to a new host because of problems with their current provider and have just had enough. But all too often, migrating to a more reliable host is delayed time and again for fear of making a mistake and damaging your site(s).

WPEXPLORER » Step-by-Step Guide to Migrate Your WordPress Site to a New Host

Google translate is a powerful tool that can sometimes work perfectly and other times completely miss the mark. Utilizing it on your website can save hours of time and money by providing quick translations for every language possible. While Google translate can be great, there are however certain times when you might not want Google to translate specific words or blocks of content. Luckily, Google has made this easy for us by providing a built in way to disable Google translation when necessary. In this tutorial we will teach you how to utilize the built in class provided by Google to disable translation on specific words or content blocks.

Daddy Design » How to Disable Google Translate from Translating Specific Words or Content Blocks

Design leaders from Google, Spotify, Stealth Startup and Gigster share their thoughts on design systems — and their predictions for the future.

Design Resources » Designing at scale: How industry leaders leverage design systems

Hyphenation is a complex subject. Hyphenation points are mainly based on syllables using a combination of etymology and phonology, but house styles also have differing rules on dividing words.

clagnut.com » All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS

Still our place to go for advice and inspiration… this practical guide to web typography

webtypography.net » The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Okay, so you’re writing a post/article or creating some other piece of content around WordPress, but you want for what you’re saying to pack a stronger punch … to resonate with the reader better. For that, you need yourself some hard stats.

CODEINWP » WORDPRESS STATS: YOUR ULTIMATE LIST OF WORDPRESS STATISTICS

CSS calc() allows us to do math in CSS but it doesn't always have the most obvious use cases. A lot of the time it's super helpful in more sneaky kinds of ways. In this video, I look at how it compares to doing math in a preprocessor as well as a few fun use cases for it where it does some really fun things!

 

KEVIN POWELL on YOUTUBE » CALC() LETS YOU DO SOME REAL CSS MAGIC

This tutorial answers this question:

I need to recreate several new templates for my theme. I’m brand new to the Genesis framework even though I’ve been using WP for years. The page templates don’t look like I’m used to. I’m used to seeing more HTML on the pages. Is it possible to create custom pages and do you have any resources you could recommend on how to do so?

WP SITES » HOW TO CREATE CUSTOM PAGE TEMPLATES FOR GENESIS CHILD THEMES

If you're here right now... you already know. It's not a secret whatsoever; in fact, everyone from Senior Art Directors to junior interns — and even not-at-all-design-savvy developers — could tell you how important great typography is.

THE LEAGUE of MOVEABLE TYPE » BULLETPROOF TYPOGRAPHY

Safely Customizing Genesis Child Themes with WP Clips

Xponent found this interesting technique over at…

WP CLIPS » CUSTOMIZING GENESIS – A QUESTION OF ‘BEST PRACTICE’

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the practice of optimizing your website's architecture, content, code and backlinks to increase organic traffic from search engines.

SEO OPTIMIZATION GUIDE by Wasai » SEO OPTIMIZATION GUIDE

JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP are image formats that have superior compression and quality characteristics compared to their older JPEG and PNG counterparts. Encoding your images in these formats rather than JPEG or PNG means that they will load faster and consume less cellular data.

DEVELOPERS GOOGLE » SERVE IMAGES IN NEXT-GEN FORMATS

OpenType-SVG is a font format in which an OpenType font has all or just some of its glyphs represented as SVG (scalable vector graphics) artwork. This allows the display of multiple colors and gradients in a single glyph. Because of these features, we also refer to OpenType-SVG fonts as “color fonts”.

ADOBE.COM » OPENTYPE-SVG COLOR FONTS

Do you want to move your WordPress site to a new domain? Changing your website’s domain name can significantly impact your SEO rankings, and it’s a process that needs to be done very carefully.

WPBEGINNER » HOW TO EASILY MOVE WORDPRESS TO A NEW DOMAIN (without Losing SEO)

In this post, I’ll discuss some of the benefits of translating your website, what types of translations are available, and the best language translator plugins to make your WordPress site multilingual.

WP BUFFS » 9 LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR WORDPRESS PLUGINS

We get questions all the time on how to pair fonts, how to pick the right fonts, and how to tell whether fonts are good quality or bad. It's time we start learning how to level up our type and design skills.

THE LEAGUE OF MOVEABLE TYPE » WHY IS TYPOGRAPHY IMPORTANT?