Last week, some of the most progressive marketers and innovative thinkers using WordPress came together at the 2018 WP Engine Summit. Attendees left exhilarated and inspired to push their brands and agencies forward faster. The theme of this year’s Summit was Breakthrough. Insight into the Internet’s most forward-thinking trends like AI, voice technology, AMP, and PWA energized attendees with the knowledge and inspiration to fuel their professional breakthroughs. Additionally, Becky Hammon, Assistant Coach to the San Antonio Spurs, delivered a keynote speech to help ignite personal breakthroughs.
To conclude the Summit, we heard from WP Engine leaders who offered a look into the WP Engine roadmap. This included a look...
Almost three years ago, WP Engine expanded its global presence and opened a second international office in Limerick, Ireland (our first was in London). Known as a city where technology and culture collide, Limerick has been the perfect location for WP Engine to grow and evolve. At its start, the
While some of that spark comes from our roots as an eight-year-old startup, it’s also part of a pioneering spirit we actively foster through various activities during the year. Arguably some of the most impactful—and most fun—are our bi-annual hackathons, where teams of developers and
As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re shifting our focus to food with this new StudioPress Theme: Daily Dish Pro, which is designed to make your content just as appetizing as the best meal at your favorite four-star
Decentralized P2P Lending Services vs Networks
They act as a third party and escrow in the lending transactions between their clients. The only difference from regular P2P lending services is that they don’t limit users to working with fiat, but facilitate the use of cryptocurrencies, and also use their own token for various services and
Bringing a More Secure and Efficient Land Registry with Blockchain
Uploading land purchase data on blockchain will keep the data safe and secure at all times. As long as blockchain nodes are distributed evenly between blockchain members, there is no room for fraud or foul play. These same systems are used to protect the identities of landowners. Additionally
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
Touch Targets on Touchscreens
As a new parent, I increasingly find myself using my smartphone as my primary computer. Jotting down a note, selecting next week’s meal delivery kits, shopping online, and tracking my child’s eating and sleeping patterns all need to happen one-handed, quickly, while holding this tiny new human
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Take Uber for example. While the experience is hugely popular and generally pain free, there is room for enhancement — especially for large groups travelling together. Currently, a group must problem-solve in order to figure out how many “ubers” to call and and how many passengers can fit in
Service Blueprinting in Practice: Who, When, What
This mental model can be viewed as an extension of the previous mental model, service blueprinting as an exercise and framework; however; people who view service blueprinting as a collaborative tool emphasize the goal to align, communicate, and create shared understanding amongst varied roles
Tooltip Guidelines
The Business Insider website used tooltips for 2 of 3 icons in its navigation menu. (Note: on the homepage of the Business Insider website, the globe icon did have a tooltip that read Globe Icon. However, the label was not helpful, nor indicative of its functionality: a language selector.) In
Scrolling and Scrollbars
When pages feature both vertical and horizontal scrolling, users have to move their viewport in two dimensions, which makes it hard to cover the entire space. For people with poor spatial visualization skills, it's especially challenging to plan movements along two axes across an invisible plane
6 Rules for Persuasive Storytelling
Along with understanding the terminology of your audience, you need to know what your audience members care about. Are they only interested in how much money the product will cost? Do they have a strict timeline they need to adhere to? These are concerns that will be running through their minds as
Maps and Location Finders on Mobile Devices
Redfin, a real-estate app, tried to solve this problem of crowded pins by aggregating multiple pins into a single icon with a number representing the amount of pins combined. Tapping on one of these number icons zooms the map and displays individual house pinpoints along with aggregated number
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
"Get Started" Stops Users
Even within the style quiz, one user maintained the belief that she would get more information about the service as she answered questions: “So it takes me through a quiz that I would guess would help me pick things that are more geared a little bit toward me as I’m shopping. … I’m still
Cognitive Maps, Mind Maps, and Concept Maps: Definitions
When it comes to representing physical space, there are many types of possible maps: topographic maps, geologic maps, pedestrian maps, street maps, and so on. They are all flat representations of the surface of the earth, but highlight different properties of this surface. Cartographers apply
Small Pictures on Big Screens: Scaling Up from Mobile to Desktop
For example, as the screen gets wider, scale the image up in width, height, or both, but stop before the image becomes either disproportionately large or hard to understand. Then, crop the image so it works in the new screen dimensions and start expanding this version until the image needs
Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design: How the Trend Slowly Makes Users Less Efficient
The popularity of ultraflat interfaces has declined since its heyday of 2013, and more websites are adopting more moderate, flat 2.0 designs — in which interfaces make use of subtle effects to create the impression of a slightly layered 3-D space. Despite this return to moderation, we’re
Parallel & Iterative Design + Competitive Testing = High Usability
Competitive testing is particularly important if you're using an Agile development methodology because you often won't have time for deeper explorations during individual sprints. You can do the competitive study before starting your development project because you're testing existing sites
8 Things Every Business Should Know About Data Recovery
The frequency of backup must be based on data criticality and affordability. And there’s no debate on whether you should create and maintain a regular backup. The point is when and how. You should backup business database nightly. But in case some data is lost in between the backup cycle, use
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
CSS conversion of my Radio weblog
I’ve done a re-design of my Radio weblog, using CSS. Look ma, no tables! Yes, it’s now a tableless design. I’m doing my bit for the web standards cause, although I haven’t yet achieved 100% XHTML validation. For my re-design I used a CSS Zen Garden design by Michael Landis
Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Miserable Entrepreneur?
In this case, telling the truth is a major gaffe and a PR disaster. Of course, some are crushing it, but then there’s always something — a bad earnings call, an app upgrade that goes off the rails — that will derail your success and possibly get you booted from your own company. Such
a look back at the 2018 wp engine summit
JS-Kit Score: Turn Your Site into a Localized Digg
Widget provider JS-Kit has released their latest widget this morning, Score. Score adds a thumbs up/thumbs down-style ratings widget to any page content, and then aggregates the data across the entire web site into an info box that can highlight a site’s top content. It can also integrate
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Melissa Hathaway came across our radar recently when President Obama tasked the former Bush administration aide with leading a 60-day review of Bush’s Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative; a largely classified, purported $30 billion, multi phase plan to address cybersecurity issues
A Look Back at the 2018 WP Engine Summit | Shopping Online for an iPhone Plan Is Painful
Shopping Online for an iPhone Plan Is Painful
On several websites, a chat box appeared — unsolicited. While the websites were trying to be helpful, in reality these overlays often appeared at the wrong time and obstructed important content. They interrupted users’ efforts to learn about the plans and made it harder for them to remember
Homepage Design Changes
Although both versions have 7 tabs, the newer design's tabs reached all the way across the page and the color scheme indicating the selected tab was changed. More important, the actual navigation categories were also changed. The 2002 IA categories were Front Page, Enterprise, E-Business
Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
Each link in this list fully contains the most important content that users will find if they select it — for example, Marriage, civil partnership, and divorce. The descriptive text beneath this link is useful, but entirely supplementary: Includes getting married abroad, decree absolutes, and
