Authors Note: Due to an issue that surfaced during our testing process, we will be rescheduling automatic WordPress 5.0.3 updates. While this issue only affects a small subset of customers, we have decided to ensure complete resolution before proceeding.
WordPress 5.0 has arrived , and with it comes a new and improved way to create content in the post editor. At WP Engine, we’re excited for this change and are now ready to begin auto-upgrades for our customers. Historically, we have halted updates mid-November through January 1 in respect of holiday schedules, and this release is no different. Now that we are in the new year, we are ready to share...
As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re extra excited to bring you this new StudioPress Theme: Breakthrough Pro, which is the first new theme to be launched since our acquisition of StudioPress in June. Breakthrough Pro
Countless publications such as Wired and the New York Times live on WordPress. The News Pro Theme gives you the look and feel of a full-featured publication. Display featured stories, article snippets and different categories. The theme even includes built-in ad space so you don’t have to account
This year, WP Engine partnered with The Lovie Awards to bring Lovie For Good, a project highlighting digital experiences bringing positive change to the world. From an algorithm to promote compassionate leadership to campaigns recognizing the importance of fresh air, these winners are using the
How Blockchain Brings Innovation in Staffing?
The communication between them is increased and the data shared by both parties is safe and secure. Recruiters will determine the potential candidates and reach them. Encrypted info place informed blockchain cannot be altered and deleted making certain high security and privacy. Again, privacy and
10 Things Teaching Us About Running Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns
It is the duty of the accelerator or marketing support agency to advocate for quick funding of crowdfunding campaigns, with the hindsight that it overwhelmingly and resoundingly sends across the message that the startup has come on board and is one to watch out for. It also contributes greatly to
Blockchain Beyond Banking
Going further, several organizations, including major utility companies, are working to develop blockchain energy solutions for a peer-to-peer energy network — a concept never seen (nor possible) before shared digital ledgers came into existence. It seems like a natural evolution as so many
Portfolios for UX Researchers: Top 10 Recommendations
Show that you understand how to apply your research and how to extract tangible insights from it. Hiring managers reviewing portfolios are ultimately making a business decision: they need to feel confident that value added by the researcher that they hire will offset the costs to recruit, hire
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Website Logo Placement for Maximum Brand Recall
Clearly it’s possible to disregard the standard for top-left logo placement and still end up with a reasonable website. If you were to show users the website above and ask them what the name of the hotel is, they’d be able to figure it out. It’s easy to see how a designer might decide that
Brand Vocabulary in the Context of UX: Key Terms Defined
Today, due to complex digital user experiences and two-way dialogues (e.g., social sharing and user-generated content) brand is a complex, multifaceted notion. The language used to refer to key brand concepts can be ambiguous and confusing, especially when it comes to those terms’ relationships
Slider Design: Rules of Thumb
When designing a usable UI we must consider the context in which the interface will be used. For mobile design in particular, users often hold their device in one hand while doing other activities—watching television, walking, or even driving. In such circumstances it can be daunting to tap and
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
Mobile: Native Apps, Web Apps, and Hybrid Apps
Maintaining a native app can be complicated not only for users, but also for developers (especially if they have to deal with multiple versions of the same information on different platforms): Changes have to be packaged in a new version and placed in the app store. On the other hand, maintaining a
Instilling Confidence in Online Shoppers: I Bought a Sofa Online and Good UX Sealed the Deal
Size is a huge factor when it comes to selecting the right sofa for a space. Verifying the size was the biggest source of frustration for me on other websites. Many sites gave one basic set of dimensions for a sectional (e.g., length), without clearly explaining how these were measured (for
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Adding an Item to a Shopping Cart: Provide Clear, Persistent Feedback
Which of these variations is appropriate for your design depends on the shopping behaviors of your users. In most cases, an overlay or a banner showing that something has been successfully added to one’s cart is most useful, especially on sites where users tend to purchase or compare several
Tips for Better Product Descriptions on Websites
The J. Peterman Company is a company known for using lengthy, verbose stories for product descriptions, in their print catalogs as well as online. For example, a description of a shirt on the site began, “Springtime in Nashville, 1967. She was singing that day at Ryman (before it was redone
iOS Design Rules to Break
For example, a previous version of the app Any.do displayed the Plus icon alongside the label of existing to-do lists. In this context, it is unclear whether tapping the Plus icon would expand the list to view the items it contained, or if it would trigger adding a new to-do item to the
A Model for Conducting UX Workshops and Exercises
During this setup, aim to describe the general characteristics of the activity, but never state what will be learned as a result of taking part in the activity. As a facilitator, you are responsible for establishing a neutral, positive foundation prior to the execution of the exercise. Like in
Narrative Biases: When Storytelling HURTS User Experience
When deliberately constructing stories that will be used for UX design, do your homework. Include memorable details, but base them on actual user research, preferably derived from multiple data sources and methods. Even if time constraints preclude full empirical personas, at least check your basic
13 Major Vulnerabilities Discovered in the Popular IoT OS FreeRTOS
The role of open source in IoT is that the majority of the vendors producing devices are like any other organization that is developing software in that they want to use high-quality, ready-made components to reduce the amount of code that their team has to produce in order to release a functional
Is Business Headed for a Cognitive-First Future?
With decades-old pipelines, old technology, and dangerous terrain, the oil and gas industry is ripe for machine intervention. Its outsized impact on the environment underscores the importance of predicting failures before they happen. Updated sensors and data analysis can result in not only avoided
Smart data exchange will bring value to smart city innovation
Integral to the notion of a shared data repository is accessible open data, a concept embraced in many cities including LA, Barcelona and New York. Many cities are opening their data to both businesses, universities, and citizens to enable them to gain in-depth insight into the lived reality of
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
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2 Billion Downloads Later, Apple’s App Store is Still Going Strong
It would be nice if Apple gave us a better breakdown of the kinds of apps it actually delivers (free vs. paid, games vs. utilities, etc.). This kind of transparency is obviously not in Apple’s DNA, so we depend on data from third-party services like AdMob for this information. According to
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
Customer Updates to WordPress 5.0 | Usability Testing of Advanced Homepage Concepts (by Jakob Nielsen)
Usability Testing of Advanced Homepage Concepts (by Jakob Nielsen)
Almost all users disliked the scrolling tickers (marquees) in some of the prototypes. Users complained that they were hard to read and time-consuming to interpret. One user kept missing the beginning of the text and thus had difficulty understanding what the message was about. One user said that he
TV Meets the Web
The Web on television should still be more user-driven and individualized than the fully passive mass medium of broadcast TV, but it needs to move in directions better suited to the device. This is not to say that WebTV users can not benefit from accessing some parts of the traditional Web: after
WeChat: China’s Integrated Internet User Experience
About half of the users were in Beijing (one of China’s advanced “tier-1” cities, with 21 million inhabitants) and the other half were in Tangshan (a smaller and more traditional industrial “tier-3” city, with 7 million inhabitants). The specific location doesn’t usually matter for
