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...
Last week, WP Engine employees from all over the U.S. came together at our Austin headquarters for the first biannual All-Hands event of 2019. All Hands is a two-day event in which employees from other offices and teams around the country get the chance to collaborate and strategize with one
Soon, everyone got on board and organizations began creating mobile versions of their site. However, inefficient and clunky infrastructure left users dependent on their desktop. Finally, the mobile web reached a point of maturation with the creation of Responsive Web Design. Using the same code for
In addition to the work we’re doing with new Genesis themes, we’re also creating ways to make content blocks more efficient, performant, and portable across child themes as part of the core Genesis framework. Part of this effort includes looking at how to leverage the block options that
Transparency In The Cryptocurrency Ecosystem with James Giancotti
With Alluva, contributors will have the ability to look at every available cryptocurrency and offer their best calls on where prices will be in a day, week, six months, and 12 months. To compensate contributors for that work, they’ll receive a small reward fee. The rewards don’t stop there
Past Bitcoin to Making Money from the Blockchain
Even if you don’t want to have anything to do with this technology, reality check: you probably already do. Blockchain is booming, and there’s no slowing it down right now. As more uses for this technology are identified, we’re all going to find ourselves talking blockchain at the dinner
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
10 Heuristics for User Interface Design: Article by Jakob Nielsen
Visibility of system status The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time. (Read full article on visibility of system status.) Match between system and the real world The system should speak the users' language, with words
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Store Finders: Why People Still Need Locator Links
While a lot of shopping does happen completely online, many shoppers begin the research process online but complete the purchase in person. (The online–offline combo is a key element in omnichannel customer journeys.) Thus, a tool that allows users to see only products available in a specific
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
When they call a regular cab, riders have no control — hence, all the anxieties listed above. With Uber, they suddenly get all the control they need: once they order an “uber”, they see how far away the car is and how much they have to wait, they know in advance how much the ride will cost
Instructional Overlays and Coach Marks for Mobile Apps
Because Makr’s tips are text-based rather than visual, if users tap through them quickly they will likely not absorb any of the information presented, and will reach the workspace without an idea of how best to proceed with their task. At least the tooltips do have arrows pointing to tools in the
The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)
A computer environment in which both humans and computer-based agents have active roles implies a mixed locus of control [13]. The user's environment will no longer be completely stable, and the user will no longer be totally in control. For general sanity, users still need to determine the balance
Tooltip Guidelines
Users shouldn’t need to find a tooltip in order to complete their task. Tooltips are best when they provide additional explanation for a form field unfamiliar to some users or reasoning for what may seem like an unusual request. Remember that tooltips disappear, so instructions or other directly
Large Devices Preferred for Important Tasks
If your product supports activities that users might consider of high importance (finance or healthcare, for example), check your analytics. What proportion of your users are mobile? If the volume of your interactions on mobile is low, definitely avoid a mobile-first strategy. You still need a
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10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities
Maybe search shouldn't be on this list; even though the benefits from improving it are immense, the required investment is fairly high — certainly higher than for the other redesign initiatives listed here. Thus, the cost/benefit ratio is not as stunningly favorable for search as it is for my
Mobile Navigation: Image Grids or Text Lists?
Large images are almost always necessary for listing individual products. At this stage of the process, users care about the visual distinctions between items, and would rather scroll through a single long page than repeatedly switch between the list page and product-detail pages. When designing
Adding an Item to a Shopping Cart: Provide Clear, Persistent Feedback
BodenUSA displayed a banner above the product to indicate that it had been added to the cart. This banner appropriately showed a product image, the options selected, and a clear link to the checkout process. However, it also included upsell promotions (We saw these and thought of you), which can
Killing Off the Global Navigation: One Trend to Avoid | Nielsen Norman Group
Mega-menus are now common on desktop designs, but designing for mobile users has also become increasingly important, as this traffic segment continues to grow. Mobile displays introduce major design constraints, because it’s often simply impossible to display all the top-level categories in a
UX Debt: How to Identify, Prioritize, and Resolve
The best way to uncover UX debt is by getting real user feedback often and in a variety of ways. Though you should always conduct user testing before releasing sprint features, ongoing testing should also happen at least once a month and focus on the key flows and realistic tasks that users
5 Itchy Reasons Why You’re Blowing Your Advertising Budget
When it comes to advertising goods and services online, there’s no room to rest on your laurels. It truly does pay to keep moving, thinking, testing, and creating in the dynamic and ever-evolving world of marketing, and it’s pivotal that budgets are invested wisely. There are five itchy reasons
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
Operational Technology in Industrial IoT Can’t Tolerate IT-Style Patching. “Threat Analysis” is a Safe and Powerful Solution
Speaking about the Industrial Internet of Things – (IIoT). Operational technology in industrial internet of things (IoT) can’t tolerate IT style patching. Using “Threat Analysis” is a Safe and Powerful Solution. Within companies and across the entire global the IIoT ecosystem
Focusing On Debt Consolidation Helps Startups To Be More Organized
You will lose focus and fail in organizing and running your business correctly having to continually concentrate on how you will pay your creditors every month. Slowly, these debts will grow up in volume, and a point will come when these will claim more critical than your primary business
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Open Plan Offices Kill Productivity. Here’s What to Do Instead.
Thankfully, you don’t have to play the guessing game when it comes to your team’s productivity. Time-tracking software like Time Doctor lets you keep a watchful eye on your employees from afar. This software monitors workplace activity by tracking time use, taking screenshots of employee
15 Incredible Women in Business to Watch in 2018 and Beyond
Moschini is co-founder and chairman of TransparentBusiness, a cloud-based management platform for overseeing a remote team. She is also CEO and founder of SheWorks!, which assists companies in finding female talent around the world. It provides solutions for hiring, monitoring, and managing remote
Customer Updates to WordPress 5.0 | Four Bad Designs
Four Bad Designs
The last two sites are an intermediate case. For large sites, offering awkward navigation is a prescription for doom: users wouldn't stand for interstitial splash pages or bloated metaphors if they had to find their way through 10,000 products or more. But when dealing with just a handful of
Login Walls Stop Users in Their Tracks
Another subterfuge that sites and apps use to force people into registering is to hide access to the functionality deep in the interface and place all the focus on the login and signup options. Yelp is guilty as charged: the alternative of using their tablet app without logging in is hidden under
Centered Logos Hurt Website Navigation
Based on these observations, it’s clear that left-aligned logos are better than centered logos for supporting user navigation to the homepage. Note that the left-logo sites in this study still caused some homepage-navigation errors (although far fewer than the centered-logo sites). This is
