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...
Are there old shortcodes lingering around, bulking up your code? Do you still have widgets installed that you don’t use anymore? Perhaps your dashboard is full of comment spam. Maybe you need better analytics software or want to start reaching more audiences by adding more localized content
This week, we explore the Academy Pro theme, a theme for online course creators, membership site owners, and educational content marketers. In a world where so many schools, institutions, educators and universities are looking for innovative ways to more effectively reach students, the Academy Pro
In less than two weeks, members from the WordPress community around the world will head to Nashville, Tennessee for WordCamp US. This is the second consecutive year that the event has been held in Music City and WordPress community has evolved significantly since 2017. The most anticipated topic of
Is the Blockchain Role in Advertising Too Overrated?
Many blockchain advertising products are also built on Ethereum and so-called utility tokens that function within the system and are issued to participants when the desired action is verified. In such projects, utility tokens guarantee financial operations between supply and demand parties and
The Blockchain Talent Shortage May Be Nearing Its End
Despite the near-limitless applications of the blockchain, blockchain tech has still existed mostly on the fringe for the past several years. While many developers took it seriously, they didn’t hold it in the same esteem as basic skills and languages like Python or C++. Its association with
Crypto Micropayments: An Exciting Future of Blockchain Transactions
The perceived potential of vending machines possessing the power to bring an air of commonality to cryptocurrencies is so great that there are plenty of companies that are preparing to bring blockchain-infused microtransactions into everyday life. One such company is GoByte – a cryptocurrency
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Why are we willing to sleep in strangers’ beds, or conversely, let strangers into our homes? We do so because Airbnb has established a trusted, secure, and easy to use customer experience. Similar to Rent the Runway, Airbnb is a player in the growing “sharing” economy. The peer-to-peer online
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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
Eartracking: A New UX-Research Method
Why do men’s ears react more strongly than women’s ears to webpages with pictures of wooly mammoths? We can only speculate, but it’s likely that during the era of the cave people, it was mainly the men of the tribe who were assigned to hunt the wooly mammoth, and since such a kill would be a
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
While most usability studies should rely more on behavior, methods that use self-reported information can still be quite useful to designers. For example, card sorting provides insights about users' mental model of an information space, and can help determine the best information architecture
Slider Design: Rules of Thumb
Another major consideration when designing a touch interface is the accessibility of various UI elements. Think about how challenging it would be to interact with a slider control for users with motor difficulties. Would they be able to select a value even close to what they wanted? How much effort
Slider Design: Rules of Thumb
Another major consideration when designing a touch interface is the accessibility of various UI elements. Think about how challenging it would be to interact with a slider control for users with motor difficulties. Would they be able to select a value even close to what they wanted? How much effort
How Community Can Drive Commerce: A Lesson from China’s Little Redbook
The success of China’s Redbook illustrates the power of community and trustworthiness in ecommerce. Redbook encourages participation in its ecommerce community in order to build quality, trustworthy content. By combining this strong community with other tactics that establish its products’
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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
10 Usability Heuristics Applied to Video Games
In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Wii Switch, the play screen is overlaid by relevant game information positioned to the corners of the viewport. For instance, in the bottom right corner of the screen there is a prominent display of what place in the race you are (in the screenshot below, I’m in second
Dropdowns: Design Guidelines
This small study, conducted in front of a crowd of hundreds, shows that sometimes it is enough to run tests with a single user to clearly illustrate a point. Once you see such confusion in action, you realize that using a "helpful" dropdown menu to save users a few keystrokes can hurt more than it
UX Responsibilities in Scrum Ceremonies
Regardless of the ticket structure used, UX work needs to be visible to the rest of the development team to ensure that research and design tasks are not skipped. Participating in sprint planning helps to keep the team aligned and informed about what UX will do during the sprint. This approach can
Journey Mapping in Real Life: A Survey of UX Practitioners
Almost 40% of participants felt strongly that journey maps must be created as a team and continued to be shared and developed with many people in order to be successful. In the words of one respondent, journey maps are successful “ when everyone from top to bottom, from product to sales via
Internet of Warnings: How Smart Technology Can Threaten Your Business’s Security
How does the manufacturer manage the security of their devices? Device security is the responsibility of the individual company, and since there aren’t yet any laws protecting IoT security, most companies depend on self-regulation and self-reporting. What safeguards has the company put in place
Images of Fitbit next smartwatch reveal heart-rate improvements
Fitbit is on schedule, as its boss James Park keeps reminding us, to launch its next smartwatch by the end of the year. We don’t know what the smartwatch will be called, though Blaze 2 seems likely, but thanks to leaks we know its design and some of the hardware improvements. Images obtained by
Repositioning Your Brand Against Cybercrimes Through VPNs
After encryption, your data is transferred through a tunneling protocol. If you service provider is incorporated with a split-tunneling feature which affords you access to dissimilar security domains like a public network (e.g., the Internet) and a local LAN or WAN at the same time, using the same
How New Tech Startups Can Differentiate Themselves
Founding a tech company is always a challenge, but you’ll gain significant advantages over your competition once you find a strategic way to differentiate your enterprise. The question is, which dimension of differentiation is most advantageous for your brand and your target demographics? And do
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How to Fail Your Way to Success
It is probably worth seeing yourself as an “experimenter” in the business world. Consider that the enterprises you undertake or take on as a business are often experiments to see if your ideas are correct when faced with reality. In some ways the pioneers of electric cars and autonomous
How to Open a Company Bank Account for Your Startup & Avoid the Pitfalls
A common issue that many startups run into is not realizing that different types of entities have different signing requirements, and this can lead to a number of issues when opening the bank account. For example if your startup is setup as a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) and it is member
Customer Updates to WordPress 5.0 | Banner Blindness: The Original Eyetracking Research, 10-year research overview
Banner Blindness: The Original Eyetracking Research, 10-year research overview
For example, unskilled researchers often ask users to simply look at a page, rather than have them encounter it as part of a task flow. Users naturally look at things differently depending on the context. For example, if you want to know how users look at the elements of a form, you can't just
Do Government Agencies and Non-Profits Get ROI From Usability?
Website use typically doubles when the site is made easier to use. Our studies of simplifying online information show that user understanding increases substantially when websites are rewritten according to usability guidelines. Lower-literacy users should be particularly important to government
Usability Testing of Advanced Homepage Concepts (by Jakob Nielsen)
Most users found it difficult to read the "Shopping Forums" text that went vertically from the bottom to the top. Several users didn't see the Sun logo at first. Most users complained about not knowing what would happen if they clicked in areas where multiple lenses were overlapping. Some users had
