Gutenberg heralds a new era for WordPress and its ecosystem. The feature-rich editor makes it easier for people with a non-technical background—e.g. marketers, content creators, and really anyone — to quickly build sleek, high-performing, great-looking websites .
Rather than relying on custom HTML, embed discovery, and shortcodes to add dynamic content, Gutenberg offers a post and page building experience that makes it easy to create rich post layouts. Adding text, images, videos, and a slew of other elements can now be done through the use of content blocks , which are added (with a click or keyboard shortcut) as a post or page is being built.
If you encounter issues with your own custom plugins or custom theme, and are worried that Gutenberg might be released before these can be updated for compatibility, not to worry! Installing the Classic Editor plugin is a safe and easy way to ensure you can continue using the standard WordPress
In addition to all of the above, the Genesis Framework will be further upgraded for Gutenberg with the release of version 2.8 in Q1 2019. 2.8 will include built-in features that allow you to easily and efficiently style and control Gutenberg blocks as well as auto-load demo content, which can arm
Heather’s leadership at WP Engine has been instrumental in helping the company build an enduring, predictable business, particularly after a key investment from Silver Lake last January, as well as the recent acquisition of StudioPress. Heather also heads a diverse leadership team and has
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
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
dApp Development Will Help the Healthcare Industry
Hence there is no way any tampering can happen. The fact that every transaction gets accepted by consensus will prevent any fraud. Every transaction is recorded and validated by everyone. It means that there is total transparency in the system. It improves trust in the system. Every member of the
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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The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
In 2004, we wrote about the most hated advertising techniques based on research conducted by Christian Rohrer and John Boyd. Online advertising has changed significantly since then, giving us plenty of new formats to test and new questions to ask. With that, we decided to run a study to determine
Store Finders: Why People Still Need Locator Links
Even though people often rely on external mapping tools when they search directly for a certain location, store locators are still a useful website feature: they support users who are already on the site, engaged in a task that may have a location component — such as shopping or researching for
Assessing the Usability of a User Interface Standard
Note that ISO 9241 will eventually have 19 parts. The pagecount given here is a projection on the basis of drafts of six of these parts, assuming that the remaining parts will have the same average pagecount as these parts. Also note that the complete set of ISO standards applicable to user
Mobile: Native Apps, Web Apps, and Hybrid Apps
As you can see, all these pages are the same, except for the top header, which is platform specific. The Back button on iOS is translated into a caret on Android; the logo is present on the web page, but not in the app. (The designers have correctly assumed that on the web people need the logo to
Direct Manipulation: Definition
Because the objects of interest and the potential actions in the system are visually represented, users can use recognition instead of recall to see what they could do and select an operation most likely to fulfill their goal. They don’t have to learn and remember complex syntax. Thus, although
Children’s Exposure to Digital Technology Causes Parental Anxiety
Ironically, although parents strive to manage their children’s device use, they're not always the ones truly in control of the technology in their homes. In the US and Canada, children were often the technical experts, thus becoming the de-facto masters of technology in the home — even when
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Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
To identify a design's most important usability problems, testing 5 users is typically enough. Rather than run a big, expensive study, it's a better use of resources to run many small tests and revise the design between each one so you can fix the usability flaws as you identify them. Iterative
Eartracking: A New UX-Research Method
Also, while an eyetracker is fairly expensive, the supercomputer required for an eartracking study runs close to $100 million. (Luckily we were granted free supercomputer time due to the revolutionary nature of our research.) A bigger supercomputer currently under construction is named after a
A Model for Conducting UX Workshops and Exercises
Activities should always begin with brief introduction and explanation. This can be kept brief (in the nature of a summary) if all team members have participated in many previous activities of the current type, or if they all participated in the same type of activity very recently. If some
Design Critiques: Encourage a Positive Culture to Improve Products
A positive culture of critique supports team building in multiple ways. First, from the get-go, everyone is able to stay up to date and in the loop on the work. Sharing designs early allows for earlier buy-in from team members that otherwise may not feel confident about the work and builds team
Typography Terms Cheat Sheet
Typography is a key component in almost every digital experience. However, its complexity and industry-specific language makes it a common source of misalignment and confusion. You don’t have to be a typography expert to design digital interfaces, but it’s important to know some of these terms
The Internet of Things (IoT): Is your future secure?
We’re currently on the verge of the greatest human evolution possible. Where the shift is from Information Age to the Digital Age. Where intelligent devices can feel the presence of human and ask accordingly. This phenomenal shift is due to a person’s desire to create efficiency, specifically
Internet of Things Makes it Easier to Steal Your Data
Customers who buy an IoT-enabled product should know that the device will always transmit some data over the internet. It is how they work, and it is what makes them so easy to set, adjust, and control. But there are limits to what data the devices should and should not transmit. Some information
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
Standardizing “Tribal Knowledge”: It’s Time for Your Company to Grow Up
I’ve found that the best way to foster standardization is to create a widely accessible company knowledge base — a place to capture intellectual property, best practices, and informal “tribal knowledge” contributed by employees along the way. This kind of growing knowledge base can
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Why Blockchain and Remanufacturing are a Perfect Match
Production in the remanufacturing industry can be difficult as the quality, quantity, and availability of used products can be random and unpredictable. Unlike new items, remanufactured ones depend on the availability of already used parts. There is no way of knowing when these parts will be
5 Real Life Blockchain Implementations Outside of Cryptocurrency
Medicalchain aims to use blockchain technology to securely store medical records. Using a distributed ledger for healthcare is a godsend as it allows doctors, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacists, and health insurers to have more immediate access to health records, which could help save lives
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Instilling Confidence in Online Shoppers: I Bought a Sofa Online and Good UX Sealed the Deal
Joybird broke down the process into a series of smaller decisions that allowed users to compare options easily. First, it focused users on selecting a style and layout for the sofa. Each sofa was pictured in the same setting and in the same fabric, allowing users to pick the style they liked best
100 Million Websites
When designing a website, comply with users' expectations. In a mature system, differentiation doesn't come from a contrarian user interface. Such interfaces serve only to chase users away from a site. The Web is no longer a marvel of innovation, it's an everyday tool, and you differentiate
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
