WordPress 5.0 is here, and with it comes Gutenberg , the new content editing platform that will serve as the default replacement for the classic editor .
We’re excited about what Gutenberg has in store , and as users ramp up and start to get a feel for it, we’re re-releasing six StudioPress themes that now include built-in features and advanced Gutenberg support to help you get the most out of the new editing experience. Those six themes are:
Authority Pro
Essence Pro
Magazine Pro
Infinity Pro
Monochrome Pro
Breakthrough Pro
While all StudioPress themes are Gutenberg-ready, these six themes have been modified specifically to let you do more with...
In 2015, WP Engine opened our first global office in London as a physical representation of our desire to expand our team of WordPress specialists and better serve our customers globally. Since then, we’ve worked hard to create a workplace that is collaborative, productive, and fun. Today, we
We’re excited about all of these developments—the new styles we’ll be incorporating into future Genesis themes, the added ease and functionality we’ll be able to provide for Gutenberg, and the addition of Mike and John to our team. But most of all, we’re looking forward to the
New year, new you, did you say? Well, that was our reality in 2018 as we rolled out some of our favorite new platform additions. We took the lead on the Amazon Polly plugin, the first plugin to bring voice technology to WordPress. The WP Engine Digital Experience Platform continued to evolve and
9 Blockchains Transforming the Way We Pay, Play, and Work
Look past digital currencies’ nosebleed pricing volatility, and you’ll discover a robust, decentralized, secure database. Brands and technologists are quickly figuring out how to put this powerful ledger to good use. Here are several real-world examples that demonstrate cryptos’
Banking is the Next Personal Assistant
Technology can be the catalyst to kick off this shift, but banking decision makers must reconstruct the roles they play if they want to bring this tech-reality to life. Instead of cold, numbers-driven institutions, consumers wish to have banks that offer friendly, knowledgable and familiar faces. A
Cross-Platform Scaling: The Way Forward for Businesses on Blockchain
Over the past 18 months, we have witnessed a significant shift in the state of the financial markets. Cryptocurrencies, once a niche fascination, have exploded in value. At the start of 2017, digital currencies held collective market cap of less than a $20 billion. They entered 2018 with a
Image-Focused Design: Is Bigger Better?
Most sites will do best with a balanced approach: images that support the brand, without obscuring other important content. For example, the StateFarm homepage presents a large image representing driving, a critical part of their business. But this image is balanced by strong navigation elements
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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
At first, you might think that such an innovation in the field of reverse logistics should not be discussed in a UX article, but many pieces of the user experience are improved by optimizing this backend operation. A traditional UI-only solution to the problem of high demand would be to clearly
Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age
While “branding” products with an identifying mark (definition #1) has been around since people first began trading and selling goods, the use of brands to differentiate products — to truly attempt to influence consumers’ perceptions and choices within a market (definition #2) — is a
Defeated By a Dialog Box
The lesson from this case study is not how to design a better "Save As" dialog. Depending on the circumstances, you could use any of the four designs I listed, or perhaps even design a fifth that works better for your particular type of data. It's easy enough to find out what's best for your users
Indicators, Validations, and Notifications: Pick the Correct Communication Option
Uniqlo.com used a nonintrusive passive notification to provide feedback that an item was added to the shopping cart. No action was necessary to dismiss the notification. Such notifications sometimes cause issues for e-commerce shoppers who do not notice the brief messaging. Users who miss the
6 Tips for Successful Personalization
As personalization has become increasingly possible on intranets throughout the years, we’ve seen an increase in the number of sites that provide an “out” to personalization, often for troubleshooting purposes. One concern with personalization is that it results in an experience that differs
How to use Screening Questions to Select the Right Participants for User Research
If you need to recruit people who are highly familiar with a certain topic, open-ended questions can elicit authentic details that tell you whether respondents have the relevant experience. If you ask people how often they play online games, it’s easy for someone who plays a few times a year to
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Marking Required Fields in Forms
Login forms are short and traditionally composed of two fields: the username and the password, both of which are always required. If you’re using the asterisk, the cost of marking these fields as required should be minimal, so you cannot go wrong. However, most users have encountered many, many
"Get Started" Stops Users
A web-design trend that is becoming increasingly problematic is the Get Started button. This button is often the most prominent and enticing call-to-action on the homepage, and can appear to be the right path for nearly every activity a user is looking to complete — be it to sign up for a service
Journey Mapping in Real Life: A Survey of UX Practitioners
Pulling stakeholders into the actual mapping activities will go a long way in generating buy-in early in the process, and it will ensure that multiple perspectives are used as resources for knowledge. After the journey map is created, don’t stop. Share the journey map with others, using those
Journey Mapping in Real Life: A Survey of UX Practitioners
Perhaps the most important shared insights from the professionals surveyed were the responses to the question, “When does journey mapping fail?” Respondents shared their stories of when journey mapping was a fruitless endeavor because it was not shared, no buy-in occurred, the map wasn’t
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
Think of service blueprints as a part two to customer journey maps. Similar to customer journey maps, blueprints are instrumental in complex scenarios spanning many service-related offerings. Blueprinting is an ideal approach to experiences that are omnichannel, involve multiple touchpoints, or
Alexa, Where’s My Data?
An employee working from home in the proximity of a smart device may unknowingly record sensitive conversations. That data is then sitting on a server somewhere indefinitely. With more and more people working remotely and using these devices in their home offices, corporations must be aware of the
Is Business Headed for a Cognitive-First Future?
Smart machines can transform data points into patterns and insights; imbuing these machines with human knowledge and allowing them to “learn” from the additional information they gather can speed up the computations needed by businesses. Cognitive machines aren’t just reactive, however. With
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
The 4 Sales Tools Every Company Will Use in 2019
However, if the service is presented in a sleek and well-executed format that is easily accessible during a sales call, salespeople will be free to work their magic without restraint. When building a personalized app for the donor registration organization DKMS, the software development team at
15 Incredible Women in Business to Watch in 2018 and Beyond
Minshew is co-founder and CEO of The Muse, an online platform that has helped more than 50 million people discover and change career paths, as well as get personalized job recommendations and insights into great companies to work for. The platform also provides skill-building courses, career advice
Steps to Building a Successful and Scalable Sales Process
With the right systems in place, crafting and scaling a profitable sales process is much easier than most people would ever believe. Using your customer persona to keep the needs of your prospects in mind at all times will help, but market research and split testing will take you even closer to
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When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
On the other end of this dimension, methods that focus mostly on behavior seek to understand "what people do" with the product or service in question. For example A/B testing presents changes to a site's design to random samples of site visitors, but attempts to hold all else constant, in order
Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2002
Web pages that require horizontal scrolling in standard-sized windows, such as 800x600 pixels, are particularly annoying. For some reason, many websites seem to be optimized for 805-pixel-wide browser windows, even though this resolution is pretty rare and the extra five pixels offer little
Effective Use of Style Sheets
Cascading style sheets (CSS) are an elegantly designed extension to the Web and one of the greatest hopes for recapturing the Web's ideal of separation of presentation and content. The Web is the ultimate cross-platform system, and your content will be presented on such a huge variety of devices
