As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re shifting our focus to food with this new StudioPress Theme: Daily Dish Pro, which is designed to make your content just as appetizing as the best meal at your favorite four-star restaurant.
Daily Dish Pro was designed with food bloggers and restaurants in mind, and its sleek layout orients visitors to focus on what’s most important—the food and the recipes you want them to see and enjoy.
Daily Dish Pro
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As voice technology continues to expand and see greater adoption, expectations that digital experiences include voice tech are growing. The Amazon Polly plugin for WordPress, co-authored by AWS and WP Engine, lets users bring voice technology to their websites by turning text into lifelike speech
WP Engine employees are rarely hungry. Our office kitchens are fully stocked with cereal and snacks, and lunch is catered Monday through Thursday, every week, for the entire team. Unlike the 46,000 people who rely on Central Texas Food Bank for food assistance every week, our employees don’t have
Atomic Blocks is one of the most popular and most downloaded libraries of beautiful, responsive, and customizable blocks for WordPress 5.0. In addition to giving users the ability to quickly add great-looking elements to their web pages without touching a line of code, Atomic Blocks also offers
5 Tips for Protecting Your FinTech Data Assets
Phone porting is a technique commonly executed by cyberthieves. For this kind of attack, hackers lurk on social media platforms where cryptocurrency investors might leave sensitive information, such as phone numbers and email addresses, to connect with other investors. After acquiring a target, the
Is the Blockchain Role in Advertising Too Overrated?
In digital and programmatic advertising, fraudsters found the perfect getaway to enormous bot-induced incomes. Click-fraud installs hijacking, and other illegal online activities bring 2500-4100% ROI to fraudsters, which translates to only 56 cents that brands receive from each dollar they have
4 Mistakes Even the Smartest People Make When Looking for a Career Change
Be sure to stay engaged with your network on a regular basis. Many job openings are never posted because people involved in the hiring process already have candidates in mind. Be the one who comes to mind by nurturing relationships with those who may be able to connect you with opportunities in 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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Visual Design Terms Cheat Sheet
Brightness of an interface can also influence the overall tone and brand identity. Take these two websites of two different investment banking companies, which have similar layouts above the fold, but with different hero image choices. Betterment opts for a darker (low brightness) hero image (with
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
Tooltip Guidelines
Tooltips are hard to discover because they often lack visual cues. If tooltips are erratically displayed throughout your site, people may never discover them. It’s important to be consistent and provide tooltips for all the elements in your design rather than just for some. If only some of the
Radio Buttons: Always Select One?
For example, years ago I joined Care.com to find a dog sitter for my Cairn terrier, Columbo, when I traveled. After I found someone, I decided to unjoin the service. As I canceled my membership the site astutely presented a page with two radio buttons: one for unsubscribing and one for keeping my
Placeholders in Form Fields Are Harmful
On simple, frequently used forms with one or two fields, such as a search box or login form, the strain on memory is less of an issue than with complex or rarely used forms. That is because with simple, familiar forms, users can guess what they are supposed to enter. Although, on even a simple
UX Responsibilities in Scrum Ceremonies
Though product owners should be as informed of user needs and business opportunities as UX, they have many responsibilities that they need to juggle (e.g., implementation realities from the engineering team, strategic goals from business stakeholders, core performance metrics of the team), so there
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Pricing information gives B2B sites a competitive advantage
For complex pricing structures, it’s often better to provide cost information for a few representative scenarios than to offer a configurator that requires precise user input. In our studies, most pricing tools proved complex, time-consuming, and error prone. Only a few, highly engaged customers
Setup of an Eyetracking Study
The facilitator’s monitor showed a red dot and line representing the participant’s gaze; these were useful for monitoring the participant’s calibration. (If the participant shifts in her seat, the tracker can lose her eyes. Lost calibration means that the gaze visualization won’t show what
When a mature front-end style guide exists, the UX team spends less time creating high-fidelity design mockups for every new idea. Instead, the main design-specification deliverable can be a quick sketch that unambiguously references which components get applied where in the design. Such a library
Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done
The Jobs-to-Be-Done framework is a representations of user needs born out of qualitative user research, such as field studies, interviews, and discount usability testing. It involves identifying for which goals customers “hire” your product (and, ideally, also finding out if there are
How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines
When you need to draw extra attention to a potential error, you can use a modal or confirmation dialog to explain details and help the user fix the issue. However, use such dialogs sparingly as they have two big disadvantages: (1) they are disruptive; (2) the error message is presented in a window
Quick Streaming from Anywhere: 10 Best VPNs for IPTV
This specific VPN software is often used by people who wish to have their content streamed at a blazing fast speed. The connections of IPVanish have a superfast speed that would allow you to watch videos without them slowing down. In addition to this, IPVanish also provides its users with advanced
The Key IoT Security Questions You Need To Ask
Another question to ask is how you will prevent unsolicited inbound connections from wreaking havoc on your devices? Make sure that only devices are allowed to initiate connections and not the IoT hub. And speaking of the IoT hub: make sure that the one you’re using has the capability of
Data Science Careers: From Fragmentation to Necessity
Over the past decade — the concept of being a data scientist has become a “normal” occupation title. It is no longer an unusual way to phrase the job description in data analytics. Now this to the industry standard term for a swath of data careers. Data Science. Like any career
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability
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Enterprise Community Event and C2C Event Platform Bevy Raises $6.4 Million
Derek Andersen began keeping track of all the information and realized that no one anywhere in the world was taking care of these specific issues. Then, as a true entrepreneur, Andersen quickly saw that his work could build out another full company. Andersen and his cofounders in Startup Grind
7 Essentials Your Online Startup Needs to Follow
Starting an online business requires you to be extremely smart because 9 out of 10 startups fail and just 10 percent are lucky to enjoy the sweet taste of success. But there are essentials your online startup needs to follow. There are certain things that most of the startups fail to recognize
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Breaking Web Design Conventions = Breaking the User Experience
Regarding “The Everything Directory” (the 2nd category in the global navigation) this alphabetical listing of the university’s online content was not helpful for users. Alphabetical listings can work well when there is a well-known, common vocabulary for the terms used. At a university
Working Memory and External Memory
In Baddeley and Hitch’s experiments, people had to store some digits in their working memory and remember them after doing a second task. When the number of digits they had to remember was small (1–2), their performance in the second task did not suffer. But when they had to remember more
How Long Do Users Stay on Web Pages?
If the web page survives this first — extremely harsh — 10-second judgment, users will look around a bit. However, they're still highly likely to leave during the subsequent 20 seconds of their visit. Only after people have stayed on a page for about 30 seconds does the curve become relatively
