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WebP Images & WordPress: Why and How to Use Them (+Plugins)

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The WebP image format is a great way to speed up your WordPress site. Large photos are often the main cause of slow loading times , but even an image compressor can leave your users forced to load megabytes of image files and slowing their connection to a crawl. Plus, compressors can also make your images blurry. But there’s an often overlooked file format that can compress images down to nothing while barely affecting quality at all. If you hate how lossy JPEG compression makes your photos look, or the huge file sizes of PNGs, WebP might be just what you’re looking for. What is WebP, when should you use it, and how can you add it to your WordPress site? Let’s go over all of these questions so you can get your image sizes down and your pages loading faster. WebP: What is That? Most image formats we use today have been around since nearly the beginning of the world wide web. And that makes sense; PNG, JPEG, and GIF do their jobs pretty well. What more do you need? Image source: V

7 Best WordPress LMS Plugins Compared (Pros and Cons)

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Are you looking for the best LMS plugin for your WordPress site? Learning Management System (LMS) plugins allow you to create and run online courses like Udemy with WordPress. A perfect WordPress LMS plugin includes features for managing your online course content, handling subscriptions, running and grading quizzes, accepting payments, and more. In this article, we will compare the best WordPress LMS plugins to help you choose the perfect solution for your online learning website. Starting a Learning Website (Training Site, Sell Courses, and More) To build a learning or training website with WordPress, you first need to sign up for a WordPress hosting account. This will be your website’s home on the internet where all files are stored. You will also need a domain name . This will be your website’s address on the internet, such as wpbeginner.com . If you’re on a budget, then we recommend starting with Bluehost . They’re one of the largest hosting companies in the world, and the

Torque’s Social Hour with Brad Williams

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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. This week’s guests is Brad Williams from WebDev Studios. It’s a great episode, we hope you like it. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST when our special guest will be Carrie Dils. The post Torque’s Social Hour with Brad Williams appeared first on Torque .

CSS Flexbox Tutorial for Beginners (With Interactive Examples)

There’s certainly no shortage of CSS flexbox tutorials and similar content online promoting and teaching flexbox to beginners. The now-ubiquitous layout technique can be learned from a number of different resources. But I hope this CSS flexbox tutorial for beginners will be a little different.

How to Create Mobile Popups That Convert (Without Hurting SEO)

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Do you want to use mobile popups on your website? Mobile popups can be very effective for lead generation, increasing sales, and getting more app downloads, but you need to design them the right way. Otherwise, you could end up harming your website’s search engine ranking. In this guide, we will share how to create mobile popups that have high conversion without hurting your SEO rankings. How Could Mobile Popups Hurt Your SEO? Mobile popups could harm your SEO (search engine optimization) efforts if they go against Google’s guidelines. Google states that sites may be ranked lower in mobile search for using intrusive interstitials or intrusive popups. Google doesn’t want your popup to cover all or most of the page before the user gets to see the content. These are some examples from Google of what they want you to avoid. If your page has a popup that appears right away, then Google can penalize that page. This means your page will not rank as high in Google’s search results

Seasonal CSS

Seasonal CSS → I love this little CSS stylesheet to give you a simple but pleasant little change of color on your site throughout the days of a year. James Stanley’s little project is a better-version of some of the first WordPress code I ever wrote, so the concept is very near to my heart. The code idea is pretty simple: take a knowledge of the day of the year it is and find a set of colors that evokes the day. When I did it back in the day, I used PHP with a set of sine and cosine waves that I thought looked pleasant. Knowing more about colors than I do, this project is doing some clever “HSL” math .

Press This Podcast: Scale Your Business & Contribute Back by Teaching WordPress to Others with Courtney Robertson

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording . David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogel Paul, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv , or you can subscribe to press this on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Spotify, or download the latest episodes at wmr.fm. In this episode we’re going to be talking about scaling your business, also contributing back to WordPress by teaching WordPress to others that’s right you can get others in your organization to learn WordPress, add this skill set to your agency or your brand your in house team and joini