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After a short delay, WordPress 5.9 “Josephine” has finally arrived with the long-awaited full-site editing features that give users more control over site design and page templates. This release is named for American-born jazz singer Joséphine Baker, who found success on broadway before moving to Europe and becoming very popular in France. She frequently made…

An organizational chart, or org chart, is the best approach for visualizing the hierarchy of a company. With the organizational chart templates on this list, you can design one in just a few steps. While there are many different types of organizational charts out there, the main purpose of an organizational chart is to offer…

Lesley Sim thinks special badges on WordPress.org could incentivize core contribution if they earned developers a boost in plugin rankings. In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David continues a conversation with Lesley Sim to pick her brain about some ideas she has for rewarding core contributors to WordPress. Last month on Twitter and Post…

Google is burying FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) in its sea of abandoned experiments. FLoC’s proposed mechanism for replacing third-party cookies grouped people together and labeled them using machine learning. The controversial origin trial caused a group of WordPress contributors to propose blocking it in core before it was even out of the experimental stage. In…

Form design can often be one of the most overlooked elements of a website. And it can be a fatal flaw. Forms are the foundation for communicating with your audience, generating leads, making sales, creating great user interactions, and expanding your marketing reach. Every designer should have a good idea of how to design these…

It seems that Andrew Starr is quietly building a legion of block themes. He is the sole developer behind UXL Themes and has released six of them in the past year, with most landing in the last few months. Framboise, his latest project, is a child theme of Alara. He promised a new design variation,…

WooCommerce 6.3 Beta 1 is out for testing, and you should upgrade to WooCommerce Blocks 7.0.0. Why choose Woo? Why Ecwid? The choice may not matter up until it does. Time for testing with the release of WooCommerce 6.3 Beta 1 in preparation for next month’s release. Both WooCommerce Blocks and Admin have been updated.…

Different designers have different takes on what makes a great website. But, one thing we can all agree on is popularity never makes a website design great. We have proof. Today we take a look at a few popular websites owned by well-known companies and brands. These websites receive millions of visitors every month. And…

With WordPress 5.9 only just stepping its toes out the door and greeting the world, the lead developers seem to have hardly taken a moment to catch their breath. Yesterday, Matías Ventura posted the preliminary roadmap for 6.0. It covers the general scope of the planned features to land this year. Version 6.0 is expected…