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Cory and David discuss the recently announced acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin by Delicious Brains. A Focus On Mental Health And Long-Term Stability In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset discuss the recently announced acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields plugin by Delicious Brains Inc. After having time to…

Google’s controversial Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) experiment now has a feature flag within Chrome Canary (the nightly build of Chrome for developers) that allows users to opt out. In January 2020, Google announced its plans to discontinue support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years. The first bits and pieces of the company’s…

Are you looking for a subtle black and white background texture to make your designs stand out from the crowd? In this collection, we’re featuring some of the most beautiful, simple, and modern black and white background textures you can use for your design projects. A black and white texture is the ideal choice for…

The WordPress community is eager to return to in-person events and organizers are discussing a path to ensure the safety of resuming meetups as a first step before considering WordCamps. Previous discussions led to the creation of a checklist to assist local organizers in determining if their chapter is eligible to proceed. Noticeably absent from…

If you really want to create a design that will make people look, it has to be disruptive. While “disruptive” can be a bit of a hackneyed catchphrase, it is also at the core of what you do when you create something new. The goal is to get people to stop, look, and interact. Disruption…

As has almost become ritual at this point, I am always looking forward to the next testing round for Full Site Editing (FSE). Spearheaded by core contributor Anne McCarthy, the FSE Outreach Program’s fortnightly user tests are usually fun and offer everyone a chance to get involved, regardless of their experience level. This latest testing…

Whether you’re working on a sign design for a coffee shop or a luxury boutique, choosing the right font for your sign will go a long way to make your signage look more professional and unique. When designing different types of signs, you are often forced to work with specific standards and font layouts. But,…

As WordPress turns 18, here are some of the lesser known historical milestones that have stuck with me. WordPress turned eighteen on May 27 Matt Mullenweg shared some thoughts this week about the pivotal time WordPress has reached. On the occasion of its eighteenth birthday, he wrote: “I consider myself so lucky to have co-founded…

WordSesh 2021, a free virtual event targeted at WordPress professionals, is less than one week away. Sessions will be broadcast May 24-28, followed by hands-on workshops May 27 – June 4. The event is hosted by Brian Richards, creator of the WordPress video training website WPSessions. It features an impressive lineup of curated speakers whose…

A highly usable landing page design is one that compels visitors to act in some way. Sounds pretty simple, right? Many websites include multiple landing pages for different audiences with different conversion goals. Here are seven elements that almost every successful landing page includes. Just for fun, we are using examples of landing pages from…