Last week, WP Engine employees from all over the U.S. came together at our Austin headquarters for the first biannual All-Hands event of 2019. All Hands is a two-day event in which employees from other offices and teams around the country get the chance to collaborate and strategize with one another. This year’s theme was “Boldly Go”…
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With the release of WordPress 5.0, the default post editor received a major overhaul. Rather than offer a new iteration of the classic editor, which had been left mostly unchanged since WordPress launched in 2003, version 5.0 introduced Gutenberg, a new block-based editing experience, which has taken over as the default editor in all versions of WordPress…
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Only one out of 25 people who visits your WooCommerce store is there to make a purchase. To put it another way, 96 percent of the visitors you attract to your website aren’t quite ready to buy something from you. That’s a harsh reality of eCommerce, but it’s not all bad. Because even though all…
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If you’re used to working with models (in any foundation or framework, but specifically WordPress), then there’s a chance that you may need to serialize an instance of the model at some point.Sure, writing the class to a database using PHP’s built-in functions is easy enough; however, introducing a bit of flexibility especially as it relates…
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Do you want to add captions to your images in WordPress? Captions are brief text descriptions that you can add to your images. They are typically used to provide additional details about an image. WordPress comes with the built-in capability to easily add a caption and other metadata including title and alternative text for each…
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