Category: Themes

Disconnect From Your Job (It’s Not Impossible)

In the penultimate note from What Do You Expect From Being a Software Developer?, Mensur makes the following claim: It will be almost impossible to disconnect from your job If you’re someone new to the industry – be it someone who’s up and coming from high school or university or if you’re someone who’s switched…

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Case Study: Jelly Pixel Studio’s Journey With WordPress.com

Jelly Pixel Studio, a web development agency based in Indonesia, specializes in crafting unique and illustrative websites for clients worldwide. The company serves a wide variety of clients, from small businesses to larger corporations, utilizing WordPress.com as their primary hosting platform due to its exceptional stability, fast performance, and robust features. Over the years, the…

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More Control Over the Content You Share

There are currently very few options for individual users to control how their content is used for AI training, and we want to change that. That’s why we’re launching a new tool that lets you opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use such content for…

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Small Changes, Big Impact: A Look at What’s New In the WordPress Editor 

The WordPress project team is continuously improving the Site Editor—your one-stop shop for editing and designing your site. The latest batch of updates—Gutenberg 17.4 and 17.5—include a handful of small but powerful changes designed to improve both your WordPress experience and that of your site’s visitors.  Let’s take a look at what’s new.  More robust…

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Working in Software Is Better Than Hardware (Bugs Are Part of the Job)

The dictionary defines archenemy as “the chief enemy” where enemy is defined as: noun,pluralen·e·mies. a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent. an armed foe; an opposing military force:The army attacked the enemy at dawn. And I mention this because the original…

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Software Developers and Technical Articles in the Era of AI

Site analytics are funny things regardless of how you use them (that is, through marketing, engagement, content, and so on). I say this because analytics give us information about: how long people are reading our content (per article, even), how many people are reading what we write, how much people are reading what we write,…

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How To Identify Anonymous Functions in WordPress

Heads Up! Originally, I wanted to include both how to identify anonymous functions in WordPress and how to unhook them; however, the more I began writing about the topic, the longer the article became. So I’ve split the content into two articles: This one outlines how to identify anonymous functions registered with hooks. A future…

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G2 Winter Awards 2024 – How WPMU DEV Performed

How did WPMU DEV compare against other WordPress leaders in the areas of Managed Hosting and WordPress Site Management for the Winter 2024 quarter? Winners of 60+ G2 Awards for Winter ’24! G2 Global Best-in-class AwardsManaged HostingDomain RegistrationManaged DNS ProvidersWordPress Management ToolsWordPress HostingReseller HostingManaged HostingDomain RegistrationManaged DNS ProvidersWordPress Management ToolsWordPress HostingReseller HostingManaged HostingDomain RegistrationManaged DNS…

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It’s Hard to Estimate Writing Code (And Always Will Be)

There’s an old – relatively speaking of course – quote that says: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. Phil Karlton Though I think coming up with estimates for completing a task may be a close third (or at least somewhere pretty high on the list). A computer…

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