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WordPress Adopts Accessibility Coding Standards for All New and Updated Code (wptavern.com) The Accessibility Team announced that the WordPress Accessibility Coding Standards have been approved for the core handbook. The team sought feedback on the draft of the guidelines earlier this year and, after a few revisions, the coding standards are out of draft status.
How It’s Made – A Look At the Theme and Plugins That Power cozmoslabs.com (www.cozmoslabs.com) The guys from Cozmoslabs just upgraded their website. With three main plugins and a few smaller ones on the side, over 20 addons, documentation and support pages, they thought it's time to rethink the way their website was organized. In the article you will find out about their main goals and what powers the functionality of the website.
Live Chat Plugins And Ticketing Support For WordPress (www.wpexplorer.com) Most customers like some form of assistance while making a purchase. They may have niggling doubts even after reading the detailed product description, reviews and FAQs. Would it not be nice to have someone from the store help you with your purchase? This is where Live Chat plugins can give you a leg up.
Frederick Townes Confirms W3 Total Cache is Not Abandoned (wptavern.com) W3 Total Cache is a free, caching WordPress plugin created by Frederick Townes that’s active on more than one million sites. A recent post by Scott Tuchman on the Advanced WordPress Facebook group cites that the plugin hasn’t been updated in more than seven months and is not compatible with WordPress 4.4.2. Out of 44 reports, 34 people say W3 Total Cache 0.9.4.1 doesn’t work with WordPress 4.4.2
How to Pick the Perfect WordPress Theme (premium.wpmudev.org) Have you ever picked a WordPress theme and started to put together a website only to realize that you’ve picked the wrong theme? With money and time already invested, switching may be out of the question and you may be stuck using a theme you’d be better off without.
Are WordPress “Lite” Themes Useful? (wpliving.net) WordPress "lite" themes are increasingly popular with theme developers, but are they really useful to the end user and what impact do they have on the WordPress platform as a whole?
Using Semantic Markup with WordPress to Improve Your Search Results (premium.wpmudev.org) Semantic search might sound like the most intimidating thing to implement at first but we hope after reading this article you have a stronger understanding of what it means, how it works, and how you can better optimize your WordPress site accordingly. At the end of the day, your efforts will be rewarded in the form of a website that’s easier for your target audience to find. And that’s definitely a good thing, right?
5 Killer Tweaks to Test for eCommerce Conversion Optimization (www.getbowtied.com) With the sheer range of variables you can tweak in even the simplest of eCommerce setups, however, it’s not always easy working out what’s worth testing or what order you should proceed in.
In this article, we’ll set you up for success by first isolating three key steps to get out of the way before you change a thing. Then, we’ll break down a sensible sequence of five tweaks you can tackle in order to take your online sales to the next level.