On March 31, 2020, WordPress 5.4 “Adderley” was released, named “Adderley” in honor of American jazz trumpeter Nat Adderley. With this minor release comes some much-anticipated updates. WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor Improvements New and Better Blocks Two new blocks have been added to the editor: Social Icons and Buttons blocks. These additions have been highly…
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WooCommerce 4.0 – New Reporting Tools
WooCommerce released version 4.0 on March 10th — this is a “major” release. The most notable addition is the inclusion of the WooCommerce Admin plugin into the core WooCommerce plugin. This includes a Javascript-driven interface for managing the backend, plus new reporting tools and a dashboard to monitor key metrics. They also updated the Action…
The Power of Regular Expressions
Regular expressions, or RegEx, is a method of pattern matching for strings of text. It is utilized most often in text searches, find-and-replace operations, and for input validation. RegEx involves using a wide variety of characters, each with its own specific meaning, to form a string of those characters meant to represent a pattern that…
8 Ways to Make Your Website More ADA Compliant
What Is ADA Compliance? The Department of Justice (DOJ) instituted the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 to help end discrimination against individuals with disabilities. In 2010, the DOJ revised the ADA compliance regulations Title II and Title III to be enforceable and to account for modern technologies. The revised changes are known as…