Personal Data Retention and Privacy Policies Over the past few years, we have seen an increase in concerns over personal privacy and user data retention. We have seen news stories time and time again about data breaches. Legislation like GDPR and CCPA has made data protection a liability for websites. The arrival of the new…
Category: Web Development
WordPress State of the Word Recap and What the Future Holds
WordPress Still the Leading CMS and Growing At the State of the Word address held on December 14, 2021, the world was reminded that WordPress is still the undisputed champion powering websites. Soaring past a 43 percent market share, the open-source phenomenon not only saw a 4 percent increase from the previous year, but WordPress…
PHP 8.1 Has Been Released—See What’s New
PHP 8.1 was released on November 25, 2021. It contains several new features to make developing in PHP even nicer. PHP 8.1 is a major update that PHP.net says “comes with numerous improvements and new features such as: Enumerations Readonly properties Fibers Pure Intersection Types never return type First-class Callable Syntax “final” modifier for class…
Dive Into WordPress 5.9, NFTs, Web 3.0, and More at State of the Word 2021
It’s time again for the annual State of the Word, the highly anticipated keynote address from WordPress co-founder, Matt Mullenweg, covering what’s new in WordPress and beyond. Mark your calendar for the December 14th event at 5 PM EST. Last year, the address went online for the first time due to COVID-19. This will be…