by Sarah Gooding | Sep 24, 2019 | breadcrumbs, google, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
Google recently announced a new Breadcrumbs report available in the Search Console to inform site owners about markup issues. In 2015, Google introduced support for schema.org structured data, including the breadcrumbs URL structure, in order better present URLs in...
by Sarah Gooding | Sep 11, 2019 | block collections, gutenberg, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
With the proliferation of block collection plugins over the past year, Kioken Blocks is a relatively unknown newcomer that you may have missed. Compared to competitors with thousands of users like CoBlocks (30K+), Atomic Blocks (20K+), Stackable (10K+), and Ultimate...
by Sarah Gooding | Sep 4, 2019 | jetpack, News, Plugins, Toolbelt, Wordpress Resources
WordPress theme and plugin developer Ben Gillbanks is building a Jetpack alternative with an emphasis on speed, simplicity, and privacy. Toolbelt is a new, lightweight plugin that offers a collection of functionality that is commonly-used on WordPress sites. Currently...
by Sarah Gooding | Aug 28, 2019 | News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
The team behind Pootlepress has launched a new website that displays the top 50 WordPress plugins by downloads per day. It uses the WordPress.org Plugin API to pull the previous day’s download stats from plugins hosted in the directory. The site also shows the...
by Sarah Gooding | Aug 8, 2019 | jetpack, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
Jetpack 7.6 was released this week with several improvements to the plugin’s AMP compatibility. Automattic was one of the earliest publishing partners on Google’s AMP project, as well as the original author of the official AMP plugin for WordPress. This...
by Sarah Gooding | Jun 25, 2019 | amp, google, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
Google released version 1.2 of its official AMP plugin for WordPress ahead of WordCamp Europe in Berlin. This release introduces a new AMP Stories editor that is powered by Gutenberg. AMP Stories are separate from the capabilities that enable AMP for the rest of the...
