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Chrome 76 Adds Native Lazy-Loading, WordPress Contributors Continue...
lazy cat – photo credit: Kate Stone Matheson The latest version of Chrome (76) shipped with a new “loading” attribute that allows developers to specify resources, such as images and iframes, to defer...
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EditorsKit Adds Nofollow Options for Links, Fixes Bug with Gutenberg...
EditorsKit is becoming somewhat of a “hotfix” plugin for Gutenberg, especially with the additions to the 1.14 release this week. Developer Jeffrey Carandang added new link formats for nofollow rel...
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Google Chrome Announces Rollout Plan for Blocking Mixed Content Beginning...
The Google Security Team has announced a timeline for when Chrome will begin blocking mixed content by default in order to ensure that HTTPS browsing is more secure. Mixed content refers to HTTPS pages...
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Chrome is Testing a Follow Button for Websites
Chrome Canary, the browser’s nightly build for developers, has been testing a new Follow button, as spotted on Android by the publishers of Chrome Story. The button appears on the homepage of a site,...
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Chrome 90 to Use HTTPS by Default in the Address Bar
Chrome’s upcoming version 90 will use https:// by default in the address bar, bringing a significant improvement to security and loading speed. HTTPS adoption has shot up significantly over the past...
View ArticleWordPress Contributors Propose Blocking FLoC in Core
WordPress contributors are proposing the project take an active position on Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). This particular mechanism is Google’s alternative to third-party cookies that...
View ArticleFLoC Blocking Discussion Continues on WordPress Trac
Last week WordPress contributors began a heated discussion regarding blocking FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). Google’s experimental alternative to third-party cookies has become a highly...
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Google Aims to “Revitalize RSS” and Recapture Users’ Trust with Experimental...
The internet was set abuzz yesterday after Google officially confirmed that it has been testing a Follow button for websites in Chrome. In February, the publishers of Chrome Story spotted the button...
View ArticleJoomla Blocks FLoC by Default, Drupal Moves to Block FLoC in Upcoming 9.2...
Joomla has announced plans to block Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) by default going forward. The 3.9.2.7 security update, released yesterday, added a Permissions Policy header to...
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Chrome Canary Adds Flag for Disabling FLoC Testing
Google’s controversial Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) experiment now has a feature flag within Chrome Canary (the nightly build of Chrome for developers) that allows users to opt out. In January...
View ArticleUsing Chrome And WordPress To Publish Saved Bookmarks
Here is a cool little extension for Google Chrome that uses the WordPress API to publish saved bookmarks as posts instead of using the Del.icio.us service. It requires WordPress 3.0 and only takes...
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Automatic Updates Possible In WordPress 3.7
As was stated by Matt Mullenweg in his State Of The Word 2013 at WordCamp San Francisco, one of the goals for WordPress was to perform automatic updates similar to the Chrome browser. That is, perform...
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10 Free Chrome Extensions for WordPress Users
In December of 2013, w3schools reported that Chrome has captured 55.8 % of the global market share of top web browsers, with Firefox at 26.8% and IE coming in at 9.0%. With Chrome usage on the rise and...
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Send to WordPress: Chrome Extension Exports Google Docs to WordPress Posts
photo credit: davekellam – cc If you’re a Google chrome user, there are many free extensions out there that are useful for getting other applications to work with WordPress. Earlier this year we shared...
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A Bug in Chrome 45 Causes WordPress Admin Menu to Break
Within the last five weeks, several people have reported an issue in Chrome that breaks the WordPress admin menu. If you hover the mouse cursor over menu items in the sidebar, they’ll occasionally fall...
View ArticleWordPress 4.5.1 Expected Early Next Week
WordPress 4.5 “Coleman” was released last week without too many issues. However, the WordPress development team recently identified two bugs that are prompting an immediate point release scheduled for...
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WordPress Admin Switcher: A New Google Chrome Extension for Switching Between...
photo credit: Ilya Pavlov If your job involves working with WordPress, you probably switch between front and backend countless times every day while getting things done. Kellen Mace, a developer at...
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Chrome to Add Security Warning to HTTP Sites Beginning 2017
The Google Chrome Security team announced yesterday the browser will begin labeling HTTP connections as insecure starting in January 2017. Chrome currently displays a green lock icon in the address bar...
View ArticleWordPress 4.7.4 Fixes 47 Issues
WordPress 4.7.4 is available and is a maintenance release that fixes 47 issues reported against 4.7. This update includes a visual editor compatibility fix for an upcoming version of Chrome. Uploading...
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Google Chrome v62 Adds Support for OpenType Variable Fonts, Expands HTTP...
Google Chrome version 62 was pushed to the stable channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux today and will be rolling out to users over the next few days. The browser is continuing to put the pressure on...
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Google Chrome Rolls Out “Not Secure” Warning for Plain HTTP Sites
As part of a long term plan to push the web to adopt HTTPS encryption, Google Chrome is now marking all plain HTTP sites as “not secure,” as of July 24, 2018, with the release of Chrome 68. Previously,...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 324 – Getting NC State Gutenready
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Jen McFarland, Web Services Coordinator at NC state’s Office of Information and Technology. McFarland describes how the campus is using WordPress,...
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