The lines between online life and real life practically disappeared in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to replace social platforms and video apps for human contact. As part of our mental health awareness month coverage this May, we…
When starting a new site in WordPress, or on any platform for that matter, the first stages are always reserved for experimenting. You’ll be brainstorming ideas, activating and disabling plugins, switching up themes, and other visual design options. Because chaos…
There was an added bonus to all that time in the studio. “The singers really enjoyed using their voices in a different way — I remember our soprano, Olivia, was excited to see how young people would use this.” “Until I…
ShortPixel’s mission is to make websites faster by optimizing images, thus improving their overall speed and bandwidth footprint.We are a 15-person team, spread around the world, working remotely and sharing the same values. And now we are hiring! We are…
Do you want to add category specific search in WordPress? Adding a search by category feature to WordPress lets your visitors quickly find what they’re looking for. You can add options to search specific blog categories, product categories, and more.…
Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Amazon Drive… There is no shortage of online storage services, otherwise known as Cloud Drive or Cloud Storage. And almost all of them offer a free plan for those people that cannot or don’t want to…
So you’ve been a brave admin of your website, minified and compacted the JavaScript and CSS, optimized all your images in order to make them as light as possible, and took proper care to have properly sized images or thumbnails…
AVIF images are the next big step in image compression, and we have already been talking about it. AVIF promises images 50% smaller than JPG, and still keeping the same image quality. In comparison, WebP makes the image about 30% smaller,…
Throughout history, from photography to video to hypertext, artists have pushed the expressive limits of new technologies, and artificial intelligence is no exception. At I/O 2019, Google Research and Google Arts & Culture launched the Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants,…
On 11 May, Mozilla will host the next instalment of Mozilla Mornings – our regular event series that brings together policy experts, policymakers and practitioners for insight and discussion on the latest EU digital policy developments. This instalment will focus…
Do you want to optimize core web vitals for WordPress? Core Web Vitals is an initiative by Google which helps website owners improve user experience and quality of their websites. These signals are crucial for the success of any website.…
We have already written about how important are WebP images, and how the new AVIF format file is going to be better than WebP. But the most important question remains: how do I add AVIF images to my site? How…