Web Designer Blog
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Day 12: #WP20 favorite plugin
My favourite plugin in the WordPress Plugins Directory would have to be Yoast SEO by the people at Yoast. This is one plugin that I will include in all my projects. It is the perfect plugin to assist with writing excellent content on your site. Yoast SEO This plugin, since its inception in 2008, has helped millions of…
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The Rise of Multimodal AI: Beyond Text to a Comprehensive Understanding of the World
Introduction Google’s recent announcement at its annual conference about enhancing its premier AI product, The Bard chatbot, to describe images has sparked a quiet revolution in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). This update, along with OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, signifies a shift from language-only models to multimodal models that can process various types of data, including…
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Day 11: #WP20 Memory From Launch Day
Wow WordPress Launch day, that was way back on May 27th, 2003. Back then I was just finishing up grade 10, and this was the year I had discovered the world of web design but I didn’t know about WordPress at that point. It wasn’t until after I had graduated high school and started building…
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Day 10: #WP20 Upcoming WordPress Project I’m Excited About
This was something interesting to look at. There are all kinds of things the people at WordPress are doing for the upcoming 6.3 release of WordPress. One of those is polishing the site editor. The Site Editor has come a long way from a handful of templates to edit with a limited set of blocks…
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New Proposal Looks to Retire Older WordPress Default Themes
WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system (CMS), owes much of its success to its flexibility and vast array of themes. Over the years, WordPress has shipped with several default themes that showcase the platform’s capabilities and serve as starting points for new websites. However, a new proposal has emerged within the WordPress community…
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Day 9: #WP20 Favourite WordPress Memory
So, today the team at WordPress decided to release both day 8 and day 9 projects for its users to try out. I decided to skip the day 8 project and go straight to day 9 since they decided to release them both on the same day. WordPress Memory So, for my memory I decided…
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Day 7: #WP20 Find a Wapuu
Today I decided to take the design challenge to find a Wapuu that I like rather than writing a blog about a specific topic. For this, I decided on the Accessipuu. Although I picked the Accessipuu as my first choice, I feel I need to still mention a second Wapuu called the Accessibility Wapuu although…
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Day 6: #WP20 A Song That Symbolizes WordPress’s Birthday
On day 6 of the celebration, the WordPress community is talking about songs that symbolizes WordPress and its birthday. In searching for a song using the hashtag #WP20 I came across a collection of songs on apple music. One of those songs was Dream On by Aerosmith. I picked this song as it is one…
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Day 5: #WP20 Most Creative Use of WordPress
One of the most creative WordPress sites that I have come across is from Charlotteville Brewing Company. This site uses the Rosewood theme found on EventoMarket. Charlotteville Brewing Company started back in 2010 when founders Tim Wilson & Melanie Doerksen bought half of the family farm to grow organic hops with hopes to one day have a…
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Day 4: #WP20 Oldest WordPress Site I Know of
The oldest WordPress website that I can think of that I use to this day, other than the WordPress.org site itself, would have to be WordPress Tavern. WordPress Tavern is a news type website covering everything WordPress. This site started in early 2009 by Jeff Chandler but then transferred to Matt Mullenweg in June 2011.