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2022 Web Almanac Performance Data Shows WordPress Sites May Be Overusing Lazy-Loading
The last two chapters of the 2022 Web Almanac were released this week, they were Structured Data and Performance, completing the 729-page ebook of the report. The WordPress-specific chapter was published earlier this month with metrics that indicate adoption is continuing it’s trend of growing year over year. The Performance chapter was written by Etsy performance engineer Melissa…
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Openverse Audio Catalog Passes 800,000 Files, Audio Support Now Out of Beta
Openverse, which was formerly known as Creative Commons Search before it joined the WordPress project, has passed an important milestone with its newly added support for audio files. The catalog has now indexed more than 800,000 audio files from across the internet and its development team has now taken audio support out of the beta phase. Visitors to…
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Twenty Twenty-Two theme is the first of the block theme era to be tagged accessibility-ready
After an amazing seven-month long effort across multiple contributor teams at WordPress, the Twenty Twenty-Two (also known as TT2) default theme will be tagged as “Accessibility-Ready” when WordPress 6.1 ships this coming November. It is the first block theme to meet the requirements for gaining this wonderful distinction for accessibility. During its development the theme was also…