Just before your well-deserved weekend, we have the WP news of the past two weeks for you. WordPress has reached an important milestone in terms of market share. You also have the chance to get a ticket for the WordCamp Retreat in Soltau on Friday. And we'll show you five popular WordPress plugins that take image optimization off your hands.
Automate your image optimization with these plugins
When optimizing your load time, every millisecond you can save is a success. After all, a faster loading time has a positive effect on the user experience of your site visitors, your search engine ranking and, ideally, your conversions. This makes it all the more surprising how many WordPress users neglect image compression. That's why we're showing you five popular WordPress plugins that make optimizing your images a breeze.
WordPress
Tickets are available again for the WordCamp Retreat
From May 4 to 6, a WordCamp in retreat format will take place in the beautiful Lüneburg Heath. This means that in addition to the sessions and contributing, there will be joint activities such as beach volleyball, hiking, geocaching and yoga. If you want to be there, you should secure a ticket quickly. Tickets go on sale for the second round on Friday (March 9) at 12:00.
WordPress breaks the 30 percent barrier
According to a recent survey by W3Techs, our favorite CMS has reached another milestone: The analysis shows that 30 percent of the 10 million largest websites use WordPress. With a market share of 60.2 percent, WordPress continues to dominate the CMS market unchallenged.
Are your plugins Gutenberg-compatible?
WordPress 5.0 is approaching and more and more WP users are wondering whether their plugins and themes will work properly with the new Gutenberg editor. For this reason, Daniel Bachhuber has set up a database in which around 5,000 plugins are to be tested for their Gutenberg compatibility. Anyone can register and take part in testing to ensure that the update to 5.0 goes as smoothly as possible.
Security
How many plugins are too many plugins?
The colleagues at Torque address an important topic: the "right" number of plugins. They emphasize: "Too many plugins can lead to security breaches on your site, site crashes, bad performance, slow loading speeds, and more". For these reasons, our infrastructure at Raidboxes ensures that you don't need large backup and caching plugins.
The "Have I Been Pwned" platform has been expanded
Security researcher Troy Hunt has added several million passwords to the database of his popular online service "Have I been Pwned". If you use the website's email or password check, it will check within seconds whether your information appears in public hacks. If the check is successful, you should of course change your password as soon as possible!
Web design
What does the GDPR mean for web developers?
The General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on May 25, brings new requirements for the collection, storage and use of personal data. As a developer in particular, it is important to know what personal data is, who and what is affected by the GDPR and how it affects your work. Internet law expert Heather Burns has valuable tips, best practices and resources on this topic for you.
