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How To Choose An Accessibility Ready WordPress Theme (And Why)

Posted: July 15, 2019 Updated: December 11, 2019 by Claire Brotherton
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Why an Accessibility Ready WordPress theme? If you have a requirement to build a WordPress website to be ADA or WCAG compliant (or simply want your website to be used by as many people as possible) you are going to want to start with a decent theme. A poorly chosen theme could scupper your chances […]

Category: Accessibility, WordPress Tags: accessibility-ready, themes

3 Free Plugins To Add Google Photos To WordPress

Posted: July 3, 2019 Updated: June 19, 2024 by Claire Brotherton
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As Android phone user, Google Photos is my app of choice for photo storage. Sometimes I take a lot of photos at events, and I want to add them to blog posts. Usually I resort to downloading the images to my laptop, editing them and uploading them to my blog. It occurred to me the […]

Category: WordPress Tags: Jetpack, Photonic, plugins

How to Align Images And Text In WordPress Gutenberg Without Woes

Posted: June 20, 2019 by Claire Brotherton
24 Comments

Are you using the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg)? Great! Now with the various blocks you have more options for aligning images with text. There are good ways and bad ways to align images and text in WordPress’ Gutenberg editor. I’m going to show you the options and the pitfalls. This post assumes you know how […]

Category: WordPress Tags: block editor, Gutenberg, images

Full List Of WordPress Gutenberg Blocks (& How To Add More)

Posted: June 12, 2019 Updated: June 20, 2024 by Claire Brotherton
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With version 5, the block editor – aka Gutenberg – has brought a shift in creating content in WordPress. Gutenberg blocks are now the building bricks of posts and pages. But how many are there, and what do they do? What this post covers Note that in this post I’ve used screenshots of blocks for […]

Category: WordPress Tags: block editor, Gutenberg, plugins

The WordPress Site Health Check – Help or Hindrance?

Posted: May 14, 2019 by Claire Brotherton
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WordPress 5.1 introduced a new feature called Site Health. When you upgraded to WordPress 5.1 you might have noticed a warning in the Dashboard if your site was running an outdated version of PHP. WordPress Site Health Check introduced in version 5.2 WordPress 5.2 takes Site Health one step further. With the upgrade a new […]

Category: WordPress Tags: site health, WordPress 5.2

WordPress.com to WordPress.org Migration: What Do You Need To Know?

Posted: February 28, 2019 Updated: April 18, 2019 by Claire Brotherton
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If you have built a successful website on WordPress.com, there may come a time when you want to move it to self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org). For example, you might want to do things which are not possible with a WordPress.com site, such as: serve Google ads run custom code download all the files on your site. […]

Category: WordPress Tags: wordpress.com, wordpress.org

WordPress 5 Released, Launching A Brand New Editor

Posted: December 14, 2018 Updated: December 15, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
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WordPress 5.0, “Bebo” launched on Thursday 6 December. A few days later, on Thursday 13 December, security release 5.0.1 came out. This is the version you’ll get now [the time of writing] if you upgrade from any WordPress install below 5.0. WordPress 5.0.2 is scheduled for Wednesday 19 December. Here’s what I’m going to cover […]

Category: WordPress Tags: Gutenberg, WordPress 5

The User Experience and Accessibility of Gutenberg (The WordPress 5.0 Block Editor)

Posted: December 6, 2018 Updated: September 7, 2022 by Claire Brotherton
12 Comments

As WordPress 5.0 launches today, with a new block editor, it seems timely to revisit this presentation I gave at WordCamp Edinburgh 2018 on 17 November. This was the talk description: The new Gutenberg editor is a key part of WordPress 5.0 which is going to change the user experience of WordPress, for better or […]

Category: Accessibility, WordPress Tags: block editor, Gutenberg, user experience, WordPress 5.0

How To Create A WordPress Gallery For Your Images

Posted: September 14, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
4 Comments

In my last post, I wrote about adding images to your WordPress posts or pages. Sometimes though, you might want to show a collection of related images in rows. The way to do that is through the WordPress Gallery feature. Adding a gallery Start a new post or page (Posts > Add New or Pages […]

Category: WordPress Tags: gallery, images

How To Add An Image To A WordPress Post: A Simple Guide

Posted: September 6, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
2 Comments

Just starting out with your WordPress site? One of the first things you’ll want to learn is how to add an image to a WordPress post or page. The process is exactly the same for both. There are two phases to adding images to a post: Uploading the image to the Media Library Inserting the […]

Category: WordPress Tags: images

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