This release of the AMP plugin makes it easier to use your own theme with AMP, and has better notifications in the editor. A recent improvement removes extra style rules, making it easier to use your own theme’s styling in AMP. To test this, please upload this pre-release file to a staging site. Your feedback … Continue reading AMP Plugin Release v1.0-RC4
With this version of the plugin, Twenty Nineteen is fully AMP-compatible: To test this, please upload this pre-release file to a staging site. We would appreciate your feedback. Please report any bug you find by opening an issue. Changes In This Release Add AMP support for Twenty Nineteen. (1587, 1619) Gutenberg: Remove ‘type’ from attributes … Continue reading AMP Plugin Release v1.0-RC3
Get the performance of AMP on much more of your site. Here’s a chance to test how your site can get the benefits of AMP, and look the same as in non-AMP. This 1.0-RC2 release is a step closer to the stable (production) 1.0 release. This is your chance to test the AMP plugin on … Continue reading AMP Plugin Release v1.0-RC2
Our experience converting xwp.co to Native AMP with the AMP WordPress plugin. We’ve been working with Google and Automattic on the AMP for WordPress plugin for a little over 6 months. We were brought onboard to improve the functionality and user experience of the plugin and bring it inline with the many recent enhancements of the … Continue reading AMP Up – Converting xwp.co to Native AMP
tl;dr Periodically empty out the uploads directory in your WordPress dev environment to speed up PHPUnit tests. Over the past few months of working on the AMP plugin for WordPress, I’ve been noticing that PHPUnit has been running slower and slower over time. Well, today this frog jumped out of the boiling water: I decided … Continue reading Speed Up PHPUnit Tests by Emptying Uploads Directory
The goal of header bidding is to ensure that multiple ad networks and ad exchanges can compete on price for a particular ad slot on a website which in turn increases the publishers’ revenue.
There are several header bidding implementations and understanding the differences is necessary when evaluating and finding the best fit for each publisher. Continue reading Client-side vs. Server-side Header Bidding
People have called me many things, but when it comes to the Open Web, I’ve been described as a zealot. Imagine a Portland hipster’s post-Trump-tweet outrage, and channel all that fire and fury into defending humankind’s greatest achievement: The Internet. I’ll be honest, when I first heard about “Google AMP,” it was framed as a … Continue reading How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Wanting to improve your Google Page Speed rating is great! It shows that you care about your visitors and their time, but clocking a green 90-100 score is only one step on the journey to better page performance You want a better user experience, and Google Page Speed is only part of that story. It … Continue reading Improving Google Page Speed isn’t enough
Over several years now I’ve used Git in developing patches for WordPress core, for which we committers still use SVN to actually commit patches, for better or worse. While working on patches in a fork, however, Git is definitely for better. I’ve found a lot of value in using GitHub for reviewing and collaborating on … Continue reading Ignoring files in a Git repo without touching .gitignore
A couple days ago Helen Hou-Sandí live tweeted her first time trying out Gutenberg, the feature plugin for the next generation WordPress editor. One of her tweets stood out to me and started a thread: tl;dr You can use the Customize Posts plugin to add and edit posts in the Customizer and preview your changes—to the title, … Continue reading Previewing content changes across multiple site templates
