Industry Insights from the WordPress Trenches
Just when you thought you knew what tech employers were looking for in a job candidate, along came 2020. Now, a deadly virus is on the loose, protests—sometimes riots—have broken out and a reality TV star is president of the U.S. Now here you are, applying for jobs with this going on out your window. … Read More
Internet Exploder strikes again! Users have reported that Internet Explorer refuses to load some websites on the WordPress.com platform when they try to reach it by clicking a link (from social media or an email, for example). IE will give them a message that says: The website you were trying to reach doesn’t work with … Read More
I once had a student in a digital arts class, a bright young woman of color, polite, attentive and seemingly diligent, who was turning in very bad projects. This was baffling because she didn’t seem like the type of student who would turn in such bad work. I normally get this type of work from … Read More
Don’t ever, ever, evereverevereverever modify the PHP code on a live WordPress website. PHP code is a compiled language, which means that if there’s one syntax error—a missing semicolon, an extra curly bracket, a misspelled word—your site crashes and your visitors see nothing but the dreaded White Screen of Death. via Gfycat (Incidentally, here’s how … Read More
If you’re on this website, you’re probably into programming. And if you, like me, are a programmer with kids, you’ve probably asked yourself, should my child learn programming? I might be biased—OK, I’m definitely extremely biased—but I’m going to give into my urge to give a one-sided, overly enthusiastic yes. Why? Because programming has provided … Read More
We’ve all been there. You’re working on your site—or worse, a client’s site—and you refresh the browser, and there it is: Nothing. A white screen where the site should be. Adrenaline rushes, you start to sweat. You can’t see the site, you can’t access the dashboard. How are you going to fix this?! This is … Read More
When Verious Smith graduated college, he was like many young entry-level software engineers—he planned to get a job in technology and climb the ladder, eventually reaching the Promised Land, Silicon Valley. That was in 2010, and the number of jobs for tech workers in that region was unparalleled in the world. So it was reasonable … Read More
The nonprofit organization that manages domain names has rejected a proposal to sell the .org top-level domain to a private company, and organizations all over the world that have a .org website breathed a sigh of relief. Ethos Capital, a Pennsylvania-based private equity group, submitted an offer in November to buy the Public Interest Registry … Read More
You can now enroll in our Remote Learning program for as cheap as… free! WP Code Camp now offers a matching grant for crowd sourcing your tuition. This means, for every dollar you raise, we’ll match it with a dollar. So, if you raise half of your tuition, we’ll pay the other half, and the … Read More
Nobody’s denying that the U.S.—and likely the world—are about to feel an economic slowdown. Some are expecting recession or full-blown depression and the unemployment rate to exceed 10 percent. But web and software development—and most of the tech sector—have been growing much faster than the average employment sector for many years. So many in the … Read More
