August 2020, during the mayhem of the coronavirus pandemic, WordPress released version 5.5 — and subsequently a fair amount of websites “broke” in some fashion. The sites 3Cstudio saw that had issues were still using a legacy theme called StartBox, which had held up to many years of updates (including the massive jump to version […]
Back in early December 2018, WordPress quietly rolled out WordPress 5.0 with the long-discussed major shift in Editor (code-named “Gutenberg”). Though some people — judging by Comment threads and forum posts — were rather apprehensive, I found that the process of Upgrading was quick and painless, especially if I installed the Classic Editor Plugin first. […]
The almighty Google has been saying for some time now that, beginning in July of 2018, they would be flagging sites without the https:// designation as “Unsafe”. What is HTTPS? People see this https:// designation (and a corresponding padlock icon, often) in their Address bar of their chosen browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.) when they […]
Google subtly began giving responsive websites / mobile-friendly sites preferential treatment last year… Is your site mobile-friendly and/or responsive? Statistics show that more than half of internet viewers are using a mobile device to browse/view websites, and that number continues to grow. Connect if you want to know more or feel that your site is […]