NOVA Entertainment is a network of premier radio stations with studios based in the major cities of Australia. Along with decades of setting the national benchmark for commercial radio production, NOVA was an early adopter of online radio content. Millions of users access their sites and stream radio content directly to their desktop or devices, […]
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We’re proud to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Official AMP for WordPress plugin. The AMP team, with help from XWP, has worked tirelessly to create a seamless user experience with this new version, and has taken the Official AMP plugin to new heights. With a new onboarding wizard, enhanced reader mode, plugin […]
Media management is the unsung hero of the last 16 years of WordPress. The world’s most popular CMS has massively simplified how websites can be created, and media management (aka how images can be added, used, and served) has been a significant contributor to this success. Although its role in WordPress’ success is undeniable, as […]
This week we kicked off a project we’ve been excitedly building towards. We’ve started working with the incredible team at Unsplash on their WordPress plugin. When launched, the plugin will bring a richer and deeper experience to content creators in WordPress in how they can access, interact, and use the wonderful photography from the Unsplash […]
Remember m-dot sites? You know, the ones where you would design and build a whole separate site for your mobile visitors and serve it under a subdomain (e.g. https://m.xwp.co). Two sites; one for desktop visitors and one for mobile visitors. Sure, in a world getting its feet wet with mobile devices, this got the ball […]
A rising tide lifts all boats. Our company’s mission to work for an open web that is secure, performant, reliable, and accessible has been the driving force behind Tide, a tool that aims to lift code quality across the WordPress ecosystem. During the 12 month journey Tide has been on, we’ve discovered that the vision […]
Involve yourself in enough WordCamps, meetups and community forums, and you start to notice a trend. The same kind of question is asked over and over. It sounds something like… What plugin should I install to do {feature}? WordPress users have the world’s most popular CMS, with 29% of the web under its wing and […]
Throughout 2015 and 2016 we helped News Corp Australia conduct the largest (to date) Open Source CMS migration the publishing industry had seen. Ninety brands and fifteen properties representing six million monthly views were brought over to WordPress. We’ve talked about and shared on numerous occasions the details of what was achieved technically, but we […]