Author name: Derek Nettey

This morning, I came across some interesting news about Google’s updated site reputation abuse policies. Apparently, they’ve revised their main guidelines with some fresh updates.

While the web buzzes with anxiety about AI taking our jobs or achieving consciousness, real artificial intelligence systems have already been making life-altering decisions about healthcare, housing, and basic human rights – often with devastating consequences.In this article I’m going to examine three real-life cases where AI systems destroyed thousands of lives. Then I’ll share my opinion on what we can do about it.

Google has made a significant change: you now need to enable JavaScript to use Google Search. According to them, this move is about security and improving the experience for users like you and me. By requiring JavaScript, Google says it can better protect its platform against spam, bots, and other types of abuse. It also claims this change ensures you get “the most relevant and up-to-date information.”

Last week, Automattic announced that they’d be cutting their weekly contributor hours to WordPress.org from roughly 4,000 to a mere 45. This is a massive shift in how open-source WordPress has functioned for over a decade. Let’s explore four possible implications of this major change.

If you’ve used Google lately, you’ve probably noticed a change: instead of just getting a mix of links and snippets, you’re now seeing AI-generated responses that synthesize information from multiple sources right there in your results. This is what’s known as generative search and it’s changing how we optimize content for search engines. In this post, I’ll explain how traditional SEO differs from GEO and where the concept of GEO originated from. Then I’ll go over some best practices so you can improve your odds of getting featured in generative search results.

We recently ran an experiment across three of our blogs to better understand readers, what they think of our content, and how we can potentially improve it. In this post, we’re going through the why and how of our experiment, along with the raw data and our initial conclusions.

Need help with troubleshooting WordPress? No matter how reliable the WordPress software is, you’ll probably run into some situations where you need to fix a problem. And when that happens, you’ll want to know how to go about troubleshooting WordPress. This post is here to help. Below, we’ll not just teach you how to fix some common WordPress problems, but we’ll also go over some tips for frameworks and how to approach troubleshooting in general.

If you’re planning to launch an ecommerce store, selecting the right platform to run your online business is one of the most crucial aspects of the process. This is because it will determine a lot of what you can and can’t do, how you’ll do it, and what it’ll cost you. While there are various options available, WooCommerce and Shopify are two of the most commonly recommended platforms. Given the conflicting opinions you get when comparing Shopify vs WooCommerce, it can be tough to know what to believe. To help you make an informed decision, we have compiled an in-depth comparison of these two ecommerce heavyweights.

Search engines opt to show different formats of results depending on what’s searched. Among those, you have regular results (title and meta description), Q&As, advertisements, and rich snippets. In this article, we’ll talk more about what rich snippets are and how you can use them. Then we’ll show you how to use rich snippets in WordPress. Let’s get to it!

This is the December 2023 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” We are back with the latest roundup of WordPress news and happenings from the past month. If you’re in the USA, hopefully you can shake off the post-Thanksgiving turkey coma to read about everything that’s going on in the WordPress space.