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With increasing e-commerce and rising unemployment across the country, Cloud Wise Academy, an ETSU Innovation Lab affiliate member, is hosting a “WordPress for Beginners Workshop.” The six-week-long course is designed to teach one of the most in-demand website hosting technologies.

The workshop begins Sept. 13 and runs through Oct. 20, with classes on Monday and Wednesday nights from 6-8 p.m. In-person participants meet at the ETSU Innovation Lab, located at 2109 W Market St. in Johnson City. The class may also be taken synchronously online. Registration fees are $350 per participant, and participants may use the code “early 50” through Aug. 15 to save $50.

“Our lives and communities have changed in 2020 and beyond,” said Joe Mckenna, founder of Cloud Wise Academy. “Some businesses didn’t make it through 2020. For those that did, they face an entirely new landscape. Our businesses and workforces are struggling to adapt to the new normal, and it is not just businesses struggling. Employees’ work environments also look entirely different. The companies that made it through 2020 and new companies that sprang up will need a new workforce to embrace these changes.”

Classes consist of instructional learning and hands-on practice developing web pages to help students become comfortable with WordPress and learn more about e-commerce, especially as consumer buying habits shift toward online retail.

“To make problems worse for our local businesses, ‘monster’ companies like Amazon moved very quickly to address local customers’ demands and gobble up new business,” said Mckenna. “Large companies created an even more significant skill gap between local workforces and the workforces of those ‘monsters.’ That’s why we launched Cloud Wise Academy – to train and equip our local workforce with online marketing skills for a chance at a new career and the ability to impact our local business community positively.”

The class will also focus on search engine optimization, which helps improve website traffic from search engines like Google. In 2020, compared to the previous year, there was an increase of more than 8,000% for the search terms “who has” and “in stock,” according to a 2021 report on consumer behavior from Google. Students will learn how to optimize WordPress webpages to display in search engine results for relevant keyword searches.

This course is taught by Jake Hinton, a northern Florida web developer specializing in search engine optimization, search engine marketing and online planning and strategy.

“Seven years ago I was working in the trades,” Hinton said. “My hours and income were limited by forces out of my control. Today there is more demand and opportunity for my skills than I can ever fulfill, and the work I do is important to the local business I work for. I make more money, and I’m more fulfilled than I was before. This industry really is a diamond in the rough, and I love introducing others to it.”

For more information about Cloud Wise Academy and future courses, visit cloudwiseacademy.com, or email Mckenna at [email protected] or at 530-515-9851.

The ETSU Innovation Lab is a high-tech business incubator that assists aspiring entrepreneurs from concept through commercialization. For more information, visit etsu.edu/ilab or contact Dr. Audrey Depelteau, director of the Innovation Lab, at [email protected].

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When you mention brands that dominate the market, the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon are likely to spring to mind.

Likewise, when it comes to CSM market share, it won’t surprise you to know that WordPress is dominating.

What may surprise you is how much by.

How Market Share Was Measured

The research carried out by GigaPress made use of the Alexa Top Sites, which identified the top 10,000 websites worldwide by measuring Alexa Traffic Rank.

From here, they utilized a script to determine the type of CMS each site uses, based on over 900 known systems.

Market Share Results

It was expected that the majority of top sites would use a private custom content management system, and the research confirmed that, with 7,612 (76.12%) of top sites using a CMS that was not publicly available.

However, of the top sites with a publicly available content management system, WordPress was the platform of choice for 1,057 (10.57%).

That means that WordPress owns 44.26% of the CMS market share.

Comparatively, the runner-up – Drupal – has just a 9.63% market share.

Other runners up include:

• All others – 26.64% market share.
• Adobe Experience Manager – 8.54% market share.
• Joomla – 2.21% market share.
• Blogger – 1.88% market share.
• Umbraco – 1.75% market share.
• DataLife Engine – 1.72% market share.
• SiteCore – 1.68% market share.
• Shopify – 1.68% market share.

Digging A Little Deeper

The same market share analysis was carried out on the top 1,000 websites that were identified as using a publicly available content management system, with WordPress remaining on top with a share of 31.21%

The margins for the runner-ups were a little closer in this analysis compared to the broader sample.

Interestingly, the brands ranking was different compared to the broader analysis:

• All Others – 24.11% market share.
• Adobe Experience Manager – 16.31% market share.
• Drupal – 11.35% market share.
• Umbraco – 7.09% market share.
• Arc Publishing – 2.84% market share.
• GitHub Pages – 1.42% market share.
• Shopify – 1.42% market share.
• Blogger – 1.42% market share.

What This Means For Your WordPress Site

In the 18 years that WordPress has existed, the platform has emerged as an incredibly popular choice, whatever type of website you’re looking to build.

Heralded as an excellent choice for new and smaller businesses, this research highlights that it is a trusted and popular choice amongst much larger brands too.

GigaPress says of the results:

“This is more than an impressive stat—it’s a testament to the ubiquity of WordPress, as well as its reliability and scalability.”

This suggests that an investment in a WordPress website could serve your marketing journey for much longer than you might think.

Of course, the site will need to be continually maintained and optimized to assist with growth and stay current with Google Algorithm updates, but it is entirely possible that the platform will continue to operate well even if your site popularity increases considerably.

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On the first day of NHL free agency, the Penguins announced four signings, including the retention of forward Evan Rodriguez, who was a restricted free agent.  The biggest name coming to the Pens is former Carolina forward Brock McGinn, who will play among the bottom six forwards.

General Manager Ron Hextall says McGinn plays in the same style as Brandon Tanev, who the Penguins lost to Seattle in the expansion draft.

 

Hextall says he was surprised by some of the prices paid for free agents yesterday after a tough financial year in the league, due to the pandemic.  He says the Penguins don’t have a lot of salary cap space to work with, but he is still looking for help in the market.

 

The Penguins welcomed back forward Dominick Simon, who signed a one-year contract to return after playing last season at Calgary.  Simon is a favorite of Sidney Crosby, and Hextall says he can fit up and down the lineup, top six or bottom six.

 

The Pens also signed goaltending prospect Filip Lindberg to a two-way contract, opting to bypass some veteran free agent goalies and stay with Tristan Jerry and Casey DeSmith in goal, at least for now.  And they signed veteran journeyman defenseman Taylor Fedun.

Defenseman Cody Ceci left the Penguins to sign with Edmonton.  Forward Freddie Gaudreau signed with Minnesota.  Goalie Maxime Lagace signed with Tampa Bay.

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On July 6, 2021, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed “Ban the Box” legislation titled Legislative Document (LD) 1167 (HP 845) into law to prohibit private employers from requesting criminal record information from applicants on initial applications or stating ex-offenders may not apply for a job. The law will take effect on October 18, 2021.

LD 1167 prohibits employers from requesting criminal history record information on initial job applications or stating on initial job applications or advertisements or specifying prior to determining applicants are otherwise qualified for the job that applicants with a criminal history may not apply or will not be considered for a job.

LD 1167 provides exceptions to prohibitions where federal or state laws, regulations, or rules mandate that a criminal conviction disqualifies an applicant for a position, or requires an employer not to hire an applicant who convicted of a certain type of offense, or requires an employer to conduct a criminal history record check.

The “Ban the Box” movement seeks to remove the box that applicants with criminal histories are asked to check on applications and delay inquiries in criminal histories until later in the hiring process. Employers who violate LD 1167 will be subject to a penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $500 for each violation.

On April 5, 2019, Governor Mills signed LD 170 (HP 133), which prohibited questions about criminal history on applications for jobs in state government. The law did not apply to jobs with a political subdivision of the state, jobs in school administration, or positions for which applicants may be ineligible because of criminal records.

As of July 2021, 36 states have “Ban the Box” laws for public employers. Fifteen states – California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington – and the District of Columbia banned the box for private employers.

“Ban the Box” laws and Second Chance Programs that help ex-offenders in the United States – an estimated 70 million people – find work will continue to evolve, according to leading global background check firm Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), which compiled the “ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends” for 2021.

Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) – which was named the #1 screening firm by HRO Today in 2020 – offers a white paper on “Ten Critical Steps for Ex-Offenders to Get Back into the Workforce,” an “ESR Ban the Box Resource Guide,” and a Ban the Box Resource Page. To learn more about ESR, visit www.esrcheck.com.

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Colorado Web Impressions, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado is excited to announce free WordPress web design training for small business owners.

Owner and founder Chris Heidlebaugh explains the reason, “we’re a Christian led company that focuses on the community. The least we can do is help our friends and neighbors who have a need with digital marketing for their business, so we decided to offer free tarining for people who need it”.

So how does the training work? Mr. Heidlebaugh stated, “we get calls, emails, and messages each and every day from people not only in Colorado, but across the USA and around the world who have a need for training. So we simply gather an email, and send them training videos dedicated to their needs. Simple, easy, and no selling at all”.

If you need WordPress help, call Chris and his team today at 719-419-3935

About Colorado Web Impressions

Founded in 2006, this Christian focused digital marketing agency has been helping Colorado small businesses succeed online with their services like Colorado SEO, WordPress Web Design, Social Media Marketing, and Digital Branding. Under the leadership of the current owner Chris Heidlebaugh, the Colorado Springs, Colorado company has helped small businesses in nearly 75 different industries throughout the state of Colorado, North America, and the Cayman Islands. To learn more about Colorado Web Impressions call them at 719-419-3935 or visit them at Coloradowebimpressions.com

WordPress 5.8 introduced an opt-in system for themes to configure block settings, styles, templates, and more. It is done through a new theme.json file that authors can put at the root of their theme folders. Anne McCarthy, the lead of the FSE Outreach Program, announced a survey earlier today to get feedback from developers on this feature.

“Since this new mechanism is an early step towards a comprehensive style system for the future of WordPress, it’s important to hear from everyone who is currently using theme.json to learn more about how folks are using this tool and what might make sense to include in Core going forward,” she wrote in the announcement.

The survey is open to all theme authors who have used theme.json, giving them a chance to put in some early feedback and help steer the ship going forward.

Because I have worked extensively with this system over the past few months, I had a few things to say. Plus, I just like participating in WordPress-related surveys. I also decided it would be an opportunity to share some of my unfiltered thoughts from a development perspective on the current state of theme.json.

What follows are my responses to the survey’s questions — well, the tidied-up version.

Note: This is a developer-centric post that might not universally appeal to all of our readers. I have attempted to explain some things in user-friendly terminology, but some prerequisite knowledge of theme development may be necessary.

Experience

The first question of the survey is pretty cut-and-dry. It asks what your experience is with building block themes or using theme.json. It provides four choices (and an “other” option):

• I have built and launched block themes.
• I have experimented with building block themes.
• I have explored using theme.json with a classic theme.
• I have used a block theme, but I have not built one yet.

I chose the first option because I have already built two block themes for family and friends. These were simple personal sites that I already maintain for free — honestly, I need to start charging. I am also working on a theme that I hope to release publicly.

How It Started and How It’s Going

The second question asks how one got started with block themes and theme.json. The choices are between forking an existing theme, using the Empty Theme, or starting from scratch.

Again, this is one of those things where I have experimented with each direction, but I cannot remember the exact starting point. The bulk of my work has come from forking a theme that I last worked on in 2019.

I plan to release this as a new theme for free at some point. I am mostly waiting on the following:

• Navigation block development to settle down
• The Post Author block to be split into smaller blocks
• A robust set of comment-related blocks
• Post Featured Image block to have a size option

I think I could realistically release a use-at-your-own-risk beta version of my theme today if those items were addressed.

Templates and Template Parts

The survey asked which templates and template parts themers always include in their block-based themes. There was a freeform comment field — steps upon soapbox…

I have a love/hate relationship with block templates at the moment. The static nature of HTML templates reminds me of simpler times when theme development was less complicated. However, this also presents a problem in a dynamic system.

I cannot remember the last time I have built a traditional, PHP-based theme with more than one top-level template: index.php. The dynamic pieces have always been the guts of the thing, which are template parts. With PHP, it is easy to set some variable or use a function call to contextually load the templates parts necessary for whichever page a visitor is currently viewing on a site.

The block template system does not work like that. It essentially forces developers into breaking the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle.

For example, if a designer wanted to display a different header template part for pages and posts, they would only need to create a header-page.php or header-post.php template in traditional themes. However, because the block template system is different, they must now create two top-level templates, single.html (post) and page.html, to accomplish the same thing.

This is a “bad thing” because theme authors must duplicate all the other code in each of the top-level templates. There is no way to contextually load different template parts.

To answer the question: I am using almost all of the possible top-level templates out of necessity.

I also answered the second part of the question and listed my most commonly used template parts (broken down by hierarchy):

• Header
• Content
  – Loop
  – Sidebar
• Footer

The content-*.html and loop-*.html template parts are those with the most variations.

Defining Colors

The next section of the survey asks how theme authors define their color palette slugs in theme.json. Believe it or not, naming colors may be the most controversial topic in the theming world in years. The only two things generally agreed upon are “background” and “foreground” colors.

Morten Rand-Hendriksen opened a ticket in 2018 for standardizing a theme color naming scheme. It was not the first discussion and has not been the last. The problem it was meant to address was the slugs for colors in the system, which is how themes define their palettes. Once a user makes use of a preset color, the slug is hardcoded into their content. Switch to another theme with different slugs, and the old colors disappear and do not automatically change to the new theme’s colors.

I use semantic names that follow something that closely resembles the Tailwind CSS framework’s shading system. Instead of red-medium (descriptive), I would use primary-500 (semantic), for example. A semantic approach would allow theme authors to define a set of colors that are updated each time a user switches themes.

Of course, there are other schools of thought, and even everyone who prefers semantic naming does not agree on the same system. I have described my approach in more detail in a more recent GitHub ticket and have a theme.json Gist for others who might want to try it.

Other Theme JSON Settings

Outside of colors and typography, the survey asks what other settings theme authors have used. This is another scenario where I typically use everything — if there is an option for it, I am defining it.

One use case that WordPress does not currently have a preset for is global spacing. Most theme authors use a single value for most vertical margins (whitespace between blocks and elements). It is also often used for default vertical and horizontal padding.

I am unsure if I want a preset because I do not know how WordPress will use it. It is something that others have asked for, and it is nearly ubiquitous in use. Defining an entire system around it could cause headaches down the road, but I would still like to see some discussion around implementing at least a standard global spacing preset.

Per-Block Settings and Styles

This survey section was a yes/no question, simply asking if theme authors included per-block settings or styles in their theme.json files. Of course, I left some additional comments later in the optional comment section.

I am happy with the system when it comes to settings, which allows themers to define which features are enabled globally or on a per-block basis. However, I am not sold on adding styles via theme.json.

Writing CSS in JSON, essentially what we are talking about, feels wrong on so many levels. Currently, it is limited to merely a few configurable styles, so anything beyond that requires diving into an actual CSS file anyway. That is problematic because half of the theme’s CSS code is divided between theme.json and a separate CSS file. From a development standpoint, it makes the codebase harder to maintain.

Initially, I started down the path of configuring per-block and element styles from theme.json. However, I have since moved my styling back to CSS files. It feels more natural, and I have the added benefit of all the tooling I am accustomed to. Right now, I cannot imagine a scenario where I would move back.

Besides saving a few bytes of code, I have not seen many benefits to adding styles for most things via JSON. Maybe that will change in the future, and I will be a convert. For now, I am sticking primarily with CSS.

Other Feedback: A PHP Layer

I have said it before, but it bears repeating. We need a PHP layer for this theme.json configuration system. There is currently an open ticket for addressing this.

There are two main benefits to such a system. Having a PHP API for piecing together configuration will feel far more natural to traditional theme developers. I look at it as a bit of an olive branch, a show of good faith that the core/Gutenberg developers recognize that many theme authors will have an easier time easing into FSE features via a familiar programming language.

The second advantage is that there is an untold number of plugin ideas to extend global styles, site editing, and more if there is an easy way to hook into the theme JSON system and overwrite things. A simple filter hook would make this painless.