This post is the third in a series capturing knowledge gems gathered from the Official AMP plugin Support forums. The community asks interesting and important questions in the forum, and the engineering team at Google driving the development of the plugin, led by Weston Ruter, has provided equally cool answers worth spreading. Support Question I want to … Continue reading AMP in WordPress: CSS Limits
To AMP or not to AMP: Or How to Succeed with WordPress
I am often asked why I advocate for AMP in general, and AMP in WordPress in particular. Beyond my advocacy work, the actual question should be: do I, as a content publisher, or site owner, or developer, need AMP to power my WordPress site? The literal and very short answer is: no. I don’t need … Continue reading To AMP or not to AMP: Or How to Succeed with WordPress
AMP in WordPress: AdSense
This post is the second in a series of posts capturing knowledge gems gathered from the Official AMP plugin Support forums. The community asks interesting and important questions in the forum, and the engineering team at Google driving the development of the plugin, led by Weston Ruter, has provided equally cool answers worth spreading. Support … Continue reading AMP in WordPress: AdSense
AMP in WordPress: Google Tag Manager
This post is the first in a series of posts capturing knowledge gems gathered from the Official AMP plugin Support forums. The community asks interesting and important questions in the forum, and the engineering team at Google driving the development of the plugin, led by Weston Ruter, has provided equally cool answers worth spreading. Support … Continue reading AMP in WordPress: Google Tag Manager
AMP in WordPress, the WordPress Way
TL;Dr This post summarizes a recent talk Jeanny Haliman and myself gave at AMP Conf, 2019: Enabling first-class AMP experiences on WordPress is one of the ways the AMP Project aims to bring a user-first experience to websites and content on the web. The Official AMP Plugin for WordPress (WordPress.org, Github) integrates AMP content creation … Continue reading AMP in WordPress, the WordPress Way
Progressive Content Management Systems
Tl;DR This post summarizes a recent talk Weston Ruter and myself gave at Chrome Dev Summit , 2018: Content Management Systems (CMS) are software platforms designed to simplify the creation and management of websites and their content. Nowadays, about 50% of websites are powered by some sort of CMS platform. Below, we discuss our experience moving … Continue reading Progressive Content Management Systems
Web Content Ecosystems @ Google
I have written before about Google’s Progressive Web vision, the work being pursued by the Web Content Ecosystems team, and our commitment to contribute to the advancement of WordPress along the Progressive web road. Our team has spent a lot of time learning about WordPress internals and architecture over the last year, and we are … Continue reading Web Content Ecosystems @ Google
WordPress @ Google: Part II
A Simple Model of the Web At Google we are pursuing efforts that champion awesome user experiences across all platforms in the Content Management Systems (CMS) space. One of those efforts focuses specifically on the WordPress platform. As part of Google's commitment to these efforts, we are growing a team focused on WordPress Developer Relations. … Continue reading WordPress @ Google: Part II
Progressive WordPress
If you navigate to whatwebcando.today, you will see which Web APIs are currently natively supported by the browser you are using. Although there is some variability between browsers, the important thing to realize is the number and richness of the web APIs that are standard today. With them we can implement awesome and complex web experiences … Continue reading Progressive WordPress
AMP in WordPress
If you only have one minute to read this post, here is the gist of it: WordPress users can get a first-class AMP experience without compromising the fidelity of their content or surrendering the flexibility of the WordPress platform. Get a glimpse of what is possible nowadays with AMP in WordPress by watching our AMP Conf 2018 talk!