WordPress Out of Touch with Publisher Needs?
Publishers scramble to fix Core Web Vitals while WordPress, plugin and theme developers seemingly decline to address those needs
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Web publishing is trending toward providing a quality user experience to site visitors. These goals are embodied in Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics that measure important user experience metrics. But the WordPress coding ecosystem does not appear to have addressed those concerns.
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WordPress doesn’t seem aware of the what publishers need in terms of better user experience. As a consequence the WordPress development community appears to have no plans for giving publishers what they need.
Core Web Vitals Not Really Your Problem?
Google is burdening the USERS of software like WordPress and not the developers to fix it for Core Web Vitals. Is that fair?
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You are not alone if you’re struggling to improve Core Web Vitals scores and coming up short. Anecdotal evidence suggests that achieving high Core Web Vitals performance is difficult. The reason is because publishers and SEO are trying to fix something that technically is not broken.
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Paradigm Shift in How Sites are Developed
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WordPress Gutenberg Improved Site Performance
WP Rocket redesigned site with WordPress Gutenberg and experienced remarkable performance gains. But there are a few things to watch out for
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Editing in Gutenberg is Easier
The goal for Gutenberg has consistently been to create an editing interface that will make it easy for publishers of all skill levels to publish websites.
Creating an intuitive interface lowers the barrier to entry, empowers almost anyone to easily create a web presence and best of all, it helps content creators stay focused on creating content instead of curating and worrying about code.
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“Without being an expert developer, you can build your own custom posts and pages.”