Value based education

Abe Selig 11.20.2018 FrieslandCampina is one of the world’s largest dairy cooperatives—its products find their way to more than 100 countries around the world. With more than 23,0000 employees across branch offices in 34 countries, communicating new strategies and changes throughout the organization can be a challenge. When the company needed to roll out a new set of guidelines regarding core organizational behaviours and values, FrieslandCampina reached out to Fresh Forces, an Utrecht, Netherlands-based digital agency that helps large companies implement changes across their organizations. Read the full case study to find out how Fresh Forces worked with WP Engine to build an internal, company-wide online educational game for FrieslandCampina, where employees were able to experience the new corporate mindset and behavior firsthand.  Download the Case Study More WordPress news from WP Engine WordPress for Good: Relieving Fatigue … [Read more...] about Helping Enterprises Win with Game-Based Employee Training

After more than five years of doing WordPress development full-time, one thing keeps coming back to me: just how bad the average person’s experience is having a small business website built in WordPress. WordPress is a wonderful technology, but most small business website owners are not having wonderful experiences with it. In this article, I’ll explain why not, and present what I hope could be a solution. How to Use This Article This article can be useful for both web developers and website clients: For Developers (People Who Build Small Business WordPress Websites) I want this article to be a catalyst toward a better experience in WordPress for small-business clients—and developers. If you’re a WordPress developer (or, more generally, someone who builds or works on WordPress websites for others), I want your help: Read the next section, which identifies and explains the problems that small-business website clients often face, in WordPress specifically. Read … [Read more...] about The Small-Business WordPress Developer Code of Honor

So far in my series of posts on React development for WordPress, I’ve covered React basics, create-react-app and testing with Jest. Jest is useful for testing the rendering of React components. There are a few big buckets of functionality we have not looked at testing yet. Specifically how the internal state of stateful component changes, DOM events, and isolated testing of component class methods. Jest alone can’t do that. Using Enzyme For DOM Testing I hope it’s clear now how Jest, with the default test renderer, can do a lot of test coverage quickly. A snapshot covers one component, with all of its props. One limitation I mentioned was it doesn’t render the components to any type of DOM, so there is no way to trigger an event. Luckily Enzyme, which can be run by Jest lets us do exactly that — simulate DOM events. It also has cool features to check the props and state of a component or call methods of class directly. Enzyme is not installed in … [Read more...] about Testing React Components With Enzyme

In this listicle, we bring you the top recommended templates for material design websites. These themes are created by web developers and designer to serve the individual proprietors and blog owners willing to begin a startup, their websites, and online stores for material design. These themes range from $20 to $60. Material Design WordPress Themes Zephyr With its latest version in December, Zephyr is the top most theme for material Design website. It also won the Envato’s Material Design Most Wanted Competition. Along with a responsive layout, it is also compatible with WooCommerce, PHP, CSS, HTML, and JS files. This theme includes the Drag and Drop Page builder, six different Blog Layouts, Parallax effect for background, Unlimited Sidebars, Child theme layout, Unique header builder, and unlimited colors to make it more attractive. The detailing of particular small things is done beautifully. Moreover, it has one click installation, retina readiness, exclusive documentation, and … [Read more...] about 15 Best Material Design WordPress Themes for 2017

When you are getting a website, you dream of getting the one that will have a “wow-effect.” Fortunately, it doesn’t mean that you should go for more complex solutions and spend way more time on the project. If you choose the right tools to work with, a great website can be built with ease and enjoyment of the process. One of the best ways to get an amazing website without losing sleep over it is to run it on WordPress CMS (Content Management System). This platform is the most popular in the world. Its simplicity and comprehensiveness won hearts of many experienced web designers, as well as of newcomers in the field. Why would it be so? WordPress has a comprehensive dashboard that lets you easily add posts of different types, create categories and pages, manage menu and color scheme of your website, and much more. Any WordPress template comes with a standard set of pages, such as Home, About Us, Gallery, Blog and Contact Us. It has several custom post types … [Read more...] about 40+ Best Modern Responsive Business WordPress Themes 2017