{"id":724,"date":"2015-03-26T12:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/?p=724"},"modified":"2018-07-02T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T18:33:45","slug":"device-usage-trends-scrolling-clicking-changes-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/26\/device-usage-trends-scrolling-clicking-changes-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"#9 \u2014 Device usage trends, scrolling vs. clicking, recent changes in WP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our 9th\u00a0WordPress Community of Practice Gathering was held on March 25th,\u00a0from\u00a010:30 a.m. to\u00a011:30 p.m. in Commons 226.<\/p>\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul>\n<li>Global Navigation: New vs. Old\n<ul>\n<li>The current iteration of the global navigation (launched Nov. 3) receives 2.1x more clicks than the past iteration (known as the Ubermenu).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Trends in device usage\n<ul>\n<li>In the past 3 years, desktop usage has steadily declined from 92% to 72%. Mobile and tablet usage has quickly grown from 8% to 28%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Best practices for page length\n<ul>\n<li>A 250 word minimum is good for pages since 1) users prefer to consume more content in fewer places, and 2) Search engines reward content-rich pages.<\/li>\n<li>Scrolling vs. Clicking:\u00a0Users are more likely to consume related content via scrolling down a page than by clicking between separate pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>New features in WordPress\n<ul>\n<li>Native media embeds<\/li>\n<li>Gravity Forms updates<\/li>\n<li>Master Calendar events listings within WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Photo slideshow options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open Forum\n<ul>\n<li>Working with multiple browsers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Keynote<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/files\/2015\/03\/WP-CoP-March.pdf\">View the keynote (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 9th\u00a0WordPress Community of Practice Gathering was held on March 25th,\u00a0from\u00a010:30 a.m.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}