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The WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is free, open-source, and makes it easy to build an e-commerce site. With the plugin, you can build an e-commerce site on top of your WordPress site and add functionalities such as a shopping cart or product data types. When you have an online store,…

Version 0.10 of libjxl, the reference implementation for JPEG XL, has just been released. The main improvement this version brings, is that the so-called “streaming encoding” API has now been fully implemented. This API allows encoding a large image in “chunks.” Instead of processing the entire image at once,…

A recent Gartner study reported that worldwide spending on IT is expected to hit $5 trillion, with IT services earning a third of the total spend. This marks the first time IT services topped spending over communications services. The rise in spending is due to companies looking to adopt…

Nearly 60% of all online visits are now done on mobile devices. When you break that down, that’s 60% of the 5.35 billion daily internet users worldwide or, after a little napkin math, that comes to about 3.21 billion people. Fun to think of 3.21 billion people as your…

Working with images and texts in a web application is a complex task. In many scenarios, you want to blur a picture to make it less distracting or to make the text on top of it more readable. For example, blurring the background image of a modal window or page…

Video helps drive user engagement. When you’re building an app, you can use video to showcase products, provide users with in-depth guides, and encourage customers to share their own reviews. React Native is the tool of choice. Why React Native, you ask? Well, it’s like a superhero for app developers:…

Recently, I sat down with our director of developer experience, Colby Fayock, to learn more about his background, his impressive work here at Cloudinary, and what he thinks about generative AI. From customizing MySpace pages as a teen, to careers in graphic design and web development, there’s seemingly nothing Colby…

MediaFlows by Cloudinary, a low-code platform that can be used to automate visual media-related workflows, has officially graduated from beta and is now generally available.  With MediaFlows now in general availability, Cloudinary is making a commitment to higher levels of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and support. This transition from beta…

 A recent Etsy internal research reported that 90% of its shoppers said images were vital to why they buy an item. By comparison:  83% said price influences a purchase decision. 73% said product reviews impact a purchase decision. This is why images on a website that look blurry will…