Bringing the Green Web to WordPress [via Sustainable Web Design Community Group]

With Mozilla's 2018 Internet Health Report finally shining a light on sustainability, and thanks to Chris Adams' presentation at MozFest last year, I've been inspired to seriously up my game in terms of helping wherever I can in this field.

As a first step, I've put together a very simple WordPress widget that allows users to easily add The Green Web Foundation's badge to their website. I think of the widget more as a marketing tool than anything else – i.e. it gets The Green Web Foundation into WordPress' shop window.

You can see the widget in action on my blog (bottom of the sidebar).

My next steps within WordPress are to create a theme that incorporates all of the sustainable web design techniques. My goal is to make a theme that can theoretically score 100 with Ecograder. I say theoretically because some things are dependent on the host, MozRank etc. But if, for example, I could get the demo site for the theme near to 100, that'd be awesome. And I could also centre all of the content on the demo site around Internet sustainability.

Also, hello everyone! I'm Jack and I work as an engineer on the WordPress.com VIP team. I'm rather passionate about environmental issues. :) I was the Green Party candidate in a UK parliamentary by-election last year which meant I appeared on TV a bit!



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'Bringing the Green Web to WordPress'

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