WordPress News

Decisions have consequences

David Bisset

October 2, 2020

Sarah Gooding has reported at WPTavern that the W3C and the agency it selected to redesign its website, Studio 24, dropped WordPress from consideration in a selection process that has ended with Craft CMS as the winner. First off, kudos…

Cory Miller shares his sympathy for…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

Business

Cory Miller shares his sympathy for people "starting new projects or businesses," which he compares to "rolling a snowball uphill." It's hard work to maintain patience and focus in a "grind" or struggle state without seeing big results. ❄️ "We…

📅 Conference and Event Updates If…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Hosting

📅 Conference and Event Updates If you are looking for a WordCamp this weekend, check out WordCamp Philadelphia which will be hosting speakers such as Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Topher DeRosia, William Jackson, Bianca Ross, and Jackson…

Mel Choyce-Dwan has given us a…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Design

Mel Choyce-Dwan has given us a preview of the Twenty Twenty One theme, which will appear in the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release. Twenty Twenty One is "designed to be a blank canvas for the block editor" and uses a modified…

SkyVerge & GoDaddy

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2020

BusinessHosting

The team at SkyVerge is joining GoDaddy in a full company acquisition. All SkyVerge extensions and Jilt will go under the GoDaddy umbrella. In the announcement from SkyVerge, they gave a hint as to what is next: "While we’ll be…

Lisa Charlotte Rost offers some helpful…

Dan Knauss

September 10, 2020

Design

Lisa Charlotte Rost offers some helpful tips on how to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations. 🎨 The depth of this post makes it worth a bookmark even if you aren't building a visualization. I found it helpful…

📅 Conference and Event Updates Google…

Dan Knauss

September 3, 2020

Business

📅 Conference and Event Updates Google Open Source Live is a new monthly recurring event “focused on different open source technologies." The kickoff event theme is "The new open source: Leadership, contributions and sustainability." WordSesh is happening on September 2nd.…

If you’re using the popular File…

Dan Knauss

September 2, 2020

Hosting

If you're using the popular File Manager plugin (700k+ installations), be sure it's upgraded to the latest version. A recently discovered vulnerability allows "unauthenticated users to execute commands and upload malicious files on a target site." 🎯 A patch was…

iThemes has acquired Restrict Content Pro from Sandhills Development

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2020

BusinessDraft

In this exclusive interview, Pippin Williamson and Matt Danner discuss the acquisition of Restrict Content Pro by iThemes.

If you are a designer, front-end…

Dan Knauss

August 28, 2020

Design

If you are a designer, front-end developer, or just someone looking for some design ideas, ColorDoo is a tool site that shows “trending” color collections and gradients. 🎨

📅 Conference and Event Updates WordSesh…

Dan Knauss

August 28, 2020

Business

📅 Conference and Event Updates WordSesh is back and happening on September 2nd. Registration is free! Take a close look at the schedule — it might start very early if you live in North America. This time around there will…

Joe Howard explains at Torque how…

Dan Knauss

August 12, 2020

Security

Joe Howard explains at Torque how to begin developing headless WordPress sites. The main advantages are flexibility and control, easier multi-channel content publishing, and better security and speed. 👤🪓 Joe names three tools to help you get started: GraphQL API,…

Jonathan Bossenger posted a recent update…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Design

Jonathan Bossenger posted a recent update about the WP Notify project. It looks like things are off to a good start: the GitHub repository has been created. Code and design decisions are being made. 👍

In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks,…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Business

In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks, a long-time WordPress developer, shares his thoughts on how to stay relevant in a "quickly shifting WordPress landscape." Ben says (1) avoid selling themes because it's a "really hard business to get into, and…

PHP 8 is in feature freeze,…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Security

PHP 8 is in feature freeze, and Beta 1 has been released. There are also new security releases for stable PHP versions 7.2.33, 7.3.21 and 7.4.9. 🔒

Creating healthy virtual work environments

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2020

DraftPlanet

In this episode of the Draft podcast, Cory and Brian discuss creating and operating in healthy virtual environments: For work, conference, and personal use -- all in a world that prevents the familiar physical experiences.