WordPress News

News and insights about WordPress and its ecosystem by Post Status staff and contributors for our members and the WordPress community.

Ian Stewart talks about being a…

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Dan Knauss
Ian Stewart talks about being a communication leader by using the elements of art and visual design: Just like I can use these elements to create visual harmony and an effective design or piece of art, I can use these…

Dumitru Brinzan examines the package size…

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Dan Knauss
Dumitru Brinzan examines the package size of major WordPress versions over the past decade and how they've grown over 600%. We've gone from 5.38 MB and 603 files to 38.0 MB and 1,713 files. Dumitru also looks at the sizes…

🎙️ Here are a few podcasts…

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Dan Knauss
🎙️ Here are a few podcasts I've enjoyed recently: Matt Medeiros interviewed Craig Hewitt and Dave Rodenbaugh of RogueStartups. They discussed how business owners operating within the WordPress ecosystem and the SaaS world view "the economy of plugins" as opposed…

Justin Tadlock posted an update about…

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Dan Knauss
Justin Tadlock posted an update about his focus and direction with Theme Hybrid as he limits his scope to a few key projects: "It’s hard to build truly great products when you can never focus on any given thing at…

Jeff Matson gives us a peek…

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Brian Krogsgard
Jeff Matson gives us a peek behind the curtains at NorthStack, which is a new managed application hosting service from the team at Pagely. Make sure to check out NorthStack's brand new documentation site.

The General Services Administration (GSA) recently launched the U.S. Web…

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Brian Krogsgard
The General Services Administration (GSA) recently launched the U.S. Web Design System 2.0. USWDS is a library of code, tools, and guidance to help government teams design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites. It already powers nearly 200 federal sites, and 2.0 introduces…

Justin Tadlock explains how to build…

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Brian Krogsgard
Justin Tadlock explains how to build a compelling business or agency landing page with Gutenberg and his newly released Exhale WordPress theme, which I really like.

Jetpack promotions in search, and fallout

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Brian Krogsgard
In the last newsletter, I mentioned Jetpack's search replacement for promotions as well as the discussion and fallout that followed. It escalated quite a bit, and then it got out of hand. Jetpack has now removed the feature in version…

A new version of Gutenberg landed…

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Brian Krogsgard
A new version of Gutenberg landed this week with foundational work and UI explorations related to the block-based widgets screen. There is also a new, built-in, static Gutenberg Playground for testing in a WordPress agnostic context. There's also an open…

Fast Company published a great feature on…

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Brian Krogsgard
Fast Company published a great feature on John Maeda, who is head of inclusion and computational design at Automattic. John says "design is not that important," which probably will seem strange and slight controversial at first read, especially since the WordPress…

Thomas Griffin is closing a chapter…

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Brian Krogsgard
Thomas Griffin is closing a chapter in his life as a developer and takes time to share some unusually open reflections on his personal growth. Many business owners start with the pure passion of "just coding a plugin." Later, with…

The PHP minimum version bump is…

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Brian Krogsgard
The PHP minimum version bump is happening! As noted in this Trac ticket, WordPress's support for PHP 5.2 - 5.5 officially ends now, and the minimum required PHP version is 5.6. As Scott Arciszewski explains, the impending release of WordPress…

Felix Arntz explains how the Fatal…

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Brian Krogsgard
Felix Arntz explains how the Fatal Error Protection feature had to be dropped from WordPress 5.1 due to several security concerns. It appears error protection is here to stay, however, and Felix goes into detail about the completely new approach…
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