WordPress News

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…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

🎙️ 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…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

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…

BuddyPress recently updated to version 4.3.0.…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

BuddyPress recently updated to version 4.3.0. It's a security and maintenance release, so be sure to upgrade if you are using the plugin on any of your sites.

WordPress developers’ biggest (or most common) coding mistakes

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

WordPress News

What are the biggest and/or most common PHP coder mistakes?

“Become the best version of yourself.” An Interview with Rich Tabor

Dan Knauss

April 18, 2019

BusinessDesign

Rich Tabor is taking CoBlocks and his other work to GoDaddy, where he'll continue to development experiences for using WordPress with Gutenberg.

Jeff Matson gives us a peek…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

Hosting

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…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

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…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

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

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

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…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

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…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

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…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

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…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

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…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019