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The next iteration of WordPress components/Gutenberg’s design is currently being explored under the codename “G2 Components.” There is a roadmap here and an open issue about how to best approach integrating this into Gutenberg. This is certainly the cutting edge…

😷 How can the WordPress community…

Dan Knauss

December 3, 2020

😷 How can the WordPress community return to hosting safe, in-person events? A discussion is underway, thanks to Angela Jin starting it. 💬

This article by David Gilbert of…

Dan Knauss

November 24, 2020

This article by David Gilbert of Random Wire on Japanese web design has gone around for a while and is worth a read if, like me, you haven't seen it yet. 🗾 David asks why Japanese websites are so "different"…

WP Mayor has gotten a new…

Dan Knauss

November 24, 2020

WP Mayor has gotten a new look with a new logo! 🧐🎩 Gabriella Galea goes into the thought process behind some of the design decisions and takes a look at the main plugins used on the new site.

Gatsby recently chose headless WordPress for…

Dan Knauss

November 20, 2020

Gatsby recently chose headless WordPress for its blog. Senior Product Marketing Manager Hashim Warren explains why: "WordPress enables us to have unlimited users (without paying a subscription per seat). WordPress also comes with powerful role-based permissions and has free plugins…

WordPress 5.6 Beta 2 is available…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

WordPress 5.6 Beta 2 is available for testing. WordPress 5.6 is still slated for release on December 8. 📅 In the meantime, you will want to upgrade to WordPress 5.5.2, which was released on Thursday. It features 14 bug fixes…

Em Lazer-Walker has an interesting post…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Em Lazer-Walker has an interesting post suggesting how game design could be used to make virtual events more social. 🎮

Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but insightful take on "the open source paradox," which is "the proportionality between the money people give you for coding something, and the level of demand for the quality they can claim to have about…

Sucuri has found some malware that…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

Sucuri has found some malware that can disable security plugins to avoid detection. 😨 This is really devious! Luke Leal explains: "If a user tries to reactivate one of the disabled security plugins, [the Malware] will momentarily appear to activate…

Might as well go for the gusto?

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2020

WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy has submitted a ticket to make a change on the WordPress hosting page: I would like to update the final sentence in the second paragraph. If you don’t need the flexibility of a full web…

Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform…

Dan Knauss

October 9, 2020

Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress. It includes improvements in speed for sites that might be slowed down a bit by plugins or hosting limitations effectively creating a "zero-config edge HTML caching solution." Garrett Galow explains: "Our…

Call a Vulnerability a Vulnerability Roger…

Dan Knauss

October 9, 2020

Call a Vulnerability a Vulnerability Roger Montii reporting for SEJ looks at an Authenticated Stored XSS vulnerability in the WPBakery Page Builder plugin. The vulnerability was discovered by Wordfence and fixed through their collaboration with WPBakery in a recent update.…

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…

📅 Conference and Event Updates If…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020