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Delicious Brains has acquired Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and Liquid Web has acquired Iconic. Read David’s take on the story.
Jetpack received a forced update. David thinks they’re dangerous but needed, but so is more information about them in the WordPress community.
Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: WP Tests from the Abstract Agency, ACF 6.0, and Simple Social Images. Cool Tool of the week Warp goes into plaid.
Developers might be tired of hearing about Google’s AMP project… but Delicious Brains Jeff Gould has a good summary. After the summary, Jeff actually goes into a bit on how to customize the output of the AMP WordPress plugin, which is worth a look to make AMP pages actually look more like your site.
I really enjoyed learning more about batch and background processing from Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard’s discussion on Apply Filters. Ashley Rich did a post about the same topic on the Delicious Brains blog too, if you’re more of a reader than a listener.
While working on the Delicious Brains website, Iain Poulson created a custom table to be managed via the Advanced Custom Fields‘ “repeater” field. He goes into detail about configuring the field and populating the data, along with the pros and cons of this approach. Speaking of ACF, Corey Collins shows off some fun and interesting ways to extend standard…
Brad Touesnard, founder of Delicious Brains Inc., recaps 2018 with an eye to his company’s goals, business practices, and products. It was a busy year apparently and, in Brad’s assessment, their most productive.
The lead stories this week include GiveWP‘s acquisition by Liquid Web and increasing concerns over the “bus factor” in open source projects. Thankfully WP-CLI has a major release coming up this next week, but the sustainability of this vital project was jeopardized in 2020. Finally, the future of WordPress themes with Full Site Editing made…
