Felix Arntz has been working on…
Felix Arntz has been working on a way to force plugins to be loaded as MU plugins but keep their automatic update functionality.
Felix Arntz has been working on a way to force plugins to be loaded as MU plugins but keep their automatic update functionality.
Gutenberg 13.4 β’ Learning FSE sooner rather than later β’ Gutenberg in Tumblr and Day One β’ WordCamps and the vitality of the WordPress community β’ AUS WordPress community only mostly dead? β’ Get SEO Schema graphs β’ Web font loading geek out β’ PHP is 28! β’ PHP namespaces and autoloaders β’ You can work anywhere… why not Cleveland? β’ North Commerce β faster than the rest? β’ and more…
It looks like Felix Arntz is setting up a new, simple, and portable WordPress core development environment based on Lando. I’m looking for others interested in using and improving it.
Felix Arntz has a possible solution for lazy loading images in WordPress core and is calling for testing it in a feature plugin (WP Lazy). π€ “With WordPress enabling native lazy-loading by default, it would significantly impact performance and user experience for millions of sites, without requiring any technical knowledge or even awareness of lazy-loading…
Felix Arntz has a detailed post on CSS Custom Properties and how to use them to improve UX for both website visitors and content creators. Felix is “looking forward to seeing this feature being leveraged by WordPress themes more” as “itβs another important milestone for improving user experience across the web.”
A recent ticket committed to WordPress trunk seems to be addressing the first in a series of steps to enforce a “Requires PHP version” message for WordPress plugins. This is encouraging to see. Alain Schlesser shows a preview of what this message could look like in the plugin installer. In related news, Felix Arntz recently…
I wonder how much WordPress is an outlier in even the PHP universe for tolerating the idea that it’s “punishment” and “unfair” to be held to a standard with mandatory testing for code that’s admitted to the WordPress.org repo for use on potentially 40% of the web. That’s how a number of developers responded to…