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Felix Arntz recently published the Share Target WordPress plugin. It allows you to share content to your WordPress site directly from a device that’s able to use the Web Share Target API. 🎯
Felix Arntz has been working on a way to force plugins to be loaded as MU plugins but keep their automatic update functionality.
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…
Felix Arntz has shared some planned improvements for roles and capabilities that are going into WordPress 4.9. It is now possible to manage user capabilities for activating and deactivating plugins in a more granular way. Additionally, there are some new meta capabilities that affect the installation and updating of language files/translations.
It’s time to update your WordPress websites now. This week’s release breaks shortcodes used in Block Themes on Templates, but is related to a security issue.
Is WordPress, and the plugin and theme ecosystem around it, ready for PHP 8? Earlier versions of PHP, such as 7.4, are now considered End of Life, and hosts are eager to deploy supported versions. But first, Core compatibility needs additional testing to come out of beta compatibility.
Translating WordPress just got a little bit easier for contributors with the WP Translation Playground.
A Community team working group announces a pilot proposal for a Contributor Mentorship Program, helping all contributors onboard.
Starting with the upcoming WordPress 4.9.8 release, you can now properly register your post metadata with WordPress and the REST API. Felix Arntz shows you how.
Here’s an idea for a handy performance business case calculator. The eCommerce fashion Farfetch correlated Core Web Vitals and their own performance metrics with their business metrics, which let them identify an increase in KPIs. They built a “Performance Business Case Calculator” to drive product decisions and a performance culture. Meanwhile, Felix Arntz discussed WordPress…
