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It’s good to see LiveBlog getting some updates. The latest version includes a completely new React-powered front end and support for mobile devices. It’s a handy plugin if you’re covering live events.
Get a look at the latest default theme, Twenty Twenty-Three! 🎨 Full Site Editing has a new name: “Site Editor.” 📝 And WordPress 6.1.1 will be released on November 15. 📅
Steve Burge has an interesting post on his personal site on why he thinks open source has no reach, but no influence. Despite the widespread open source, we’re entering a world of closed platforms: Today’s iOS9 launch shows what incredible power a single company has over so many independent publishers. Apple would love to push…
Gutenberg 3.1 is out, with (among many other things) tips interface for new users, ability to transform paragraph blocks into single quote blocks, improvements to the mobile block toolbar, better accessibility in a number of areas, and a long list of bug fixes. There seems to be alot more polish put into this release…
Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: A delicious developer’s advanced guide to WP-Config, the WordPress 6.1 Field Guide, and Twenty Twenty-Three looks amazing! Brian Gardner released a new FSE theme, Powder. Cool Tool of the Week: Lorem Picsum by David Marby and Nijiko Yonskai.
This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. The topics are responsive image support in WordPress and Google’s new AMP specification.
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It’s an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook’s “Instant Articles” feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it’s a not HTML but like HTML implementation of web pages that supports limited web features, and importantly…
