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Post Status Notes #493
It’s your weekly roundup of news briefs for busy WordPress professionals! @dimensionmedia, can you believe we’ve done almost 500 of these? -Ed.
ByDan Knauss
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Chris Hutchinson has ideas for a better WordPress. Imagine a world where WordPress is lean, fast, and efficient. In this world, WordPress has just one task: to manage your content. >And he lays out his ideas for what WordPress would look like. His list is largely what it actually looks like, minus the REST API…
Justin Tadlock has an excellent tutorial for Underscore.js templating beginners. I’m guessing that’s a lot of us. The Underscore.js library has been in WordPress for many versions now. However, it’s next to impossible to find good tutorials that walk you through the process of utilizing it, step-by-step. I got my first taste of it when…
Phew, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days, and I don’t work at Automattic. The Calypso project sparked a lot of conversation, and confusion. Calypso is the name of the effort, but the result was the WordPress.com revamp of editing tools, both for web and the new desktop app. I interviewed Matt…
Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg 6.0 is out with significant enhancements to the column layout block, widgets block, and block group functionality, among other things. Felix Arntz explains how to leverage the power of Custom Elements in Gutenberg. Like many popular, component-based JavaScript frameworks, Custom Elements bring Web Components to WordPress — standardized “browser…
WordPress 5.5 was released last week and quickly followed by 5.5.1 on September 1st. 💨 In 5.5 several global JavaScript objects were removed without being deprecated. WordPress 5.5.1 adds a backfill for these globals so they no longer cause errors. If you are a developer, take note that the new WordPress environment types introduced in…
It’s your weekly roundup of news briefs for busy WordPress professionals! @dimensionmedia, can you believe we’ve done almost 500 of these? -Ed.
