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Jean-Baptiste Audras started another discussion at Make WordPress about a possible frontend forms feature, possibly as a feature plugin. This would be a mechanism for handling the Privacy Data Requests introduced in WordPress 4.9.6. The next step will be to determine if Jean-Baptiste’s existing plugin could be used as a base to build on.
The web is a sacred wilderness, and it deserves preservation. What role can open source communities play? And how does it contrast with the monopolistic tendencies of the “tech giants?”
How Am I Bluehost to Live Without You? POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ Morten Rand-Hendriksen noticed Bluehost appeared to be violating the WordPress Foundation‘s Trademark Policy by using the WordPress logo in an ad. A day later, Josepha Haden acknowledged the tweet and said she had been “checking for context.” Josepha later mentioned having a…
Unsplash has released an official WordPress plugin that integrates their stock image service with WordPress. Features include quick intuitive search, easy insertion of images into posts, native support for the WordPress Media Library, automatic alt descriptions for improved accessibility and SEO. 📷 The plugin was built by the team at XWP. They’re also working on…
Next time the WordPress Community starts a discussion over GPL, lets try and understand the starting point of the ideas on the other side.
The Next Web broke a GitHub news embargo by accident when they announced Github’s unlimited free private repos. The author of this story, Matthew Hughes, vented on Twitter that it was WordPress’s fault for immediately publishing his post because it was backdated “in the past” rather than held for future publication. A discussion followed on Post…
The shortcode roadmap has a second draft ready, and it’s a big improvement over the first draft (better off to read the extended discussion on that if you need to catch up). It’s obvious a ton of thought has gone into this, and the new roadmap has changes proposed from WordPress 4.4 through WordPress 4.7….
