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John James Jacoby explains the addon “took almost an entire year to invent, test, and deploy… We ported the RRULE spec directly to PHP from the iCalendar RFC, because nothing existed to do what we needed.”
What are the four freedoms of open source and how do they impact us? Get a look in the Celebration of the Four Freedoms of Open Source. Try out the new WordPress Playground to run WordPress in the browser. Plugin and Theme developers note the new categorizations: Canonical, Community, and Commercial.
News from WP.org for the week of September 27, 2021.
Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.
WordPress 4.9.6 has been released, thanks to the work of more than 70 people who added over 95 updates. Among these updates are the prominent additions of privacy and data handling tools, thanks to the upcoming deadline of the GDPR on May 25. A WordPress 4.9.6 update guide is available with more information, and there…
Omar Reiss announced on make.wordpress.org that it’s now possible to run WordPress from /src again. For developers working with core PHP, “The biggest advantage of running WordPress from src is that changes in the PHP are immediately reflected on the server again, without an extra build step.”
The Toast is a popular blog that recently underwent a redesign, and includes an in-depth series on the Responsive Web Design blog going over many of the implementation and process details. The series doesn’t speak particularly highly (or accurately) about WordPress. I’ve read the post covering creating The Toast backend three times today, as well…
