ByDan Knauss
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Justin Tadlock wonders, as the third-party alternatives to the core editor proliferate, should there be an API for them? 🤔
Meanwhile, WordPress.com has transitioned its users to the block editor. ✨
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WordPress.com updated their Reader design. I don’t use the Reader, but for some folks, its their primary use case of the service. Also in .com news, they’ve introduced support for VR and 360 degree photos, which is pretty neat. It’s available on .com already, and on a Jetpack site near you soon.
Web-based hosts, platforms, and businesses need a plan for how they’ll handle issues around free speech and privacy rights for their users and customers.
We have a clarification for the item we reported last week regarding accessibility issues people were having with some recent changes to WordPress.com. We linked to a post where Deborah Edwards-Onoro explained how to enable the Classic Editor for WordPress.com sites. Then we noted a communication from Automattic‘s public relations team about a blog post…
WordPress.com is getting more into the plugin finding business, for some reason. Maybe site management features are a bigger market than I thought? Also related to Automattic: I understood that they were going after Jetpack.com, and I noticed this weekend that they’ve got it now. It used to be some kind of digital services company,…
I wrote my first post on Medium today. I wanted to see what the hype is about (late to the party, I know), and compare it to what I know and love about publishing with WordPress.
