K. Adam White shows off an experiment…
K. Adam White shows off an experiment to make it easier to load and “hot reload” JavaScript blocks and plugins in Gutenberg.
K. Adam White shows off an experiment to make it easier to load and “hot reload” JavaScript blocks and plugins in Gutenberg.
“WordPress as a platform is putting us on the enterprise path. But what got us here is what makes us irrelevant,” says Magne Ilsaas, CEO and Founding Partner of Dekode. Magne wants to start an overdue conversation about three big risks — and opportunities — for WordPress agencies: 1) A lack of spaces for professional conversations and knowledge-sharing, including professional events, meetups, and mastermind groups catering to enterprise WordPress. 2) Successful agencies that use WordPress extensively with little or no community involvement whose work would benefit from enterprise WordPress peer networks. 3) An over-emphasis in WordPress agencies on short-term engineering solutions to the exclusion of long-term business solutions. What’s often left out is design, user experience, and most of all the capacity to play a strategic advisory role in partnership with clients.
I think bringing Automattic resources into core WordPress development to put a huge effort into improving the WordPress editing experience is a good thing. An email went out last week to the authors of all plugins with more than one million active installs. The emails were sent from Andy Peatling — a manager at Automattic, in charge…
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…
A Day of REST is an event devoted to the WordPress REST API. It’ll happen on January 28th 2016, with a follow-on hack day on the 29th, in London. It’s an exciting opportunity for developers to learn how to interact with the new WordPress REST API, and Post Status will be an official partner.
WordPress 4.9.3 introduced a bug that causes a fatal error during automatic update attempts — effectively preventing future minor updates triggered by WordPress.org’s update system. The only way to fix it is to either manually upgrade or hosts to take action across their platforms to fix the issue. Site owners can still update via the…
Video and Podcast Picks 📹 Here’s my recommendation for video watching this week: The “Cost of JavaScript 2019” video (and blog post) from Addy Osmani at the PerfMatters Conference 2019 shows the main costs of processing JavaScript are download and CPU execution time. 🎙️ Here are the podcasts I’ve been listening to lately: The latest…