Liam Dempsey shares a collection of…

ByDan Knauss Posted onApril 2, 2021

Liam Dempsey shares a collection of blocks that he learned about in a recent Twitter conversation. There might be a useful block in there you haven’t seen yet.

Design

BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a…

ByDan Knauss July 23, 2021August 15, 2022

BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a day before WordPress 5.8 with 10 new blocks. It was a short time frame development cycle, so kudos to the team for pulling it off. 🙌 I’m excited to see the block editor used in BuddyPress, which should allow for more flexible design choices.

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2017

ByBrian Krogsgard December 2, 2017November 19, 2021

Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2017 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.

The content in WordPress

ByBrian Krogsgard September 30, 2016September 30, 2016

One of Pippin Williamson’s repeated concerns during his review of page builders was over data loss. He praised the plugins that, when deactivated, maintained HTML markup and content in the_content() so the site owner could still use their content without the plugin. I’ve been thinking about this a good bit since. “Data loss” and content There…

On July 13th a critical vulnerability…

ByDan Knauss July 16, 2021

On July 13th a critical vulnerability with WooCommerce and the WooCommerce Blocks feature plugin was identified. 🔓 Beau Lebens at WooCommerce says it’s not clear yet if data was compromised: “Our investigation into this vulnerability and whether data has been compromised is ongoing.” Wordfence also has some details if you are interested. Tony Perez explains…