WordPress News

Andy Stitt is the lead developer…

Dan Knauss

April 15, 2021

Andy Stitt is the lead developer of his state's (Delaware) COVID-19 informational website (built with WordPress). Andy sat down with Eric Karkovack for an interesting interview recently: "Initially, we worked with the governor’s office, public health, and emergency management to…

This tool from an ex-Google engineer…

Dan Knauss

April 15, 2021

This tool from an ex-Google engineer checks and visualizes the Cumulative Layout Shift of any website. Cumulative Layout Shift is a "Core Web Vital" metric that measures "the instability of content by summing shift scores across layout shifts that don't…

Here’s a cheat sheet from Tobias…

Dan Knauss

April 15, 2021

Here's a cheat sheet from Tobias Ahlin Bjerrome if you are interested in moving from jQuery to vanilla JavaScript. 🍨

Recently Github added the ability to…

Dan Knauss

April 15, 2021

Recently Github added the ability to support one-time payments to those on the site. Very useful if you want to contribute a one-time amount to an open source maintainer or book time with someone regarding their project. 💵

Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Centroamérica is…

Dan Knauss

April 15, 2021

Hosting

Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Centroamérica is happening now for the first time between April 15-17. 🌎 WordCamp Greece is happening online today, April 16. 🇬🇷 EXPAND 2021 is a free virtual event for web designers and developers being hosted by…

Getting Paid for Discovery with Natasha Golinsky

Karen Johnson

April 14, 2021

BusinessDesign

Natasha Golinsky is Principal and Lead Project Manager for On Purpose Projects. Learn how she kills scope creep and gets paid for discovery.

Matt Danner announced this week that…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

Matt Danner announced this week that iThemes has acquired Kadence WP and the team behind Kadence Blocks, a page-builder style block package. The acquisition also includes Kadence Theme, a WordPress theme "built for performance and easy development." 💨 Matt admits…

GravityView has acquired GF Entries in…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

GravityView has acquired GF Entries in Excel, a plugin that exports Gravity Forms data into Microsoft Excel: “We see major potential in this plugin and that’s why we reached out to the original author, Doeke Norg, to see if we…

Helen Hou-Sandí recently streamed herself testing…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

Helen Hou-Sandí recently streamed herself testing the full site editing feature in the latest version of Gutenberg. The video is over three hours long, and most of it contains her live comments as she uses the interface. I think this…

The most discussed story of the…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

The most discussed story of the past week is Wix's marketing campaign against WordPress. If you have been on Twitter or Post Status Slack, you probably know many of the details by now. Wix appears to have selected several "high…

Last week on the Post Status…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

Last week on the Post Status Excerpt podcast I made some comments on WordPress settings based on a tweet from Brian Krogsgard. On that topic of setting screens, Fränk Klein reached out to me on Post Status Slack this week,…

Josepha Haden Chomphosy has a new…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

Josepha Haden Chomphosy has a new post about some updates to the roadmap and some high-level clarifications about Full Site Editing (SE). 📝 Some Highlights: Full site editing "isn’t shipping as the full, default experience for users... this merge process…

Lisa Sabin-Wilson on the importance of…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

Lisa Sabin-Wilson on the importance of data portability: "Your data, your code, your progress belongs to you – you have worked too hard, and, in a lot of cases, paid too much money to allow a company to own your…

Chris Coyier has a nice piece…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

Chris Coyier has a nice piece on what words to avoid in educational writing. I know I’ve used some of these words before, and I’ll be careful to avoid them in the future. As Chris says, "these words might detract…

Frederick O’Brien warns against disposable design…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

Design

Frederick O’Brien warns against disposable design — a combination of unpleasant UX that follows unhealthy design fads, broken links, and quick fixes. 🗑️ Websites should last for years, so think about what your site will look like in 2, 5,…

Joy Shaheb explains every CSS background…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

Joy Shaheb explains every CSS background property and illustrates them with code examples. This might be handy for front-end developers and anyone who works with CSS. 🎨