WordPress News

Elementor in the room 🐘 POST…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Elementor in the room 🐘 POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ A recent conversation in Post Status Slack centers on Elementor. The company targeted "full-site editing" in some of its Google ads. Community member Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg…

At Make WordPress Core there is…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

At Make WordPress Core there is a discussion taking place about dropping support for Internet Explorer 11 in core. IE 11's usage is very low by several measures. It would be a great benefit to developers to let it go.…

Atlas SShRugged 🤷‍♂️ Right before the…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Hosting

Atlas SShRugged 🤷‍♂️ Right before the DE(CODE) 2021 conference, WP Engine founder and CTO Jason Cohen announced WP Engine's new Headless WordPress service, which is called Atlas. A new developer relations team "with focus on headless WordPress" — Matt Landers,…

📝 Back in 2015, Helen Hou-Sandí…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

📝 Back in 2015, Helen Hou-Sandí created a small plugin. It allows users to add a revision note inside WordPress when they update a post. Now Helen has demonstrated how to adapt an old plugin to the block editor, using…

A rising tide lifts all hosts…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Hosting

A rising tide lifts all hosts 🛥️ More WordPress news on the hosting and eCommerce front: GoDaddy has launched new WooCommerce extensions, which according to the press release are from GoDaddy's recent acquisition of SkyVerge. These extensions "increase the value…

Andrea Middleton shares what she feels…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Business

Andrea Middleton shares what she feels are some missed business opportunities in the WordPress space. Because WordPress is open source, any solution or features a third-party developer sells can be added to WordPress Core. That means it's important for third-party…

Leonardo Losoviz asks, should WordPress should…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Leonardo Losoviz asks, should WordPress should have a GraphQL API in core? Would WordPress be better off with both REST and GraphQL APIs for developers to choose from? 💬 Tell us what you think or jump right into the discussion…

Listing some of his favorite WordPress…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Listing some of his favorite WordPress tools, Austin Gil says "a lot of folks talk trash about WordPress," but it's still "pretty darn great." 🤨 "...for the folks that like to hate on WordPress because that’s the ‘cool’ thing to…

Brad Dickason argues speed and responsiveness…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Design

Brad Dickason argues speed and responsiveness are the ultimate "killer features" that ultimately made the iPhone a success at launch. Speed in checkouts, in virtual reality, and design tools are examples Brad uses. With any product, we should keep in…

At some point, you want to…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

At some point, you want to hide information or an element on a page. Kitty Giraudel explains all the right (and wrong) ways to do it — and when you should do it — with HTML or CSS.

The WebAIM Million is an annual…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

The WebAIM Million is an annual accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages. The most recent results are from February 2020, and one might expect another report soon. Some significant numbers that likely haven't changed dramatically are not good…

Here’s a nifty font tool that…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Here's a nifty font tool that uses Machine Learning: fontjoy.com generates font pairings to your specifications with a single click. 🤖

🎨 Lukas Oppermann writes about the…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Design

🎨 Lukas Oppermann writes about the more and less well-known benefits of design systems: "Knowing the benefits can be useful when you try to convince your management that a design system is not a waste of money. Or when you…

Chloe Chamberland has the skinny about…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Chloe Chamberland has the skinny about a vulnerability discovered in User Profile Picture, a plugin installed on over 60,000 sites. 🔌 A patched version of the plugin (2.5.0) was released by its vendor, Cozmoslabs, on February 18.

Sarah Gooding reported on accessibility consultant…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Sarah Gooding reported on accessibility consultant Joe Dolson and how he detected suspicious review activity for the AccessiBe plugin at WordPress.org. Joe's discovery led to the removal of at least 33 reviews. Accessibility plugins that offer "quick fix" solutions are…