WordPress News

Angela Jin shares a few lessons…

Dan Knauss

December 31, 2020

Angela Jin shares a few lessons learned in her ongoing quest to build empathy: "During difficult conversations, especially with people you care about, it may be instinctual to want to make things better." But instead of trying to help, sometimes…

December 31 is the day Flash…

Dan Knauss

December 31, 2020

December 31 is the day Flash officially "dies." 💀 Out of all the posts I've read, this eulogy post from Mike Davidson is the most relatable for me. He takes you back to the early days with a

Hashim Warren, Senior Product Marketing Manager…

Dan Knauss

December 31, 2020

Hashim Warren, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Gatsby, thinks SEO will drive serverless website adoption in 2021: "Marketers will discover that you have two options: pay a lot monthly and spend a lot of time speeding up your WordPress or…

Pierre Saïkali explains that if you’re…

Dan Knauss

December 31, 2020

Pierre Saïkali explains that if you're relying on the WooCommerce Action Scheduler library, you can hook on action_scheduler_failed_execution or action_scheduler_failed_action to log or intercept any failed or timed-out action. ⏳

Syed Balkhi, co-founder of Awesome Motive…

Dan Knauss

December 31, 2020

Syed Balkhi, co-founder of Awesome Motive has another insightful year in review for 2020. This year Syed has included more personal information like falling victim to a scam, along with his travel adventures and experiences with burnout. Some highlights from…

Elijah Mills from Oxygen Builder shared…

Dan Knauss

December 31, 2020

Elijah Mills from Oxygen Builder shared some stats from 2020 in our Post Status Slack: 29 releases this year (including alpha, beta, and RC versions) with 8 final versions released. Introduced 8 new features and 90 bug fixes, tweaks, or…

You might have noticed a recently…

Dan Knauss

December 31, 2020

You might have noticed a recently updated feature on the Github homepage: a data-driven globe. 🌐 Tobias Ahlin explains what this new GitHub homepage actually represents and how they built that globe with WebGL. It's a five-part series, but only…

Upcoming Events 📆 Wordfest Live 2021…

Dan Knauss

December 31, 2020

Upcoming Events 📆 Wordfest Live 2021 makes its debut on January 21 as a 24-hour event loaded with great speakers. WordCamp India 2021 will take place over three weekends from January 30 to February 14, 2021!

Bug fixes and updates to the…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Bug fixes and updates to the default Twenty Twenty-One and Twenty Nineteen themes are available now. 🐛 It's unusual for core themes to be updated outside of a core release, Jonathan Desrosiers explains, "but since a WordPress 5.6.1 fast-follow was…

A new version of the Gutenberg…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

A new version of the Gutenberg plugin (9.6.0 🇨🇱) has been released with a focus on Full Site Editing and global styles. I especially like the new ability to drag blocks from the "inserter" into the block area. If you…

Video subtitles are coming to the…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Video subtitles are coming to the core WordPress editor. 📺 Anne McCarthy highlights another new feature you may have missed in the flurry of recent releases: "the ability to have descriptive text icons instead of an icon-only view of the…

Jonathan Desrosiers also has an update…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Jonathan Desrosiers also has an update on how the WordPress core team is continuing the transition to GitHub Actions for automated testing: "As of today, all repositories have been fully transitioned to GitHub Actions except the WordPress Coding Standards." Jonathan…

If you want a short education…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

If you want a short education (and maybe a longer one) about Favicons, then this guide from developer Andrey Sitnik might be worth looking at. 📗

In a guest post with Mathieu…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

In a guest post with Mathieu Viet, Varun Dubey explains how his exceptional BuddyX BuddyPress theme made its way into the official WordPress.org theme directory. 🎨

Ben Myers dives deep into the…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Ben Myers dives deep into the three attributes that bring clarity to HTML elements in assistive technologies: aria-label, aria-labelledby and aria-describedby. 🤿

⚰️ Joanna Stern, who is Senior…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

⚰️ Joanna Stern, who is Senior Personal Technology Columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has a thought-provoking column about end-of-life planning — for yourself and others — when there's a significant digital legacy: "What happens to your Facebook and Google…