WordPress News

🏊‍♀️ Allie Nimmons shares her experience…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

🏊‍♀️ Allie Nimmons shares her experience as a member of the WordPress 5.6 release team, commenting on the "go-with-the-flow" attitude: "The great thing, and frustrating thing, about contributing is how fluid it is. There is not a formalized process to…

Joe Buffs posted a year in…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Business

Joe Buffs posted a year in review for WP Buffs covering "biggest screw-ups of the past year" as well as the "biggest successes." The company had total revenue of $1,031,928, up almost 300% from around $376,000 in 2018. It's great…

Chris Klosowski shares some interesting stats…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Chris Klosowski shares some interesting stats from the team at Sandhills Development in 2020: Commits: 4,303 Releases: 222 Avg Releases/week: 4.27 40% of the development team had props in a WordPress core release this year. 👍

“I don’t know.” Those three simple…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

"I don't know." Those three simple words might come hard for some people, but for Brian Muenzenmeyer this phrase comes easier. And that's OK. 🚶‍♀️ "I still walk alone sometimes, and that’s where I can do some of my best work.…

“It turns out that collaborative editing…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

"It turns out that collaborative editing for platforms like WordPress is a very cool feature but an incredibly difficult technical challenge." Steve Burge over at the PublishPress blog has a detailed take on the future of Google Docs style editing…

Matias Ventura has written a comprehensive…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Matias Ventura has written a comprehensive status update for Gutenberg Phase 2: Full Site Editing. Matias describes the current state of all the primary projects and then explains how they fit together. If you haven't been keeping up on the…

Victoria McCullough announced for Automattic that…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Victoria McCullough announced for Automattic that they've "joined several of [their] peer companies" to launch Internet Works — a coalition dedicated to working with Congress "to promote the benefits of Section 230, a provision of the Communications Decency Act." ⚖️…

Kelly Dwan has written a script…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Kelly Dwan has written a script to automate a series of screenshots in each of WordPress's admin color schemes. 📸

LearnDash LM co-founder Justin Ferriman shares…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

LearnDash LM co-founder Justin Ferriman shares his advice for those who are starting an online course or membership business: "Making $$$ is priority #1 in entrepreneurship. Full stop. It's not about greed, it's about validation. Validating your idea, your position,…

I caught this announcement from Steve…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

I caught this announcement from Steve Grunwell that Nexcess is partnering with Branch for better deployment of WordPress sites. 🤝

WooCommerce released version 3.0.0. of its…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

WooCommerce released version 3.0.0. of its popular Storefront theme. The highlight of this release appears to be the removal of the big admin notice presented to the user after installing the theme. 🙈 The new version can be downloaded from…

Matt Brown from Vimeo defends PHP…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Matt Brown from Vimeo defends PHP against two types of critics: those who view old PHP code as legacy code, and those who think PHP can't be "redeemed" at all: "I'm here to tell you that [PHP] can [be redeemed],…

At first glance, CSS seems straightforward,…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

At first glance, CSS seems straightforward, but Tim Severien dives into what makes CSS hard to master: "I worry that the way we think about CSS might affect how beginners perceive the language. If they are taught that CSS is…

Suzanne Scacca shares some thoughts on…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Design

Suzanne Scacca shares some thoughts on how to design a simple UI when you have a complex solution: if the backend is very complex, it may "infect" the frontend. If it's "too complicated to navigate or too convoluted to understand,…

Github has published its annual State…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Github has published its annual State of the Octoverse, which looks at its communities and user activity in 2020. Even if you aren't a Github user, it's interesting to see what a vast piece of the developer community is doing…