Allie Nimmons of WP Buffs and Michelle Ames from GiveWP have built Underrepresented in Tech, a tool intended to highlight underrepresented people's skills and specialties first and foremost as a hiring or recruiting factor. Explaining how this project got started,…
Multidots built a WordPress plugin that enables users to easily place comments inside the WordPress Gutenberg Editor. Anil Gupta told Post Status: "Our goal is to enrich the publishing experience for publishers in WordPress. Content collaboration in WordPress is critical…
I enjoyed these recent comments Travis Weston made about "clean" PHP code: "You have to go out of your way to write clean PHP... that’s not to say it’s hard to write clean PHP, just that it requires you to…
John Saddington interviewed Andy McIlwain, a developer in the WordPress community. Andy offers some team-building advice: "I’m freshly in the middle manager phase of my career, just starting to build a team of my own... My top piece of advice?…
Andrew Rhyand has found a way to allow developers to safely access the WP_Query class from front-end JavaScript. He notes on Twitter: "Query anything you want from a single REST API endpoint!" 👏
We are inching closer to the December 5th release date for WordPress 5.6! 🎁 This pending release will introduce a new user interface to make it easier to opt-in to automatic updates for major versions. There have been some major…
The WordPress 5.6 Field Guide 📖 has been published ahead of the 5.6 release with everything everyone, from developers to new users, might need to know: "As a user, you’ll see automatic updates for major core releases (opt-in), external authentication…
Joost de Valk has released his fourth biannual analysis of the CMS market share numbers provided by W3Techs. There are two winners: "WordPress (and WooCommerce “within” it) and Shopify." 🏆🏆 WordPress is the #1 CMS with a 39.0% market share,…
Tom McFarlin has shared a great tutorial centered on a mu-plugin that "demonstrate[s] how to add a custom view to the WordPress All Posts page based on a specified category." 🔌 This is part of a series Tom is doing…