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This article by David Gilbert of…

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This article by David Gilbert of Random Wire on Japanese web design has gone around for a while and is worth a read if, like me, you haven't seen it yet. 🗾 David asks why Japanese websites are so "different"…

The RefactoringUI website has a post…

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The RefactoringUI website has a post on learning to build your own color palette. Why would you want to do this instead of using a generator? 🎨 "Fancy color palette generators produce results.... This calculated and scientific approach to picking…

😶 “Mainstream social media is harmful…

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😶 "Mainstream social media is harmful because it puts a single company in control of the human social experience and places them in the role of cultural censor." If this statement strikes a chord with you, then you might want…

Zander Nethercutt thinks we are optimizing…

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Zander Nethercutt thinks we are optimizing ourselves to death. 💀 This is an interesting article that might require more focus than most non-technical writing on sociological topics, but I think Zander makes some good, albeit distressing points. Will Millennials "remain…

If you had a “Yes or…

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If you had a "Yes or No" question to ask in your UI, would you use one checkbox or two radio buttons? ☑️🤔🔘 Sara Soueidan asked that question on Twitter and collected the responses in a blog post. She came…

WP Mayor has gotten a new…

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WP Mayor has gotten a new look with a new logo! 🧐🎩 Gabriella Galea goes into the thought process behind some of the design decisions and takes a look at the main plugins used on the new site.

I organized a “mega meetup” on…

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I organized a "mega meetup" on Zoom in the past week. Over a month in the making, it represented at least eight WordPress meetups, and over 120 people showed up when it started. Birgit Pauli-Haack was kind enough to write…

Upcoming Events There is a call…

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Upcoming Events There is a call for speakers for WordFest Live 2021 which happens online on January 22, 2021. The deadline for speaker submissions is November 18 at midnight UTC. Selected speakers will be notified by December 2. 📅 On…

🙋‍♂️ Hey Post Status members! We…

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🙋‍♂️ Hey Post Status members! We have created a new channel in our Slack: #gigs. The #gigs channel is for you to post projects you'd like to refer others to — or projects where you need some paid assistance. If…

A new action wp_after_insert_post has been…

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A new action wp_after_insert_post has been added to WordPress 5.6 to allow theme and plugin developers to run custom code after a post and its terms and metadata have been updated. The 5.6 Release Candidate is available now and needs…

The newest iteration of the Gutenberg…

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The newest iteration of the Gutenberg plugin for WordPress is out, and it seems to be a "tweak and polish" release. It delivers percentage widths for button blocks, social and font size change support, and API improvements. ✨

Helen Hou-Sandi explains the thought process…

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Helen Hou-Sandi explains the thought process behind recent advances in the way starter content is displayed in themes on the WordPress.org theme previewer site. Currently, these changes only affect three of the themes bundled with WordPress core. Opening the discussion…

Gatsby recently chose headless WordPress for…

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Gatsby recently chose headless WordPress for its blog. Senior Product Marketing Manager Hashim Warren explains why: "WordPress enables us to have unlimited users (without paying a subscription per seat). WordPress also comes with powerful role-based permissions and has free plugins…

The Court of Justice of the…

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The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued a decision that pre-checked boxes are not a valid way to show consent under GDPR. 👩‍⚖️ Termageddon is warning that "if you use pre-checked boxes on your website's forms, make…

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