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The 2020 WordPress Annual Survey is…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

The 2020 WordPress Annual Survey is open — please take it. ☑️ The results from the 2019 survey have been shared, and there's a lot to learn from them. What is striking is that very few people took the 2019…

Omar Reiss at Yoast has assembled…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Omar Reiss at Yoast has assembled a "WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report." WordPress developers should take note, and it's also a good general resource for any PHP developer. The report covers some possible breaking changes and compatibility challenges. 💔…

Akismet turned 15 years old this…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Akismet turned 15 years old this week. 🎂 500 billion spam comments and trackbacks have been blocked since October 2005! Christopher Finke notes, "That’s an average of a thousand spam per second, every second, since before Twitter existed." 😮

ZDNet reports job listings for entry-level…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

ZDNet reports job listings for entry-level PHP developer roles have increased a massive 834% since January 2020, making it the fastest-growing tech job across the industry, according to Indeed's data. 👨‍💻

Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land explains how Google indexes passages within a page's content and what it means for your SEO. Google recently announced its move into indexing specific sections of content on web pages. This will affect 7%…

Composer 2.0 was released on the…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Composer 2.0 was released on the 24th. This new version is reported to be faster, use less memory, and it's packed with many new features. (Note there are some possible backward compatibility breaks.) 🎹

I enjoyed these “Ten Commandments” of…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

I enjoyed these "Ten Commandments" of navigating code reviews. They're from Angie Jones, a Senior Developer Advocate at Applitools. "Thou shalt not take it personally" and "Thou shalt be willing to compromise" are my favorite "commandments," but all of them…

Benedict Evans took a brief but…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Benedict Evans took a brief but deep dive into the story of eCommerce growth during the pandemic. He also looks at how traditional shopping and online advertising are changing. 🛒 "How do people decide what to buy online, when a…

The popular free software project “youtube-dl”…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

The popular free software project “youtube-dl” was removed from Github following a legal notice from the Recording Industry Association of America claiming it violates U.S. copyright law. Youtube-dl is "a powerful general-purpose media tool that allows users to make local…

Here’s a nifty web tool to…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Here's a nifty web tool to easily create an emoji or letter-based SVG favicon.

Also clever: a tiny javascript library…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Also clever: a tiny javascript library that makes DOM elements draggable and movable. 🖱️

Here is some exciting information about…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Here is some exciting information about the CSS image() function which is a new W3C spec feature. Although it's not well-supported in browsers yet, the CSS image function will give us more control over image loading in CSS. It will…

Keanan Koppenhaver shows how GitHub Actions…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Keanan Koppenhaver shows how GitHub Actions can help make "FTP as a deployment mechanism" both an automatic and repeatable process to make deploys go much more smoothly. 🚚

Manos Psychogyiopoulos shares the story of…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

Manos Psychogyiopoulos shares the story of how he started using WooCommerce and why: "As a WooCommerce developer, I believe that our biggest strength is our WordPress technology and community heritage."

There is currently a discussion unfolding…

Dan Knauss

October 29, 2020

There is currently a discussion unfolding about the benefits of aligning the WordPress release cycle with the "industry standard."💭 Francesca Marano recaps some conversations that have been happening in Slack and on blogs about the release cycle with a call…

Gutenberg 9.2 has been released. This…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Gutenberg 9.2 has been released. This is the final release to make it into WordPress 5.6 Beta, which also came out this week. ✨ Featured items in the Gutenberg release include: Support for video subtitles. The ability to transform multiple…