WordPress News

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…

Chrome 86 is hiding full URLs,…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Chrome 86 is hiding full URLs, and slugs are no longer visible by default — they're only visible on hover. Remkus de Vries "finds it annoying as hell" (I agree!), and he shows you how you can turn this feature…

PushEngage, the maker of push notification…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

PushEngage, the maker of push notification software with "over 10,000+ customers in 150+ countries," has joined Awesome Motive. 🙌 Awesome Motive founder and CEO Syed Balkhi notes in the press release: "I first started using push notifications over 3 years…

Eric Karkovack’s list of WordPress plugin…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Eric Karkovack's list of WordPress plugin pet peeves made my neck sore from nodding in agreement so much! Eric, you had me at "an endless barrage of notifications." 🔌🤯

I enjoyed this recent interview with…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

I enjoyed this recent interview with Hichame Assi, the new CEO of Envato who is replacing co-founder Collis Ta’eed. Hichame was CEO of HotelsCombined for 10 years and is a prior ThemeForest customer. 🏨

Daniel Lee has published a quick…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Daniel Lee has published a quick and straightforward guide to setting up WordPress in Docker. 🐳

Here’s a great primer from Ido…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Here's a great primer from Ido Shamun for developers on the different types of browser storage. It includes details on the localStorage API, IndexedDB API, cache, and URL storage. 👩‍💻

Some brief takes from Sarah Bird,…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Some brief takes from Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz, on emerging SEO industry trends cover five “under-rated yet crucial parameters.” 📏 Marketers should monitor all five to make sure their brand has positively influenced their customers: keywords, external links, differentiation,…

A recent interview with Patrick Pulvermüller,…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

A recent interview with Patrick Pulvermüller, the president of Partners Business at GoDaddy, explains GoDaddy's relationship with WordPress and how WordPress professionals can build lucrative careers. 💸

Em Lazer-Walker has an interesting post…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Design

Em Lazer-Walker has an interesting post suggesting how game design could be used to make virtual events more social. 🎮

New to me: PlacePress is a…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

New to me: PlacePress is a WordPress plugin described as an “elegant mapping solution for public historians, urbanists, and other humanities researchers.” 🗺️

Fränk Klein has a new online…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

Fränk Klein has a new online video course about WordPress Unit Testing. It's described as a “step by step roadmap for learning WordPress unit testing in a weekend, starting from scratch.” I plan on diving into this over the holidays,…

📅 Conference and Event Updates WordFest…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2020

📅 Conference and Event Updates WordFest Live 2021 is a 24-hour festival, celebrating all that is WordPress. Registration is now open, as well as a call for speakers and sponsors. Organized by Dan Maby, Michelle Frechette, Hauwa Abashiya, Paul Smart,…

Joe Casabona on creating quality content and courses

Brian Krogsgard

October 21, 2020

DraftPlanet

In this episode, David Bisset talks to Joe Casabona about creating content through both his podcast and courses, plus some of the recent news in the WordPress landscape.

⚠️ Starting on October 24th, you…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

⚠️ Starting on October 24th, you will no longer be able to automatically embed Facebook and Instagram content in WordPress using the default methods due to a breaking change in the Facebook API. 💥 This post from WPBeginner explains how…

🧪 Helen Hou-Sandi announced that WordPress…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

🧪 Helen Hou-Sandi announced that WordPress core is now running automated tests using GitHub Actions as a runner, in addition to the existing Travis CI and Appveyor runs. Helen explains where this testing is headed next and shares how people…