WordPress News

News for Firefox and Mozilla doesn’t…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

News for Firefox and Mozilla doesn't seem to be getting better these days, which saddens people like me who currently use Firefox as their primary browser. 😟 Cal Paterson says "Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay…

Robert Kleene recently published an interesting…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Robert Kleene recently published an interesting article that shows the popularity of Visual Studio Code. 👩‍💻 I know WordPress developers use other IDEs (PHPStorm, etc.), but in my observations, the developer community has rallied behind this Microsoft product, and Robert's…

Jeff Starr has published a very…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Jeff Starr has published a very nice guide to using code snippets that allow you to customize WordPress Sitemaps, the functionality introduced in WordPress 5.5. According to Jeff, some good reasons to customize your sitemaps are it increases SEO, tightens…

Carl Alexander has an update about…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Carl Alexander has an update about Ymir, the serverless DevOps platform he is building for WordPress. In the process, he explains how to create a WP-CLI command. 👍

A proposal has been published on…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

A proposal has been published on the Make WordPress blog that asks for feedback on the idea of licensing Gutenberg under the GNU General Public License, v2 (GPL v2) and the Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL v2.0). Matt Mullenweg notes…

Speaking of proposals, here is another…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Speaking of proposals, here is another one that focuses on REST API Authentication. Written by George Stephanis, it proposes to integrate Application Passwords into Core. 🔒 Along with some other benefits, "Application Passwords makes it easy to revoke any individual…

Chris Coyier stops to think about…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Chris Coyier stops to think about the power usage of websites and whether good performance maps to lower energy usage. 🔋 Chris links to a number of good articles and experiments on this subject. At the end of the day…

🌲 Pinegrow — a new, commercial…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

🌲 Pinegrow — a new, commercial "web editor" and "website builder" for Windows, MacOS, and Linux — has an extra add-on feature for building WordPress themes. You can assign "WordPress actions to individual elements on the page" and export your…

Mark Seemann makes the case for…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Mark Seemann makes the case for why the developer community needs both young and old programmers. 👴

Jane Tracy writes an excellent guide…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Jane Tracy writes an excellent guide on the vanilla JavaScript basics to know before learning React. 🍨

📅 Conference and Event Updates If…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Hosting

📅 Conference and Event Updates If you are looking for a WordCamp this weekend, check out WordCamp Philadelphia which will be hosting speakers such as Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Topher DeRosia, William Jackson, Bianca Ross, and Jackson…

Roben Kleene recently published an interesting…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Roben Kleene recently published an interesting article that shows the popularity of Visual Studio Code. 👩‍💻 I know WordPress developers use other IDEs (PHPStorm, etc.), but in my observations, the developer community has rallied behind this Microsoft product, and Roben's…

Thinking about starting a podcast? Watch…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Thinking about starting a podcast? Watch Cory's webinar with Matt Medeiros, Getting Your Podcast Started. 🆓

SkyVerge & GoDaddy

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2020

BusinessHosting

The team at SkyVerge is joining GoDaddy in a full company acquisition. All SkyVerge extensions and Jilt will go under the GoDaddy umbrella. In the announcement from SkyVerge, they gave a hint as to what is next: "While we’ll be…

Entrepreneurship and mental health may have…

Dan Knauss

September 16, 2020

Entrepreneurship and mental health may have a lot of overlap. Dr. Sherry Walling is working with Dr. Michael Freeman to understand the mental health needs of entrepreneurs in a new research project you can help them with. 🧡 They have…

The Gutenberg 9.0 release is out…

Dan Knauss

September 16, 2020

The Gutenberg 9.0 release is out with a focus on navigation screen improvements. It has a new look and supports drag and drop inside the list view now. The query block has gained search, filtering by author and support for…