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Jill Binder — who (among other…

Dan Knauss

August 12, 2020

Jill Binder — who (among other things) leads the Diverse Speaker Training group in the WordPress.org Community Team — has been selected as a finalist for a major technology prize, the BraveIT Award. This comes as a well-earned accolade for…

New in 5.5 WordPress 5.5 Release…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

New in 5.5 WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate 2 landed this week, and the final release date (August 11) is next Tuesday. Here are the latest updates and news about it: There is more support for modernized JavaScript i18n, which Justin…

Big Step for BigCommerce BigCommerce has…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Big Step for BigCommerce BigCommerce has become a public company on Nasdaq. CEO Brent Bellm commented that "as a public company we’ll be able to provide all our stakeholders more transparency than ever into our size, momentum, and industry leadership."…

PHP 8 is in feature freeze,…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Security

PHP 8 is in feature freeze, and Beta 1 has been released. There are also new security releases for stable PHP versions 7.2.33, 7.3.21 and 7.4.9. 🔒

👨‍🎨 Theme developers, take note of…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

👨‍🎨 Theme developers, take note of the new admin menu page requirement: Themes can add a page under the Appearance menu using add_theme_page. If they need to have subpages (e.g., documentation, FAQs, donation links, etc.), then they are allowed to…

The WP Admin Gallery is a…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

The WP Admin Gallery is a growing collection of settings, patterns, and pages added to the WordPress admin interface by commonly used plugins. Even if you aren't a plugin developer trying to get inspiration for your settings screen, the gallery…

BuddyPress has a maintenance release (6.2.0)…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

BuddyPress has a maintenance release (6.2.0) that will get you ready for WordPress 5.5 — it "is a recommended upgrade for all BuddyPress installations." ☝️

A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has launched an updated new beta version of P2. In the past, P2 was a WordPress theme that has been used for "blogging at the speed of thought." It was adopted for internal communications between…

I enjoyed the first chapter of…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

I enjoyed the first chapter of Jay Hoffman's new series for CSS Tricks on the history of the web, with a special focus on Tim Berners-Lee. Some older folks might remember how primitive the web was then, but there are…

Justin Gagne has a nice piece…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Justin Gagne has a nice piece on accessible drop caps and how to code them. He proposes a simple, semantic structure with an alternative text pattern that works well with screen readers. You can simulate them in the demos on…

We are WordPress As recently reported…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

We are WordPress As recently reported by The Tavern, Automattic’s marketing team has updated the company’s press page with a notice to journalists who are writing about Automattic: Automattic owns and operates WordPress.com, which is a hosted version of the…

Flywheel’s latest (5.6.8) release of the…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Flywheel's latest (5.6.8) release of the free version of Local, a popular development tool, has added a push/pull feature for staging and not just production sites at Flywheel or WP Engine. Previously, this feature was included only with the "pro"…

If you work in CSS you…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

If you work in CSS you may have heard of the CSS content-visibility property, which offers rendering performance benefits by skipping off-screen content. This article from Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin shows you how to leverage this new CSS property…

Matt Shaw shows how to set…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Matt Shaw shows how to set up Visual Studio Code and xDebug for WordPress development in a recently updated post. 👨‍💻 Matt also touches on important extensions such as Git Lens (which adds simple git blame annotations to the line…

In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks,…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Business

In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks, a long-time WordPress developer, shares his thoughts on how to stay relevant in a "quickly shifting WordPress landscape." Ben says (1) avoid selling themes because it's a "really hard business to get into, and…

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Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

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