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Jonathan Bossenger posted a recent update…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Jonathan Bossenger posted a recent update about the WP Notify project. It looks like things are off to a good start: the GitHub repository has been created. Code and design decisions are being made. 👍

☀️ As part of a summer…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

☀️ As part of a summer of updates, Beaver Builder recently released a new version with a focus on new modules and accessibility. They also rolled out a feature request and roadmap board.

Don’t Stress, Decompress 😷 Check out…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Don't Stress, Decompress 😷 Check out the data on remote work during COVID-19 collected by the US National Bureau of Economic Research: The average workday increased by 48.5 minutes, as did the number of meetings (up 13%). 😫 Yikes! Thank…

📅 Conference and Event Updates 🔌…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

📅 Conference and Event Updates 🔌 Brad Williams and Cory Miller will be holding a webinar on "Building Your First WordPress Plugin" on August 20, 2020, at 01:00 PM Central Time (the US and Canada). You can RSVP here for…

Creating healthy virtual work environments

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2020

DraftPlanet

In this episode of the Draft podcast, Cory and Brian discuss creating and operating in healthy virtual environments: For work, conference, and personal use -- all in a world that prevents the familiar physical experiences.

As the WordPress 5.5 release date…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

As the WordPress 5.5 release date (August 11) approaches, more news about it has emerged. Justin Ahinon lists nineteen miscellaneous developer-focused changes to themes, taxonomy, comments, and more. Some of these changes may have escaped your attention, like the way…

Munir Kamal has written up a…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Munir Kamal has written up a comparative examination of "HTML Bloat" in Gutenberg and Elementor. Munir created two versions of the same page layout in both Gutenberg and Elementor to compare the amount and quality of the code they each…

Over in SpinupWP’s impressive and broadly…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Over in SpinupWP's impressive and broadly useful documentation pages, there's a great new mini-tutorial on the best way to set up scheduled events in WordPress. It also explains why the default WP-Cron configuration is truly "terrible." ⏰ TLDR: For something…

Helen Hou-Sandí has written a thoughtful…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Helen Hou-Sandí has written a thoughtful piece on some valuable things software teams can learn from music masterclasses. As I learned from Helen, masterclasses are when musicians perform a piece for an established artist, and the master artist gives them…

Bing recently launched its first official…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Bing recently launched its first official plugin for WordPress that "enables automated submission of URLs from WordPress sites to the Bing index." In their announcement, they note the plugin "detects both page updates and new pages" created in WordPress and…

Congrats to the Paid Memberships Pro…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Congrats to the Paid Memberships Pro team — their plugin

Human Made’s latest Word on the…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Human Made's latest Word on the Future newsletter discusses the rise of Content as a Service (CaaS) and asks whether this trend is going to edge WordPress and other traditional CMS platforms out of the market. CaaS "is the ability…

Nathan Baschez wrote an insightful business-related…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Nathan Baschez wrote an insightful business-related post on the "lifecycle of a business." According to Nathan, businesses often are born simple, grow complex, and then die of something he calls “Complexity Convection.” Nathan argues this is a natural process that…

Add this to the list of…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Add this to the list of crappy things in 2020: Ben Martin at Sucuri shares another newly discovered variation of a credit card swiper he found on a WordPress WooCommerce site. 💳 Ben says, "2020 appears to be the year…

Tom McFarlin reminded me that Alain…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Tom McFarlin reminded me that Alain Schlesser has an excellent guide to WP-CLI. This would be a good primary reference point to bookmark if you haven't seen it. Alain's guide includes some great links to tutorials, other guides, and it…