WordPress News

Joe Howard wrote what I consider…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Joe Howard wrote what I consider to be a must-read if you have input in your company's hiring process — how to access a more diverse pool of job candidates. Joe lists some job boards he used during the last…

Dave Bailey shares some tips for…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Dave Bailey shares some tips for managers to measure professional development. 📏 Dave recommends question-driven development, clarifying your desired outcomes, and taking the results of surveys with "a bucket of salt." 🧂

Max Böck wonders if we’re ready…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Max Böck wonders if we're ready to revisit some of the ideas of the early (1990s) web as things like plain HTML and server-side rendering (SSR) are "stepping back into the spotlight."💡 Max also has an interesting observation about the…

WPGraphQL is turning 1.0 even though…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

WPGraphQL is turning 1.0 even though it has been production-ready for a while. Jason Bahl notes a little of its history and explains the 1.0. According to Packagist.org, as of June 30, 2020, there are nearly 50,000 installs of WPGraphQL…

If you dabble in CSS animations…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Design

If you dabble in CSS animations and CSS scroll effects, Zach Saucier has a great overview of scroll technologies that target specific and more general scroll behaviors. 📜 Also from CSS Tricks, Chris Coyier shares some different perceptions of Developer…

I always enjoy learning from markets…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Business

I always enjoy learning from markets I'm not familiar with, and balloon artists are certainly one of the most unique I've come across. Ziv Raviv used WordPress and LifterLMS to build a course on balloon art that brought in $11,000.…

Sara Soudain’s guide to inclusively hiding…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Sara Soudain's guide to inclusively hiding and styling checkboxes and radio buttons has been making the rounds with this important heads-up: When you hide an interactive element, make sure you choose a hiding technique that keeps it screen reader-accessible, position…

Ethan Marcotte, who coined the term…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Ethan Marcotte, who coined the term "responsive design," has released a series of 5-minute tutorial videos about designing for accessibility. The first tutorial is an introduction to the different ways the VoiceOver screen reader can be used to navigate a…

The ManageWP.org news site has been…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

The ManageWP.org news site has been shut down by GoDaddy, as Jeffrey Carandang recently observed. ManageWP.org was an early source of WordPress news many years ago but was fading even before Godaddy acquired it along with the ManageWP.com monitoring and…

Flywheel recently relaunched its Local Pro…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Flywheel recently relaunched its Local Pro app. It's a solid upgrade focused more on reducing WordPress site development pain points than being just a companion tool for Flywheel users. It syncs with WPEngine now too, and they're actively working to…

Jake Archibald from tooling.report announced on…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Jake Archibald from tooling.report announced on Twitter they've published a report on the most popular build tools including Browserify, Parcel, Rollup, and WebPack. 📊

Selling Your Business Crash Course June 30

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2020

Business

Most business owners have never been through an exit and don’t know what to expect. They don’t have confidence when talking to potential buyers and don’t feel like their business is prepared and ready for an exit. In this two-hour…

Building Your First WordPress Plugin: Live Webinar Friday

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2020

Join WP core contributor and developer John James Jacoby for this live coding workshop on Friday, June 26, from 1-3 p.m. Central. JJJ will walk through best practices and steps for building your first WordPress plugin. JJJ is co-author of…

Gutenberg 8.4 was released yesterday with…

Dan Knauss

June 23, 2020

Gutenberg 8.4 was released yesterday with some impressive enhancements included image editing, multi-block controls, and the enabling of the Block Directory. The Block Directory has been a big-ticket item in the WordPress Roadmap and is powered by the WordPress.org Plugin…

Ben Hoyt tweeted about two lightweight…

Dan Knauss

June 23, 2020

Ben Hoyt tweeted about two lightweight alternatives to Google Analytics that launched in the last year: GoatCounter and Plausible. 🐐

Cory Miller noticed the University of…

Dan Knauss

June 23, 2020

Cory Miller noticed the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus has a free, self-paced tutorial for people creating their first WordPress website. Cory: "Whenever I see dedicated classes and learning materials at colleges and schools specific to WordPress it makes…