WordPress News

Not everyone is happy that ICANN…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

Not everyone is happy that ICANN has decided to block the sale of the .org TLD and Public Interest Registry (PIR), but those in the not-for-profit community likely agree it "is reasonable, and the right thing to do." 😅 The…

🏕️ Two WordPress events should be…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

🏕️ Two WordPress events should be on your radar: Tickets for WordCamp Europe 2020 are available online now. The virtual event is happening June 4-6 with an online Contributor Day followed by two days of programming. WordCamp US 2020 announced…

Professional WordPress Plugin Development: Interview with the authors

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2020

DevelopmentDraft

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Cory Miller interviews the authors of the (second edition) of Professional WordPress Plugin Development.

Frontity has closed a €1M funding…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

BusinessHosting

Frontity has closed a €1M funding round led by Automattic. Frontity promotes its framework as "the easiest way to create lightning-fast websites using WordPress and React." ⚡ Reyes Martínez said the company is not developing a business model now but…

Dave Ryan has started a project…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Dave Ryan has started a project called Chatterbox that lets you use WordPress blocks to show conversations from chat threads inside app and device wrappers. 🔌 Chatterbox can be used for "demos of chatbots, publishing chat records in news stories,…

Channing Allen has an interesting post…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Channing Allen has an interesting post at Indie Hackers about the ways businesses and founders are figuring out how to build and ship products for the quarantined market. 🔐 "Conditions of life are quickly changing. And with each change, new…

Dashicons — which currently weigh in…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Dashicons — which currently weigh in at 303 icons in a single, compiled sprite — may be nearing the end of their useful life. As Joen notes, "The block editor uses SVG icons directly, and the rest of WordPress uses…

In case you missed it in…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

In case you missed it in March, I highly recommend your read Josepha Haden's post on the value of a leader who is open and always looking to improve. 👍

Ryan McCue mentioned on Twitter that…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Ryan McCue mentioned on Twitter that he built an Unsplash integration with the WordPress Media Library in a couple of hours using the Asset Manager Framework. The AMF provides a framework for replacing the contents of the core media library…

The Block Lab team behind the…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

The Block Lab team behind the Block Lab plugin will be joining WP Engine. The plugin itself is not going over to WP Engine, but the plan is to build something new there and give Block Lab users the option…

WooGraphQL adds WooCommerce support and functionality…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

WooGraphQL adds WooCommerce support and functionality to your WPGraphQL server. You can query products, product variations, customers, coupons, orders, and refunds in addition to manipulating customer session data. Future features will include payment processing and "administrator mutations." 🧟

StarterBlocks is a recently released WordPress…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

StarterBlocks is a recently released WordPress plugin that provides "700+ pre-made templates" in the editor. 🏁

Anne Martinez wrote a quickstart guide…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Anne Martinez wrote a quickstart guide for speeding up WordPress. It's intended for your clients or WordPress users who are not developers. It covers the basics — things that commonly slow down a WordPress site, along with topics like caching,…

Peter Tasker, a PHP and JavaScript…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Peter Tasker, a PHP and JavaScript developer in Canada, revised and updated his outstanding article on how to create custom WordPress Editor Blocks — in 2020. I recommend reading or bookmarking Peter's post if you might be building blocks in…

Brandon Ernst at Freemius looks at…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Business

Brandon Ernst at Freemius looks at trends and data to get an idea of how the Coronavirus might be affecting WordPress plugin and theme shops. Brandon notes "there was a 19.84% growth in plugin downloads on the WordPress.org repository from…

Michael Lynch warns that Stripe might…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Michael Lynch warns that Stripe might be "silently recording your movements on its customers' websites." 🕵️ Stripe has publicly stated that they use your customer data exclusively for fraud protection and diagnostics, and Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison responded to Michael's…