Iain Poulson explains how to identify…
Dan Knauss
Iain Poulson explains how to identify SQL queries that are causing bottlenecks and demonstrates some quick fixes and other ways to accelerate query execution time. 💨
✒️ Zara Cooper has written a…
Dan Knauss
✒️ Zara Cooper has written a "practical guide to writing technical specs" — highly recommended for developers: "By writing a technical spec, engineers are forced to examine a problem before going straight into code, where they may overlook some aspect…
Yoast has a blog post in…
Dan Knauss
Yoast has a blog post in their developer portal about new features in the upcoming version (14.0) of their plugin. Some of these include moving all metadata from wp_postmeta to custom tables, changes in the Schema API, and "opening up…
Denis Žoljom, an Automation representative on…
Dan Knauss
Denis Žoljom, an Automation representative on the Theme Review Team, has written a proposal to use GitHub for code review for themes submitted to wordpress.org. 💡
If you like to follow front-end…
Dan Knauss
If you like to follow front-end development news and trends, then this list of RSS feeds from Louis Lazaris might be worth checking out. 🍝
If you use VSCode, this impressive…
Dan Knauss
If you use VSCode, this impressive list of customizations from Silvestar Bistrović of his (364!) code settings is worth your time. 🎚️😮
We’re wishing Tony Perez all the…
Dan Knauss
We're wishing Tony Perez all the best as he leaves GoDaddy and explores full-time work on his projects CleanBrowsing (a DNS-based content filtering service) and ColdPath (a security consulting company). 🛅
I recently stumbled on rclone, which…
Dan Knauss
I recently stumbled on rclone, which is a command-line program to sync local files and directories with cloud storage providers like Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, and many more. ☁️
Here’s an interesting tutorial from Nico…
Dan Knauss
Here's an interesting tutorial from Nico Martin on how to create scheduled push notifications in the browser with the Notifications API — in combination with the Push API and the HTTP Web Push Protocol. I don't care for push notifications…
Blessing Krofegha demonstrates how to build…
Dan Knauss
Blessing Krofegha demonstrates how to build a web app with a headless CMS and React. He doesn't mention WordPress, but it's applicable — and worth reading if the general concept interests you.
WordPress 5.4 (“Adderley”) was released on…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.4 ("Adderley") was released on March 31st. The visual editor in this version includes the new Social Icons and Buttons blocks, gradients in the Buttons and Cover block, and improved streamlining of various workflows including multimedia placement. The editor…
Kelly Dwan created and shared some…
Dan Knauss
Kelly Dwan created and shared some new admin color schemes inspired by the Adderley release. Kelly included a high contrast option that "should pass WCAG 2.1 level AAA for color contrast." 🎨
If you are not fond of…
Dan Knauss
If you are not fond of the new default to full-screen mode for the block editor in WordPress 5.4, Jean-Baptiste Audras explains what you can add to functions.php to disable it.
✒️ Garrett Hyder has written a…
Dan Knauss
✒️ Garrett Hyder has written a proposal for a WP Consent API and a Consent API as a feature plugin. As Garrett explains: "A standard way for WordPress core, plugins, and themes to obtain consent from users should be established…
Strattic has announced support for the…
Dan Knauss
Strattic has announced support for the popular Gravity Forms plugin. Almost everything you can do in Gravity seems to be supported with a few exceptions. I hope to hear more about the technical details and other work that goes into…
BuddyPress 6.0.0 Beta 1 is out…
Dan Knauss
BuddyPress 6.0.0 Beta 1 is out with some great new enhancements and features, including the first BuddyPress Blocks for the block editor and a completed BuddyPress REST API.
