WordPress News

If you are a Github user,…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

If you are a Github user, you may have seen these announcements recently. The most applicable to many developers is likely to be the GitHub mobile apps currently in beta. The company also released it's State of the Octoverse. 10…

Stack Overflow notes in a recent…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

Stack Overflow notes in a recent post that it is "recalculating reputation" and introducing "an improved question asking experience" that rewards people who good questions. 🙋

Wordfence published a comprehensive whitepaper analyzing…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

Wordfence published a comprehensive whitepaper analyzing WP-VCD, which is the name for an intensifying malware campaign that is spread via “nulled” or pirated plugins and themes. ☠️

WP Remote has been acquired from…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

WP Remote has been acquired from maekit by BlogVault. Here's what that will mean for existing customers. The original WP Remote tool and features were built by Human Made and acquired by maekit in 2017. BlogVault's announcement says the current…

Here’s an extensive summary of the…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

Here's an extensive summary of the recent Accessibility Scotland 2019 event from Claire Brotherton. The talks at this conference covered a wide range of topics from accessibility and ethics to AI and the challenge of maintaining privacy. Have you ever…

Igor Benić closely examines the useful…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

Igor Benić closely examines the useful ServerSideRender Gutenberg Component. Igor says, "When I want to convert a shortcode used to display dynamic content, I tend to go for this component."

Ashley Rich explains what a load…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

Hosting

Ashley Rich explains what a load balancer does and then asks if using one is overkill in your WordPress hosting setup. 🤹

WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” became available last…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

WordPress 5.3 "Kirk" became available last week with the new default theme, Twenty Twenty, and a host of new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements for the block editor. Hot on its heels, here's Gutenberg 6.9. 📦✨ New things to…

Here are two interesting proposals and…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

Here are two interesting proposals and posts on the future of WordPress themes based on what we've seen from Gutenberg so far: Rich Tabor updated his post on the future of themes and notes "the definitive end of WordPress themes…

Steve Burge offers some insightful thoughts…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

Steve Burge offers some insightful thoughts on collaborative editing in Gutenberg and what that might be like in the future. 🔏 Steve notes that it might be quite a challenge when this feature is tackled in "Stage 3" of the Gutenberg…

WooCommerce 3.8 is live. It has…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

WooCommerce 3.8 is live. It has been in development since August 2019 and contains 516 commits by 28 authors. "This version represents a move towards smaller, stable, and more frequent WooCommerce releases" and contains a new suite of product blocks.…

bbPress 2.6.0 is out after only…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

bbPress 2.6.0 is out after only six years (years?!) of development. John James Jacoby explains the reason for this timeframe was mainly because there are only far "less than part-time folks" actively working on the project. bbPress is installed on…

WP-CLI 2.4.0 is out, and it…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

WP-CLI 2.4.0 is out, and it supports PHP 7.4. It works great with WordPress 5.3's improvements to "properly deal with large images" by keeping track of "the original source images ... so you can safely rebuild your thumbnails without losing…

The latest release of Gravity Forms…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

The latest release of Gravity Forms adds support for osDXP and includes several enhancements and bug fixes.

We will be doing more in-depth…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

We will be doing more in-depth notes on some of the talks from WordCamp US after we can link to the processed videos on WordPress.tv. In the meantime here are some reviews, summaries, and reflections on WordCamp US that are…