WordPress News

The second release candidate for BuddyPress…

Dan Knauss

September 30, 2019

The second release candidate for BuddyPress 5.0.0 is now available for testing. Recent improvements include the way BP REST API Controllers are loaded inside BuddyPress component classes.

Roy Sivan briefly touches on the…

Dan Knauss

September 30, 2019

Roy Sivan briefly touches on the way Gutenberg projects fit into WebOps, which he defines as "the operations of building and maintaining a web project." I'm noticing WebOps (and Gutenberg) being discussed more on technical blogs these days.

While it’s not directly WordPress related,…

Dan Knauss

September 30, 2019

While it's not directly WordPress related, I enjoyed this post from MailPoet on their "continuous delivery" approach to development with weekly releases. According to Tautvidas Sipavicius, the benefits of continuous delivery include team happiness, better quality code, faster debugging, cheaper…

Iain Poulson takes us back through…

Dan Knauss

September 30, 2019

Iain Poulson takes us back through the events leading to the demise of Jigoshop, a WordPress eCommerce plugin created by Jigowatt back in 2011. Later that year WooThemes forked Jigoshop to build WooCommerce. 🛒 Sadly, some sites still use Jigoshop…

Paypal will no longer be returning…

Dan Knauss

September 30, 2019

Paypal will no longer be returning processing fees (2.9% + $0.30) when you refund charges to a customer. This new policy goes into effect starting October 11, 2019. For many people, it's a deal-breaker on using PayPal. 💔

Automattic has announced it closed a…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

Automattic has announced it closed a new $300 million Series D funding round. This development puts the company at a post-round valuation of $3 billion. That is three times Automattic's value following its last fundraising round in 2014. 😮📈 Matt…

The latest Gutenberg 6.5 update brings…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

The latest Gutenberg 6.5 update brings a social links block to the editor, support for local auto-saves (handy!), captions for cover blocks, updates to the navigation block, and more. There's also a new, experimental feature for installing non-local blocks right…

The release candidate of BuddyPress 5.0.0…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

The release candidate of BuddyPress 5.0.0 is available for testing. Mathieu Viet also takes time to introduce the bp.apiRequest() that helps you start using the BuddyPress REST API.

Ashley Rich compares Digital Ocean, Google…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

Hosting

Ashley Rich compares Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, and AWS for hosting WordPress sites way you might with SpinupWP or ServerPilot and their forthcoming HostLaunch platform. Digital Ocean won the matchup, but all three platforms were are pretty close, and the…

If you have heard the term…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

BusinessHosting

If you have heard the term "serverless," but not much else, then John Demian's brief guide will help you get up to speed. John describes serverless hosting as "an event-based system for running code." In other words, services "create business…

Congrats to Justin Tadlock for joining…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

Congrats to Justin Tadlock for joining WP Tavern as a full-time writer. I am glad he's found this great new opportunity to return to his journalistic roots. 📰 I owe much of my success in this space to Jason's teaching…

Human Made has built a “Publication…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

Human Made has built a "Publication Checklist" plugin that "provides a framework for building out pre-publication checks with [the] flexibility to fit your [WordPress publishing] workflows." 🔌

Joe Watkins cuts right to the…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

Business

Joe Watkins cuts right to the point about the importance of funding open source projects your company relies on: Making monetary contributions or approaching your employer with a request to make monetary contributions to projects that your income or business…

Marc-Alexandre Montpas at posted an excellent…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

Security

Marc-Alexandre Montpas at posted an excellent and detailed dissection of the WordPress 5.2.3 security release on the Sucuri blog. 🔒

Adam Silver covers the pros and…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

Adam Silver covers the pros and (mostly) the cons of tooltips. Adam recommends that we "do the hard work, so users don’t have to." If you think people might need the clarification a tooltip provides, you should give them the…

Rachel Andrew at Smashing Magazine explores…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2019

Design

Rachel Andrew at Smashing Magazine explores the use cases where you might encounter overflow in your web designs. Rachel explains how CSS has evolved to create better ways to manage and design around unknown amounts of content.