WordPress News

🕰️ I think Pippin Williamson nails…

Dan Knauss

September 12, 2019

🕰️ I think Pippin Williamson nails an important point about time on the Sandhills Development blog: We recognize now more than ever that the single most valuable resource we each have is time. It’s not infinite and we must do…

WordPress 5.2.3 is out. It’s a…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

Security

WordPress 5.2.3 is out. It's a security and maintenance release that includes 29 fixes and enhancements, including an update of jQuery for older versions of WordPress. ✨

The WordPress 5.3 release team has…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

The WordPress 5.3 release team has a new batch of focus leads, including Ian Belanger as Default Theme Wrangler and Anders Norén as Default Theme Designer. Anders will be designing the new Twenty Twenty theme, which will be released with…

There is a discussion unfolding at…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

Design

There is a discussion unfolding at Make WordPress about the future design of the WordPress "About" page. Initial discussion points posted by Tammie Lister ask some good focusing, "what if" questions: What if the CSS system was rebuilt from the…

Jean-Baptiste Audras started another discussion at…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

Jean-Baptiste Audras started another discussion at Make WordPress about a possible frontend forms feature, possibly as a feature plugin. This would be a mechanism for handling the Privacy Data Requests introduced in WordPress 4.9.6. The next step will be to…

If you use Twenty Nineteen or…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

If you use Twenty Nineteen or a child of it and you use custom CSS, be sure to check whether this upcoming change affects you.

Ross Wintle took a look at…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

Ross Wintle took a look at the positive side of tech communities. Ross says, "We need to tackle what’s bad in these communities. That’s SUPER important. But let’s also elevate, promote, shout about the good stuff." 📣

If you know of anyone who…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

If you know of anyone who wants to improve their JavaScript knowledge, Zac Gordon has a Bootcamp starting next week. He is offering monthly plans for his courses now too.

Nexcess and Liquid Web have established…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

Nexcess and Liquid Web have established a "partnership." That is an interesting word choice. What it means: "Liquid Web clients gaining access to the technology and scalability of Nexcess Cloud," and "Nexcess clients obtaining access to Liquid Web plans and…

Two projects from Bracketspace caught my…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

Two projects from Bracketspace caught my eye recently. One is a custom notification plugin, and the other is wpadmin.bracketspace.com — "an actual WordPress dashboard loaded" in your browser so you can quickly reference its interface elements for use in your…

If you are old enough to…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

If you are old enough to remember RSS readers (or old enough to appreciate RSS), then you might be interested in the "reboot" of NetNewsWire which is a free and open-source RSS reader for the Mac. 📰

Peter Wilson says WordPress might be…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

Peter Wilson says WordPress might be making some changes soon to prevent search engines from indexing and crawling "sites with the 'discourage search engines from indexing this site' option enabled." Instead, they "will display an updated robots meta tag to…

Pantheon appears to have been working…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

Pantheon appears to have been working with Peter Suhm on integration with Branch, Peter's new Continuous Integration service. If you missed our interview with Peter, you can learn more about him and Branch there.

Happy tenth anniversary to OSTraining! 🎂…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

Happy tenth anniversary to OSTraining! 🎂 OSTraining founder Steve Burge also announced the 3.0 beta for the Multiple Authors plugin is available for testing. Initially, Multiple Authors was an extension for PublishPress built on the base of Daniel Bachuber's Co-Authors…

“Trust, Growth, Inclusion: A Study of…

Dan Knauss

September 11, 2019

"Trust, Growth, Inclusion: A Study of Women Engineers' Job-Search Priorities" is a whitepaper recently published by Automattic with the results of a user research study launched by their engineering hiring team. 👩‍🚀 The goal of the study was for Automattic…

WordPress 5.2.3 is slated for a…

Dan Knauss

September 3, 2019

WordPress 5.2.3 is slated for a September 4th release, according to a recent developer chat. WordPress 5.3 will follow WordCamp US with an anticipated release date of November 10th. It "will polish current interactions and make the UIs more user-friendly."…