WordPress 5.2.3 is out. It’s a…
Dan Knauss
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. đź“°
Peter Wilson says WordPress might be…
Dan Knauss
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
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
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
"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
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."…
WP-CLI 2.3.0 was recently released. Alain…
Dan Knauss
WP-CLI 2.3.0 was recently released. Alain Schlesser describes it as an "unspectacular" version because the "previous release was very taxing." Nevertheless, I'm enjoying new features like the media fix-orientation command. Also new and useful: the ability to skip through groups…
