WordPress News

WP-CLI 2.3.0 was recently released. Alain…

Dan Knauss

September 3, 2019

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…

The stable release of the WordPress…

Dan Knauss

September 3, 2019

The stable release of the WordPress AMP plugin is out, according to Pascal Birchler. 🔌

In an informative Twitter thread, Jonathan…

Dan Knauss

September 3, 2019

In an informative Twitter thread, Jonathan Sampson breaks down precisely what gets downloaded and what else happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time — on Windows. There's nothing earth-shattering, but it's good to know what browsers are…

The New York Times did a…

Dan Knauss

September 3, 2019

The New York Times did a brief interview with Matt Mullenweg that's focused on his plans for Tumblr. Matt said bringing RSS feeds back to Tumblr is "high on [his] list" of priorities.

Matt Shaw summarizes for Delicious Brains…

Dan Knauss

September 3, 2019

Matt Shaw summarizes for Delicious Brains why most WordPress email plugins suck: "they simply don’t do enough to alert you of potential issues and don’t give you a way to rectify them." 📧

📆 The proposed schedule for WordPress…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

📆 The proposed schedule for WordPress 5.3 development is currently: Beta 1: 23 September 2019 Release Candidate: 15 October 2019 General Release: 12 November 2019

In a recent chat summary, I…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

In a recent chat summary, I discovered some interesting items that are being merged into Gutenberg. With these changes, you're going to see a "typewriter experience" and a "help panel" when you insert blocks.

Andrey Savchenko announced that wp_timezone() is…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

Andrey Savchenko announced that wp_timezone() is coming to WordPress core. Andrey says it's "a game changer for the Date/Time component" in WordPress. ⏱️

Kent C. Dodds explains what JavaScript…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

Kent C. Dodds explains what JavaScript features you should be familiar with when you're learning and using React. Kent covers array methods, promises, async/await, template literals, and more.

If you work with WooCommerce but…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

If you work with WooCommerce but aren't familiar with the developer chats, you can read summaries of them at woocommerce.wordpress.com. 🛒 Here's a reminder that the recently launched WooCommerce 3.7 requires at least PHP 5.6.20 and WordPress 4.9. It also…

Sandilya Kafle added an update about…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

Sandilya Kafle added an update about the Trusted Author Program, which was "an attempt to streamline the review process for authors who are consistently able to show they can to produce high quality code and themes." 🌟 One of the…

Ben Gillbanks is building a lightweight…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

Ben Gillbanks is building a lightweight plugin called "Toolbelt" that is inspired by Jetpack but designed for speed, simplicity, and privacy. 🧰

If you haven’t seen the logo…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

If you haven't seen the logo for WordCamp Asia, it's an excellent example of simple branding for a conference. There's also a good article here about the thinking and ideas that were used to come up with the logo.

With Managed MySQL now available at…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

With Managed MySQL now available at Digital Ocean, Erika Heidi took the opportunity to write a tutorial on how to install WordPress with a managed database and Ubuntu 18.04. 💧

An affiliate payouts service is coming…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

An affiliate payouts service is coming soon to AffiliateWP, and Pippin Williamson says it took the "last year" to build it. He shows off the process in a recent post. Existing tools that try to handle processing affiliate payouts have…

10up has made some improvements to…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

10up has made some improvements to its Distributor plugin, a solution that makes it "easy to syndicate and reuse content across WordPress-powered websites." Helen Hou-Sandi describes some impressive performance gains and new support for "filtering the content available from external…