WooCommerce vs Shopify: A battle for ecommerce platform dominance
Jonathan Wold
Shopify has a lot going for it. WooCommerce, though, is the better platform for ecommerce on the Open Web.
WPCampus 2019 concluded this past weekend…
Dan Knauss
WPCampus 2019 concluded this past weekend with a wide range of substantial talks and topics. Thanks to Pantheon, there was a live stream and live captioning. Videos will be posted online as in past years. 🎓 WPCampus 2020 will be…
Parents who are thinking about bringing…
Dan Knauss
Parents who are thinking about bringing their kids to WordCamp US will be pleased to learn the event will be offering free on-site childcare all day for children ages six weeks to 12 years. 👶🏕️ The childcare provider is "a…
If you use WooCommerce and are…
Dan Knauss
If you use WooCommerce and are looking for product review plugins, Colm Troy has a big review of his picks for the best. His top pick is Judge.me, and he goes into great detail about its capabilities. 🏆 Not sure…
In a world where “learn this…
Dan Knauss
In a world where "learn this programming language in a day or weekend" sells books and courses. Peter Norvig explains why this might not be a good idea. He shares a recipe for programming success that covers learning over years…
Jeffrey Carandang explains how to add…
Dan Knauss
Jeffrey Carandang explains how to add custom Gutenberg block styles with ES6 and ES5 Javascript.
Here’s a nice “UI cheat sheet”…
Dan Knauss
Here's a nice "UI cheat sheet" for text fields from Tess Gadd. It covers text field anatomy, structure, icons, text field states, autoformat, touch targets, accessibility, and more.
The call for speakers for the…
Dan Knauss
The call for speakers for the first WordCamp Asia 2020 has been announced, with only English speakers being accepted for the initial year. The deadline is September 25th. 🏕️
Denis Žoljom announced a new release…
Dan Knauss
Denis Žoljom announced a new release of the Theme Sniffer plugin and the WPThemeReview coding standards. 👃 Theme Sniffer is a plugin that applies custom sniffs for PHP_CodeSniffer to verify that your theme adheres to WordPress coding conventions. Those conventions…
If you build WordPress themes, check…
Dan Knauss
If you build WordPress themes, check out this post on how to add and test skip links for accessibility.
Justin Tadlock showed off some work…
Dan Knauss
Justin Tadlock showed off some work involving SVG background pattern options in the WordPress Customizer: https://twitter.com/justintadlock/status/1153319383156035584
Jason Bahl has announced that WPGraphQL…
Dan Knauss
Jason Bahl has announced that WPGraphQL for Advanced Custom Fields will be available for free now. The plugin will also be submitted to packagist.org so it can be included in projects using Composer. If you haven't had the chance yet…
J. Michael Ward has some ideas…
Dan Knauss
J. Michael Ward has some ideas about the approaches you can take to structure your WordPress plugin projects. He shares including his coding philosophy with examples for plugin bootstrap files and class file organization.
David Ryan has written several tutorials…
Dan Knauss
David Ryan has written several tutorials to help developers get comfortable with WP-CLI and custom WP-CLI commands even if they haven't worked much with the command line before. Pascal Birchler's Introduction to WP-CLI is a great place to start learning…
There’s a first time for everything,…
Dan Knauss
There's a first time for everything, and Bolaji Ayodeji has written a short guide for a first-time setup of Git.
OSTraining has published a series of…
Dan Knauss
OSTraining has published a series of tutorials and a new book on CSS Flexbox. Their latest title is about local development with DDEV. 📚
