Honey Code is a new Gutenberg…
Dan Knauss
Honey Code is a new Gutenberg Syntax Highlighter Block from Chris Kelley. It handles syntax highlighting quite nicely. ✨
Ryan Welcher from 10up introduced SlotFill…
Dan Knauss
Ryan Welcher from 10up introduced SlotFill — "a modernized take on classic interface 'hooks and filters' in WordPress" that extends Gutenberg's interface. Slot and Fill are a pair of React components that allow developers to inject items into predefined spaces.…
More WCEU Recaps Here’s an excellent…
Dan Knauss
More WCEU Recaps Here's an excellent WordCamp Europe contribution day recap from the Make WordPress Design team. I appreciate seeing how the discussion about Gutenberg and interaction resulted in designers opening issues in Github. Codeable had a nice recap as…
Only “Mostly Uninstalled” If you use…
Dan Knauss
Only "Mostly Uninstalled" If you use or have ever used Zoom on for MacOS, you should be aware of a vulnerability that allows a malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. Even if you've uninstalled Zoom, you are…
Cash on the Mail In 2017,…
Dan Knauss
Cash on the Mail In 2017, WPForms acquired WP Mail SMTP, and recently a Pro version was announced. The Pro features include integration with Outlook 365 and Amazon SES, along with email logging and notification management. If you are looking…
Developer Tools Check out this project…
Dan Knauss
Developer Tools Check out this project from Roots called Bedrock — "WordPress boilerplate with modern development tools, easier configuration, and an improved folder structure." 🛠️ Bedrock is inspired by Heroku's Twelve-Factor App methodology, including Scott Walkinshaw's WordPress specific version. I'm…
Here’s a WordPress plugin that can…
Dan Knauss
Here's a WordPress plugin that can generate a child theme based on the Genesis Sample theme with WP-CLI.
Zach Leatherman offers some insight into…
Dan Knauss
Zach Leatherman offers some insight into font loading strategies as he explains how CSS-Tricks (poweredby WordPress) optimizines the open license fonts they use. If you've struggled with page loading times due to custom fonts, this is a must-read. ⏳ If…
Your Feedback is Requested 👉 Andrea…
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Your Feedback is Requested 👉 Andrea Middleton is collecting topic suggestions from WordPress contributor teams for the WordPress User and Developer Survey, which didn't happen last year. The survey's goal is to gather the information that will help inform contributor…
Allez a11y! The WordPress theme review…
Dan Knauss
Allez a11y! The WordPress theme review team will start implementing a new accessibility-related guideline every other month and teaching theme authors how to tackle each issue. That's great news! 🙌
WordPress profiles now include some additional…
Dan Knauss
WordPress profiles now include some additional fields that contributors can use to share how much time they dedicate to the WordPress project.
Video and Podcast Picks đź“ą Here’s…
Dan Knauss
Video and Podcast Picks 📹 Here's my recommendation for video watching this week: The "Cost of JavaScript 2019" video (and blog post) from Addy Osmani at the PerfMatters Conference 2019 shows the main costs of processing JavaScript are download and…
Preserving the Wilderness
Dan Knauss
The web is a sacred wilderness, and it deserves preservation. What role can open source communities play? And how does it contrast with the monopolistic tendencies of the "tech giants?"
Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg…
Dan Knauss
Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg 6.0 is out with significant enhancements to the column layout block, widgets block, and block group functionality, among other things. Felix Arntz explains how to leverage the power of Custom Elements in Gutenberg. Like…
Everyone’s Going Local 🏠Josh Koenig…
Dan Knauss
Everyone's Going Local 🏠Josh Koenig announced the first release of Pantheon Localdev, a local dev app for the Mac (Windows and Linux "coming soon") that is built on top of Docker and Lando with a GUI for working on sites…
