WordPress News

The State of UX in 2019…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

The State of UX in 2019 is a report that isolates nine important themes the "design industry is writing, talking, and thinking about." These are quite practical and challenging issues, like how to be more strategic at work with time…

If you speak at WordCamps, there’s…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

If you speak at WordCamps, there's a new policy regarding slides you should read. 🏕️ Keith Devon has some nice thoughts on the ROI from WordCamps and similar events.

Allie Decker has a great post…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

Allie Decker has a great post regarding the value of community and its effect on your health and business. Allie doesn't mention the WordPress community, but the implications — especially for freelancers — are clear: "Being alone too much is…

Justin Tadlock explains how to build…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

Business

Justin Tadlock explains how to build a compelling business or agency landing page with Gutenberg and his newly released Exhale WordPress theme, which I really like.

Jetpack promotions in search, and fallout

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

Design

In the last newsletter, I mentioned Jetpack's search replacement for promotions as well as the discussion and fallout that followed. It escalated quite a bit, and then it got out of hand. Jetpack has now removed the feature in version…

Changing the conversation

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

It's been an intense week for the WordPress community. Jetpack's search replacement for promotions has been a catalyst, but it's not the root issue, in my mind. There's been an erosion of discourse in the community, and it needs to…

It’s certainly been a whirlwind of…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

It's certainly been a whirlwind of news this week involving Pipdig, a UK-based theme and plugin shop, and one of their plugins: Pipdig Power Pack, also known as P3. A lot of the controversy can be traced back to this blog…

Carole Olinger wrote a touching, personal…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

Carole Olinger wrote a touching, personal post about taking a step back from the WordPress community for physical and mental health reasons. There's a lot you can unpack here, but the primary takeaway here is that Carole is making herself…

On a recent episode of the…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

On a recent episode of the BoldLife podcast, Sandy Edwards had a great conversation about kids and training WordCamp Organizers to host Kids Camps. 🏕️

Gary Pendergast doesn’t believe React makes…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

Gary Pendergast doesn't believe React makes WordPress development more difficult: If you’re new to web development, React is just as easy as anything else to start with... There’s still a lot of work to do to make web development something…

A new version of Gutenberg landed…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

Design

A new version of Gutenberg landed this week with foundational work and UI explorations related to the block-based widgets screen. There is also a new, built-in, static Gutenberg Playground for testing in a WordPress agnostic context. There's also an open…

WordPress 5.2 brings some accessibility changes…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

WordPress 5.2 brings some accessibility changes to the markup for some of the tabs in the admin area so assistive technologies will react to them correctly.

Bethany Heck and Joshua Goldenberg, two…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

Bethany Heck and Joshua Goldenberg, two well-known designers, have joined the Automattic Design team. Their hiring follows the recent announcement of Jeffrey Zeldman joining the Automattic "Special Projects" team.

In case you were avoiding the…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

In case you were avoiding the web on April Fool's Day, here's something that was announced that isn't a joke: Cloudflare announced Warp, which is a VPN "for people who don't know what V.P.N. stands for." Warp automatically adds encryption…

WPCampus 2019 will take place from…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

WPCampus 2019 will take place from July 25-27 in Portland, Oregon. The call for speakers is open until May 3. WPCampus is a great place to learn and share expertise relevant to Accessibility and WordPress in Higher Education. 🎓