WordPress News

Kirtan Gajjar has a sweet post…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Kirtan Gajjar has a sweet post on automated WordPress code review and deployment using GitHub Actions. Three actions have been released: PHPCS Code Review – Run PHPCS code review on pull requests. Deploy WordPress – Deploy a WordPress site using…

Andrey Savchenko released a new version…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Andrey Savchenko released a new version of Laps, which is a plugin that shows performance information about WordPress page loads. Laps 3.3 adds plotting for early SQL queries and individual plugin load tracking on WordPress 5.1.

Pantheon recently announced their “Deploy Heroically”…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Pantheon recently announced their "Deploy Heroically" program that honors people contributing to the open web. They are taking new applications from "heroes" now. 🦸

Jeffrey Zeldman recently let slip that…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Jeffrey Zeldman recently let slip that the popular A List Apart blog migrated over to WordPress and will relaunch on April 11th. Previously the site was operating on "an aged, semi-bespoke version of ExpressionEngine 2.x." Speaking of A List Apart,…

Getting reviews from clients is tough,…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Getting reviews from clients is tough, and Matteo Duò explains how to pull it off with a deep dive in 950+ popular WordPress plugins. The average percentage of users who leave a review for a WordPress plugin is only 0.20%!…

Andrew Taylor, a Developer Programs Engineer…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Andrew Taylor, a Developer Programs Engineer at Pantheon, shares how to connect GitLab and Pantheon to streamline Drupal and WordPress workflows.

Thomas Griffin is closing a chapter…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Business

Thomas Griffin is closing a chapter in his life as a developer and takes time to share some unusually open reflections on his personal growth. Many business owners start with the pure passion of "just coding a plugin." Later, with…

Morten Rand-Hendriksen demonstrates a simple way…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Morten Rand-Hendriksen demonstrates a simple way to add SVGs to custom WordPress (Gutenberg) blocks using SVGR.

Scott Bolinger released a new WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Scott Bolinger released a new WordPress plugin called Popup Zen. 🧘 Scott explains the thinking and history behind it here on his blog. "It’s a popup plugin for people who hate popups." I thoroughly enjoyed Scott's reasoning for why he…

Here’s all you (probably) need to…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Here's all you (probably) need to know about hyphenation in CSS, thanks to Richard Rutter of Clearleft.

Sugar Calendar hit version 2.0 recently.…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Sugar Calendar hit version 2.0 recently. There are some new event management interfaces, enhancements to the recurring events feature, an extended API, and some new user capabilities. 📅

The video of Joshua Strebel’skeynote at…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

The video of Joshua Strebel'skeynote at WordCamp Phoenix 2019 is available now. Joshua's talk is focused on "Bias and Self Delusion," and it offers some fascinating insights and important lessons learned from his ten years as CEO of Pagely.

WPTranslationToday is happening again on May…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

WPTranslationToday is happening again on May 11th. Naoko Takano notes that the team is looking for live-stream speakers. If you are a developer, translator, or locale manager you can share your knowledge and help with WordPress's globalization. 🌐

Ana Tudor explains a handy CSS…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Ana Tudor explains a handy CSS trick for blurring the border of an element. She also shows how to "extend support so it works cross-browser."

Fast Company published a great feature on…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Design

Fast Company published a great feature on John Maeda, who is head of inclusion and computational design at Automattic. John says "design is not that important," which probably will seem strange and slight controversial at first read, especially since the WordPress…

Starting with WordPress 5.2 there’s a…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Starting with WordPress 5.2 there's a new function — wp-body_open() — that will be used to trigger a wp_body_open action. You can use this action to add something directly inside the body of a page, like a script tag.