WordPress News

Hats off to WordCamp Miami, which…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Hats off to WordCamp Miami, which announced they had more women speaking than men in their 2019 gathering. I'm not sure if this is a first for a large WordCamp, but it's good to see diversity moving forward in this…

Gutenberg 5.3 is out with some…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

Gutenberg 5.3 is out with some fancy new features. Now there's a block management modal window that allows users to enable and disable blocks, and the Cover Block can contain other blocks nested inside it.

The PHP minimum version bump is…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

Security

The PHP minimum version bump is happening! As noted in this Trac ticket, WordPress's support for PHP 5.2 - 5.5 officially ends now, and the minimum required PHP version is 5.6. As Scott Arciszewski explains, the impending release of WordPress…

It looks like Github is testing…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

It looks like Github is testing a feature that will allow users to contribute to projects on behalf of organizations.

Jilt released transactional email support, in…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

Jilt released transactional email support, in a big feature release. I've been working part-time with Jilt and it was fun to see this finalized and launched. Between transactional email support, support for WooCommerce subscriptions and membership emails, and a big project…

Felix Arntz explains how the Fatal…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

Security

Felix Arntz explains how the Fatal Error Protection feature had to be dropped from WordPress 5.1 due to several security concerns. It appears error protection is here to stay, however, and Felix goes into detail about the completely new approach…

If you are using the Easy…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

If you are using the Easy WP SMTP plugin, make sure you upgrade to the latest version since a vulnerability was discovered recently. 🔒

I enjoy articles that make meaningful…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

I enjoy articles that make meaningful comparisons between WordPress and less well-known CMSes. In a worthwhile review, Leonardo Losoviz puts October CMS in the spotlight. October is five years old, free, and open source.

The new version (3.0) of SearchWP…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

The new version (3.0) of SearchWP has been released, and it brings a few big changes: a rebuilt settings screen, integration of extensions, first-party Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) support, and support for Gutenberg blocks.

Muhammad Muhsin wrote a tutorial about…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

Muhammad Muhsin wrote a tutorial about porting the Twenty Nineteen WordPress theme to Gatsby. Gatsby is currently a very popular (and fast) React-based static site generator. In a similar vein, here's an article about someone migrating from Medium to Gatsby…

Ronald Huereca has announced he has…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

Ronald Huereca has announced he has taken over the development of the WP Plugin Info Card plugin. Meanwhile, the Dark Mode plugin has been put up for adoption by Daniel James. 🌃

For those who may not be…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

For those who may not be aware of its existence, Theme Sniffer is a plugin that uses custom sniffs for PHP_CodeSniffer to statically analyze themes. It will verify if a theme adheres to WordPress coding conventions and check theme code…

Chris Ashton writes about using the…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

Chris Ashton writes about using the web for a day on Internet Explorer 8, including Google, Amazon, YouTube, and Gmail. IE8 traffic is suspicious enough that YouTube didn't trust it. Chris's big takeaway: If today’s websites are totally unusable in…

Sigle is a free “decentralized and…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

Sigle is a free "decentralized and open source blog maker" I stumbled upon recently and found interesting as another approach to simple blogging. Sigle uses Blockstack to keep your blog "decentralized," but it can be configured to use your own…