WordPress News

Sarah Drasner over at CSS Tricks…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2019

Sarah Drasner over at CSS Tricks reminds us, "nothing in tech stays in one place, and the single most valuable skill you can possess to remain employable over time is learning how to learn."

Gutenberg 5.2 was released. It introduces a…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Gutenberg 5.2 was released. It introduces a new block editor module which lets you build block editors outside the post editor and outside "the WordPress Admin context."

Today is International Women’s Day — a…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Business

Today is International Women's Day — a good day for listening to stories by fantastic women. That's something you can always do at HeroPress where Amena Mabrouk is the latest contributor. Amena shares how the WordPress community helped her learn and…

Wordfence has started a new podcast, with…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Wordfence has started a new podcast, with its first episode featuring an interview with Josepha Haden. 🎧 The show also covers recent vulnerabilities in the Freemius library that affect WordPress plugins, the CoinHive shutdown, and the reasons some potential changes to WordPress…

The User Switching plugin from John…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

The User Switching plugin from John Blackbourn is ten years old now, with an active user base of 100,000 sites. John shares some thoughts about what has changed with the plugin over the years. 👥 John says the plugin is "about as…

W3C has approved WebAuthn as the…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Security

W3C has approved WebAuthn as the web standard for "password-free logins", letting "users log into online accounts using biometrics, mobile devices, and/or FIDO security keys." 🔐 It will be interesting to see how this develops and impacts WordPress. Nearly all browsers…

Sarah Drasner points out that “technical…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Sarah Drasner points out that "technical education doesn’t stop once you get a job," but on the contrary, "the single most valuable skill you can possess to remain employable over time is learning how to learn." 🤔📚 Sarah talks about some…

Leonardo Losoviz wrote a great post about…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Leonardo Losoviz wrote a great post about integrating WordPress with Composer, Packagist, and WPackagist to produce better code. Leonardo is the creator of PoP, a framework for building modular websites based on PHP and Handlebars. I've enjoyed his blog lately. 👍

The always enjoyable Jay Hoffmann’s entries on…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

The always enjoyable Jay Hoffmann's entries on The History Of The Web deserves mention again this week with a great little piece on what AJAX stands for and how it came to exist. Asynchronous Javascript and XML (shortened to Ajax) was effectively given…

Brian Jackson shared some data from…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Brian Jackson shared some data from the analysis of 13 billion log entries from thousands of WordPress sites hosted on Kinsta servers. There are a lot of valuable and fascinating takeaways summarized at the end. One surprise: "Windows 98 is…

Carl Alexander’s new book Discover Object-Oriented…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Carl Alexander's new book Discover Object-Oriented Programming Using WordPress is now available. It is both a book and a video course teaching the fundamentals of object-oriented programming (OOP) using WordPress concepts and terminology. 👨‍💻

We’re sad to report that Alex…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

We're sad to report that Alex Mills passed away on Wednesday evening. His loss is felt deeply and widely in the community and to his friends and family. Many people know about Alex from his software, his responsibilities at Automattic on…

The results of a site building…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

The results of a site building study conducted at the end of December were published on Make WordPress. Sarah Semark explains one of the key findings is that "the way WordPress’ theming system works doesn’t match the way people think about building…

If you have ever been curious…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

If you have ever been curious about MODX, then check out Marc Jenkins' post which offers a good introduction to the latest version ("Revo") that's aimed at WordPress developers.

Joost de Valk brings us up…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Joost de Valk brings us up to speed about the things he's been doing since he was appointed Marketing and Communications Lead for WordPress. Quick wins included updating the roadmap page, removing mentions of jQuery and other libraries from the features…

Zac Gordon recently announced the launch…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Zac Gordon recently announced the launch of Gatsby Themes, which is intended to be a home for "popular WordPress themes that have been ported to Gatsby." Twenty Nineteen is one of the first themes ready for use with Gatsby, a static…