WordPress News

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…

Michelle Schulp has launched a spirited…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Michelle Schulp has launched a spirited new blog dedicated to the challenge of freelancing and trying to stay healthy: "This blog is a story of that constant journey: a little creativity, a dash of rebelliousness, and a ton of not…

Jetpack 7.0, released in early February, introduces…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Jetpack 7.0, released in early February, introduces a new GIF Block to help you quickly search and add GIFs from Giphy to your posts.

Igor Benić has a handy list…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Igor Benić has a handy list of podcasts that WordPress developers should listen to — and yes Post Status Draft is on the list! 🎧 Igor also has a post going into detail about the Gutenberg Component Modal and the options it…

Bob Dunn has a helpful guide…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Bob Dunn has a helpful guide to selling eBooks on your WordPress site using Easy Digital Downloads. Bob gets into sales tactics you've got to think through if you're getting started with eBook sales. He stresses the importance of free downloads,…

Hussain Thajutheen has shared a WordPress auth…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Hussain Thajutheen has shared a WordPress auth app he built with React and WordPress JWT. Hussain bootstrapped this project with Create React App.

“Identifying the Stakeholders of WordPress” is…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

"Identifying the Stakeholders of WordPress" is a thoughtful document produced by the WordPress Governance Project that takes on "the task of identifying the personas making up the WordPress user base." 👥 Morten Rand-Hendriksen explains the thinking behind the equation of "users"…

WP-CLI’s PHP Requirements Strategy, for the…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

WP-CLI's PHP Requirements Strategy, for the time being, will be to maintain backward compatibility for at least a year "whenever WordPress Core raises the PHP minimum version requirement past WP-CLI."

Leonardo Losoviz writes about new PHP…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Leonardo Losoviz writes about new PHP 5.x and 7.x features that will soon be available to WordPress developers. WordPress's minimum PHP requirement is planned to be raised to version 5.6 in April 2019 and 7.0 by December 2019.

Pressnomics 6 has been announced and is scheduled…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Pressnomics 6 has been announced and is scheduled to take place on September 11-13, 2019. Tickets are on sale now. 🎟️

Aaron Jorbin shares his thoughts about the…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Aaron Jorbin shares his thoughts about the beta version of the WordPress iOS mobile app that integrates with Gutenberg now: "The responsiveness of the editor is amazing, and the ability to move blocks up and down makes editing inside the mobile…

Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

BusinessPlanet

You may know Peter Suhm as the man behind WP Pusher, a plugin that lets you securely deploy your plugins and themes directly from GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab to any WordPress site on any type of hosting.

WordPress 5.1 “Betty” was released yesterday with…

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

WordPress 5.1 "Betty" was released yesterday with many new features and enhancements. First and foremost are WordPress’s first Site Health features, significant performance improvements (especially in the editor), and numerous developer features. Developers, make sure you check out the field guide. 📕…

BuddyPress 4.2.0 is out. This important…

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

Security

BuddyPress 4.2.0 is out. This important maintenance and security release addresses a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in addition to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Michelle Schulp is leading an iThemes training…

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

Design

Michelle Schulp is leading an iThemes training webinar, "How To Speak Unicorn!" 🦄 If you want to learn more about design terminology and design thinking, check in with Michelle on March 7th.

Jeffrey Zeldman announced on Twitter that…

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

Jeffrey Zeldman announced on Twitter that he is now the Creative Director of "a Special Projects team" at Automattic. (And yes, he's doing the initial support rotation that all Automattic employees do when they are hired.)