WP-dev-lib (WordPress Development Library) from XWP has reached its v1.0.0 release. These are tools used "to facilitate the development and testing of WordPress themes and plugins," which XWP has made available to the public.
The official WordPress roadmap page has been updated. It's a very broad statement of Matt Mullenweg's 9 priorities and currently planned releases. It only goes to 5.2, which it says will be released sometime in 2019. 🗺️
BuddyPress developers will be interested in this BuddyPress User Profile Completion plugin that allows admins to decide what a complete profile means and then enforce it for all users.
Deborah Edwards-Onoro shares lessons learned from 12+ years of organizing meetup events. If you are running a meetup or want to run one, dedicate some time to Deborah's experience.
After being appointed Executive Director of WordPress, Josepha Haden posted a personal introduction and asked for feedback on the main strengths and weaknesses of core contributors. Joost de Valk also wrote about his new position as Marketing & Communications Lead.
Aaron Douglas relates some helpful tips about making the most of video calls. I tend to avoid them, but if I do find myself in a video conference, Aaron is right: make sure you make eye contact. Handwritten notes are an…
Congrats to Marieke van de Rakt who is the new CEO of Yoast! Marieke is the founder of Yoast Academy as well as the former Chief Strategy Officer at Yoast. In this new role, Marieke is replacing Yoast founder Joost…
Ernst-Jan Pfauth is co-founder and CEO of The Correspondent, which is launching this year as an English language spinoff of the Dutch news site De Correspondent.
📅 Gary Pendergast posted the latest update for the WordPress 5.1 release schedule: Beta 2: January 21, 2019 Beta 3: January 29, 2019 Release Candidate 1: February 7, 2019 Final Release: February 21, 2019 WordPress 5.1 is going to start showing notices…
An improved Site Health Check plugin should be ready for WordPress 5.2, and there is a need for designers to help out, especially with some UX questions. This useful plugin displays all the relevant technical information about a WordPress installation and…
Matt Mullenweg announced two new roles in the WordPress project this week: Josepha Haden will assume the role of "Executive Director." Josepha will "oversee and direct all contributor teams in their work to build and maintain WordPress." Joost de Valk…
📅 David Vogelpohl announced Genesis 2.8 will be released on January 16th. Among other things, it will include a new onboarding feature theme that authors can use to define which demo content is loaded when a user installs a new…
Jonathan Desrosiers provides some followup after a discussion about a recent Trac bulk edit. The bulk ticket edit affected approximately 2,300 tickets spanning all components that had not been modified in at least two years. The bulk action set all…