WordPress News

Brad Touesnard at Delicious Brains announced the…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

Brad Touesnard at Delicious Brains announced the release of the WP Offload SES plugin, which helps you offload your site emails to Amazon SES. As Brad explains, with SMTP you may hit rate limits your site sents out a lot of…

BigCommerce for WordPress 1.4 is out…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

BigCommerce for WordPress 1.4 is out with an AJAX cart, an import batch setting, and a few other new features.

WP-dev-lib (WordPress Development Library) from XWP…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

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.…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

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…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 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…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

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.

Here’s a nice post from Zach…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

Here's a nice post from Zach Owen explaining how to find the right hook or filter for the task you're trying to do.

After being appointed Executive Director of WordPress,…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

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…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

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…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

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…

An Interview with Ernst-Jan Pfauth of De Correspondent

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2019

DesignPlanet

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…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

📅 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…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

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…

WordPress Coding Standards has reached a…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

WordPress Coding Standards has reached a milestone version (2.0.0), and for developers, it's worth a look.

Matt Mullenweg announced two new roles…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

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…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

📅 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…