WordPress News

Trey Huffine has a nice recap…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Trey Huffine has a nice recap of some of the most important frontend news of 2018. React, jQuery, Angular, and Vue round out the top four downloads for popular frontend modules. React continues to dominate by this measure. 📊

Automattic has announced Newspack by WordPress.com,…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Automattic has announced Newspack by WordPress.com, describing it as a "next-generation publishing platform" that's "aimed at small- and medium-sized news organizations." The main site is accepting applications for charter participants, who will receive free service until January 2020. Beyond that…

The newly formed WordPress Governance Project had…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

The newly formed WordPress Governance Project had its first meeting on January 15, 2019, in the WordPress Governance Project Slack channel. The minutes for this meeting can be found at WPgovernance.org. The next meeting takes place on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, at 1600…

Brad Touesnard, founder of Delicious Brains…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Business

Brad Touesnard, founder of Delicious Brains Inc., recaps 2018 with an eye to his company's goals, business practices, and products. It was a busy year apparently and, in Brad's assessment, their most productive.

Alexis Lloyd at ThemeShaper considers Gutenberg’s blocks, templates,…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Alexis Lloyd at ThemeShaper considers Gutenberg's blocks, templates, and styles as a unified architecture that must change the previous conception and definition of a WordPress theme. Alexis writes: Perhaps a theme is simply a JSON wrapper that defines the components of that…

Nathan Rice talks about Gutenberg and…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Nathan Rice talks about Gutenberg and front-end performance - particularly if a page isn’t using a particular block, the block plugin will still likely load the CSS for that block.

Advanced Custom Fields version 5.7.10 is…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Advanced Custom Fields version 5.7.10 is out. This marks the beginning of its 2019 mission to "improve deeply," starting with the underlying PHP codebase.

Find Shortcodes is a small utility…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Find Shortcodes is a small utility for searching WordPress posts for a given shortcode. This comes in handy when you change or quit using a shortcode. That's a situation Gutenberg is likely to be making much more common now.

Some prominent sites have moved to…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Some prominent sites have moved to WordPress recently. 🧳 Basecamp's popular blog Signal v Noise switched to WordPress from Medium, noting that "three years ago [Medium] was a wonderful place and community for our kind of writing." David Heinemeier Hansson says…

Matt Mullenweg participated in a TED…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Matt Mullenweg participated in a TED video series The Way We Work, where he made the case that distributed work is where all work is headed. Matt was also on a recent podcast with Jeffrey Zeldman, founder of Happy Cog. Their…

🎓 The WPCampus Online 2019 conference is only…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

🎓 The WPCampus Online 2019 conference is only two weeks away! Check out their lineup of speakers and topics, and consider volunteering to support this free conference focused on WordPress, higher education, and accessibility. The regular WPCampus conference will be happening later this year at a…

If you are looking for some…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

If you are looking for some great audio to listen to, check the latest OSTraining podcast episode where Steve Burge interviews Josh Strebel about Pagely's new NorthStack project.

Drupal turned 18 this week.

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Drupal turned 18 this week.

GoDaddy has been inserting JavaScript into some…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

GoDaddy has been inserting JavaScript into some websites for the purpose of "collecting metrics to improve performance." 😱 Someone reverse engineered the script — an impressive feat worth reading about just for how that was done — and it turns out the script…