WordPress News

Congratulations to my friend Cory Miller…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Congratulations to my friend Cory Miller on a long and successful journey with iThemes. He's leaving Liquid Web to pave his own road again. Matt Danner is taking over the ship for iThemes -- a worthy captain.

Seasonal Affective Reflections

David Bisset

January 11, 2019

2018 was one of the most exciting years in the history of WordPress for me, but at the same time, it was very stressful and emotionally draining for more than a few people in the community. Two of the most…

WordPress 5.0.3 was released. It’s mainly…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

WordPress 5.0.3 was released. It's mainly a maintenance release that includes 37 bug fixes and seven performance updates, with a focus on fine-tuning the new block editor and fixing any significant bugs or regressions.

The newly formed WordPress Governance Project, provisionally…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

The newly formed WordPress Governance Project, provisionally led by Morten Rand-Hendriksen and Rachel Cherry, will host its first meeting on January 15, 2019, with a one-hour meeting in The WordPress Governance Project Slack channel. It should be interesting to see how…

Elementor has acquired Layers, the WordPress…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

Elementor has acquired Layers, the WordPress theme company launched in 2014 by David and Marc Perel with over 375,000 downloads worldwide as of 2019. Elementor is releasing all Layers themes for free on the Layers site. Ben Pines, CMO for…

Brian Jackson explains how to set up…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

Brian Jackson explains how to set up and do A/B tests with Google Optimize in WordPress.

Tom McFarlin recently crafted a plugin…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

Tom McFarlin recently crafted a plugin that "is targeted primarily for developers to make it easier to display tags without any links associated with them."

Ryan McCue explains how WordPress knows…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

Ryan McCue explains how WordPress knows what page you're on and steps through the sequence of events that turns your request into a query.

Mel Choyce has a roundup of…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

Mel Choyce has a roundup of Gutenberg Phase 2 concepts for navigation blocks.

This interview with Dr. Sherry Walling on…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

This interview with Dr. Sherry Walling on stress and burnout is very informative, with lots of good, practical advice. One example: "If you want to avoid burnout, you have to learn to be a good boss to yourself." Dr. Wallling goes…

Caillie West has a nice listing…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

Caillie West has a nice listing of JavaScript, PHP, and WordPress conferences you might want to keep on your radar.

The Next Web broke a GitHub…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

The Next Web broke a GitHub news embargo by accident when they announced Github's unlimited free private repos. The author of this story, Matthew Hughes, vented on Twitter that it was WordPress's fault for immediately publishing his post because it was…

WP Storybook looks like a good…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

WP Storybook looks like a good way to explore Gutenberg components. You can search and view them in different states and even test them on different viewports.

Bill Erickson has a nice list…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

Bill Erickson has a nice list of recommended plugins for forms, galleries, sliders, and libraries that have Gutenberg blocks. It's impressive to see more of these come to light after the ones Matt mentioned his State of the Word at…

Iain Poulson questions whether blog comments…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

Iain Poulson questions whether blog comments are truly dead and asks what options exist for those who still want to allow comments.

Greg Wilson’s video on “What We…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

Greg Wilson's video on "What We Actually Know About Software Development" is pretty fascinating. Greg ends up with some soli data-based rules of thumb that seem to apply whenever you measure variations in performance over a sample of programmers: Count on…