Remembering Dean Allen
Dan Knauss
Dean Allen's vision for Textpattern and his code influenced WordPress at a critical time in its development.
With 2018 behind us and the…
Dan Knauss
With 2018 behind us and the new year begun, many people are posting "Year in Review" or "Looking Ahead" reflections. 🎊 It takes some time to think through these surges in the community's collective learning, but it's well worth it.…
Here’s an excellent year-end summary from the WordPress…
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Here's an excellent year-end summary from the WordPress plugin repo review team by Mika Epstein. In 2018, they only approved 52% of all submitted plugins. The single most common reason for this is "people don’t reply to emails." Mika notes there was an…
Emily Freeman posted a valuable article…
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Emily Freeman posted a valuable article about developer relations. It comes in response to influential members of the tech community criticizing developer relations as an illegitimate role. Emily shares her experiences and responsibilities in developer relations at Microsoft, ending with…
WPEngine released the results of its…
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WPEngine released the results of its first global Genesis community survey to which 1,687 people around the world responded. 📊 Some key stats: 54% of those responded lived in the U.S. versus 46% internationally. (88%) of survey respondents own or…
Mel Choyce shared some personal trials and…
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Mel Choyce shared some personal trials and errors on the path to success as a remote worker. Among Mel's tips: experiment with your environment, set boundaries, create intentional transition time, and seek out social opportunities.
Steven Henty recently blogged about code quality…
Dan Knauss
Steven Henty recently blogged about code quality in Gravity Forms, covering past steps and plans for the future. These plans include a focus on accessibility with the help of Rian Rietveld.
Here’s a great podcast episode from Bob…
Dan Knauss
Here's a great podcast episode from Bob Dunn interviewing Devin Walker and Matt Cromwell from GiveWP. They get into some helpful tips and best practices for fundraising campaigns.
Dan Abramov, a Facebook engineer on…
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Dan Abramov, a Facebook engineer on the React team, lists all of the things he does not know. It's great to see a well-known software engineer make it clear you do NOT have to know everything, even in your particular programming…
Pressjitsu announced its Redis Object Cache…
Dan Knauss
Pressjitsu announced its Redis Object Cache for WordPress plugin. It’s open-source, free, and it should be in the official WordPress repository soon.
Ben Robertson walks us through page…
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Ben Robertson walks us through page layouts for users of assistive technology (particularly screen readers)Â that are easy to use, navigate, and read.
John Maeda published his Design in…
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John Maeda published his Design in Tech Report for 2018 with an interactive slide version and a straight text version. John focuses on three concepts: classical design, design thinking, and computational design. One of his "key observations" is "Design isn’t just…
Justin Tadlock wrote a tutorial on whitelist validation…
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Justin Tadlock wrote a tutorial on whitelist validation for WordPress in his last article of 2018. Justin says he "always prefers" whitelist validation "because it’s the safest method for making sure data is what it should be."
A new version of Laps is…
Dan Knauss
A new version of Laps is available. Laps is a "light" WordPress profiler plugin from Andrey Savchenko. It reportedly features better core event coverage, more information with call backtraces and hooked callbacks, as well as headless AJAX and REST API profiling with…
Jeremy Felt has been working on…
Dan Knauss
Jeremy Felt has been working on a select editor template for the Gutenberg editor. One of Jeremy's inspirations was the WP Gutenberg Templates plugin.
Eduards Sizovs urges developers to (generally…
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Eduards Sizovs urges developers to (generally speaking) "stop learning frameworks." 🛑 Instead, "Invest your golden time in transferable skills. Skills that will always be relevant."
