WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg followed up on some…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Matt Mullenweg followed up on some "homework" from WordCamp US and restated his thoughts about the WordPress mission to "Democratize Publishing." Joost de Valk has some good thoughts on this as well.

Mark Gavalda at Kinsta released some…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Mark Gavalda at Kinsta released some numbers from their in-depth performance benchmarks to see how different versions of PHP stack up against each other while running WordPress, Drupal, etc. There's a lot to unpack here, but something curious for most…

WordCamp Miami is having its 11th…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

WordCamp Miami is having its 11th event on March 15-17, 2019. Right now they have an open call for speakers.

Is there a science of success? …

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Is there a science of success? In a new book, network scientist Albert-László Barabási argues there are indeed "laws of success." Here they are, following an interview with Barabási. They may have special significance for successful, established software projects: The First…

Dave Loodts started an interesting discussion…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Dave Loodts started an interesting discussion on paid freelance contributors to WordPress, partly in response to the rise in contributors who are employees of WordPress companies. Dave contends that freelance volunteers bring an "honest and neutral" voice to WordPress, and their participation can…

I recently stumbled on Wordmove which…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

I recently stumbled on Wordmove which allows you "automatically mirror local Wordpress installations and database data back and forth from your local development machine to the remote server." According to Francesca Marano, it's the work of Filippo Gangi Dino. I've yet to try it,…

Omar Reiss announced on make.wordpress.org that…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Omar Reiss announced on make.wordpress.org that it's now possible to run WordPress from /src again. For developers working with core PHP, "The biggest advantage of running WordPress from src is that changes in the PHP are immediately reflected on the server…

Check out this MathML block for Gutenberg…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Check out this MathML block for Gutenberg from Adam Silverstein of 10up. As Adam explains, "MathML is a mathematical markup language, an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content." MathJax is used to render…

WordPress 5.0.2 was released on Thursday,…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

WordPress 5.0.2 was released on Thursday, December 20. It delivers bugfixes and performance improvements 💨 in the block editor that "make it 330% faster for a post with 200 blocks." Here's the current schedule for upcoming releases: WordPress 5.0.3 📆 Release Candidate:…

WordPress Coding Standards 1.2.1 has been…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

WordPress Coding Standards 1.2.1 has been released as a maintenance update for use with WordPress 5.0. If you're not familiar with it, WordPressCS uses PHP_CodeSniffer to help developers enforce WordPress coding conventions.

It looks like Felix Arntz is…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

It looks like Felix Arntz is setting up a new, simple, and portable WordPress core development environment based on Lando. I'm looking for others interested in using and improving it.

Brad Williams is offering to review…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Brad Williams is offering to review your theme or plugin if you donate $50 to the Child’s Play Charity. The first plugin to take advantage of Brad's offer is Envira Gallery.

FlyWheel has set up a Local…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

FlyWheel has set up a Local Dev Fund for people (primarily developers) who want to improve their workflow using Local, Flywheel's local development application. Starting in early 2019 and over the following three years, grants between $1,000 and $10,000 will…

Advanced Custom fields 5.7.9 is out.…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Advanced Custom fields 5.7.9 is out. This release comes as an update for both the free and pro plugin. It contains some critical improvements for Gutenberg and WordPress 5.0.

iThemes has a brief interview with…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Hosting

iThemes has a brief interview with Justin Tadlock about web hosting horror stories 😱 and freedom of speech.

Chris Klosowski writes about the progress…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Chris Klosowski writes about the progress of Easy Digital Downloads 3.0, which will include a new Reports View and API, along with an introduction of Webpack to the development process.