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Let’s Encrypt has issued over 380…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Let's Encrypt has issued over 380 million HTTPS certificates, making it the largest certificate issuer in the world. 75% of all Firefox traffic is HTTPS thanks in part to Let’s Encrypt. That's up from about 38% when Let's Encrypt first…

Here’s something I stumbled across on…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Here's something I stumbled across on Twitter recently: a free background removal service for images. Remove.bg has its own API, currently in a closed beta. It's not perfect, but it does a fairly decent job with the pictures I used to…

Eric Karkovack explains what WordPress 5.0…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Eric Karkovack explains what WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg taught him about stress: [T]here is a line between involvement and unhealthy obsession. [...] I'm still going to pay close attention to the latest happenings in the world of WordPress. But I’m…

Plesk is releasing a series of…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Plesk is releasing a series of short interviews from WordCamp US, including

Alex Mustin shows off a video…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Alex Mustin shows off a video about setting up a Gutenberg homepage in 30 seconds with a new "onboarding" feature in the upcoming Genesis version 2.8 release.

Some noteworthy WordCamp US summaries have…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Some noteworthy WordCamp US summaries have surfaced over the past week: "Reminder Of A Great Community" — Joe Casabona Laura Coronado gets some collective thoughts from the WebDevStudios team. Drew Gorton explains how Pantheon took value from WordCamp US 2018.

We’ll fix it later

David Bisset

December 21, 2018

WordPress News

"[W]e all need help getting comfortable with the uncertainty of building software," muses Matthew Ström. To that end, Matthew offers these thoughts about finding the balance between the ideal of shipping beautiful code and the deadlines we actually have to meet. He…

Give 2.3.1 now has Gutenberg Blocks,…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

Give 2.3.1 now has Gutenberg Blocks, so make sure to upgrade the plugin to see them in the new editor.

The next WordCamp US dates have…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

The next WordCamp US dates have been announced: November 1-3, 2019. A few people have expressed some concern that these dates come right after Halloween in the US, but it's great to see the event a little earlier in the…

Kevin Ohashi at Review Signal did a…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi at Review Signal did a deep analysis of its 2018 data that goes well beyond simple load testing at many WordPress hosts. The goal of this new analysis was to determine whether paying a higher price for hosting buys…

Jamie Marsland shares a few tricks…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

Jamie Marsland shares a few tricks and CSS tweaks to customize the Twenty-Nineteen theme.

After the recent announcement that the…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

After the recent announcement that the minimum PHP version requirements will rise to 5.6 in 2019, Justin Tadlock wrote an excellent introduction to PHP Namespaces for developers.

Mel Choyce explains how to design…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

Design

Mel Choyce explains how to design a Gutenberg block for restaurant menus. Mel provides a Sketch file, and if you want to use the design to build a restaurant block, give Mel credit and a link in your plugin readme.txt.

Alain Schlesser mentioned on Twitter that the…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

Alain Schlesser mentioned on Twitter that the "components of the Servehappy project, including the Whitescreen-of-death protection," will be included in the upcoming WordPress 5.1 release.

David Gwyer has put together a…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

David Gwyer has put together a boilerplate WordPress plugin that implements a "simple React app" in the admin and front end. Interesting and worth checking out.