Chris Wiegman has transferred his Better YOURLs plugin to Aaron Eaton. I know Aaron will do a great job maintaining and improving this useful plugin moving forward.
Justin Foell at WebDevStudios shows off an interesting single sign-on (SSO) method the company uses internally. It's certainly quicker and more convenient than traditional methods.
I agree with Bill Erickson that using Block Templates with Gutenberg is pretty useful. Bill shares some examples and how he's using them with a few of his clients.
If you work with Advanced Custom Fields, then the AwesomeACF site is essential to bookmark. I was reminded of this as I was checking out the new JSON field addition.
While WordPress 5.0 and WordCamp US were consuming the majority of the community's attention, some significant events were unfolding that will have profound and lasting effects on the web. One of these events was a rumor that Microsoft decided to…
WordPress 5.0.1 was released on December 13th. There were a few backwards compatibility breaks in this version, which raised a few eyebrows. 🤨 After those eyebrows rose in the Post Status main channel, Gary Pendergast commented: The timing of security releases…
To no one's surprise, several Gutenberg talks appeared throughout the WCUS conference schedule, especially on Friday. Miina Sikk from XWP spoke that afternoon about extending Gutenberg core blocks in the context of the AMP for WordPress plugin. (The official release…
During his WCUS talk on Saturday morning, "Moving The Web Forward With Wordpress," Morten Rand-Hendriksen stressed that we must truly represent the people affected by WordPress — and because of its 32.5% market share, practically everyone using the web is affected. To…
John Blackbourn gave an excellent lightning talk on Git Bisect. (His slides are here.) Trust me — if you work with Git at all as a developer, the things John has to show you will blow your mind. John also…
Adding to the list of growing Gutenberg blocks, these two are worth a look: Secure Blocks for Gutenberg from Matt Watson is a block plugin that secures content by user role, allowing display of alternative content to logged-out users and…
There is now a dedicated post on Make WordPress written by Mel Choyce about Gutenberg Phase 2, which shows off some screenshots and provides additional details from Matt's State of the Word on Saturday. Gutenberg Phase 2 will be outside post_content,…