WordPress News

If you work with Chrome development…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

If you work with Chrome development tools, then Prashant Palikhe's deep dive into debugging with them will be of interest to you. Prashant shares his best tips and tricks, including some features in devtools that aren't commonly known.

WordPress.com continues to add features, recently…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

WordPress.com continues to add features, recently adding a free stock photo library via with Pexels and "other diversity-focused image-library partners". According to Anne McCarthy, stock-image libraries have historically struggled to represent all experiences. With these new effects using diversity-focused libraries,…

If you are a business owner…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

Business

If you are a business owner — either of a startup or just a small company — I highly recommend watching

The WordPress Foundation is looking for…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

The WordPress Foundation is looking for local community organizers to run introductory open-source workshops in 2018. Financial support is available, "up to $500 USD per event" for "costs associated with event venue, refreshments, and/or videography." Citing a recent study that shows "the…

Smashing Magazine has a nice introduction…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

Smashing Magazine has a nice introduction to the Beacon API, which is a JavaScript-based web API for sending small amounts of data from the browser to the web server without waiting for a response. It's potentially useful for analytics, debugging,…

Congratulations to Torque Magazine for five…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

Congratulations to Torque Magazine for five steady years of publishing in the WordPress community! Here's to another five.

Considerations for eCommerce merchants, with Andrew Youderian of eCommerce Fuel

Brian Krogsgard

August 3, 2018

DraftHosting

In this episode I discuss eCommerce and considerations for eCommerce merchants, with Andrew Youderian of eCommerce Fuel.

WordPress 4.9.8 Release Candidate 2 was…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

WordPress 4.9.8 Release Candidate 2 was released, with a final 4.9.8 release still being planned for on Tuesday July 31st.

Mika Epstein tackles the common concerns many…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

Mika Epstein tackles the common concerns many people have about Gutenberg as its debut in Wordpress 5.0 approaches. Most themes and plugins don't interface with the post editor or custom meta boxes, so they will be fine. For those that do involve the editor…

Starting with the upcoming WordPress 4.9.8…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

Starting with the upcoming WordPress 4.9.8 release, you can now properly register your post metadata with WordPress and the REST API. Felix Arntz shows you how.

Congratulations to Brian Richards and all…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

Congratulations to Brian Richards and all those who supported WordSesh (including sponsors) this past Wednesday. Over 500 people watched the live stream, and it's not too late to get a ticket to get access to see the recordings. All speakers…

Ryan Sullivan, who recently sold his…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

Business

Ryan Sullivan, who recently sold his company WP Site Care, shares his feelings about the way a growing business can potentially interfere with your passion and get you sidetracked from the things that made you start a business in the…

If you know someone just starting…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

If you know someone just starting out in WordPress who has a need for custom post types, John Hughes has written a nice introduction explaining how to set them up with plugins.

Jakub Mikita, the author of several…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

Jakub Mikita, the author of several free and premium plugins, shows off his new WordPress notification plugin at Smashing Magazine. He also shows how you can white-label and bundle it in your own applications.

Version 1.0.0 of the WordPress Coding…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

Version 1.0.0 of the WordPress Coding Standards for PHP_CodeSniffer was recently released, containing important "breaking changes and tons of bug fixes."