WordPress News

If you’re looking for a quick…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2018

If you're looking for a quick roundup of what's happening in various WordPress teams, Josepha Haden has compiled a summary in the Make WordPress quarterly team report -- a report I like very much.

Why the makers of Ninja Forms are getting into eCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2018

BusinessDraft

In this episode, I talk with James and Kevin -- cofounders of the Ninja Forms product -- to discuss why their next leg of their business is in the competitive landscape of eCommerce.

The release of Gutenberg 3.2 brings with…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

The release of Gutenberg 3.2 brings with it a number of bug fixes and enhancements. Among the improvements are APIs for inline images and inline blocks, the ability to convert columns to parent/child blocks, the ability to register new block categories,…

The Block Unit Test plugin is…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

The Block Unit Test plugin is a development tool to help theme developers prepare for Gutenberg. It will create a single page with all the core blocks present in all their variations.

It’s funny to me seeing how…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

It's funny to me seeing how WordPress often wants to mirror functionality of other platforms, and sometimes you see other platforms wanting to mirror WordPress. Gabor Javorsky started an interesting discussion in Slack around a Laravel project to add filter…

Mike Hemberger shows how you can…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

Mike Hemberger shows how you can build a custom post type filter (by custom taxonomy) in the WordPress admin.

Here’s an interesting tool from Peter…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

Here's an interesting tool from Peter Booker: wpdirectory.net allows you to regex search "all code in the WordPress Plugins directory," and he hopes to add the themes directory at some point in the future. Peter is looking for public testers.

LiquidWeb has a plugin that improves WooCommerce…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

LiquidWeb has a plugin that improves WooCommerce performance by introducing a custom table to hold all of the most common order information in a single, properly-indexed location.

Alain Schlesser is currently working on…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

Alain Schlesser is currently working on a project that detects when the "white screen of death" (WSOD) is being triggered by a parse error in a plugin. When this happens, the offending plugin will not be loaded on the login…

The BBC News has transitioned to HTTPS,…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

Security

The BBC News has transitioned to HTTPS, as everyone should. James Donohue, a software engineer working with a team on the transition, briefly explains the problems that needed to be addressed and why security is so important to journalism: "In a…

Speaking of the BBC News, Chris Ashton,…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

Business

Speaking of the BBC News, Chris Ashton, a senior developer, documents his experience of using the internet with nothing but a keyboard. Many designers and developers are taught to make sure their work is accessible through the keyboard and nothing else, so…

C. Titus Brown writes about his…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

C. Titus Brown writes about his thoughts on open source software — examining the different groups that make up open source projects and asking if there should be more attention paid to sustainability and "extractive" contributors. This article is meant to…

The locations for the WordCamp Incubator…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

The locations for the WordCamp Incubator Program for 2018 have been announced, and the Montevideo (Uruguay) and Kinabalu (Malaysia) communities were selected. Each will start a regular monthly WordPress meetup group, and then they will work on finding a venue,…

Working on your own website — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

July 9, 2018

BusinessDraft

In this episode, the Brians discuss the challenges of working on your own business website, when your company offers services or makes products for websites.

4.9.7 Security Release

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Security

WordPress 4.9.7 is a security release that fixes 17 bugs in WordPress, as announced by Aaron Campbell. The release caused some confusion from a naming perspective, as blog posts had been written scheduling 4.9.7, which are now bumped to 4.9.8…