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10up recently posted the results of usability…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

10up recently posted the results of usability tests they performed for Gutenberg (version 2.9.2). The tests, which were pretty extensive, involved professional writers writing a simple story. Their actions and comments during the process were monitored. The test results cover positive…

Also from 10up, they have created a lightweight…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Also from 10up, they have created a lightweight podcasting plugin called Simple Podcasting that includes beta support for Gutenberg. As Helen Hou-Sandí mentions, the Gutenberg experience is "the superior way" to use the plugin and serves as an example of the benefits offered…

Over at the Easy Digital Downloads…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Security

Over at the Easy Digital Downloads blog, Mandy Jones explains how to create customer confidence for digital products in an era of hackers, fraud, and online theft. Mandy stresses how transparency means honesty and stressing how your customers' information is readily…

Fred Meyer shows how developers can…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Fred Meyer shows how developers can use Iris, WordPress's built-in colorpicker. Fred also shows how to use Iris on the front end of your website when custom colorpicker functionality is needed.

Appressor has announced a new feature: custom…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Appressor has announced a new feature: custom components that "are like shortcodes for your app." You can drop in your shortcodes and create complex custom app layouts rather easily now. Scott Bolinger goes into how it works.

If you want to use Ninja…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

If you want to use Ninja Forms to create custom forms for your sites, then this hour-long course (broken up into 18 parts) from WP101 might be worth your time.

Here’s a reminder that the annual WP…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Here's a reminder that the annual WP Campus conference is happening next month in St. Louis on July 12-14. If you won't be able to make it there, the main tracks will be live streamed.

The Rolling Stones’ website has been redesigned and…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

The Rolling Stones' website has been redesigned and relaunched, now running on WordPress VIP. The site looks great and runs smoothly. Congrats to Aaron Jorbin and the rest of the team that made this possible.

Andrew Staffell, director and developer at…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Andrew Staffell, director and developer at Yes We Work, discusses how WordPress plugins were developed to improve collaborative editing and editorial accountability for citizen journalism at WikiTribune. The open-sourced plugins (Fabrica Collaborative Editing and Fabrica Pending Revisions) allow multiple users…

Eventy is a Laravel package by…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Eventy is a Laravel package by Tor Morten Jensen that brings WordPress-style actions and filters to your Laravel app.

Pagely has introduced PressThumb, a solution…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Hosting

Pagely has introduced PressThumb, a solution for image optimization and on-the-fly thumbnail generation. It is powered by Thumbor and integrated with Pagely’s hosting stack using a combination of custom NGINX rules and an MU plugin.

General Ann Dunwoody has joined Automattic’s…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

General Ann Dunwoody has joined Automattic's Board, the first addition in 13 years. Matt Mullenweg has an interview of General Dunwoody on his blog. This seems like a great fit for both parties.

Felix Arntz has been working on…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

Felix Arntz has been working on a way to force plugins to be loaded as MU plugins but keep their automatic update functionality.

The first ever WP-CLI Hack Day…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

The first ever WP-CLI Hack Day is happening on Friday, July 20th. The goal is to finish the day with 20 pull requests that have been merged during the event. If WordPress and the command line are your passions, then…

I missed this last month, but…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2018

I missed this last month, but the team at Modern Tribe is building an in-depth integration with BigCommerce. I intend to dig more into this, but you should be aware of the effort. BigCommerce isn't in the top three eCommerce…