WordPress News

Automattic has put up a new…

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2018

Automattic has put up a new blog devoted to privacy found at — you guessed it — privacy.blog. Right now most of the new site is devoted to explaining their commitment to GDPR Compliance, but stay tuned for updates about Automattic's "plans…

Syed Balkhi and Awesome Motive have…

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2018

Business

Syed Balkhi and Awesome Motive have acquired Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress, which according to Syed is the second most popular analytics plugin in the WordPress.org repository. Its new name is ExactMetrics. The move fits within the goals of Awesome…

Fred Meyer did a thorough comparison…

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2018

Fred Meyer did a thorough comparison of several WordPress page builders, including Beaver Builder, Divi Builder, WPBakery Page Builder, and Elementor. He comes away with a strong case for his top pick and runner-up while pointing out some strengths the…

Nazar Lialka over at premmerce.com reviews…

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2018

Nazar Lialka over at premmerce.com reviews the results of performance tests for a demo WooCommerce store on their service that has over 500,000 products and 100 categories.

This week Medium suddenly pulled a…

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2018

This week Medium suddenly pulled a feature that allowed publishers to operate paywalls on its platform. This is another reminder not to put control of your content and revenue stream in the hands of a third party.

Here’s an impressive new service from Pantheon for…

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2018

Here's an impressive new service from Pantheon for "trainers and educators." Pantheon will spin up websites for your students "for free with no expiration date." Sites can be "vanilla" WordPress (or Drupal), or they can be cloned from a pre-built site. This could…

Peter Wilson, a front-end developer from…

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2018

Peter Wilson, a front-end developer from Human Made, talks about some modifications to WordPress for an enterprise client, Fairfax Media. The WordPress edit screen was rebuilt to improve the default editing experience, and standard metaboxes were replaced with custom-built CMB2 metaboxes, mainly…

An interview with Zach Tirrell, Director of Product at Modern Tribe

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

DesignWordPress News

Modern Tribe takes event calendars into the cloud with Loxi, their first SaaS offering. Learn all about it from Zach Tirrell, their director of product.

WordPress 4.9.6 Beta is now available,…

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

WordPress 4.9.6 Beta is now available, with 10 bug fixes and 34 enhancements and feature requests. Of particular interest are the additions and changes related to privacy, which were motivated by the GDPR deadline later this month. Developers should start…

Rich Tabor shows how to add…

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

Rich Tabor shows how to add WordPress theme styles to Gutenberg. To work well with Gutenberg, some themes might require minor tweaks while others might require a more extensive remodelling. If you're a theme developer, this is worth a read.…

Carl Alexander has written an in-depth…

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

Carl Alexander has written an in-depth guide for developers who are getting started with continuous integration in their WordPress development. Continuous integration is especially important if you're part of a team or have others updating your codebase — you will definitely want…

Hookster is a new tool from…

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

Hookster is a new tool from Jason Bobich that automatically extracts data about the actions and filters of your WordPress theme or plugin. This is a huge time-saver when you are creating documentation for developers.

There’s no shortage of tutorials about…

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

There's no shortage of tutorials about coding WordPress plugins, but this post from Matt Shaw is a bit different. Matt focuses on the research, reviewing, and testing side of plugin development — critical planning steps that should precede the actual code…

A recent amendment to the WordPress…

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

A recent amendment to the WordPress plugin guidelines states a plugin cannot imply that it "can create, provide, automate, or guarantee legal compliance." Mika Epstein explains this change in detail at Make WordPress. There is also a new page on compliance disclaimers in…

BuddyPress will soon hit a major…

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

BuddyPress will soon hit a major milestone — version 3.0, with Beta 2 recently released. I am particularly excited about its new template framework, which makes it easier for developers to create new template packs.

Good ‘ol Tom McFarlin has written…

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

Good 'ol Tom McFarlin has written a WordPress Developer's Guide to MySql data reconstruction. Tom goes into MySQL database organization at the file system level and reviews the differences between MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines.