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The latest Gutenberg update is out.…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

The latest Gutenberg update is out. In the changelog: block conflicts have been resolved, there is new support for custom fields in block attributes, and crash recovery has been addressed. Omar Reiss brought up Gutenberg while sharing his thoughts on the WordPress…

Jeff Gould has put together a…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Jeff Gould has put together a very nice comparison guide for several local development environment tools. His review spurred a good discussion in the comments. Jeff covers XAMPP, MAMP, Local By FlyWheel, and DesktopServer from ServerPress.

Here are a couple of tweets…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Here are a couple of tweets from Lisa Sabin Wilson I think are worth mentioning here: A lot of conversations about Headless WP lately, as well as WP as a platform, focused on down market competition with Wix and Squarespace,…

If you’re like me, you are…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

If you're like me, you are never eager to work with regular expressions. They can get very complex, very quickly. Next time you feel the urge to run from regex, try Carl Alexander's beginner's guide. This is something you may want to…

If you liked Scott Bolinger’s contribution…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

If you liked Scott Bolinger's contribution in the last Post Status newsletter, you'll also want to read his thoughts about the different ways people think about WordPress outside the echo chamber most of us reside in. After speaking with other…

Justin Tadlock recently updated Get The…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Justin Tadlock recently updated Get The Image, his image/thumbnail plugin for WordPress. The new release adds several nice features. I've been using this plugin for years and couldn't imagine building a custom site without it.

I love this recent reminder from…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

I love this recent reminder from Tom McFarlin of how important it is to have a solid understanding before coding your work. This point rings true: "Understanding the concepts behind what we’re doing is more important than the actual code."

Greg Rickaby covers four basic principles…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Greg Rickaby covers four basic principles to simplify designing for accessibility, which can seem overwhelming at times: (1) If you write semantic HTML, browsers will do a lot of the heavy lifting; (2) Use the "label" tag a lot; (3)…

It’s nice to see some “under-the-hood…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

It's nice to see some "under-the-hood improvements" for Multisite user roles and capabilities are making it into WordPress core.

Justin Foell attempts to answer the…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Justin Foell attempts to answer the question, "What programming language should 'aspiring developers' learn first?" Justin leans toward JavaScript as a possible path, since it's practically everywhere — from browsers to servers to desktop applications. Justin also notes its downsides…

Iain Poulson recently shared a guide…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Iain Poulson recently shared a guide to writing unit tests for developers based on his experience at Delicious Brains. Iain's testing framework of choice is PHPUnit. He covers what to test and how to write tests, with many helpful tips…

Jeff Gould has built WPFBBotKit, a…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Jeff Gould has built WPFBBotKit, a WordPress plugin that provides a way for you to create your own WordPress-backed Messenger bot. The Messenger Platform is a JSON API from Facebook. If you are interested in trying it out, start with…

This mention of “Webmentions” by Drew…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

This mention of "Webmentions" by Drew McLellan caught my attention. Webmention is a W3C Recommendation and similar in concept to Pingbacks. (It also seems adapted to deal with some of Pingback's weaknesses.) I'll admit not hearing about Webmentions until I…

WP Rollback, a plugin that allows…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

WP Rollback, a plugin that allows you to revert any theme or plugin on your site to a previous version, now works with WordPress multisite. It also has some new features in the latest release.

If you’re looking for podcasts about…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Design

If you're looking for podcasts about design and front-end development, then you will appreciate this list from UXcellence.

Brian Cooksey, an engineer at Zapier, provides…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Brian Cooksey, an engineer at Zapier, provides a fine introduction to GraphQL and other Graph API implementations. He also points out that REST APIs aren't going anywhere, and it's nice to know about the pros and cons of other options. There…