Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.
The three focus areas for WordPress core for 2017 have been assigned leads. The focus areas are replacing the WordPress major release cycle, as described in the State of the Word, and expanded on in my interview with Matt Mullenweg.…
Joe Hoyle and I discuss what we'd like to see in WordPress going forward, and take audience Q&A. This session was recorded at Post Status Publish 2016.
The new homepage for WordPress.org is live. It's a working prototype, and I like the way Matt put it on his blog: "What’s on the page today actually isn’t that important, even though it’s better in many ways, the key…
Make WordPress Hosting is the newest Make WordPress sub site. Mike Schroder writes that the purpose of the site is so, "individuals with hosting experience can collaborate on best practices and tools for the WordPress community’s benefit." The site is…
Brad Touesnard gives a more detailed peak at Mergebot, a tool that merges local and live databases together. The tool is in beta (with some openings available) and the screencasts Brad includes look impressive. No doubt this will become a…
Demet Dagdelen published an interesting "brand image analysis" for WordPress and Automattic, based on Twitter interactions. She was attempting to figure who was talking about the two brands and corresponding products. As you would expect from a post at data.blog,…
If you're a front-end specialist, you might appreciate one of several articles I've enjoyed recently: Andrew Coyle covers common mistakes when one is building usable forms and also has a nice post on designing better input fields. Mason Gentry at…
John Jacoby's new podcast -- Commit Access -- has officially launched. Commit Access promises, "intimate conversations with WordPress contributors," and its first episode features Felix Arntz, a relatively new contributor focused on WordPress Multisite. His second episode features Daniel Bachhuber.…
Not all of these are new, but they are new to me. Here are several interesting plugins I've discovered recently: The Mozilla web apps team has released a free plugin called Offline Content that uses the Service Workers API and…
Automattic has published their year in review, which gives a broad look at what happened with the company and the various brands in 2016. The page (which has a nice design, btw) covers Automattic's corporate growth, diversity, and other points…
John James Jacoby has created Publishiza, which is a plugin that allows one to, "compose and publish a Tweetstorm" in WordPress. I personally tried this (David Bisset speaking!) and it does work like a charm. If it stops me from…
If you are looking for videos related to front-end and backend development, as well as creative topics, from outside the WordPress bubble, you may find Pusher's new Sessions series worthwhile.
Here are some of my favorite podcasts you can catch up on this weekend:: Joe Casabona has wrapped up season one of How I Built It. This is one of the more promising new WordPress podcasts, as Joe is a…
Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure WordPress plugins which exposed PHP objects to potential injection on Pagely servers -- and shares how they addressed the issue. There are several interesting takeaways, but I especially liked his note about communicating with…
Here's a position you'll be surprised by: Nick Hamze says WordPress themes are too expensive. You are probably thinking what is Nick smoking, the last time I checked WordPress themes were cheap, like really cheap. True, they don’t cost a…