WordPress News

Naming is Hard: Content Types on Learn WordPress

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

Based on a public discussion led by Hugh Lashbrooke, Workshops (5-15 minute instructional videos) are going to be called Tutorials, moving forward while Social Learning Spaces (live and collaborative learning sessions) have become Online Workshops. No change to Courses (long-form…

jQuery in the UK

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Getting rid of jQuery on gov.uk Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK: The main disadvantage of using jQuery is that it has to be included in the page assets, which can slow down how quickly a site loads. GOV.UK's pages…

Atarim and MainWP Partner Up

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

BusinessNotes

Vito Peleg and Dennis Dornon have teamed up to bring MainWP's site management tool inside the Atarim agency dashboard. https://twitter.com/vitopeleg/status/1557395997973684225

LearnDash: Plugin or SaaS?

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

BusinessNotes

I don't think I've ever seen a WordPress plugin priced and marketed this well as both product and service.

Naming is Hard: Social and Schema Images

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

This was a neat post from Joost de Valk back in July where he did some thinking out loud about the challenges of naming in Schema.org image standards to distinguish between featured and poster images on social networks: I’ve been…

Blogging with a Newsletter

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DesignDevelopment

It shouldn't be this complicated... Nice end result though, by using "a potent combination of MDX and MJML." Josh Comeau explains his workflow from Markdown to static site publishing and an email newsletter. It's a complex arrangement, but doing it…

Member Spotlight: Jonathan Bossenger

Michelle Frechette

August 30, 2022

Member SpotlightsWordPress News

As a WordPress Code Instructor Jonathan Bossenger gets to work with the Training team and the WordPress community in creating technical educational content for Learn WordPress.

WP.org outage notice gets written into plugin user’s salt keys

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

On August 8, wordpress.org was down for a few hours after a Chicago data center outage. During the outage, a user of a password security plugin reported it replaced salt keys with an outage notice, leading to a WSOD on a customer's site.

Two Tools: Better Presentations from iA and Super Fast Collaborative Code Editing with Zed

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DesignDevelopment

iA is developing a Markdown-based, radically simplified presentation app (called Presenter) that helps you tell stories effectively. Zed is the spiritual successor to Atom — and focused on fast, collaborative editing. You can get it at GitHub.

The fastest (headless) WooCommerce on earth…

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

So they say. Specifically, David Mainayar said in Woo Weekly #399 that it's the fastest he's seen, and I imagine he's seen a lot.

Blueprint This: A WooCommerce Private Store

Dan Knauss

August 29, 2022

NotesWooCommerce

This is a great explainer from Cozmos Labs for setting up WooCommerce as a private/walled garden store. Why do that? I'll tell you why! It should be a 1-click install blueprint too.

Advanced Phone Fields for Gravity Forms

Dan Knauss

August 29, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

Phone number fields in Gravity Forms can be tough. You may have resorted to building your own custom fields and doing some coding to accommodate numbers outside the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) — or even within it. You may…

James Koster shares some designs to help full site editing feel “more like a design tool”

Dan Knauss

August 29, 2022

DesignNotes

James Koster has been posting some really nice design experiments for the full site editor interface. A key goal is to make the user experience less jarring: instead of dropping [users] directly in edit mode, we might instead present their…

Shiny New Releases

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

Gravity Forms 7.1 Beta 1 • the SpinupWP community • Dollie 2.0 • rtCamp's Easy Engine now with full custom Docker-Compose support • Metorik • Iconic • Do the Woo • Simple Ajax Chat Pro

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 22

Daniel Schutzsmith

August 26, 2022

BusinessDesign

DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways • Stop saying "Gutenberg!" • Build Mode Live with Brian Gardner and Sam Munoz • One week left to submit a style variation for TT3 • Cool Tool of the Week: Munir Kamal's Editor Plus

Post Status Picks for the Week of August 22

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

How to hire or build a diverse team with @Piccia and @UnderRepdInTech • @BobWP on FftF • @heyadamsilver reviews @ForumWP on @kitchensinkwp • @MasterWP on burnout and breaks w/ @Ny_the_Creator • The All Star FSE Outreach Team has a Hallway Hangout on block theming • @TheWPMinute with all the news in 3 minutes and 46 seconds.