Post Status Excerpt (No. 14) — Starting Your “Next Chapter” Project
David Bisset
Cory and David talk about building a "career raft" or "next chapter" project and congratulate Ninja Forms on their 10-year anniversary.
Issue #452 “A rising tide doesn’t…
Dan Knauss
Issue #452 “A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.” — Rahul Gandhi
Howdy! Summer has arrived (for those…
Dan Knauss
Howdy! Summer has arrived (for those of us in the northern hemisphere), and it's nice to enjoy a relatively slow week in WordPress news... As we approach the WordPress 5.8 release toward the end of July, be sure to take…
📆 Upcoming Events The first WordCamp…
Dan Knauss
📆 Upcoming Events The first WordCamp in Bolivia is happening now — from June 24-26. 🇧🇴 WordFest Live: WordFest Live is back on July 23 — a 24-hour celebration of all that is WordPress! 🧡 It's free to register.
WordPress 5.8 Beta 3 has been…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.8 Beta 3 has been released for testing. 38 bugs have been fixed so far. 🐛 There are changes that affect the Block Editor and caching, bundled themes, and coding standards. The current target for the final release is…
Starting in WordPress 5.8, Greg Ziółkowski…
Dan Knauss
Starting in WordPress 5.8, Greg Ziółkowski notes the block.json metadata file should be used as the canonical way to register block types. There are many benefits to this move, including (but not limited to) the WordPress Plugins Directory's ability to…
Milana Cap reviews some older default…
Dan Knauss
Milana Cap reviews some older default themes that are receiving some block pattern love in the upcoming WordPress 5.8 release. From the visuals she shares, these patterns add a freshness to old default themes in a way not seen before.
A feature request to allow developers…
Dan Knauss
A feature request to allow developers to modify and extend the Site Health tabs in core has been implemented in WordPress 5.8. This allows developers to add their own interfaces to the Site Health part of the WordPress admin with…
Attention WordPress themers — there is…
Dan Knauss
Attention WordPress themers — there is a call for testing theme.json for Full Site Editing. 🧪 The theme.json file contains settings to enable or disable theme features and set default styles for a website and its blocks. It’s all done…
If you haven’t heard of theme.json…
Dan Knauss
If you haven’t heard of theme.json yet or you don’t know what it does for WordPress themes, then this post from Tammie Lister will inspire you to learn. She notes this is “the first major theme process change to core…
With the Full Site Editing project…
Dan Knauss
With the Full Site Editing project well underway, Ben Dwyer says theme developers need to be thinking about what the future holds for them — and Universal Themes might need to be on that list: “We that know that the…
Kjell Reigstad has pulled together a…
Dan Knauss
Kjell Reigstad has pulled together a handful of suggestions to help folks who are submitting patterns to the pattern directory. Beatriz Fialho, Mel Choyce, and Kjell are going to shift their focus to further refining and tidying up the collection…
Chris Lema lays a pointed finger…
Dan Knauss
Chris Lema lays a pointed finger on what he thinks the future of WordPress will require — we’ll need to eliminate the time it takes to get started, eliminate the complexity of assembling a solution, and eliminate the blame game…
🌟 Featured Partner: Sandhills Development No…
Dan Knauss
🌟 Featured Partner: Sandhills Development No matter what you’re working on with your WordPress website, Sandhills Development has a tool that can help you. Sell digital products with Easy Digital Downloads. Use AffiliateWP as your affiliate marketing solution. Sugar Calendar…
Joe Howard has announced that the…
Dan Knauss
Joe Howard has announced that the WPMRR Community has been soft-launched: "This community is an extension of the WPMRR podcast... But instead of just talking to guests and giving advice about this myself, we can put all our brains together…
Charts Blocks for Gutenberg is a…
Dan Knauss
Charts Blocks for Gutenberg is a plugin for creating interactive charts in blocks. If the demo on the Github page is any indication, this looks like a good way to get a pie chart or bar graph on your site…
