WordPress News

Code in PHP long enough and…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Code in PHP long enough and you’ll want to keep credentials and configuration values accessible to your code. It’s bad to have these "secret values" actually embedded in your code, so Chris Cornutt explores some ways to cope — with…

Cami Kaos covers some common questions…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

WordPress Community

Cami Kaos covers some common questions involving the Code of Conduct that is associated with the WordPress Community Team — in particular, what happens if someone "does something wrong" — and if the problem is not resolved? 🤔 Cami says…

Video Picks 📺 Here is my video…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Video Picks 📺 Here is my video pick for the week: Running WordPress on AWS Lightsail: Jerry Hargrove demonstrates at a recent WordPress New York Meetup

Carefully crafted for you by humans.…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Carefully crafted for you by humans. — #452 —

Issue #451 “Try a thing you…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Issue #451 “Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.” —Virgil…

👉 Post Status Club Members:…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

👉 Post Status Club Members: Please take our Annual Member Survey! 🙏

Automattic acquires Day One Automattic has…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Design

Automattic acquires Day One Automattic has acquired Day One, a free journaling app that has won multiple Apple design awards and is available for most major devices, systems, and browsers. According to Paul Mayne, founder and CEO, work on the…

Extendify acquires EditorsKit Another acquisition was…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Extendify acquires EditorsKit Another acquisition was announced this week: Extendify is adopting Jeffrey Carandang‘s EditorsKit plugin. EditorsKit provides a set of advanced typographical tools for the WordPress block editor. 🧰 As a “first step,” Extendify has made the EditorsKit Typography…

FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Hosting

FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex Denning and Iain Poulson have officially launched FlipWP, which is being labeled as a “new private acquisition marketplace for WordPress.” 💸 Iain, fresh from his sale of Plugin Rank to Awesome Motive, notes in…

WordPress 5.8 Beta 2 is now…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

WordPress 5.8 Beta 2 is now available for testing, and the current target for the final release is July 20, 2021. 📅 🐛 26 bugs have been fixed since the previous beta.

Third Time’s the Charm Chris Lema…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Third Time's the Charm Chris Lema shares why he’s fully committed to Gutenberg now. First and foremost, the answer is “speed.” 🐎 But it’s also “the way page builders allow you to do all the magic they do” without any…

📆 Upcoming Events Gutenberg Times Live…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

📆 Upcoming Events Gutenberg Times Live Q & A — Theme.json for Theme Authors: Learn how to get started with building themes for Full-site editing. Join Daisy Olson, Tammie Lister, and Jeff Ong to learn more about the theme.json file…

Rich Tabor asks on Twitter, “What…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Rich Tabor asks on Twitter, “What do you need Gutenberg to do, to enable you further?” There’s a variety of interesting and well-thought-out responses in the replies that followed. 🐦

Riad Benguella explains one of the…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Riad Benguella explains one of the Full Site Editing tools being introduced in WordPress 5.8 — the template editor. This allows you to create, assign, and edit block templates for specific posts and pages. ✨ The templates are saved as…

Chris Coyier wonders where headless WordPress…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Chris Coyier wonders where headless WordPress will land. 🛬 After acknowledging some of the benefits and how different groups are approaching it, he reaches this conclusion: “There’s just a heck of a lot more WordPress site owners who aren’t developers…

Alex Barashkov explains on Twitter that…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Alex Barashkov explains on Twitter that you can connect your Gutenberg blocks to React components with Gatsby and “get crazy flexibility in terms of content editing driven by CMS.”