WordPress News

Heather J. Brunner, CEO of WPEngine,…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Heather J. Brunner, CEO of WPEngine, announced on Twitter that "virtual will be the default day-to-day experience across the company." Physical spaces will be upgraded "to accommodate social distancing and to make them WOW spaces that encourage collaboration, innovation, and…

If you’re a PHP developer using…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

If you're a PHP developer using Composer, please be sure to read this new advisory on a potential supply chain attack. ☠️

Allie Nimmons shares four ways you…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Allie Nimmons shares four ways you can be more active in the WordPress community: be intentional, be welcoming, be inquisitive, and be helpful. 💁 Those are good reminders for those of us who have been active for a while too.

Cloudflare announced the beta of Cloudflare…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Cloudflare announced the beta of Cloudflare Images: a "service to store, resize, optimize, and deliver images at scale." Image "variants" are supported along with the ability to automatically serve the most optimized version of the image. Exact pricing is not…

Thanks to Chris Vann Patten in…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Thanks to Chris Vann Patten in Post Status Slack, I learned about the existence of BackupSheep. 🐑 It allows you to schedule backups of FTP/sFTP sites, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases and cloud servers on DigitalOcean, etc. You can bring…

Addy Osmani, an engineering manager working…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Addy Osmani, an engineering manager working on Google Chrome, discusses how you can use HTML image tags to improve Core Web Vitals. There is a ton of information and reading here — perfect if performance is your passion. 💨 Addy…

Joel Califa describes the big benefits…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Joel Califa describes the big benefits of little changes — what he calls "Tiny Wins" — and how you can pursue them to improve your products: "It can turn those same users into promoters, boost your NPS, and lead to…

This tool for frontend developers helps…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

This tool for frontend developers helps you find the perfect values for your fluid heading. Control exactly how a heading scales across different viewport widths. 🛠️

Jay Hoffmann takes us on a…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Jay Hoffmann takes us on a tour of the history of debugging on the web. 🐛

A quick accessibility reminder for developers…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

A quick accessibility reminder for developers from Steve Faulkner: "By using native HTML features, wherever practical, over custom HTML with bolt-on semantics and interaction behaviors, you will save yourselves and users a lot of grief and ensure that your User…

Upcoming Events 📆 New: WPSessions 2021…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Upcoming Events 📆 New: WPSessions 2021 was announced with sessions on May 25 – 27 and workshops from May 28 – June 1. Registration is free. 🆓 WPCampus 2021 Online is a free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress…

CC0 Public Domain Image Search Coming to WordPress

David Bisset

April 30, 2021

PlanetWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg announced this week that CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining the WordPress project.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 8) — Gravity Forms 2.5, CC Coming to WP

David Bisset

April 29, 2021

BusinessPlanet

One of the oldest commercial WordPress Plugins gets a facelift. In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about the recent 2.5 update to Gravity Forms. Cory reflects on the early days of the WordPress…

Hello CC0! Creative Commons Public Domain…

Dan Knauss

April 28, 2021

Hello CC0! Creative Commons Public Domain Image Search Coming to WordPress 📸 Matt Mullenweg announced this week that CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining the WordPress project. Eventually, this will make over 500…

Anne McCarthy covers some improvements to…

Dan Knauss

April 28, 2021

Anne McCarthy covers some improvements to the block toolbar in a variety of contexts, including the Image, Cover, Paragraph, Quote, Video, and Site Logo blocks. ◽🔲

Gravity Forms got a big update…

Dan Knauss

April 28, 2021

Gravity Forms got a big update this week. The top improvements for version 2.5 include a revamped form editor, drag-and-drop column control to more easily manage form layouts, accessibility, and new/improved markup and styles. 🚀 Some plugin companies that integrate…