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GoDaddy shared some new data from…

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Dan Knauss

GoDaddy shared some new data from survey results released back in February. I thought this was interesting considering their audience of designers and developers that may not be as deeply connected to the WordPress community as some folks reading this…

If you’re a developer who has…

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Dan Knauss

If you're a developer who has heard of Xdebug but hasn't given it a try yet, Ian Poulson might convince you to give it a shot. By the way, Derick Rethans is the sole developer of Xdebug, and he relies…

Upcoming Events 📆 New: WPCampus 2021…

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Dan Knauss

Upcoming Events 📆 New: WPCampus 2021 Online, a free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education, is happening September 21-22. There is a call for speakers. New: The WordCamp Japan 2021 schedule is available, and the event…

Héctor Prieto shares the next steps…

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Héctor Prieto shares the next steps on Full Site Editing (FSE) now that the "go" was given last week. One of the targets for WordPress 5.8 is to make it possible for end-users "to create custom block templates for posts…

On the morning of April 19th…

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On the morning of April 19th (Monday) Automattic released a new plugin called Jetpack Boost on the WordPress.org repo. The plugin is focused on performance and SEO issues users might have with their sites. 🚀 Boost has three "performance modules:"…

After discussing it with several contributors,…

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After discussing it with several contributors, the decision has been made to officially remove IE11 support in WordPress 5.8. The removal will be done in two phases: WordPress 5.8 (among other changes) will effectively remove IE11 support in the block…

Earlier this week there was a…

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Earlier this week there was a proposal submitted by Carike on WordPress.org to treat Google's cookie replacement — Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) — as a "security concern" and add a method in WordPress core to block it. ⛔ Many…

Sabrina Zeldan notes that if you…

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Sabrina Zeldan notes that if you have never contributed to Gutenberg or made blocks/plugins before, you should check out a series of posts from Marcus Kazmierczak that go back to 2017. Sabrina writes, "For me, as a complete newbie, it…

Tom Hirst makes a business case…

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Tom Hirst makes a business case for headless WordPress. 💼 Tom rightly notes that a business "has to be comfortable at the bleeding edge of web technology," but if you're not ready today, good news — "if you start with…

We have a clarification for the…

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We have a clarification for the item we reported last week regarding accessibility issues people were having with some recent changes to WordPress.com. We linked to a post where Deborah Edwards-Onoro explained how to enable the Classic Editor for WordPress.com…

Renato Alves explains why GraphQL and…

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Renato Alves explains why GraphQL and WordPress work well together: "...to author a GraphQL API you only need a one-time effort.... and another advantage of using GraphQL is its ease of integration with multiple data sources." There are some downsides,…

🔌 Iain Poulson noted in a…

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🔌 Iain Poulson noted in a recent WP Trends newsletter that he has started working on a new acquisition analytics feature for Plugin Rank: "Find a free plugin on the WordPress.org repository that has a good user base but hasn’t…

Allison Rivers reviews three Gutenberg block…

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Allison Rivers reviews three Gutenberg block plugins for WooCommerce stores: ProductX's Gutenberg WooCommerce Blocks, which extend the basic WooCommerce block options; Toolset's WooCommerce Blocks, for more extensive customizations; The core blocks built into WooCommerce.

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