Ebonie Butler writes about her experience contributing to the latest version of WordPress and what that personally meant to her: "As a black woman, it is always an obstacle to get involved in a space where there is either no…
A new action wp_after_insert_post has been added to WordPress 5.6 to allow theme and plugin developers to run custom code after a post and its terms and metadata have been updated. The 5.6 Release Candidate is available now and needs…
Are you interested in starting or developing your career with WordPress? Good news! — You can self-train and find a good, full-time, remote job. 💪
New Tools 🛠️ WPOnion is a framework that "helps developers build custom meta boxes and custom fields in WordPress." The documentation goes into further detail, stating its support for not only post_meta but also term_meta, user_meta, comment_meta, settings pages and…
Peter Wilson, a front-end developer from Human Made, talks about some modifications to WordPress for an enterprise client, Fairfax Media. The WordPress edit screen was rebuilt to improve the default editing experience, and standard metaboxes were replaced with custom-built CMB2 metaboxes, mainly…
Automattic has created a Google Docs integration to write posts directly in Google Docs and create drafts from them in WordPress. I spoke to George Hotelling, one of the primary developers on the project, about the challenges and process of…
In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource -- for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way…
It's a new year, and a great time to set some New Year's resolutions as a WordPress developer. Here are some practical tips to up your game working with the WordPress code base.
Not all of these are new, but they are new to me. Here are several interesting plugins I've discovered recently: The Mozilla web apps team has released a free plugin called Offline Content that uses the Service Workers API and…
Readers know that the WordPress REST API has had a lot of activity this release cycle. There has been a concerted effort to get the API ready for a core merge in 4.7. The release isn't slated until December, but…
One of the things I said was important in my WordSesh talk on the future of WordPress was better access to WordPress.org data. Well, Greg Ichneumon Brown has posted a gold mine in an update regarding the new WordPress plugin…
