WordPress News

Howdy! Summer has arrived (for those…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

📆 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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

🌟 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

June 25, 2021

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

June 25, 2021

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…

Will Morris discusses HTTP headers —…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Security

Will Morris discusses HTTP headers — what they are and how to add five security headers to a site.

If you run a site that…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

If you run a site that sends a lot of emails and is considered a third-party service, then you might want to pay some attention to Amazon SES. Matt Shaw over at Delicious Brains digs into SES as an option…