WordPress News

Ian Jenkins shares some details on…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Ian Jenkins shares some details on how Box UK develops enterprise WordPress sites. Ian starts with Docker, Monorepo, and Dictator. They also use Twig as their templating engine. How they install plugins is interesting: “Our preferred setup is that a…

This week WP Engine announced the…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Security

This week WP Engine announced the launch of Premier, their enterprise WordPress platform. Premier offers security features and other items that belong in enterprise-level hosting: staging sites, developer environments, and automatic plugin updates. They also include custom blocks for WordPress.…

Local Pro from WP Engine will…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Local Pro from WP Engine will be free, and it launches next week — according to representatives at the WPEngine Summit conference this week.

Matías Ventura shared a video on…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Matías Ventura shared a video on Twitter showing a UI in the block editor that allows you to pick a different header without having to choose a different theme. Matías says “This video showcases a lot of work coming to…

The Brave browser has introduced a…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

The Brave browser has introduced a Search beta. According to sources, all results come from Brave — not Google or Bing, although there’s a fallback to them depending on search results. Brave Search is advertised as a “privacy first search…

At the request of Joost de…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

At the request of Joost de Valk, I read Kevin Indig's take on the end of amateur writing on the web where expertise is needed. (Joost has an excellent breakdown of the post on Twitter.) 👩‍🏫 Getting experts to write…

It looks like PayPal is doing…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

It looks like PayPal is doing a massive fee increase with new rates: 3.49% + 0.49 for domestic, 5% + $1 for international currencies. Apparently, there will be other price hikes as well. All of this goes into effect on…

Joel Bronkowski explains how to get…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Joel Bronkowski explains how to get started with Paystack — which is now the preferred payments partner for WooCommerce in Africa. 💳

Todd Jones shares the lessons he…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Todd Jones shares the lessons he learned from writing over 400 articles at MainWP. Todd says mistakes happen, so it’s important to keep to a system while also keeping the work fun and listening to your audience.👂 He also comments…

Lauren Sternecky explains in some detail…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Business

Lauren Sternecky explains in some detail how The Events Calendar team tackled recurring events and why they needed to overhaul their system. She shares this because many companies often find themselves in a similar scenario — trying to fix “a…

If you want to drop Google…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

If you want to drop Google in favor of a privacy-friendly web analytics solution, then this recent list from Philipp Temmel is worth your time. The alternatives mentioned are also available in an Airtable database. 🔍

Now that SEO is taking performance…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Now that SEO is taking performance optimization much more seriously thanks to Google‘s Core Web Vitals, some people think a web page’s Lighthouse performance scores correlate with their Core Web Vitals score. But is this really true? Rick Viscomi dives…

What should be included in the…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

What should be included in the 2021 HTTP Archive Web Almanac’s chapter on CMSes? Joost de Valk would love to hear your thoughts about this — because he is authoring that chapter! The 2020 version is still available online.

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