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Scott Bolinger released a new WordPress plugin called Popup Zen. 🧘 Scott explains the thinking and history behind it here on his blog.
“It’s a popup plugin for people who hate popups.”
I thoroughly enjoyed Scott’s reasoning for why he created Popup Zen and what his primary goals were. I think what he’s created is very tasteful, after testing it myself.
WebDevStudios has released the wd_s Pattern Library 1.0. It contains: 36 user interface patterns including accordions, carousels / sliders, effects, layout, media, navigtion, etc. An auto-generated color swatches page, which watches the _color.scss for changes, and recompiles as needed. A Typography page, which allows you to quickly test out typographical choices. It looks like they…
There’s a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed “content endpoints” into WordPress core with the 4.7 release — which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandí of 10up. In the first core development meeting of the 4.7 cycle, Helen proposed a series of things that would need to…
Hendrik Luehrsen shares stats and notes about 100 FSE themes in the WordPress repo by 53 different contributors. He notes that, excluding the Twenty Twenty-Two theme, “all remaining 99 FSE themes combined have about 30,000 active installs, rising fast!” Hendrik encourages others to: “Build stuff with the FSE themes! Break stuff. Explore limits. Break those!…
Sign up soon to mentor and be a part of the upcoming women and nonbinary release squad. Join the Test team in building a block theme. WP-CLI 2.8.0 is coming soon with PHP 8.2 compatibility. Get the latest updates on the WordPress.org redesign.
The CSS-Tricks team shares the plugins they use. The funniest is one with 50 installs that’s 8 years old, called Advanced Post Cache, and was built by Matt Mullenweg. The code definitely has an old school vibe, but hey, if it works it works. Also on CSS-Tricks, two things I found and liked. First, apparently…
Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2019 State of the Word, where he offered a comprehensive overview of the last year of all things WordPress.
