Chris Coyier explores how different Content…

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Chris Coyier explores how different Content Management Systems handle blocks of content. Chris considers CraftCMS, Drupal, and WordPress with SiteOrigin's Page Builder as well as Gutenberg.

Facebook relicensure of React and where that leaves WordPress

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After Matt Mullenweg blogged about the decision to ditch React for Gutenberg and core WordPress development, Facebook pulled an about face and changed the license. It was a shocking move, and some suspect WordPress's decision was an impetus for the…

You may have already read Matt…

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You may have already read Matt Mullenweg's blog post outlining the decision to take React off the table for inclusion with WordPress core and related large-scale projects like Gutenberg. This is one of the bigger decisions in our space for…

Matt Mullenweg posted a summary of…

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Matt Mullenweg posted a summary of his thoughts on Gutenberg on his personal blog. He says, "Gutenberg moves every part of the WordPress ecosystem forward," and goes on to touch on various ways developers, agencies, plugin developers, theme developers, web…

Mel Choyce recently published a working…

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Mel Choyce recently published a working docoment for tickets and improvements under consideration for WordPress 4.9. Among them are improvements to the code editor, customization efforts, better theme switchingm, improved processes for uploading updated theme and plugin zip files, iteration…

There’s been talk of how difficult…

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There's been talk of how difficult it is to stand out in the WordPress professional theme space lately. David A. Kennedy at ThemeShaper says Gutenberg is going to change this "in a big way." David thinks the new editor will add such…

Ghost reached it’s 1.0.0 milestone at the end…

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Ghost reached it's 1.0.0 milestone at the end of July. Ghost 1.0.0 is a major overhaul with an impressive list of features. Defaulting to MySQL, a new editor, and theme API changes were among the changes that stood out to me, as…

WordCamp Europe is in the books,…

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WordCamp Europe is in the books, with the usual strong lineup of quality talks from excellent speakers. I (David) was unable to attend physically, but I watched both days of talks on the livestream. Since there were far too many…

WordPress 4.8, “Evans”, is out

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WordPress 4.8, "Evans," has been released. It's a bit of a stop-gap release, as I covered before. The most visible feature is the addition of several media widgets -- for images, audio, video, and an enhanced text widget. These new…

WordPress 4.8 to be slim compared to past releases

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When I talked with Matt Mullenweg about the three focus areas for 2017 (and perhaps beyond), I kept referring to "releases." Finally Matt said, "You keep saying release; it's not a release. It's all about the functionality and the feature.…

A very early and initial prototype…

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A very early and initial prototype for the upcoming WordPress editor revamp (codenamed Gutenberg) is available to test. Tammie Lister and other folks on the WordPress Design group are looking for input and your test results. Again, this is in…
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