Haha. I can’t even type that title seriously. Matt Mullenweg got a pretty hilarious email telling him perhaps he should consider switching Automattic properties to Drupal. Better get ready.
I always get excited when Tom McFarlin starts a new series on wpTuts+. His latest is going to take a look at the WordPress HTTP API, and his first post is up with an introduction to wp_remote_get(). Tom is one of those sources that I really trust to write great tutorials, so if you’re looking…
Accidents and unforseen setbacks happen — to open source projects and their maintainers. The “Bus Factor” has been felt a lot lately.
Matt Mullenweg closed a ticket opened by Juliette Reinders Folmer about four days ago. The ticket had to do with ending support for PHP 5.6, which was a milestone within the original release scope and is currently the minimum required by WordPress. Juliette proposed ‘bump[ing] the minimum supported PHP version to PHP 7.1.26.” In the…
For a few hours on Tuesday, June 11th, technical issues with WordPress VIP hosting resulted in some prominent and apparently “headless” sites showing the default WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme. 🧯
UX Movement explores various painpoints of pagination. A good reminder for those of us creating pagination in WordPress themes and client sites. Are we giving it enough thought?
A couple of months ago, Mark Uraine described the thinking behind what is now likely to be a new landing page at WordPress.org/get: For quite a while now, the meta team has been interested in improving the download and mobile pages on WordPress.org. Unofficially, we’ve been referring to this as the “Get WordPress” project. A small…
