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Since PHP 5.6 or higher will be required as of WordPress 5.2, Gary Pendergast reviewed some of the relevant WordPress Coding Standards and proposed a few changes to them, including anonymous functions and namespaces.
Syntax.fm has an interview with Syed Balkhi about Awesome Motive, how WordPress and PHP are viewed by developers, and his charity efforts. The WP Minute features Amber Hinds on Equalize Digital’s first exit. Sean Blakeley talks about transitioning a large agency over to Gutenberg at the WP Tavern‘s Jukebox.
Jeffrey Zeldman announced in a tweet this morning that he’s joining Automattic‘s board of advisors. Zeldman is the king of web standards and has been a huge presence in the web community for over 15 years. He’s the founder of Happy Cog and co-founder of A List Apart, and An Event Apart, and A Book…
The WordPress Marketing Team is hosting a Blogs to Blocks celebration and invites you to get involved by creating and responding to daily prompts around blogging, design, development, photos, community, and more ways to contribute.
The Core Team is considering how to include extendible technology to integrate AI. Additionally, there is a proposal needing your feedback around improving image performance. Felix Arntz notes that adding fetchpriority=”high” to the LCP image typically improves LCP performance by 5-10%.
The latest call for testing from the Test team includes an exercise using the new Grid view, as well as creating pages from patters.
Omar Reiss at Yoast has assembled a “WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report.” WordPress developers should take note, and it’s also a good general resource for any PHP developer. The report covers some possible breaking changes and compatibility challenges. 💔 Isn’t WordPress already compatible with PHP 8? Omar advises caution: “[My team] is highly doubtful….
Till Krüss explains how he found his way into WordPress and a successful business that’s solving the hard problems of caching and performance optimization. His work and business model suggest several areas of opportunity for developers and founders working in the WordPress plugin market today.
Accessibility isn’t the easiest subject to get mass audiences excited about. Sadly, I know from experience, because accessibility posts haven’t performed as well as other types on Post Status. That, however, doesn’t make accessibility less important — not by any stretch. And significantly, there are now a set of standards drafted for coding for accessible…
