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WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 • Help Test • #WPTranslationDay • Video Courses #LearnWP

Courtney Robertson

September 21, 2022

The 6.1 Beta 1 release was briefly delayed a day but is now available. You can get familiar with what's coming in 6.1 with the release by helping test the new features. Please give some consideration to Hugh Lashbrooke's proposal for faster course development on the Training Team with video-based courses.

Making Events Accessible and Websites Under 1kB

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2022

DesignNotes

From the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Here's a checklist "for meetings, conferences, training, and presentations that are remote/virtual, in-person, or hybrid." And here's a website with pages under 1kB from Brad Taunt who is maintaining a list of sites…

5 Days Without a Shower

Michelle Frechette

September 15, 2022

BlogsPost Status Team Blog

Accessibility at WCUS, at least for me, was frustrating at best, and tear-inducing at my lowest point. We need to do better as a community.

WP 6.1 walkthrough replay • WebP no go • Matt: Core needs to be more editorial • Survey: How do you learn WordPress?

Courtney Robertson

September 14, 2022

DesignHosting

WordPress 6.1 walkthrough replay • Matt: WebP no go • Matt: Core needs to be more editorial • Survey: How do you learn WordPress?

WordPress 6.1 Walkthrough, Dropping 3.7 – 4.0 Security Updates, WordPress Advanced Administration Handbook

Courtney Robertson

September 7, 2022

DesignHosting

Get ready for WordPress 6.1! There's a live walkthrough coming for it on September 13, and the feature freeze is September 20. Other important news: security updates will no longer be backported for WordPress 3.7-4.0, and there's a new Advanced WordPress Administration handbook.

Post Status Picks for the Week of August 29

Dan Knauss

September 2, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Building an empire on free code: Matt talks WordPress outside the bubble. James Kemp, Anh Tran, and Phil Webster on WooCommerce options for licensing. Adam Silver on testimonials that help you grow. Anne Bovelett on accessibility and page builders. Jamie Marsland wonders if people building third-party plugins for the block editor have been too preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to ask if they should. Are they heading in the wrong direction?

WordPress 6.0.2, Advanced Admin Handbook, Accessibility Tags for Block Themes, and Improving the Template Creation Experience

Courtney Robertson

August 31, 2022

DesignHosting

WordPress 6.0.2, Advanced Admin Handbook, Accessibility Tags for Block Themes, and Improving the Template Creation Experience

We don’t need no stinkin’ standards!

Dan Knauss

August 24, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

I wonder how much WordPress is an outlier in even the PHP universe for tolerating the idea that it's "punishment" and "unfair" to be held to a standard with mandatory testing for code that's admitted to the WordPress.org repo for…

Adjust HTML Block Markup, FSE Back to Basics, WP 6.0.2 RC1, and Updating WP_MEMORY_LIMIT

Courtney Robertson

August 24, 2022

DesignHosting

WordPress 6.0.2 is coming soon! Join the next Call for Testing and give your feedback on HTML block markup and increasing the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT variable in wp-config.php.

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 15, 2022

Daniel Schutzsmith

August 18, 2022

DesignDevelopment

This week Daniel shares some resources for creating React Apps using Gutenberg Data, static WordPress sites with Eleventy, and a Figma to FSE workflow. Also a reminder to test and give feedback on fluid typography — and one cool tool: Programming Fonts.

Design, Development, and One Cool Tool

Daniel Schutzsmith

August 11, 2022

DesignThe Week in Review

Daniel Schutzsmith shares the latest WordPress design and development news, tools, and techniques along with one special pick — this week's shiny, new, and coolest tool.

Back Compat & Experimental APIs, Safely Handling SVG via “Insert URL”, WordPress 6.1 Bug Scrub Schedule, Database Performance Health Checks

Courtney Robertson

August 10, 2022

DesignMake WordPress

Is it safe to insert an SVG via URL? How healthy is your database? Performance Team Rep Nominations.

Gluing Things Together

Cory Miller

August 5, 2022

BusinessDesign

This week Dan and I talked with Post Status member Lesley Sim of Newsletter Glue about refining our tedious and time-consuming newsletter workflow here. (I’ve been doing it for the last couple of weeks and it’s a bear!)

WordPress Accessibility Day: November 2-3

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

Notes

WordPress Accessibility Day is coming up in November: Save the date!

Maddy Osman on Writing for Humans and Robots — Post Status Draft 119

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2022

BusinessDesign

In this episode of Post Draft, Post Status Editor Dan Knauss is joined by Maddy Osman. Maddy is the founder of The Blogsmith, a well-known brand in the WordPress space for quality writing that appeals to your target audience and search engines. Maddy has a new book out that can teach you some of her finely-honed skills. It's called Writing for Humans and Robots: The New Rules of Content Style.

WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 • Help Test • #WPTranslationDay • Video Courses #LearnWP

Making Events Accessible and Websites Under 1kB

5 Days Without a Shower

WP 6.1 walkthrough replay • WebP no go • Matt: Core needs to be more editorial • Survey: How do you learn WordPress?

WordPress 6.1 Walkthrough, Dropping 3.7 – 4.0 Security Updates, WordPress Advanced Administration Handbook

Post Status Picks for the Week of August 29

WordPress 6.0.2, Advanced Admin Handbook, Accessibility Tags for Block Themes, and Improving the Template Creation Experience

We don’t need no stinkin’ standards!

Adjust HTML Block Markup, FSE Back to Basics, WP 6.0.2 RC1, and Updating WP_MEMORY_LIMIT

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 15, 2022

Design, Development, and One Cool Tool

Back Compat & Experimental APIs, Safely Handling SVG via “Insert URL”, WordPress 6.1 Bug Scrub Schedule, Database Performance Health Checks

WordPress Accessibility Day: November 2-3

Maddy Osman on Writing for Humans and Robots — Post Status Draft 119

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