Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: WP Tests from the Abstract Agency, ACF 6.0, and Simple Social Images. Cool Tool of the week Warp goes into plaid.
Gravity Forms 7.1 Beta 1 • the SpinupWP community • Dollie 2.0 • rtCamp's Easy Engine now with full custom Docker-Compose support • Metorik • Iconic • Do the Woo • Simple Ajax Chat Pro
Elementor acquires Strattic • WP Engine acquires Delicious Brains' plugins 🧠 • When the Cathedrals own the Bazaars and Shopping Centers and you're in a strip mall with a fruit stand... • Jetpack decouples • InstaWP gets seed funding from Automattic 🌱 • Automattic hire #2000 • World-class FSE, how? 🌐 • WCEU by the numbers • Weglot gives back • RoleUp rolls out • Tadlock exits WP Tavern 🍺 • Why 'why' matters most • The Big 2-0 next year • All there is to know about core WordPress email notifications, documented ✉️ • System font stack check • Do not follow by default • Museum of Block Art opens 🎨 • Meet Yvonne Doll • Mostly modest WordPress wishlists • WooCommerce Experts to go global • How to do well in a downturn 📉 • Some things we don't — but ought to — talk about. 🐘 Silent no longer about Sustainability.
Get new perspectives on last years' biggest news stories — which ones mattered most, to whom, and why? This is the European edition of the first Annual Post Status News Draft.
Here's a recent guide to Advanced Custom Field and ACF blocks from Iain Poulson, who says he realized while writing "how vital [ACF] is for WordPress development."
Blocks and Themes The Themes Review Team has been renamed the Themes Team. 📛 WordPress 5.5 will include checks for PHP and WordPress core version requirements in the theme installer. Users won't be able to install themes whose requirements aren't…
Haris Zulfiqar at WebDevStudios covers the timely subject of Advanced Custom Fields and Gutenberg. Haris explains how to build a custom block for a hero section using ACF "without writing a single line of JavaScript code." In his view, "ACF…
While working on the Delicious Brains website, Iain Poulson created a custom table to be managed via the Advanced Custom Fields' "repeater" field. He goes into detail about configuring the field and populating the data, along with the pros and cons of this approach.…
