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Improving 5ftF Contributor Journey • Building Interactive Blocks • Layout Classes • WP20

Courtney Robertson

January 11, 2023

Share your feedback about how to improve the Five for the Future contributor journey. Check out work underway on how to make interactive blocks easier to build, and take a walkthrough of layout classes in WordPress 6.1. It's time to start planning; how will you celebrate WordPress' 20th birthday?

WordPress 6.2 Schedule • 2022 in Core • Block Developer Year in Review • New Incident Response Team

Courtney Robertson

January 4, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 6.2 is set to reach feature freeze on February 7 and final release on March 28. Take a look back at Core contribution stats from 2022. Read the recap of everything that happened last year that developers need to know. Meet the members of the Incident Response Team.

Annual Survey • WordPress Playground • Plugins/themes Categorization

Courtney Robertson

December 21, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

What are the four freedoms of open source and how do they impact us? Get a look in the Celebration of the Four Freedoms of Open Source. Try out the new WordPress Playground to run WordPress in the browser. Plugin and Theme developers note the new categorizations: Canonical, Community, and Commercial.

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Suggest Community Summit Topics • WordPress Playground (WASM)

Courtney Robertson

December 14, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Tune in Thursday for Matt's annual State of the Word address. Check out the WordPress Playground now. It brings key platform dependencies into the browser that you can embed in your own site today. Your feedback into the annual WordPress survey helps shape the project, so fill it out as soon as possible.

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • LearnWP Site Updates • Block Editor in Support Forums • Dev Guide to Block Theme Course Pt2

Courtney Robertson

December 7, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

It's time once again to share your feedback about all things WordPress in the 2022 survey. Tune in next week to hear Matt Mullenweg during is annual address: State of the Word. When submitting issues in the WordPress forums, you'll soon find several blocks to use in the editor. #LearnWP has site updates and a new block theme course for developers.

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Meetup Accessibility Overlays • Multi-line Code Comments • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases

Courtney Robertson

November 30, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Should code comments switch to // ? Meetup.com stops using an accessibility overlay. Final releases for WordPress 3.7 - 4.0 are now available. Tune in soon for State of the Word 2023, happening December 15 via livestream from New York City.

WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of November 14

Dan Knauss

November 18, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress • Tom Lach on the costs of rapid growth — It's not for everyone • The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor • Evolving Edupack — and Sunsetting It • and more...

The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor

Dan Knauss

November 15, 2022

DevelopmentFeatures

The journey to GiveWP 3.0 is well underway — an open, iterative development process that fully embraces WordPress's Gutenberg block editor. Give cofounder Matt Cromwell and development director Jason Adams share what they've learned so far.

Design and Development News for the Week of October 31

Daniel Schutzsmith

November 4, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Missing Menu Items • Farewell PHP 7.4 • I Didn’t Know You Could Do That in the Block Editor • Why is Your Computer Cosplaying as a PDP-11? • Effective Writing for Devs • The State of CSS • The Swiss Army Knife of Website Tools: Website Toolkit

Daniel S. Pumpkins’ 🎃 Post Status Halloween TechHorror Roundup

Daniel Schutzsmith

October 28, 2022

DesignDevelopment

It's our Halloween roundup of ghoul tools, but we're not going to show you anything scarier than David Bisset's dev dad joke tweets. Just Blocks Made of Humans, a totally non-scary image creation AI — as long as you do not install the Performance Loab plugin. Also in our cauldron: hairy, scary Block Styles and the classic so-lean-it's-skeletal ingredient, Balsamiq. 🦇

Tech Roundup for the Week of October 17

Daniel Schutzsmith

October 21, 2022

PlanetTech

Move Over CSS, Here’s JSON • A New Generator Goes Turbo • The Hidden World of Javascript in WordPress • Cool Tool: URL Params

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022

Dan Knauss

September 28, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick.

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?

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 22

Daniel Schutzsmith

August 26, 2022

BusinessDesign

DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways • Stop saying "Gutenberg!" • Build Mode Live with Brian Gardner and Sam Munoz • One week left to submit a style variation for TT3 • Cool Tool of the Week: Munir Kamal's Editor Plus

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.

Does “Full-Site Editing” Need a New, “User-Friendly” Name?

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

NotesPlanet

I've been thinking about this question and the others related to it that Josepha Haden Chomphosy posted last week. There's been a strong comment discussion so far, and I discovered what my view on it is now by noticing what…

Improving 5ftF Contributor Journey • Building Interactive Blocks • Layout Classes • WP20

WordPress 6.2 Schedule • 2022 in Core • Block Developer Year in Review • New Incident Response Team

Annual Survey • WordPress Playground • Plugins/themes Categorization

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Suggest Community Summit Topics • WordPress Playground (WASM)

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • LearnWP Site Updates • Block Editor in Support Forums • Dev Guide to Block Theme Course Pt2

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Meetup Accessibility Overlays • Multi-line Code Comments • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases

The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor

Design and Development News for the Week of October 31

Daniel S. Pumpkins’ 🎃 Post Status Halloween TechHorror Roundup

Tech Roundup for the Week of October 17

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022

Post Status Picks for the Week of August 29

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 22

Design, Development, and One Cool Tool

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