Tech Roundup Week Ending June 2
Tech Roundup Week Ending June 2: Check out what happened in WordPress (and other) tech this week.
Tech Roundup Week Ending May 12
WooCommerce 7.7 If you’re running an online store using WooCommerce, you’ll be excited to hear about the recent 7.7 release! This latest update focuses on improving performance, security, and user experience. Among the key features in version 7.7 is the new Webhooks API, enhanced management of external products, and improved performance when modifying variations. From…
Tech Roundup Week Ending May 5
New Community Theme Launched WordPress Themes Team released a new block theme, Stacks, designed to build slide decks. Stacks was designed and constructed by Saxon Fletcher with help from Ben Dwyer. After customizing the theme, users can create slides on any post or page using the ‘Stacks’ pattern. The theme is mobile-friendly and not likely…
Tech Roundup Week Ending April 28
Accessible Target Sizes Cheatsheet Vitaly provides practical guidelines for preventing rage taps, and rage clicks on mobile devices, including recommended target sizes for icons, links, and buttons. It also offers helpful conversion tables for translating point units to CSS pixels or Android/iOS units. OpenAI is trying to trademark “GPT.” What are your thoughts? A discussion…
Tech Roundup Week Ending April 14
Free vs. Paid SSL • SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) are internet protocols that use encryption to secure websites. • SSL certificates can be legally required for specific websites and may help boost a business’s reputation, increase sales, and more. • Certificate Authorities (CA) like DigiCert, Entrust, Sectigo, and Let’s Encrypt…
WordPress Origin Stories, Week 5
This is part of our ongoing celebration of the 20th Anniversary of WordPress. Leonardus Nugraha I started my WordPress journey when I became a content writer in a hosting company. We use WordPress to publish our articles, but there’s more than that. Most of our clients are WordPress users, so I have to write for…
WordPress Origin Stories, Week 4
This is part of our ongoing celebration of the 20th Anniversary of WordPress. Lana Miro with Crocoblock Check out these WordPress origin stories from the team at Crocoblock that Lana Miro shared with us. You’ll find stories from: Share Your WordPress Story We want to know your WordPress story too! Tell us how you got…
WordPress Origin Stories, Week 3
This is part of our ongoing celebration of the 20th Anniversary of WordPress. Dean Burton When I first discovered WordPress, I was messing around trying to build my own website, which at the time was an attempt to move an online community I had on Facebook over to a blog and eventually to sell/promote products….
WordPress Origin Stories, Week 2
Read WordPress stories from PostStatus members as we take time to reflect and celebrate 20 years of WordPress.
Design | Development | Planet | Tech | The Week in Review
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
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.
Alert Post Status member Daniel Schutzsmith…
Alert Post Status member Daniel Schutzsmith noted something odd in the recently announced sale of Understrap — a WordPress theme framework based on the _s starter theme and Bootstrap 4 SASS grid framework. New information on this sale continues to surface, but it appears Holger Könemann, who left the Understrap project two years ago, still…
Executive Code When President Joe Biden…
Executive Code When President Joe Biden took office this week, the official White House website was completely replaced — and it’s still using WordPress. Of course, this sparked a public conversation (and also some private ones) about the theme and plugins the revamped whitehouse.gov site is running, among other technical details. One of the first…
Bootstrap 4 alpha released and includes huge changes
Bootstrap 4 is now in alpha, and includes a ton of changes that will be popular. These are my personal favorites: Moved from Less to Sass. Improved grid system. Opt-in flexbox support is here. Dropped IE8 support and moved to rem and em units. Rewrote all our JavaScript plugins. They are also launching official Bootstrap commercial…
Case study: building a front-end managed web app using WordPress
The folks at Voltronik have put together a pretty interesting case study going over their processes and considerations for building a project management system for a client, managed on the front end, all with WordPress. The result is a Bootstrap based UI, but it appears to have included some pretty advanced backend code to properly…
On WordPress themes and frameworks
Let’s pull the bandaid off real quick, and it won’t hurt as bad: Theme Framework has turned into a marketing term. I lean more every day to giving theme framework the premium treatment. Just because a product costs money doesn’t make it premium at all. Nevertheless, the marketing term came and it stuck, and almost…
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