Acquired in January, CSS-Tricks founder Chris Coyier, who was also a member here, ran that publication for 15 years before capitalizing on search traffic to sell to Digital Ocean — for $4 million (USD). They Got Acquired got that number and a few others from Chris recently: 88 million pageviews 91,000 newsletter subscribers 6,500 articles,…
The Post Status podcast picks of the week include two takes on selling businesses, going back to work for someone else, and then… Chris Coyier and Corey Maas tell their stories. • Daisy Olson has the lowdown on block themes. • Raquel Landefeld on the power of community. • Press the Issue launches a solidly journalistic WordPress podcast with Allie Nimmons investigating the pandemic’s impact on WordCamps for the first episode.
WordPress is 19! • WP 6.0 news and Beta 4 release. • JetPack 10.9 • BuddyPress Rewrites 1.1.0 • Simple Local Avatars 2.3.0 • InMotion funds WCUS scholarships • RSS and Blogging FTW • Wishlist Member acquired • New leadership team at Yoast • and the rest of your weekly WP news roundup!
WooCommerce 6.4 RC 1 📦 Blocks and Admin 🔌 Time to Retire ZeroClipboard ⚠️ Clients in a Candy Store 🍬 Sustainable Woo? 🪴 Zach Stepek, Carl Alexander, Till Krüss, and JJJ 🎙️
Newfold acquires YITH, Hostopia. Wordfence stops FastOrSlow.com. DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks. Tips and tricks for WordPress devs.
Chris Coyier wonders where headless WordPress will land. 🛬 After acknowledging some of the benefits and how different groups are approaching it, he reaches this conclusion: “There’s just a heck of a lot more WordPress site owners who aren’t developers than those who are, I reckon, so that alone will keep headless WordPress from being…
Chris Coyier shares some insights on how to tackle auto-generated social media images. One way in WordPress is with the Social Image Generator plugin, which Chris describes in detail. 🔌
Chris Coyier has a nice piece on what words to avoid in educational writing. I know I’ve used some of these words before, and I’ll be careful to avoid them in the future. As Chris says, “these words might detract from the material.” 🤬
Chris Coyier has made an open source microsite showcasing coding fonts. ⌨️
Chris Coyier considers how one might create an old-school webring today. 💍
BRIAN’S NOTES ✏️ Request for Comment on Comments Previously we’ve mentioned Jeremy Felt‘s ideas for how WordPress comments should work. They’re really good, simple steps forward, and this is how we should be thinking about a core feature that ought to make WordPress shine.☀️ Now Chris Coyier has shared his comment wishlist for WordPress, and…
Chris Coyier has a new and lengthy but highly consumable essay on the subject of “The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers.” Chris touches on the increasing burdens of the role as well as its joys: “Being a front-end developer puts us on the front lines between the thing we’re building and the people we’re building…
Chris Coyier stops to think about the power usage of websites and whether good performance maps to lower energy usage. 🔋 Chris links to a number of good articles and experiments on this subject. At the end of the day though, “The less across the network, the less electricity. The less your browser has to…
If you dabble in CSS animations and CSS scroll effects, Zach Saucier has a great overview of scroll technologies that target specific and more general scroll behaviors. 📜 Also from CSS Tricks, Chris Coyier shares some different perceptions of Developer Experience (DX). Not everyone sees it the same way. Finally, if you aren’t deeply into…
Chris Coyier updated his advice on where to learn WordPress theme development nowadays.
Chris Coyier has a well-written and complete guide to HTML data attributes. He explains what you can and shouldn’t do, styling issues, and how to access data attributes in JavaScript. 🐕 CSS Tricks has a nice guide focused on proper HTML for links and buttons as well.
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