Customizer

A 50 person survey on how…

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Brian Krogsgard

A 50 person survey on how they use the customizer ended up in some inconclusive, but still interesting to read results. Tammie Lister broke down the answers and charted them for easier reading, and also pulled quotes from different bits…

Love the style of the MailChimp’s…

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Dan Knauss

Love the style of the MailChimp's 2016 Annual report. Also 246,148,661,219 emails sent in a year is definitely an impressive number. Speaking of annual reports, I enjoyed reading SkyVerge's 2016 Year In Review. The majority of SkyVerge's work is with…

The theme directory disconnect

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Brian Krogsgard
In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource -- for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way…

The editor and customizer aren’t the…

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Brian Krogsgard

The editor and customizer aren't the only parts of core getting attention. Felix Arntz has posted about improving the, "well-known, but not well-loved Settings API." Improvements include a long-desired default callback option for common field types. Felix also posted about…

Customization opportunities

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Brian Krogsgard
Mel Choyce laid out a slew of customization opportunities for the next several months. Customization is one of three core focus areas, along with the editor and the REST API. She defines the goal for the customizer work as this:…

Core focus areas get leads, clarity

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Brian Krogsgard
The three focus areas for WordPress core for 2017 have been assigned leads. The focus areas are replacing the WordPress major release cycle, as described in the State of the Word, and expanded on in my interview with Matt Mullenweg.…

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

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Brian Krogsgard
I think bringing Automattic resources into core WordPress development to put a huge effort into improving the WordPress editing experience is a good thing. An email went out last week to the authors of all plugins with more than one million active…

With WordPress 4.7 nearing release, the…

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Brian Krogsgard

With WordPress 4.7 nearing release, the information posts for new features are showing up. For example, Jeremy Felt shared with us about the latest tweaks to multisite. Pascal Bichler also recently shared the new Post Type labels feature and Post…

Helen Hou-Sandí started a conversation in WordPress…

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Brian Krogsgard

Helen Hou-Sandí started a conversation in WordPress Trac that I'd love to see get more participants. It involves the role "dummy content" -- or demo content that would appear during live previews in the customizer -- could play to give users an idea of…

Nick Halsey from the WordPress Design…

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Brian Krogsgard

Nick Halsey from the WordPress Design team did some user tests for the customizer theme experience. Just like every user test I've seen, it is enlightening to how much of a struggle our interfaces often are to end users, even when we're…

The content in WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard

One of Pippin Williamson's repeated concerns during his review of page builders was over data loss. He praised the plugins that, when deactivated, maintained HTML markup and content in the_content() so the site owner could still use their content without the…

Weston Ruter has come up with a…

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Brian Krogsgard

Weston Ruter has come up with a snippet that can serve as a starting point for those writing WordPress plugins that want to "reset" the WordPress customizer. This "reset" means that when the customizer opens, only the section containing the controls…

Justin Tadlock is building a repository…

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Brian Krogsgard

Justin Tadlock is building a repository that will contain examples of using the Customize API for advanced things. He explains: The goal is to provide examples so that theme authors are not bypassing the core API and doing weird things…
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