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The official deadline for the General Data…

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Brian Krogsgard

The official deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is May 25, 2018. If you don't know what GDPR is yet, then you should get up to speed. There is an official discussion on how to make WordPress core compliant with GDPR.…

Ethics in design has always been…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Ethics in design has always been an important topic in technical fields, but lately it's been in the public eye too. Morten Rand-Hendriksen's recent article, Using Ethics In Web Design is an important contribution to a renewed discussion of  this topic among…

WordSesh online conference is back, on July 25th

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Brian Richards has taken over WordSesh from Scott Basgaard, and is hosting the online event on July 25th. It's being revised from 24 hours to 12 hours, which should be a plenty big window for people around the world to…

WordPress 4.9.5 Beta is slated for…

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress 4.9.5 Beta is slated for April 3rd. There are three things of note, two of which are verbiage related I find interesting: The recommended PHP version is now going to be 7.2, instead of 7.0. I wonder at what…

WordPress with an IDE in it

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Brian Krogsgard

Have you used the beta version of WordPress 4.9? I have. One of the new things is the file editor, which has been pretty fully overhauled. It has a lot of improvements. If we are to have a file editor…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…

Jeff Gould has put together a…

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Brian Krogsgard

Jeff Gould has put together a very nice comparison guide for several local development environment tools. His review spurred a good discussion in the comments. Jeff covers XAMPP, MAMP, Local By FlyWheel, and DesktopServer from ServerPress.

Facebook relicensure of React and where that leaves WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard

After Matt Mullenweg blogged about the decision to ditch React for Gutenberg and core WordPress development, Facebook pulled an about face and changed the license. It was a shocking move, and some suspect WordPress's decision was an impetus for the…

JavaScript frameworks and bus factors

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Brian Krogsgard

Iain Poulson from Delicious Brains explains the risks of relying on third party libraries and codebases that are maintained by a single person. In the current discussion about JavaScript frameworks for WordPress Core, this is a timely question to ask. Iain mentions Vue.js as an example. Vue.js…

There is a discussion in progress about…

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Dan Knauss

There is a discussion in progress about a JavaScript framework for WordPress. The discussions are primarily focused on React or Vue.js. While the general consensus seems to be that Vue.js is "approachable and highly extensible," React might be the winner if…

WordPress 4.8 to be slim compared to past releases

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Brian Krogsgard

When I talked with Matt Mullenweg about the three focus areas for 2017 (and perhaps beyond), I kept referring to "releases." Finally Matt said, "You keep saying release; it's not a release. It's all about the functionality and the feature.…

After the hubub around Jetpack’s decision…

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Brian Krogsgard

After the hubub around Jetpack's decision to become a theme marketplace, Mika Epstein clarified what constitutes an allowed versus not-allowed third party integration for executable code. Not to any fault of Mika or the rest of the plugin team, it…

The theme directory disconnect

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
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…
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