HaPHPy Birthday Drupal has turned 19.…
Dan Knauss
HaPHPy Birthday Drupal has turned 19. Congrats to Dries Buytaert and the entire Drupal community for their wonderful achievement. 🎂
Steve Burge has another post on…
Dan Knauss
Steve Burge has another post on Google Docs-style editing in Gutenberg, this time dealing with the YJS framework. Steve's post includes a video of him talking with Kevin Jahns, Michael Meyers, and Fabian Franz from the Tag1 Consulting team. YJS…
Joost de Valk has an analysis…
Dan Knauss
Joost de Valk has an analysis of CMS market share numbers from W3Techs. Joost's key findings are: WooCommerce's market share is three times as big as Shopify, but Shopify is growing. If current trends continue, Shopify, Joomla, SquareSpace, and Wix…
Automattic officially took ownership of Tumblr…
Dan Knauss
Automattic officially took ownership of Tumblr last week, so both communities should start looking for some changes soon. 👀 Two other investments and acquisitions in the open-source space might have caught your eye: Gatsby has raised a $15M Series A…
DrupalCon Seattle 2019 took place this…
Brian Krogsgard
DrupalCon Seattle 2019 took place this past week. There is a quick roundup of the main highlights of the event and
Andrew Taylor, a Developer Programs Engineer…
Brian Krogsgard
Andrew Taylor, a Developer Programs Engineer at Pantheon, shares how to connect GitLab and Pantheon to streamline Drupal and WordPress workflows.
WordPress designers and developers can learn…
Dan Knauss
WordPress designers and developers can learn a lot from Annika Oeser's insights about the new Drupal admin UI.
An Interview with the MLA’s Humanities Commons Team
Dan Knauss
The MLA's Humanities Commons team maintains several WordPress projects to support Digital Humanities at colleges and universities.
There are signs that Gutenberg is being considered…
Dan Knauss
There are signs that Gutenberg is being considered for adoption on some level in Drupal. There is already a demo of Gutenberg in Drupal, and there is a talk dedicated to the subject at the upcoming Drupal Europe conference. Yoast recently showed off…
An interview with PublishPress founder Steve Burge
Dan Knauss
PublishPress recently announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber's Bylines plugin for PublishPress. I got in touch with Steve to catch up with him and his unique take on the WordPress economy.
As reported in the Drupal forums,…
Brian Krogsgard
As reported in the Drupal forums, it appears that Drupal 8 will require PHP 7.0 or higher starting March 6, 2019. WordPress, in contrast, runs on older PHP versions while PHP 7.2 is recommended. It's not an apples to apples…
Drupal recently introduced a Creative Commons…
Brian Krogsgard
Drupal recently introduced a Creative Commons image library containing over 10,0000 images (mostly from various DrupalCons) free for anyone to use. I'd love to see something more formal for WordPress along these lines — an organized library of photos from…
With the React license change, Drupal…
Brian Krogsgard
With the React license change, Drupal is looking to adopt it.
Why semantic versioning is good for complex plugins, and not WordPress core
Brian Krogsgard
WooCommerce has announced that they are skipping from version 2.7 to 3.0 and transitioning to SemVer, or semantic versioning. SemVer means that each decimal of a release means something. Whereas WordPress 3.9 and 4.0 were identical in importance, but in…
Congrats to our friends at Drupal, who…
Brian Krogsgard
Congrats to our friends at Drupal, who last month celebrated the first anniversary of Drupal 8. Drupal and WordPress core development differs when it comes to major versions; to WordPress developers, it might seem a little odd to celebrate an anniversary of a…
