Felix Arntz

We don’t need no stinkin’ standards!

Dan Knauss

August 24, 2022

I wonder how much WordPress is an outlier in even the PHP universe for tolerating the idea that it's "punishment" and "unfair" to be held to a standard with mandatory testing for code that's admitted to the WordPress.org repo for…

Business Case for Performance

Dan Knauss

August 4, 2022

BusinessWordPress News

Here's an idea for a handy performance business case calculator. The eCommerce fashion Farfetch correlated Core Web Vitals and their own performance metrics with their business metrics, which let them identify an increase in KPIs. They built a "Performance Business…

Plugin Checker

Dan Knauss

July 29, 2022

Make WordPressNotes

On July 5, Felix Arntz proposed creating and adopting a plugin checking tool for the Plugin Review Team similar to the theme checker. The Performance Team would take the lead, but contributors from other teams would be needed as well.…

Post Status Picks for the Week of July 11

Dan Knauss

July 14, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

From WP Tavern's Jukebox, it’s Felix Arntz on WordPress performance and what can be done now and in the future about it. Seeking Satisfaction has Tony Perez sharing his journey building, growing, and exiting Sucuri. The Shop Talk Show hosts a discussion about headless CMS platforms, including WordPress, and a little on WordPress and web components...

Not Dead Yet! Just Mostly Dead?

Dan Knauss

June 17, 2022

DesignPlanet

Gutenberg 13.4 • Learning FSE sooner rather than later • Gutenberg in Tumblr and Day One • WordCamps and the vitality of the WordPress community • AUS WordPress community only mostly dead? • Get SEO Schema graphs • Web font loading geek out • PHP is 28! • PHP namespaces and autoloaders • You can work anywhere... why not Cleveland? • North Commerce — faster than the rest? • and more...

Post Status Notes #489

David Bisset

March 11, 2022

BusinessDesign

An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 49) — Performance Team Check-in

David Bisset

March 3, 2022

HostingPlanet

Felix Arntz and Thierry Muller from the newly formed WordPress Performance Team talk with David about the team's progress so far.

Felix Arntz explains how it was…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Felix Arntz explains how it was recently discovered that the current WordPress core implementation might regress the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric “when hero images above the fold are being lazy-loaded.” Felix notes the adjustments for WordPress 5.9 will likely…

Felix Arntz recently published the Share…

Dan Knauss

April 15, 2021

Felix Arntz recently published the Share Target WordPress plugin. It allows you to share content to your WordPress site directly from a device that's able to use the Web Share Target API. 🎯

Felix Arntz has a possible solution…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

Felix Arntz has a possible solution for lazy loading images in WordPress core and is calling for testing it in a feature plugin (WP Lazy). 💤 "With WordPress enabling native lazy-loading by default, it would significantly impact performance and user…

Felix Arntz has a detailed post…

Dan Knauss

October 10, 2019

Felix Arntz has a detailed post on CSS Custom Properties and how to use them to improve UX for both website visitors and content creators. Felix is "looking forward to seeing this feature being leveraged by WordPress themes more" as…

Gutenberg and Full Site Editing Gutenberg…

Dan Knauss

July 15, 2019

Gutenberg and Full Site Editing Gutenberg 6.1 was released this past week, and it includes some significant interface enhancements you will notice right away. The most noteworthy is the introduction of motion/animation when you are reordering, adding, or removing blocks.…

Felix Arntz digs into the “fatal…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Felix Arntz digs into the "fatal error recovery mode" coming in WordPress 5.2. There are several ways developers can make their plugins respond to recovery mode, which provides an opportunity "to inform administrators about fatal errors on their site and…

Felix Arntz explains how the Fatal…

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2019

Security

Felix Arntz explains how the Fatal Error Protection feature had to be dropped from WordPress 5.1 due to several security concerns. It appears error protection is here to stay, however, and Felix goes into detail about the completely new approach…

It looks like Felix Arntz is…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

It looks like Felix Arntz is setting up a new, simple, and portable WordPress core development environment based on Lando. I'm looking for others interested in using and improving it.

Starting with the upcoming WordPress 4.9.8…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

Starting with the upcoming WordPress 4.9.8 release, you can now properly register your post metadata with WordPress and the REST API. Felix Arntz shows you how.

We don’t need no stinkin’ standards!

Business Case for Performance

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Post Status Notes #489

Post Status Excerpt (No. 49) — Performance Team Check-in

Felix Arntz explains how it was…

Felix Arntz recently published the Share…

Felix Arntz has a possible solution…

Felix Arntz has a detailed post…

Gutenberg and Full Site Editing Gutenberg…

Felix Arntz digs into the “fatal…

Felix Arntz explains how the Fatal…

It looks like Felix Arntz is…

Starting with the upcoming WordPress 4.9.8…

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