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 “it’s another important milestone for improving user experience across the web.”
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. The image block link settings have been improved too, and REST API error messages now…
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 allow them to …. access their backend and decide what to do about the problem”…
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 that had to be taken to revamp the feature. He’s asking for feedback from the developer…
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 release, you can now properly register your post metadata with WordPress and the REST API. Felix Arntz shows you how.
A recent ticket committed to WordPress trunk seems to be addressing the first in a series of steps to enforce a “Requires PHP version” message for WordPress plugins. This is encouraging to see. Alain Schlesser shows a preview of what this message could look like in the plugin installer. In related news, Felix Arntz recently…
Felix Arntz has been working on a way to force plugins to be loaded as MU plugins but keep their automatic update functionality.
Felix Arntz has shared some planned improvements for roles and capabilities that are going into WordPress 4.9. It is now possible to manage user capabilities for activating and deactivating plugins in a more granular way. Additionally, there are some new meta capabilities that affect the installation and updating of language files/translations.
Also on Github, Felix Arntz offers wp-cache-js — a “JavaScript-based cache solution” for WordPress using the client’s local storage or, as a fallback, a simple variable storage.
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