Free Rider Problem, JSON Core Block Styling, Redesigned Home & Download Pages
Courtney Robertson
Have you seen the new home page demo?
Is there a problem with Free Riders?
Do you want block styling standardized?
Does “Full-Site Editing” Need a New, “User-Friendly” Name?
Dan Knauss
I've been thinking about this question and the others related to it that Josepha Haden Chomphosy posted last week. There's been a strong comment discussion so far, and I discovered what my view on it is now by noticing what…
PHP 8.2 Compatibility, Renaming FSE, Custom Template Options, WP Feature Notifications Project
Courtney Robertson
Getting Ready for PHP 8.2, Rebooting Feature Notifications, Additional Custom Template Options, and Renaming Full Site Editing.
FSE Themes on the Rise
Dan Knauss
Hendrik Luehrsen shares stats and notes about 100 FSE themes in the WordPress repo by 53 different contributors. He notes that, excluding the Twenty Twenty-Two theme, “all remaining 99 FSE themes combined have about 30,000 active installs, rising fast!” Hendrik…
WordPress Certifications, SVG Uploads, FSE Category Testing, Fortnightly NPM updates, Persistent Object Cache and Full Page Cache
Courtney Robertson
What are your thoughts about WordPress certification? Join the call for testing FSE Category Customization.
Not Dead Yet! Just Mostly Dead?
Dan Knauss
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...
This Week at WordPress.org (June 6, 2022)
Courtney Robertson
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don't want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we've got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this…
Post Status Notes #501
David Bisset
Elementor acquires Strattic • WP Engine acquires Delicious Brains' plugins 🧠 • When the Cathedrals own the Bazaars and Shopping Centers and you're in a strip mall with a fruit stand... • Jetpack decouples • InstaWP gets seed funding from Automattic 🌱 • Automattic hire #2000 • World-class FSE, how? 🌐 • WCEU by the numbers • Weglot gives back • RoleUp rolls out • Tadlock exits WP Tavern 🍺 • Why 'why' matters most • The Big 2-0 next year • All there is to know about core WordPress email notifications, documented ✉️ • System font stack check • Do not follow by default • Museum of Block Art opens 🎨 • Meet Yvonne Doll • Mostly modest WordPress wishlists • WooCommerce Experts to go global • How to do well in a downturn 📉 • Some things we don't — but ought to — talk about. 🐘 Silent no longer about Sustainability.
Post Status Notes #499
David Bisset
Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship returns to WCUS › Think like a platform again! › Leo Gopal on support for mental health in the community › WP Accessibility Day › Performance Lab 1.1.0 › The WordPress Way › Dropping jQuery for speed › More to WP than Headless and FSE for devs › and more...
Post Status Notes #489
David Bisset
An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions.
WordPress 5.9 “Joséphine” Introduces Full Site Editing and Themes Created Entirely with Blocks
David Bisset
"Ever since the block editor was introduced our eyes were placed on a future where a theme could be created entirely with blocks. That future is here now..." — Matías Ventura, Lead Architect of WordPress' Gutenberg project.
WordPress as a Commons
Lesley Sim
Fences can protect or inhibit care of a commons. "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place," is a classic piece of wisdom. What are the questions we need to ask about our fences and WordPress as a commons?
Post Status Comments (No. 5) — The First Annual WordPress News Draft
Olivia Bisset
Aurooba Ahmed, Jason Cosper, Daniel Schutzsmith, Robert Jacobi, and Lesley Sim join David Bisset for three rounds of draft picks for the top WordPress stories of 2021.
Stump the Chumps: How can I display an annual cycle of daily posts individually in a widget or block — and a full calendar view?
Dan Knauss
What's the best way to build an annually recurring cycle of 365 posts for a "post of the day" feature on a WordPress site?
Anne McCarthy has put out the…
Dan Knauss
Anne McCarthy has put out the seventh call for testing in the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. 🧪 Now is a great time to help on the way to the 5.8 release. Just head over to #fse-outreach-experiment in Make Slack…
If you use BuddyPress and plan…
Dan Knauss
If you use BuddyPress and plan on using Full Site Editing, you should be aware some issues with both have been reported. BuddyPress content is not shown at all on the front end with FSE enabled. (This issue might extend…
