WPEngine released the results of its first global Genesis community survey to which 1,687 people around the world responded. 📊 Some key stats: 54% of those responded lived in the U.S. versus 46% internationally. (88%) of survey respondents own or co-own their businesses with an even higher percentage (90%) identifying themselves as the “technology decision…
Alex Mustin shows off a video about setting up a Gutenberg homepage in 30 seconds with a new “onboarding” feature in the upcoming Genesis version 2.8 release.
The Genesis 2.7 beta is now available. This update focuses on key architectural components and modernizing the codebase to prepare for some exciting future updates related to WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg. PHP version 5.3 or greater is required.
Some significant recent news about Gutenberg and its release has come out this week. Matt Mullenweg announced an expansion of the release team and named some members of the WordPress community who will help lead “the critical focuses required for a smooth and successful release.” Things like triage, accessibility, REST API, and themes are mentioned….
Sallie Goetsch has built a plugin that generates a portfolio Custom Post Type whose entries are pre-populated with core Gutenberg blocks. When you create a new portfolio item, the blocks are pre-arranged in a template to make it easier to create a project case study. Tess Needham at WordPress.com VIP blogged about Amnesty International using Gutenberg to build…
Gutenberg 2.8 was released officially on May 4. This was a “polish more” release, but it still included some new additions like a “Spacer” block to create empty areas and a server-side render component. There are some nice improvements to the color palette component too. Zach Silveira has created Gutenblock which allows developers to create Gutenberg blocks…
Jesse Petersen died yesterday, July 5th. He was a valued member of the WordPress community, but more importantly, he was a man who loved his family, was comforted by the faithfulness of his God, and who lived every day looking forward. None of us know when it is our time to go. But Jesse knew…
Rebecca Gill announced the Web Savvy Marketing Genesis theme business has been sold to 9Seeds.
Rainmaker launched in April of 2014, and now it’s moving from a SaaS product model to a service-only model, which includes a partial buyout to a new stakeholder — Nimble Worldwide. I was excited about the launch of the hosted and highly customized WordPress service, and at one point, Copyblogger (now Rainmaker Digital) credited Rainmaker…
Mika Epstein ran into the perennial challenge of Genesis child theme users who customize their theme code. Genesis themes are all child themes for the Genesis Framework, which you shouldn’t modify. Mika’s solution was a grandchild theme plugin to keep her custom code separated from the Genesis parent and child. This has always been my…
Genesis 2.5 is now available. It includes filters and helper functions, an expanded layout engine, full support for the WordPress title tag feature, and accessibility improvements.
StudioPress has a brand new look, and is now marketing itself primarily as StudioPress Sites. At a foundational level, StudioPress Sites feels like a mashup of other products under the parent company umbrella, backed by the powerful StudioPress brand. In reality, nothing is that simple. StudioPress Sites is hosted WordPress, a thing I’ve long advocated…
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian talks to Pippin Williamson, and they examine the efforts he and his team have made while breathing new life into Restrict Content Pro.
StudioPress FM is a new WordPress podcast hosted by Brian Gardner and Luaren Mancke. Their inagural episode focuses on Brian’s starting StudioPress and the Genesis Framework. If you’re a Genesis community member, this is right in your wheelhouse.
In this episode, Joe and Brian answer listeners’ WordPress questions, from topics like Multisite, to understanding taxonomies versus posts, the state of the WordPress importer, and more.
Rainmaker Digital is the newish name of the formerly known Copyblogger Media. Brian Clark recently did an interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy, where he discussed the state of the business, where things are going, and what to expect. It was pretty enlightening. I’m just going to call them Rainmaker from now on because it’s easier….
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