Genesis

Gutenberg 2.8 was released officially on May…

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

Gone, but not lost

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

Mika Epstein ran into the perennial…

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

Genesis 2.5 is now available. It…

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Brian Krogsgard

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 relaunched, going all in on a hosted product

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

StudioPress FM is a new WordPress…

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David Bisset

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.

Rainmaker Digital passes $12 million in revenue, 60+ employees

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

Genesis for strangers

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Brian Krogsgard

As we mentioned at the outset, this isn’t a Genesis tutorial. Rather it’s an introduction to Genesis for strangers. The basic thing a stranger needs to understand about Genesis is this: know Genesis’s action and filter hooks, and everything is…

Growth in the French community

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Jenny Beaumont
Jenny Beaumont, a freelance web developer based in France, describes the recent growth boom in France's WordPress community and some of those who've helped it thrive.

Better local development with Airplane Mode

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Brian Krogsgard
Websites are complicated these days. Even when we work locally, we typically still need to make a bunch of calls to external, online applications, on any given page load. If you're ever without an internet connection, but still attempt to…

Where to learn WordPress development

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Brian Krogsgard
I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I'd share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered…
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