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Big news! Github has acquired npm,…

Dan Knauss

March 27, 2020

Big news! Github has acquired npm, Inc. the company behind the Node package manager registry. 📦 Github claims npm will "always be available and free." They will integrate GitHub and npm to "improve the security of the open-source software supply…

If you are a Github user,…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

If you are a Github user, you may have seen these announcements recently. The most applicable to many developers is likely to be the GitHub mobile apps currently in beta. The company also released it's State of the Octoverse. 10…

If you work with WooCommerce but…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

If you work with WooCommerce but aren't familiar with the developer chats, you can read summaries of them at woocommerce.wordpress.com. 🛒 Here's a reminder that the recently launched WooCommerce 3.7 requires at least PHP 5.6.20 and WordPress 4.9. It also…

Justin Tadlock sees an opportunity to…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2019

Justin Tadlock sees an opportunity to improve the WordPress theme directory and decided to "strike while the iron is hot" — he has a proposal to create standardized packages for common theme features. These packages would be available from the official…

Kirtan Gajjar has a sweet post…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Kirtan Gajjar has a sweet post on automated WordPress code review and deployment using GitHub Actions. Three actions have been released: PHPCS Code Review – Run PHPCS code review on pull requests. Deploy WordPress – Deploy a WordPress site using…

The Next Web broke a GitHub…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

The Next Web broke a GitHub news embargo by accident when they announced Github's unlimited free private repos. The author of this story, Matthew Hughes, vented on Twitter that it was WordPress's fault for immediately publishing his post because it was…

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

BusinessDraft

I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic's business, and more.

WordPress 5.0 marks a new era for the world’s most popular CMS

Brian Krogsgard

December 6, 2018

Make WordPressPlanet

Gutenberg has been an ambitious undertaking, but the new WordPress editor marks an important step for WordPress. The platform must continue to be both easier to use and more powerful to extend, and Gutenberg is a step in the right direction on both fronts.

By now I’m sure you’ve all…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Business

By now I'm sure you've all heard of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. This is a hugely successful exit for GitHub, and another interesting pickup for Microsoft. Unfortunately I can't find the tweet anymore, but I…

Automattic introduces a Google Docs integration for writing posts

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Automattic has created a Google Docs integration to write posts directly in Google Docs and create drafts from them in WordPress. I spoke to George Hotelling, one of the primary developers on the project, about the challenges and process of…

Huh brings documentation to your customer’s WordPress dashboard

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Huh -- like the sound -- is a new documentation plugin by Nick Hamze. It offers a little tooltip to your customer that enables easy to access documentation, right within the WordPress dashboard. Having recently gone through some install processes,…

New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers

Jack Lenox

January 12, 2017

DevelopmentPlanet

It's a new year, and a great time to set some New Year's resolutions as a WordPress developer. Here are some practical tips to up your game working with the WordPress code base.

WP CLI is now under the WordPress umbrella

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

Security

WP CLI is moving under the umbrella of WordPress.org. Matt Mullenweg made the announcement, and in it says he's also, "bringing together a number of companies in the WordPress ecosystem to solidify their financial support of runcommand so that Daniel…

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Sami Keijonen

January 7, 2017

BusinessDesign

Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.

Static site generators versus WordPress

Sonya Mann

August 23, 2016

HostingPlanet

WordPress is the dominant method to build and manage a website, but static site generators are surging in popularity amongst developers and for certain types of websites.

If one of your goals has…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

If one of your goals has been to automate web development, then this introduction to WordPress theme automation with Gulp might be something you'll want to read. It's a pretty comprehensive tutorial, and includes a GitHub repo with all the code.

Big news! Github has acquired npm,…

If you are a Github user,…

If you work with WooCommerce but…

Justin Tadlock sees an opportunity to…

Kirtan Gajjar has a sweet post…

The Next Web broke a GitHub…

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future

WordPress 5.0 marks a new era for the world’s most popular CMS

By now I’m sure you’ve all…

Automattic introduces a Google Docs integration for writing posts

Huh brings documentation to your customer’s WordPress dashboard

New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers

WP CLI is now under the WordPress umbrella

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Static site generators versus WordPress

If one of your goals has…

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