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 appreciated what I saw someone say about GitHub, in that it is a successful exit…
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 building the integration. He said that, “the bulk of the work was converting Google Docs’…
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, I found documentation a bit of a hurdle to find, and am currently digging this…
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 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 and others can devote more time to making wp-cli better and better through 2017.” Runcommand…
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.
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 been to automate web development, then this introduction to WordPress theme automation with Gulp might be something you’ll want to read. It’sĀ a pretty comprehensive tutorial, and includes a GitHub repo with all the code.
Aaron Jorbin has released an update to grunt-patch-wordpress with two new features: GitHub URL support and uploading patches directly from the command line.
I had the privilege to attend and be the media partner at A Day of REST, the world’s first conference devoted to the WordPress REST API. Here’s my initial review, and some pictures, from the event.
The much anticipated proposal for core inclusion of the WordPress REST API is here. Ryan McCue — the project lead — has proposed a draft for the inclusion process that recommends a two stage approach. He recommends that stage one would be an “infrastructure” inclusion, to occur in WordPress 4.4; and stage two would be…
“RE: RE: RE: RE: Needs input.” Gravity Flow helps organizations get rid of this nonsense, by extending Gravity Forms to make custom form-based workflows for administrative approval and user input processes.
After interviewing thirteen WordPress developers for a book on getting up and running with WordPress development, I have some key takeaways that I’d like to share with you.
Ryan McCue, the lead developer of the WordPress REST API, imagines the year 2020, when the REST API is mature and in WordPress core. He tells us stories of some of the fun things that are possible.
For so long, people wanted to get their hands on O2, the long promised successor to P2. Alas, O2 ran out of oxygen at Automattic, and is no longer a focus for the company. As noted by Sarah Gooding at WP Tavern, the GitHub O2 repo was announced by Kevin Conboy at WordCamp Denver. It’s…
The theme review team is putting Customizer code examples on Github, according to an announcement today: The first area to tackle is example Customizer code, which currently includes examples for adding panels, sections, settings, basic core controls, specialized core text controls (email, URL, etc.), advanced core controls (color control, image control), and an example custom…
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