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Upcoming Events There is a call…

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Dan Knauss
Upcoming Events There is a call for speakers for WordFest Live 2021 which happens online on January 22, 2021. The deadline for speaker submissions is November 18 at midnight UTC. Selected speakers will be notified by December 2. 📅 On…

The newest iteration of the Gutenberg…

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Dan Knauss

The newest iteration of the Gutenberg plugin for WordPress is out, and it seems to be a "tweak and polish" release. It delivers percentage widths for button blocks, social and font size change support, and API improvements. ✨

Gutenberg 9.2 has been released. This…

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Gutenberg 9.2 has been released. This is the final release to make it into WordPress 5.6 Beta, which also came out this week. ✨ Featured items in the Gutenberg release include: Support for video subtitles. The ability to transform multiple…

Sami Keijonen shows how to use…

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Dan Knauss

Sami Keijonen shows how to use WordPress and Eleventy together with the block editor "as usual" on the back end but with the front end served by Eleventy. 💡 The main reasons for doing this, according to Sami, are "Security.…

Decisions have consequences

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David Bisset
Sarah Gooding has reported at WPTavern that the W3C and the agency it selected to redesign its website, Studio 24, dropped WordPress from consideration in a selection process that has ended with Craft CMS as the winner. First off, kudos…

A proposal has been published on…

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Dan Knauss

A proposal has been published on the Make WordPress blog that asks for feedback on the idea of licensing Gutenberg under the GNU General Public License, v2 (GPL v2) and the Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL v2.0). Matt Mullenweg notes…

The Gutenberg 9.0 release is out…

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Dan Knauss

The Gutenberg 9.0 release is out with a focus on navigation screen improvements. It has a new look and supports drag and drop inside the list view now. The query block has gained search, filtering by author and support for…

Ryan Welcher announced in Post Status…

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Dan Knauss

Ryan Welcher announced in Post Status Slack the launch of the GoodFirstBugs Twitter bot that finds issues tagged as "Good First Issue" in Gutenberg as well as Core Trac tickets. It's a pretty great concept, and I would love to…

The Gutenberg plugin is out with…

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Dan Knauss

The Gutenberg plugin is out with a new update. In version 8.9, the block-based widgets screen is enabled by default and replaces the default WordPress widgets screen. Other enhancements include adding a character count to the info panel. You can…

I learned a lot from this…

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Dan Knauss

I learned a lot from this post by Chris Weigman on how he went back to WordPress after a year with Hugo. Other technologies may be attractive, but WordPress still pays the bills. Chris also mentions that "the block editor…

Justin Ahinon has a proposal for…

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Dan Knauss

Justin Ahinon has a proposal for a new approach to Gutenberg developer documentation. Justin recently volunteered to be the Gutenberg developer documentation team representative. In his proposal, he asks for feedback in the comments. I have heard from several developers…

Ellen Bauer, a front-end developer at…

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Dan Knauss

Ellen Bauer, a front-end developer at Elmastudio, announced the release of Aino Blocks. This plugin brings you a collection of page building blocks for the Gutenberg editor that can optionally work with a free Aino theme. Ellen is looking for…

🤝 Recently Joomla developers from JoomUnited…

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Dan Knauss

🤝 Recently Joomla developers from JoomUnited handed off the Advanced Gutenberg plugin to Steve Burge and PublishPress. Looking ahead, Steve says: "PublishPress has focused on the admin area of WordPress... With the addition of Advanced Gutenberg, we're also going to…

New in 5.5 WordPress 5.5 Release…

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Dan Knauss

New in 5.5 WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate 2 landed this week, and the final release date (August 11) is next Tuesday. Here are the latest updates and news about it: There is more support for modernized JavaScript i18n, which Justin…

A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has…

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A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has launched an updated new beta version of P2. In the past, P2 was a WordPress theme that has been used for "blogging at the speed of thought." It was adopted for internal communications between…
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