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After the WordPress 5.2 release was…

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Dan Knauss

After the WordPress 5.2 release was pushed back to early May and the first release candidate became available for testing, some detailed posts surfaced about 5.2 with some new and more in-depth analysis. William Earnhardt addressed the accessibility changes developers…

Chris Coyier shares his thoughts on how…

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Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier shares his thoughts on how to improve WordPress comments. Chris has WordPress sites with a cumulative total of a few hundred thousand (generally high quality) comments, so he speaks with some authority on this subject. Many of Chris's suggestions…

Interesting test data from HubSpot: HTML…

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Brian Krogsgard

Interesting test data from HubSpot: HTML emails reduce open rates and clickthrough rates. "Ultimately, in email, less is more." Of course, your results may vary depending on your content and audience, but if you send out email newsletters on a…

WordPress with an IDE in it

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Brian Krogsgard

Have you used the beta version of WordPress 4.9? I have. One of the new things is the file editor, which has been pretty fully overhauled. It has a lot of improvements. If we are to have a file editor…

The EFF also pulled out of…

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Brian Krogsgard

The EFF also pulled out of the W3C, in what seems a response to the W3C's support of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), and specifically the implementation of DRM in the HTML working group; though I can't tell for certain. John…

If you compose HTML emails, then…

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If you compose HTML emails, then you’ll want to read this post from Chris Coyier that highlights some essential tools, workflows, and APIs that will make your work easier.

Here’s a nice overview of the…

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Here's a nice overview of the changes coming to the WordPress editor in 4.8 from Andrew Ozz. His post includes examples for adding default and custom TinyMCE buttons to the toolbar. If you're wondering why TinyMCE was added to the…

10up has released a WordPress component…

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10up has released a WordPress component library, which is, “a collection of front-end components constructed with WordPress and accessibility at the forefront.” Jon Bellah says that each component in the library is WCAG 2.0 accessible, and they're hoping to make…

“You Might Not Need JavaScript” is…

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"You Might Not Need JavaScript" is a site that showcases examples of UI elements and interactions that you can accomplish with HTML and CSS alone. There is more than one way to tackle something, and an experienced developer chooses which…

Shifter is a “serverless hosting solution…

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Shifter is a "serverless hosting solution for WordPress." According to the website, it "seamlessly transforms your site into a series of static HTML files," and they aim to be both the generator and the host of the generated files. It's…

The content in WordPress

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One of Pippin Williamson's repeated concerns during his review of page builders was over data loss. He praised the plugins that, when deactivated, maintained HTML markup and content in the_content() so the site owner could still use their content without the…
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