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Catalin Rosu and a team looked…

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Brian Krogsgard

Catalin Rosu and a team looked at the source code and markup of 8 million websites and came up with some interesting statistics as a result. All the information is in the form of charts so you’ll have to check…

Here’s a free HTML email check…

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Brian Krogsgard

Here’s a free HTML email check and validation tool – paste your code and it will note any notices and bugs while offering some suggestions. It wasn't particularly impressed with my email source code, so I presume it's pretty good...

WordPress 4.6, “Pepper”

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 4.6, "Pepper", has been released with shiny plugin management, system fonts, link syntax checking, resource hints, and more. This release post includes a special episode of the podcast.

Using Kickstarter to fund open source

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Daniel Bachhuber
Successfully crowdfunding open source development is difficult, but not impossible. Here are some of the lessons I took away from my Kickstarter project, "A more RESTful WP-CLI."

<fieldset> and <legend> elements aren’t the…

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Brian Krogsgard

<fieldset> and <legend> elements aren't the most common HTML elements and I've always wondered if I was using them correctly, so I'm happy to share this post from Leonie Watson about the correct usage of the these elements, especially when…

If you use placeholders in your…

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Brian Krogsgard

If you use placeholders in your HTML forms, then a quick look at why they can be problematic is worth a read. The author's main point is that you shouldn't replace labels with placeholders, but use them in a supplemental…

Mahangu Weerasinghe writes about “breaking the…

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Mahangu Weerasinghe writes about "breaking the silence" on HeroPress, with one of the most moving stories I've read in a long time. Somehow, as I progressed through high school, the expectant pauses of those listening to me were more difficult…

Treehouse ending WordPress training

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Brian Krogsgard

You may have already seen that Treehouse is ending their WordPress training. This came as a surprise to me when I talked to WordPress instructor Zac Gordon this last week at WordCamp US. It turns out, they are focusing their…

Tom Nowell has a really neat…

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Tom Nowell has a really neat tool, that let's you input something, and see what the output would be, having been run through every one of WordPress's escaping and sanitizing functions. I seriously love this little tool. Confused about it?…

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…

whitelist_html is Ryan McCue and Human…

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Brian Krogsgard

whitelist_html is Ryan McCue and Human Made's way to allow some HTML when sanitizing strings, but not all, while also preventing the performance hit of WordPress's kses functions.

Second draft of the shortcode roadmap

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Brian Krogsgard

The shortcode roadmap has a second draft ready, and it's a big improvement over the first draft (better off to read the extended discussion on that if you need to catch up). It's obvious a ton of thought has gone…
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