Inclusion

So you want responsive images in core?

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Brian Krogsgard

Yeah, who doesn't! Well, The Responsive Images Community Group has been working hard on an official feature plugin. Joe McGill recently posted an update in regard to what's going on, the scope of the plugin, and how folks can help. He…

Version 2 of the WordPress REST API released

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Brian Krogsgard

Version 2 of the WordPress REST API has been released on WordPress.org as a whole new plugin. The decision to do this was so that backward compatibility could be maintained on version 1 on a permanent basis. So if you…

Two big 4.3 commits

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Brian Krogsgard

I don't often talk about specific commits to WordPress pre-release, but two went in today that are familiar topics, and it's worth noting their inclusion in WordPress Trunk. First, changeset 32814 includes the third part of the shared terms issue…

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

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Sami Keijonen
Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

Version 1.2 of the WordPress REST API released

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Brian Krogsgard

Version 1.2 of the WordPress REST API was released today. It's release follows nine months of work, and it will be the last pre-2.0 release for the API. Development on the 1.2 branch has been active, but was entirely on…

Women, WordPress, & the web

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Brian Krogsgard

Mel Choyce is an outstanding member of the WordPress community. In this post, which is actually a follow-up to one she wrote two years ago, she talks about the environment for women in the WordPress and web communities. Quite honestly, you…

Post formats are slowly dying, and that’s okay

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Brian Krogsgard
Post formats were introduced in WordPress 3.1. They were, and still are, little more than an organizational feature that allows themes to support ten custom content formats such as asides, links, quotes, video, and audio. They are just a taxonomy…

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.9 hasn't quite reached beta, but many of us are already looking ahead to WordPress 4.0. I know, I know: 4.0 is no more significant than 3.9 or any other major release. It just so happens that WordPress' twenty-third major…

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…
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