US digital accessibility-related lawsuits reached a rate of over 10 per day in 2021 with over 4,000 in total, up 15% from the previous year.
“Ever since the block editor was introduced our eyes were placed on a future where a theme could be created entirely with blocks. That future is here now…” — Matías Ventura, Lead Architect of WordPress’ Gutenberg project.
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. News Released: WordPress 5.9 Josephine. (Matt Mullenweg) Preliminary…
How can WordPress attract and retain more contributors? How can we assess and improve contributors, leaders, governance, transparency, discourse, and diversity in this dynamic community? Jordi Cabot proposes making research into these areas as a part of WordPress.org’s Five for the Future program.
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. News WordPress 5.9 RC3 Help Test WordPress 5.9…
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. News WordPress 5.9 RC 2. WordPress 5.8.3 Security…
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. News WordPress 5.9 RC 1. Help Test WordPress…
Matt Medeiros, Joe Howard, Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Sarah Gooding discuss the WordPress news space with David Bisset and Dan Knauss.
What is a “headless” WordPress site? Is it a good option for you? What does headless WordPress offer in speed, security, and scalability?
Wes Bos has published a free note and reference guide for JavaScript developers, especially for beginners. It’s a great-looking resource. 👍
WP Migrate DB Pro 2.0 has been released with a nice-looking UI update, profile improvements, CLI add-on improvements, and an all-new Media Files add-on. ✨ Explaining why it took two and a half years to get this update out, Iain Poulson reveals that the most significant reason was learning React: “We threw out all our…
Chris Wiegman explains how to create a minimal WordPress theme “in the era of Gutenberg” with three key focus points: No JavaScript should be needed on the front end. CSS should be limited to a single stylesheet and strive to be as minimal as possible. Remove all non-essential assets such as fonts, images, and comments….
Craig Buckler shared a number of JavaScript developer tool “secrets.” One tip I picked up: Chrome’s Coverage panel allows you to quickly locate JavaScript (and CSS) code that has — and has not — been used. 👨💻
There is a proposal from sarayourfriend for native TypeScript support in Gutenberg. TypeScript extends JavaScript by adding types. It’s hoped this move might “encourage new contributions by community members in this space by lowering the learning curve and leveraging existing knowledge of statically typed languages.” 👍
David and Cory discuss WordPress 5.7, the latest news in WordPress, WPEngine’s new headless WordPress service, and learning JavaScript today.
Here are some JavaScript ES2021 features worth knowing, plus some practical examples. 👨🏫
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