In case you need them, John…
Dan Knauss
In case you need them, John Blackbourn has put together JSON schemas for WordPress core PHP objects and REST API responses. 👨💻
The WordPress 5.6 Field Guide 📖…
Dan Knauss
The WordPress 5.6 Field Guide 📖 has been published ahead of the 5.6 release with everything everyone, from developers to new users, might need to know: "As a user, you’ll see automatic updates for major core releases (opt-in), external authentication…
Ibis is a handy and new-to-me…
Dan Knauss
Ibis is a handy and new-to-me PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF. 📗
Leonardo Losoviz has written a step-by-step…
Dan Knauss
Leonardo Losoviz has written a step-by-step guide on using Rector and GitHub Actions to downgrade a WordPress plugin by coding it with PHP 7.4 and deploying it to PHP 7.1. 👇
bbPress 2.6.6 is a minor release…
Dan Knauss
bbPress 2.6.6 is a minor release that's available now. It fixes some PHP warnings and notices, "some output formatting bugs and improves a few different moderator experiences," according to John James Jacoby. 🐛
Omar Reiss at Yoast has assembled…
Dan Knauss
Omar Reiss at Yoast has assembled a "WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report." WordPress developers should take note, and it's also a good general resource for any PHP developer. The report covers some possible breaking changes and compatibility challenges. 💔…
ZDNet reports job listings for entry-level…
Dan Knauss
ZDNet reports job listings for entry-level PHP developer roles have increased a massive 834% since January 2020, making it the fastest-growing tech job across the industry, according to Indeed's data. 👨💻
Gutenberg 9.2 has been released. This…
Dan Knauss
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…
Leonardo Losoviz has shared his discovery…
Dan Knauss
Leonardo Losoviz has shared his discovery of Rector and transpiling in PHP. 🐘 A transpiler is “a type of translator that takes the source code of a program written in a programming language as its input and produces an equivalent…
A long-standing goal of the WordPress…
Dan Knauss
A long-standing goal of the WordPress project is to be compatible with new versions of PHP on release day. There's a call right now for both manual and automated testing to ensure the core codebase is ready for PHP 8.0.…
🌲 Pinegrow — a new, commercial…
Dan Knauss
🌲 Pinegrow — a new, commercial "web editor" and "website builder" for Windows, MacOS, and Linux — has an extra add-on feature for building WordPress themes. You can assign "WordPress actions to individual elements on the page" and export your…
Alain Schlesser documents the best ways…
Dan Knauss
Alain Schlesser documents the best ways of setting up exceptions and using them in PHP — and "how to avoid creating a mess while doing so." 👌
Matt Mullenweg closed a ticket opened…
Dan Knauss
Matt Mullenweg closed a ticket opened by Juliette Reinders Folmer about four days ago. The ticket had to do with ending support for PHP 5.6, which was a milestone within the original release scope and is currently the minimum required…
PHP 8 is in feature freeze,…
Dan Knauss
PHP 8 is in feature freeze, and Beta 1 has been released. There are also new security releases for stable PHP versions 7.2.33, 7.3.21 and 7.4.9. 🔒
Matt Shaw shows how to set…
Dan Knauss
Matt Shaw shows how to set up Visual Studio Code and xDebug for WordPress development in a recently updated post. 👨💻 Matt also touches on important extensions such as Git Lens (which adds simple git blame annotations to the line…
