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WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out.…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out. The final release is expected to drop on August 11th, 2020 as planned. 📅 👉 Several tooling additions and improvements have gone into the WordPress 5.5 cycle. Developers should take note of the build…

PHP is 25! 🎂 The Register…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2020

PHP is 25! 🎂 The Register has a nice summary of its history that links to

Joshua Strebel explains PHP workers and…

Dan Knauss

May 20, 2020

Joshua Strebel explains PHP workers and what they mean for WordPress hosting. He also shares some test results and what to take away from them. For example, "You want to tune the number of PHP workers to consistently use 80-100%…

Blocks and Themes The Themes Review…

Dan Knauss

May 20, 2020

Blocks and Themes The Themes Review Team has been renamed the Themes Team. 📛 WordPress 5.5 will include checks for PHP and WordPress core version requirements in the theme installer. Users won't be able to install themes whose requirements aren't…

Peter Tasker, a PHP and JavaScript…

Dan Knauss

April 27, 2020

Peter Tasker, a PHP and JavaScript developer in Canada, revised and updated his outstanding article on how to create custom WordPress Editor Blocks — in 2020. I recommend reading or bookmarking Peter's post if you might be building blocks in…

Juliette Reinders Folmer notes that some…

Dan Knauss

March 27, 2020

Juliette Reinders Folmer notes that some updates are proposed for implementation in WordPress Coding Standards 3.0.0: "With the change to PHP 5.6 as the minimum PHP version for WordPress Core, and with the outlook of a minimum version of PHP…

If you are interested in how…

Dan Knauss

March 13, 2020

If you are interested in how the Just In Time (JIT) compiler works in the upcoming release of PHP 8, read this very accessible post from Níckolas Da Silva. ⏰

Ari Stathopoulos proposes a way to…

Dan Knauss

February 20, 2020

Ari Stathopoulos proposes a way to ease the transition to block-based themes from older themes that were never designed for the new editor. As you can imagine, moving from hardcoded PHP templates to a blocks structure is not an easy…

Video and podcast picks

Brian Krogsgard

February 15, 2020

Business

📹 Here's my video pick of the week: There's an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has two…

Carl Alexander explains why raising the…

Brian Krogsgard

February 15, 2020

Carl Alexander explains why raising the minimum PHP version in WordPress doesn't make it a "modern PHP project." The also lists the steps that could be taken now to close that gap. In a follow-up tweet, Carl added, "I think…

If you want to start reading…

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2020

If you want to start reading ahead for PHP 8, follow this post from Brent Roose as it evolves. There is quite a bit of information to read already. I'm particularly interested in the JIT ("just in time") compiler that…

In development since November, WooCommerce 3.9…

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2020

In development since November, WooCommerce 3.9 is out with 600 commits from 18 contributors. This is a minor release, but it ships with WooCommerce Blocks 2.5.11, MaxMind Geolocation Integration, and it raises the minimum WordPress and PHP version requirements to…

Tim Nash shares how one might…

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2020

Tim Nash shares how one might go about finding all the Gutenberg Blocks used on a site. It's more complicated than you think. Tim also shares five languages he thinks WordPress Developers should learn in 2020: PHP 7, Javascript and…

Brent Roose offers some benchmarks that…

Dan Knauss

January 20, 2020

Brent Roose offers some benchmarks that feature the new preloading feature in PHP 7.4. Brent says, "I think it's safe to say that preloading... will have a positive performance impact, also on real-life projects built upon a full-blown framework." 🚆

Noriko Yamamoto comments on the PHP…

Dan Knauss

January 2, 2020

Noriko Yamamoto comments on the PHP community and suggests how it can expand beyond linguistic and geographic barriers. 🗺️

24 Days in December is a…

Dan Knauss

December 13, 2019

24 Days in December is a series of blog posts on different subjects from the PHP community, including yours truly. All of them are worth a read, but here are two that stood out to me: Milana Cap on the…

WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out.…

PHP is 25! 🎂 The Register…

Joshua Strebel explains PHP workers and…

Blocks and Themes The Themes Review…

Peter Tasker, a PHP and JavaScript…

Juliette Reinders Folmer notes that some…

If you are interested in how…

Ari Stathopoulos proposes a way to…

Video and podcast picks

Carl Alexander explains why raising the…

If you want to start reading…

In development since November, WooCommerce 3.9…

Tim Nash shares how one might…

Brent Roose offers some benchmarks that…

Noriko Yamamoto comments on the PHP…

24 Days in December is a…

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