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PHP 7.4 was officially released on…

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PHP 7.4 was officially released on Thanksgiving Day (US). As Joe Watkins notes on Twitter, PHP 7.1 is no longer supported, and the branch is closed for modification. If you are on 7.1, consider upgrading.

WP-CLI 2.4.0 is out, and it…

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WP-CLI 2.4.0 is out, and it supports PHP 7.4. It works great with WordPress 5.3's improvements to "properly deal with large images" by keeping track of "the original source images ... so you can safely rebuild your thumbnails without losing…

WordPress 5.2.4 was released to address…

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WordPress 5.2.4 was released to address at least six security issues. 🔒 The first release candidate for WordPress 5.3 is available now, as well. 🏁 Remember, this release includes and fully supports PHP 7.4! More information about 5.3 continues to…

Quite a bit of developer information…

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Quite a bit of developer information has been published on the upcoming WordPress 5.3 release this past week: 👉🏻 In WordPress 5.3, the version of Backbone bundled with WordPress will be updated from version 1.3.3 to 1.4.0 with a few…

Jonathan Desrosiers has a breakdown of…

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Jonathan Desrosiers has a breakdown of the changes in PHP 7.4 "that plugin and theme developers need to be aware of and should accommodate in their code." ⚠️

Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko details an exciting…

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Andrey "Rarst" Savchenko details an exciting and long-awaited improvement to the Date/Time component in WordPress 5.3, which was made possible by raising the required PHP version for WordPress core to 5.6. ⌛ Andrey explains the Date/Time component previously relied on…

Since many people in the WordPress…

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Since many people in the WordPress community use Github, it was interesting to note Github's announcement that they plan to add support for a Dependency Graph for Composer-based PHP projects. 📊

If you work with WooCommerce but…

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If you work with WooCommerce but aren't familiar with the developer chats, you can read summaries of them at woocommerce.wordpress.com. 🛒 Here's a reminder that the recently launched WooCommerce 3.7  requires at least PHP 5.6.20 and WordPress 4.9. It also…

StudioPress announced the release of Genesis…

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StudioPress announced the release of Genesis 3.1, which requires WordPress 5.0+, PHP 5.6+, and an HTML5 Genesis child theme. You can read the full changelog, and developers can read the details about all the new features in the Genesis developer…

John James Jacoby released the initial…

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John James Jacoby released the initial version of BerlinDB, a "collection of PHP classes and functions that aims to provide an ORM-like experience and interface to WordPress database tables." John touched on these concepts in his talk at WordCamp Europe…

Gary Pendergast announced a “baby step”…

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Gary Pendergast announced a "baby step" toward a better contributor experience in WordPress Core. Custom Docker images are now available for running WordPress on PHP versions 5.2 to 7.3. These images aren’t intended for hosting Docker-based WordPress sites but instead…

ServerPilot announced in June that they…

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ServerPilot announced in June that they are launching a new hosting automation service called HostLaunch. It's meant to be a "platform for operating a modern web hosting company." It's a "customer-facing portal for your users to create their own accounts,…

Video and Podcast Picks of the…

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Video and Podcast Picks of the Week 📹 Here's my recommendation for video watching this week: Alex Young

Your Feedback is Requested 👉 Andrea…

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Your Feedback is Requested 👉 Andrea Middleton is collecting topic suggestions from WordPress contributor teams for the WordPress User and Developer Survey, which didn't happen last year. The survey's goal is to gather the information that will help inform contributor…

Video and Podcast Picks 📹 Here’s…

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Video and Podcast Picks 📹 Here's my recommendation for video watching this week: The "Cost of JavaScript 2019" video (and blog post) from Addy Osmani at the PerfMatters Conference 2019 shows the main costs of processing JavaScript are download and…
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