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Leonardo Losoviz writes about new PHP…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Leonardo Losoviz writes about new PHP 5.x and 7.x features that will soon be available to WordPress developers. WordPress's minimum PHP requirement is planned to be raised to version 5.6 in April 2019 and 7.0 by December 2019.

Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

BusinessPlanet

You may know Peter Suhm as the man behind WP Pusher, a plugin that lets you securely deploy your plugins and themes directly from GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab to any WordPress site on any type of hosting.

📝 Some noteworthy items from the latest…

Dan Knauss

February 15, 2019

📝 Some noteworthy items from the latest weekly WordPress developer meeting: WordPress 5.1 RC1 is already out with RC2 either "late this week or early next week." The final version is on target for 2/21. WordPress 5.1.1 will probably be released…

Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia

Dan Knauss

February 15, 2019

HostingPlanet

Topher DeRosia took some time to reflect on HeroPress and recount his own path to WordPress, the long and winding road of freelancing, and his role as a developer evangelist for BigCommerce.

WordPress 5.1 reached Beta 3 this…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

Security

WordPress 5.1 reached Beta 3 this week, but sadly the PHP error protection handler slated for this release will be held for WordPress 5.2 instead. Some potential security issues cropped up in the implementation, and the team wanted to play…

Advanced Custom Fields version 5.7.10 is…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Advanced Custom Fields version 5.7.10 is out. This marks the beginning of its 2019 mission to "improve deeply," starting with the underlying PHP codebase.

Mark Gavalda at Kinsta released some…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Mark Gavalda at Kinsta released some numbers from their in-depth performance benchmarks to see how different versions of PHP stack up against each other while running WordPress, Drupal, etc. There's a lot to unpack here, but something curious for most…

Omar Reiss announced on make.wordpress.org that…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Omar Reiss announced on make.wordpress.org that it's now possible to run WordPress from /src again. For developers working with core PHP, "The biggest advantage of running WordPress from src is that changes in the PHP are immediately reflected on the server…

After the recent announcement that the…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

After the recent announcement that the minimum PHP version requirements will rise to 5.6 in 2019, Justin Tadlock wrote an excellent introduction to PHP Namespaces for developers.

Haris Zulfiqar at WebDevStudios covers the…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

Haris Zulfiqar at WebDevStudios covers the timely subject of Advanced Custom Fields and Gutenberg. Haris explains how to build a custom block for a hero section using ACF "without writing a single line of JavaScript code." In his view, "ACF…

Here is a nice update from…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

Here is a nice update from the Tide group, which made progress during Contributor Day at WCUS. Tide is a series of automated tests run against every installed plugin and theme in the WP.org directory. It displays PHP compatibility, and…

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

BusinessDraft

I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic's business, and more.

Matt Mullenweg’s State of The Word, 2018

David Bisset

December 10, 2018

Make WordPressPlanet

Matt Mullenweg took the stage once again for his annual “State of the Word” talk at WordCamp US in a packed room of over 1,500 attendees.

Gutenberg 4.5 was released a few…

Brian Krogsgard

November 27, 2018

Gutenberg 4.5 was released a few days ago, and it "matches the first 5.0 RC feature set." Some notable additions include: (1) a minimal multi-selection block panel; (2) the “Disable Visual Editor” option can be set on a per-user basis; (3)…

Iain Poulson has an introduction to…

Brian Krogsgard

November 27, 2018

Iain Poulson has an introduction to WordPress penetration testing. (Pentesting is the practice of simulating an attack on a site or app.) Iain covers some recommended tools like WPScan, Kali, sqlmap, and PHPStan, a PHP static analysis tool.

Gutenberg 4.3 was released with many updates,…

Brian Krogsgard

November 16, 2018

Gutenberg 4.3 was released with many updates, including core custom field meta box toggling, an API for annotations, URL validation to link input in RichText, improved navigation and interactions around the Columns and Gallery blocks, and speech announcement support for block…

Leonardo Losoviz writes about new PHP…

Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm

📝 Some noteworthy items from the latest…

Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia

WordPress 5.1 reached Beta 3 this…

Advanced Custom Fields version 5.7.10 is…

Mark Gavalda at Kinsta released some…

Omar Reiss announced on make.wordpress.org that…

After the recent announcement that the…

Haris Zulfiqar at WebDevStudios covers the…

Here is a nice update from…

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future

Matt Mullenweg’s State of The Word, 2018

Gutenberg 4.5 was released a few…

Iain Poulson has an introduction to…

Gutenberg 4.3 was released with many updates,…

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