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Design and Development News for the Week of October 31

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Daniel Schutzsmith
Missing Menu Items • Farewell PHP 7.4 • I Didn’t Know You Could Do That in the Block Editor • Why is Your Computer Cosplaying as a PDP-11? • Effective Writing for Devs • The State of CSS • The Swiss Army Knife of Website Tools: Website Toolkit
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Open Secrets: Forced Updates in WordPress

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Dan Knauss
We've seen forced updates become increasingly common and less controversial over time. But who decides, and how is that decision made? Are there unofficial channels and processes, like a decision tree, for escalating to a forced update?

Post Status Notes #487

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David Bisset
WordPress 5.9.1 released. REST or AJAX? Plugin dependency feature plugin. Testing, security, new themes and CSS standards. PHP benchmarks and more.

Sarah Gooding reported on accessibility consultant…

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Dan Knauss

Sarah Gooding reported on accessibility consultant Joe Dolson and how he detected suspicious review activity for the AccessiBe plugin at WordPress.org. Joe's discovery led to the removal of at least 33 reviews. Accessibility plugins that offer "quick fix" solutions are…

Elementor in the room 🐘 POST…

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Dan Knauss

Elementor in the room 🐘 POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ A recent conversation in Post Status Slack centers on Elementor. The company targeted "full-site editing" in some of its Google ads. Community member Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg…

Sarah Gooding observes that Envato has…

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Dan Knauss

Sarah Gooding observes that Envato has passed $1 billion in community earnings after 14 years of being in business. 💰 Sarah also gets into the controversy over Envato Elements, its subscription service which isn't sitting well with developers and authors…

Decisions have consequences

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David Bisset
Sarah Gooding has reported at WPTavern that the W3C and the agency it selected to redesign its website, Studio 24, dropped WordPress from consideration in a selection process that has ended with Craft CMS as the winner. First off, kudos…

A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has…

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Dan Knauss

A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has launched an updated new beta version of P2. In the past, P2 was a WordPress theme that has been used for "blogging at the speed of thought." It was adopted for internal communications between…
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