Unsplash has released an official WordPress plugin that integrates their stock image service with WordPress. Features include quick intuitive search, easy insertion of images into posts, native support for the WordPress Media Library, automatic alt descriptions for improved accessibility and SEO. 📷 The plugin was built by the team at XWP. They’re also working on…
Sarah Gooding did a nice job summarizing the changes Jetpack is testing for paid block upgrades. It is controversial in the community as it fits within the gray zone of what should or should not be allowed. I appreciated Jeremy Herve’s comments to the post. I think it’s fair to say I support good user…
Iain Poulson from Delicious Brains explains the risks of relying on third party libraries and codebases that are maintained by a single person. In the current discussion about JavaScript frameworks for WordPress Core, this is a timely question to ask. Iain mentions Vue.js as an example. Vue.js is being discussed as a choice for integration in WordPress, but it’s a project run mainly…
Speaking of survey results, the Editor Experience Survey results are in. 2,563 responses anonymous results in total. You should read the results and the analysis, but here’s some tidbits: Not surprisingly, most filling out the survey identified with being a developer as their use of WordPress 89% use the WordPress Editor weekly or more 85%…
Many of you have probably followed Dan Cameron’s saga of losing all of his Sprout Invoices plugin reviews on WordPress.org. It’s a complex story, and I certainly see both sides. Fortunately for me, Sarah Gooding wrote pretty much a perfect post on the subject, so that I don’t have to. She explains how there’s a…
For so long, people wanted to get their hands on O2, the long promised successor to P2. Alas, O2 ran out of oxygen at Automattic, and is no longer a focus for the company. As noted by Sarah Gooding at WP Tavern, the GitHub O2 repo was announced by Kevin Conboy at WordCamp Denver. It’s…
From Sarah Gooding on WP Tavern: The official Facebook plugin for WordPress launched in 2012 with the help of engineers from Automattic and currently lists 14 contributing authors. The plugin is active on more than 200,000 websites, but Facebook has not updated the plugin description page to let users know that it has been abandoned. The…
Yes! This is important. I get really worked up when I see basic concepts of design ignored by developers. I mean, I’m not a great designer by any means, but we can all learn a few things. Here are some excellent tips for getting started, by Mel Choyce on ThemeShaper. Related, as Sarah Gooding reports,…
In a provocative article on WP Tavern titled “Envato Continues to Rake in the Cash from WordPress Themes Packaged as Complete Website Solutions”, Sarah Gooding slams Envato for their role in what I’ll call the “big theme” market. Envato theme authors are making large sums of cash by selling themes that are packaged as complete solutions…
BuddyPress 1.9, “Sammy” was released last night, and for the first time in two years added a new component: notifications. Sarah Gooding has done a nice job on WP Tavern highlighting the various details of the release.
Sarah Gooding has written for WPMU for years. I was able to track her archive page back to October 2009. She announced this morning she’s joined Audrey, Matt Mullenweg’s research and investment arm, and is going to write about WordPress on WP Tavern full time. Sarah is a great writer, and WP Tavern will be…
This looks awesome. Sarah Gooding featured this CodePen embed plugin for WordPress over on the WPMU blog. CodePen is a great tool that I’ve been wanting to use more. If you’re not familiar, it’s a project from Chris Coyier and a couple other folks, and it’s like jsFiddle plus a lot more. You can write…
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