As a followup to my note in August on this topic, here’s what Tom Greenwood had to say about WebP’s value to sustainability in WordPress: I think as most browsers support WebP now, there is a real benefit to serving this format as it saves a lot on data transfer and improves performance. The downside…
Is it safe to insert an SVG via URL? How healthy is your database? Performance Team Rep Nominations.
Robert Rowley at Patchstack explains what I believe is the first-ever reported vulnerability in Gutenberg (the plugin, not in WordPress core) to make the National Vulnerability Database. Robert has opened an issue for discussion in the Gutenberg GitHub repo that has a good quick summary of the vulnerability. It appears to be only a theoretical…
I’m looking forward to lots of good things coming in the future on the new WordPress core Performance Team blog, and I’m glad SVG and WebP are finally going to be usable in WordPress by default. (This is already the case in some hosting environments.) But the forced on-by-default generation of WebP images when you…
What are your thoughts about WordPress certification? Join the call for testing FSE Category Customization.
Bill Erickson shows how to use an SVG for a site favicon. This allows you to modify the favicon styling based on a dynamic color scheme, including a dark mode.
It’s rare to see an experimental WordPress theme used to explore new approaches to design, so I enjoyed Kjell Reigstad sharing how he used Blockbase (a parent theme for block themes) to create an intentionally “glitchy” theme. Warping text and images using CSS and SVG filters created some nice effects! 🎨 If you are planning…
SVGCrop can save you a bunch of time if all you need to do is to trim or crop SVG files. 🌽
Lewis Warren explains what SVG files are, what they’re used for, and why developers should be using them: “SVGs are easier to manage, will improve the load speed of your web pages, and won’t require an update every time a new resolution display splashes onto the market with a higher PPI (pixels per inch). Additionally,…
Here’s a nifty web tool to easily create an emoji or letter-based SVG favicon.
Dashicons — which currently weigh in at 303 icons in a single, compiled sprite — may be nearing the end of their useful life. As Joen notes, “The block editor uses SVG icons directly, and the rest of WordPress uses the Dashicons icon font.” Moving forward, an “ultimate” (as in final) release has been proposed….
Justin Tadlock showed off some work involving SVG background pattern options in the WordPress Customizer: SVG background pattern options via the WordPress customizer. Still got some cleanup and fine-tuning to do, but this is pretty cool. pic.twitter.com/JQMUFMqlgj — Justin Tadlock (@justintadlock) July 22, 2019
Carlo Daniele has a developer’s guide to WordPress’s Twenty Seventeen Theme on the Kinsta blog. Carlo shows customizing the front page header, adding more sections to the front page, adding custom SVG icons to the Social Icons menu, and animating front page scrolling.
Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.
Per Søderlind, who calls Oslo his home, has developed an SVG logo Custom Control for the WordPress Customizer. It’s a proof of concept, but seems to be worth the time to review his walkthrough if you find yourself needing to customize the Customizer.
Genericons has had an overhaul recently. According to this Github note from Joen Asmussen, they’ve changed the build process to Node.js and Grunt, prioritized SVG over icon-fonts, removed social icons, and focusing on “being just an icon set.” The release will be in a long beta while Joen goes on sabbatical for a few months, so if you use…
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