The WordPress design team is looking for feedback, which is part of the early exploratory research for revisions to the Plugin Directory. If you have ever used an app store or installed an extension in any major browser… they would love a few minutes of your time.
Mickey Kay has proposed a condensed view that is pretty nice.
Shopify has a lot going for it. WooCommerce, though, is the better platform for ecommerce on the Open Web.
This article by David Gilbert of Random Wire on Japanese web design has gone around for a while and is worth a read if, like me, you haven’t seen it yet. 🗾 David asks why Japanese websites are so “different” compared to European and Western site design. I appreciated this feedback from Stephen Cronin when…
This is a slick jQuery script to make big, fancy, responsive headlines where each line has equal line measure. So it makes it like those posters we all love where the font size varies per line to make the measure match. Would be cool to see this in a newsy WordPress theme. h/t Line25.
Awesome Motive announced it acquired Plugin Rank this week. The SaaS app helps WordPress plugin developers track and improve their rankings in WordPress search results. 🔌 Syed Balkhi explained that his company was already engaged in plugin rank tracking of their own, “but the PluginRank.com tool is way more powerful than what [Awesome Motive] had…
Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.
The WordPress REST API is at a bit of a crossroads. There is a proposal on the table by the core team of four contributors — Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker, Daniel Bachhuber, and Joe Hoyle — to ship endpoints to WordPress core iteratively. There is a pushback on this proposal by WordPress Project Lead and co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
