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ByDan Knauss

Nikita Prokopov says “Font size is useless” and needs to be fixed. If you’re a front-end developer or a font geek, read this. Also mentioned in Nikita’s blog post is an article from Vincent De Oliveira explaining exactly how fonts and the CSS line-height algorithm work.

Critical rendering path and front end performance notes

Critical rendering path and front end performance notes

ByBrian Krogsgard

There is no fold, unless you’re talking about the critical rendering path, of course. For a primer on critical rendering paths, Patrick Sexton has a good introduction: Let’s look at the path that this page takes before it gets displayed…. browser downloads the html file browser reads the html and sees that there are one…

It’s up for debate right now…

ByDan Knauss

It’s up for debate right now how much demand there will be for headless WordPress. Jason Bahl identifies a key barrier: While much of WordPress was built with decoupling in mind, the WP REST API and Gutenberg were not. As a result, decoupled application developers interacting with WordPress are limited in what they can achieve….

In development since November, WooCommerce 3.9…

ByDan Knauss

In development since November, WooCommerce 3.9 is out with 600 commits from 18 contributors. This is a minor release, but it ships with WooCommerce Blocks 2.5.11, MaxMind Geolocation Integration, and it raises the minimum WordPress and PHP version requirements to 5.0 and 7.0, respectively. 🛒

Rich Tabor has authored a new…

ByDan Knauss

Rich Tabor has authored a new block plugin for adding markdown comments that only display while editing a post with Gutenberg in WordPress: “Having the ability to add, and keep, any relevant editing comments within my posts, without rendering them on the front-end, means that I am freed up to mentally jot any idea down…

Carrie Dils dives into full site…

ByDan Knauss

Carrie Dils dives into full site editing in WordPress now with this Getting Started guide. To experiment with the existing and planned features coming to Gutenberg in the near future, you’ll start by downloading and installing the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin on a development site. Next, enable “Full Site Editing” under plugin settings….