Version 1.0.0 of the WordPress Coding…
Version 1.0.0 of the WordPress Coding Standards for PHP_CodeSniffer was recently released, containing important “breaking changes and tons of bug fixes.”
Version 1.0.0 of the WordPress Coding Standards for PHP_CodeSniffer was recently released, containing important “breaking changes and tons of bug fixes.”
Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org • Are Active Install Counts Relevant to Your Business’s Success? (Even if they are accurate? And they haven’t been.) • Let’s Fix What’s Broken (The Plugin Repo) Not What Isn’t (The Freemium Model) • Follow Leaders, Adopt Standards • Tools and expertise from rtCamp • Some great and “doable” ideas for the future of plugin business metrics on the .org repo. Could some of them help put an end to intrusive and manipulative dark patterns in the WordPress Admin dashboard and notifications?
A new version of the WordPress Coding Standards (2.1.0) is out. All code sniffs are tested against PHP 7.4 (unstable) now. 👃
Since PHP 5.6 or higher will be required as of WordPress 5.2, Gary Pendergast reviewed some of the relevant WordPress Coding Standards and proposed a few changes to them, including anonymous functions and namespaces.
Bet Hannon, Eric Karkovack, Maciek Palmowski, and Rae Morey join David to share their reactions to the State of the Word 2021.
Video and Podcast Picks of the Week 📹 Here’s my recommendation for video watching this week: Alex Young has a great tutorial that will get you up and running with Gutenberg Blocks using the new Advanced Custom Fields plugin update (5.8). 🎙️ Here are the podcasts I’ve been listening to lately: Joe Howard, via Matt…
Share your feedback about how to improve the Five for the Future contributor journey. Check out work underway on how to make interactive blocks easier to build, and take a walkthrough of layout classes in WordPress 6.1. It’s time to start planning; how will you celebrate WordPress’ 20th birthday?