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WordPress 5.0.2 was released on Thursday, December 20. It delivers bugfixes and performance improvements 💨 in the block editor that “make it 330% faster for a post with 200 blocks.”
Here’s the current schedule for upcoming releases:
Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I’ll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Miriam talks with Post Status Editor Dan Knauss about her WordPress journey as a WordCamp organizer, agency owner, and web host founder.
Karolina Szczur explains how to get started with web performance by breaking down the most important performance metrics. 🚄 JavaScript is one of the main obstacles, according to Karolina: “Avoiding long-running tasks and blocking the JavaScript main thread is one of the most critical performance strategies to employ.”
Matt Danner announced this week that iThemes has acquired Kadence WP and the team behind Kadence Blocks, a page-builder style block package. The acquisition also includes Kadence Theme, a WordPress theme “built for performance and easy development.” 💨 Matt admits the “themes” in iThemes have been lacking, but with this move “we’re making Kadence WP…
It is the season for version 2.5, apparently. Both WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads have had major feature releases lately, both to 2.5 (which is arbitrary but fun). Easy Digital Downloads includes a new export tool for reporting, revamped settings screens, a way to reset your store completely (scary, but nice!), and a number of…
jQuery 3.0 is officially out. It is a continuation of the 2.x branch, but with a few breaking changes. While the 1.12 and 2.2 branches will continue to receive critical support patches for a time, they will not get any new features or major revisions. The 1.12 branch is the release that is included in…
