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WordPress 5.0.3 was released. It’s mainly a maintenance release that includes 37 bug fixes and seven performance updates, with a focus on fine-tuning the new block editor and fixing any significant bugs or regressions.
Chris Lema talks about the latest WordPress acquisition: LearnDash is joining Liquid Web. Will it become the leading LMS turnkey solution?
Executive Code When President Joe Biden took office this week, the official White House website was completely replaced — and it’s still using WordPress. Of course, this sparked a public conversation (and also some private ones) about the theme and plugins the revamped whitehouse.gov site is running, among other technical details. One of the first…
Good ideas for the future of data disclosed to plugin authors using the wordpress.org repository:
1) Identify surges of unhappy users reacting to a bad release — and the opposite, happier outcome.
2) Use pageview analytics to estimate total potential user interest and conversion rates.
3) Assess a plugin’s performance with the .org search algorithm, the quality of releases, and plugin incompatibility as well as PHP compatibility issues.
4) Collect significant user behavior data anonymously without phoning home.
5) Just reveal all the raw data with privacy options for individual authors — no interpretive analysis on wordpress.org.
BONUS: Let’s take this discussion somewhere else!
Jeff Waugh is a prominent advocate worldwide of the open source ecosystem. In his latest article, he talks about the continued evolution of WordPress in a “new era”, which is mostly stuff my audience should know about. But it’s good to see it from a relative outsider’s perspective. It won’t happen overnight, but WP-API will…
Getting rid of jQuery on gov.uk Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK: The main disadvantage of using jQuery is that it has to be included in the page assets, which can slow down how quickly a site loads. GOV.UK’s pages vary in size, but the homepage is around 246 kB – 32 kB (13%) of…
I have to hand it to Jeff Chandler, he’s pretty good at raising a ruckus when he’s annoyed with a plugin. Yesterday, I guess he reached his boiling point with Edit Flow, the quasi-abandoned plugin by Automattic for managing an editorial calendar, custom statuses, and more. That Edit Flow has been in maintenance mode (at…
