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WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of November 14
Jonathan Bossenger
Learn Accessibility Digital accessibility, commonly abbreviated a11y, is an important subject in web developer circles. More and more, folks are looking for solid guidance on designing and building websites and web apps that disabled people can interact with in a…
Design and Development News for the Week of November 7
Jonathan Bossenger
WordPress Design & Development Around the Web Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week. Keeping up with PHP JetBrains, the company behind a suite of developers…
Daniel S. Pumpkins’ 🎃 Post Status Halloween TechHorror Roundup
Daniel Schutzsmith
WordPress Design & Development Haunts Around the Web Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week. Halloween edition! Blocks Made of Humans Well, not really, but here…
Shiny New Things!
Dan Knauss
From Abstract: WP Tests for Faster WordPress Projects.Independent Analytics – A Reliable Google Analytics Alternative for Your Website.Delicious Brains: WP Migrate 2.4 Released: Faster Migrations, Must-Use Plugins, WP Engine Compatibility, and More and The Developer's Guide to WP-CONFIG.PHP.WordPress 6.1: Global Styles…
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
WordPress Design & Development Around the Web WP_Query Changes in 6.1 Jonathan Harris emphasized in Post Status Slack #development and on Twitter this week that WordPress 6.1 is bringing big changes to WP_Query — changes he's been working on for…
When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress
Dan Knauss
Keanan Koppenhaver explains over at WP Mayor: When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress: If you have a strong frontend team that’s comfortable interfacing with APIs and is used to communicating changes and working with more distributed systems, then…
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Daniel Schutzsmith
WordPress Design & Development Around the Web Use WP Tests Provides Better Theme and Block Testing The Abstract Agency has clarified Theme Unit and Block Unit testing in WordPress with WP Tests. They’re enhancing and building on the WordPress Core’s…
Revisiting the Notifications Problem
Dan Knauss
Brian Coords has been working on WP-Notify which is described on its GitHub repo as: A feature plugin for WordPress, which aims to create a new (better) way to manage and deliver notifications to the relevant audience. https://wpbuilds.com/2022/09/01/294-how-might-we-fix-the-wordpress-notifications-problem/
New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1
Dan Knauss
A reminder from Anne McCarthy about the importance of your help testing Gutenberg 14.1 in advance of the WordPress 6.1 release: If you have the current Gutenberg (plugin) release installed, you can use block template parts without adopting everything that…
Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo
Dan Knauss
Delicious Brains has a new tutorial about Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo that's worth a look. Robo is an open-source task runner like Gulp and Grunt using PHP instead of JavaScript. It's used by Drupal's Drush, that project's…
