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WordPress vs. Squarespace

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Cory Miller
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Every business needs a website. That much is obvious. But choosing what content management system to use isn’t always so clear. When it comes to WordPress vs. Squarespace, which option is the right choice for your website? Before we answer…
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WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of November 14

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Jonathan Bossenger
DesignDevelopment
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…

Two Tools

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Dan Knauss
DevelopmentNotes
Jetpack and WordPress.com can publish to Telegram. The ultimate gitignore for WordPress projects.

The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor

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Dan Knauss
DevelopmentFeatures
Designing a form instead of filling out a form to make a form Back in August, I started catching up with GiveWP when Jason Adams laid out a new roadmap toward their 3.0 release that is really ambitious — and…

Design and Development News for the Week of November 7

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Jonathan Bossenger
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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…

Design and Development News for the Week of October 31

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Daniel Schutzsmith
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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. Where The Heck Is That Thingy?!@$ For the second week in a…

Daniel S. Pumpkins’ 🎃 Post Status Halloween TechHorror Roundup

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Daniel Schutzsmith
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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…

Best Practices and Tools from rtCamp

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Dan Knauss
DesignDevelopment
I've been collecting rtCamp news for a while — they have a great monthly newsletter — and here are some of the highlights worth sharing broadly. rtLearn = rtGrowth First of all, is rtLearn — not new but not as…

Shiny New Things!

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Dan Knauss
DevelopmentNotes
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

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Dan Knauss
DesignDevelopment
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

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Dan Knauss
DevelopmentHosting
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

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Daniel Schutzsmith
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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

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Dan Knauss
DevelopmentNotes
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

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Dan Knauss
DesignDevelopment
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

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Dan Knauss
DevelopmentNotes
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…

1,122% 3-Year Growth

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Dan Knauss
BusinessDevelopment
Multidots was ranked #560 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List this year. Noted at the end of the listing is a massive figure — they posted 1,122% growth over three years as a WordPress VIP Gold partner. They've also…
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