ByDan Knauss
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WPEngine hosted its DE{CODE} 2020 virtual conference this week in a pre-recorded talks format but with speakers taking live questions. There’s a nice selection of speakers — particularly Jason Cohen and Matt Landers on headless WordPress.
There is video footage of the event, and it looks like WPEngine will be organizing it for quicker consumption on their site. 📹
Nate Arnold recently developed a WordPress theme for headless WordPress projects and wrote up a simple explanation of the decisions that were made after implementing the theme on a few JAMstack projects.
Local Pro from WP Engine will be free, and it launches next week — according to representatives at the WPEngine Summit conference this week.
Jonny Harris, a WordPress core contributor, is looking for feedback on a feature plugin that gives REST endpoints to menus. This feature would be great for Gutenberg and headless WordPress sites. 🔌
Greg Rickaby recounts how WebDevStudios used Next.js to build a 1,000-page Headless WordPress website. He covers the challenges, successes, and tools that were used to test and do UI/UX reviews. Greg also covers how his team handled the massive number of redirects because many URLs changed in the process. This particular topic “doesn’t get enough…
So they say. Specifically, David Mainayar said in Woo Weekly #399 that it’s the fastest he’s seen, and I imagine he’s seen a lot.
Heather J. Brunner, CEO of WPEngine, announced on Twitter that “virtual will be the default day-to-day experience across the company.” Physical spaces will be upgraded “to accommodate social distancing and to make them WOW spaces that encourage collaboration, innovation, and fun.” Many WordPress-related companies are highly remote because of the nature of the business, but…
