WordCamp Attendance Badges Could Be a Good Thing, but That’s the Wrong Discussion
WordPress profile badges. On July 3, Timi Wahalahti opened a discussion on the Community WordPress blog on whether WordCamp volunteers,...
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WordPress Contributors Seek Sponsorship for Improving Gutenberg Developer Docs
WordPress developers Milana Cap and Jonathan Bossenger are starting a fundraiser for improving Gutenberg developer documentation. The conversation began yesterday...
WooCommerce 4.3 to Introduce New Home Screen
As the pandemic and lockdown measures have caused major shifts in consumer behavior, accelerating the trend towards e-commerce, many WooCommerce-powered...
Smash Balloon Joins Awesome Motive
On June 23, Awesome Motive announced it had acquired Smash Balloon, a company that focuses on a family of social...
The Best Documentation Is No Documentation
Hear me out before telling me how wrong I am. Over the past couple of weeks, I have read a...
WordCamp Tulsa 2020 Canceled
Tulsa’s first ever WordCamp, which was scheduled for August 29-30, 2020, has officially been canceled due to uncertainty surrounding the...
Add Per-Block Notes and Create Draft Blocks With the Wholesome Publishing Plugin
Matt Watson, through his Wholesome Code brand, released a plugin called Wholesome Publishing on the WordPress plugin directory on Tuesday....
Gutenberg Times to Hold Live Q&A on Block-Based Themes and Full-Site Editing
On Friday, June 26, Gutenberg Times will be holding a live Q&A on block-based themes and full-site editing. The Zoom...
Packagist, GitLab, and GitHubUpdater Plugin Work to Improve Support for Alternative Default Branch Names
In response to recent events, where American police officers have been charged with murder for the deaths of George Floyd...
Proposal to Rename the ‘Master’ Branch of WordPress-Owned Git Repositories
Yesterday, core contributor Aaron Jorbin proposed renaming the default “master” branch for all WordPress-owned Git repositories to “main.” The proposal...
University of Wisconsin Offers Free Course on Creating WordPress Websites
The University of Wisconsin is offering a free self-paced course on Creating WordPress Websites for students through its Stevens Point...
WebDevStudios Releases Block Scaffolding Tool for Developers
WebDevStudios released its custom block scaffolding tool to the public on Tuesday. It is a fork of the core WordPress...
OpenJS World 2020 Conference Goes Virtual, Tickets Are Free: June 23–24
Like many tech conferences, OpenJS World 2020 was forced to go virtual for its upcoming event scheduled for June 23-24,...
WordPress Bumps Minimum PHP Recommendation to 7.2
Late last week WordPress made major progress towards the goal of getting users to adopt newer versions of PHP. The...
Build Forms via the Block Editor With Gutenberg Forms
The quest for the perfect form plugin is nearly as old as WordPress. Projects have come and gone. There are...
AsBlocks Project Uses Gutenberg to Create a Collaborative Writing Environment
The Gutenberg team is currently immersed in bringing full-site editing capabilities to the block editor as part of Phase 2...
Gutenberg 8.3 Updates Block Categories, Includes Parent Block Selector, and Adds New Design Controls
Yesterday, the Gutenberg team released version 8.3 of the ongoing plugin behind the block editor. While much of the focus...
On Politics and WordPress
I wish we lived in a world in which we could discuss code each day, not allowing political1 opinions to...
