WordPress Green Lights In-Person Meetup Events for Vaccinated Attendees
After considerable discussion, the WordPress Community Team is lifting the requirements of the in-person meetup safety checklist for meetups that gather fully-vaccinated attendees. The checklist is still applicable to all meetup ...
Automattic Releases Sketch Block for Drawing in the WordPress Editor
Automattic released a new plugin titled Sketch Block earlier today. It is a one-off block that allows end-users to draw directly in the editor. The plugin is marked as a beta ...
Gatsby WP Themes Launches New Marketplace
The Gatsby WP Themes project has launched a new marketplace for developers who are building WordPress-powered sites with Gatsby on the frontend. Originally founded by Zac Gordon and Alexandra Spalato, the ...
Block Patterns Will Change Everything, Part 2: Headers and Footers
It is hard to believe that it was over a year ago — March 23, 2020, to be exact — that I wrote a post on why block patterns would be ...
WP Engine Makes Local Pro Free for All Users
WP Engine announced today that Local Pro, the commercial upgrade for its local WordPress development product, is now free for all users. Beginning with version 6.0, all features that formerly required ...
Add Editor-Only Notes via the Markdown Comment Block WordPress Plugin
Rich Tabor, the Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience at GoDaddy, tweeted that he had an idea for a new block at the end of last week. Shortly after, the Markdown ...
BuddyPress 9.0 Scheduled for Short Development Cycle to Ship Block-Based Widgets Ahead of WordPress 5.8
BuddyPress 8.0 was just released earlier this month on June 6, but the core development team is gearing up for a short development cycle for 9.0. The release will be specifically ...
Diving Into WordPress 5.8’s New Widgets Screen
It has been a while since I have touched widgets. Once the site editor landed in the Gutenberg plugin, I almost exclusively dropped the old sidebar paradigm and moved to block ...
Major Revamp Coming to GitHub Issues
This week GitHub unveiled new features that will be included in a total revamp of GitHub Issues, including project tables that are similar to spreadsheets, custom fields, a keyboard driven command ...
FSE Outreach Round #8: A Developer-Centric Call for Testing Theme JSON Configuration
Round #8 of the Full Site Editing (FSE) Outreach Program began yesterday. Instead of the user-centric call for testing features from the UI, program lead Anne McCarthy asks that volunteers dive ...