Creating Content Dividers With the Wavy Divider WordPress Plugin

5 Feb 22
Kevin Batdorf, the Project Lead Developer at Extendify, released the Wavy Divider plugin earlier this week. It is described as “a colorful, fun, lightweight divider block to energize your website with ...

CMS and E-Commerce Churn Data Shows WordPress Maintaining Market Lead, Shopify Gaining on WooCommerce

4 Feb 22
Rick Viscomi, one of the maintainers of the HTTP Archive, tweeted some interesting data from a report he is working on that tracks churn for different JavaScript frameworks and CMS’s over ...

WordPress Ramps Up Social Learning Events on Full Site Editing, Project Aims for 500 Block Themes in 2022

4 Feb 22
WordPress is hosting a live online event tomorrow called “Beginner’s Guide to Full Site Editing.” Within three minutes of WordPress’ Twitter account tweeting about it, all 70 spaces were booked and ...

FSE Program: The Media Experience and Its Future in WordPress

4 Feb 22
The FSE Outreach Program is back with another round of testing. Anne McCarthy asks for volunteers to test and provide feedback on media-related features in WordPress. Anyone is welcome to contribute, ...

German Court Fines Website Owner for Violating the GDPR by Using Google-Hosted Fonts

3 Feb 22
In late January, a Munich regional court ruled that a plaintiff was entitled to injunctive relief and damages of 100 € from an undisclosed website owner for passing on the visitor’s ...

Gutenberg 12.5 Introduces Global Styles Variations, Preserves Adjacent Button Styling, and Adds Alpha Transparency to Color Pickers

3 Feb 22
Gutenberg 12.5 landed in the WordPress plugin directory earlier today. I have already been excited about at least one new enhancement, global styles variations. However, this is a beefy update with ...

#12 – Amber Hinds on Why Accessibility Matters

2 Feb 22
About this episode. On the podcast today we have Amber Hinds. She works at Equalize Digital, and became interested in online accessibility when she was given the job of creating a ...

WordPress 5.9, Yoast SEO for Shopify, WooCommerce Custom Tables, and More 🗞️ February 2022 WordPress News w/ CodeinWP

2 Feb 22
Hey, WordPress folks. We are checking in with the first batch of WordPress news stories from 2022. Unlike last month, there was a lot going on. Most notably, a brand spankin’ ...

Sensei LMS 4.0 Introduces New Block-Based Learning Mode Course Theme

2 Feb 22
Full-site editing has come to Sensei LMS in the plugin’s latest 4.0 release. The headline feature of this update is Learning Mode – a new block-based theme that gives course authors ...

Look Under the Hood With the Block X-Ray WordPress Plugin

2 Feb 22
One of my favorite tools in the past few days is the Block X-ray Attributes plugin by Sal Ferrarello. It is geared toward developers and shows block attributes in the WordPress ...