Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2017
photo credit: Sophie Ollis WordPress core contributors have set a tentative schedule for the upcoming 4.9 release, which will be co-led by Mel Choyce and Weston Ruter. The development cycle kicked off in early August with Beta 1 scheduled for early October and the official release targeted for November 14. Choyce published a list of goals today that outlines what …
Do you recognize the name Juan Carlos Gil? Well, if you’ve built a WordPress site that provides services or sells products to the general public, then you should probably take a moment or two to acquaint yourself with his story. On June 13, 2017, U.S. District Judge Robert Scola of Florida ruled in favor of […] View original post at …
The WooCommerce development team has forked select2 to create a more accessible, drop-in replacement library called selectWoo. select2 is a widely used jQuery-based library for making custom drop down menus. Many users are wondering if the project has been abandoned, because the repository hasn’t seen any activity since February and 115 pull requests have piled up. In the interest of …
If you spend as much time on social media as I do, then you know that people have a tendency to overuse image filters. I guess applying a classy black-and-white filter to a wedding photo could be a nice touch, but not when it’s a picture of a screaming child dancing with the groom. I’d […] View original post at …
photo credit: 16th st – (license) The WordPress Foundation is sponsoring a new series of workshops and training events that will introduce people to WordPress and related open source software. The program targets communities in Latin and South America, Africa, Oceania, and Asia. “Specifically, we want to shine more light on the potential of open source software in countries where …
We launched our Hustle plugin with big promises for growing your email marketing list on your favorite services and we’re putting out big. So we’re excited to fill you in on our latest integrations: SendInBlue and HubSpot. Hustle now includes a dozen integrations with some of the top email marketing services – and we’re just […] View original post at …
photo credit: Doors Open Toronto 2008 – Toronto Archives – (license) The discussion surrounding how Gutenberg will handle meta boxes heated up over the weekend after a participant commented on the GitHub issue with concern regarding meta box support being removed from the most recent milestone. “I see this vital issue has been removed from any milestone,” @steveangstrom said. “It …
Going cheap on your brand development could not only lead to a disconnect with potential customers, but could also result in your company shutting its doors as a result of low sales. View original post at Entrepreneur…
If there’s one important lesson I’ve learned in my years of working with WordPress, it’s that if you can find a way to do less work, absolutely take it. Obviously, I’m not encouraging careless development work. What I am an advocate for, however, is employing a series of tools that cut out unnecessary, repetitive steps […] View original post at …
You want to monetize your WordPress website, but guess what? Consumers aren’t too keen to play along anymore. You tell yourself that won’t be the case on your website or that your visitors are different. But the statistics don’t lie. The Wall Street Journal reported that 26% of online users in the U.S. have ad-blocking […] View original post at …
