Consistency is more reliable than inspiration. View original post at Entrepreneur…
WPWeekly Episode 349 – Sandy Edwards and the Kids Event Working Group Initiative
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Sandy Edwards. Sandy gave us a behind the scenes look at what it takes to organize a WordPress event for children and teens. She also provides background information on a new group that’s been formed called the Kids Events Working Group. This group is responsible for setting the foundation …
WordPress Ends Support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5, Bumps Minimum Required PHP Version to 5.6
WordPress has officially ended support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5 and bumped its minimum required PHP version to 5.6. The plan announced last December was to bump the minimum required version in early 2019 and, depending on the results, bump it again to PHP 7 in December 2019. Sites on PHP 5.5 or earlier can still get security updates but …
Gutenberg 5.3 Introduces Block Management, Adds Nesting to the Cover Block
Gutenberg 5.3 was released today with basic block management, a feature that will be included in WordPress 5.2. It is a new modal that can be launched from the vertical ellipses menu, inspired by Rich Tabor’s CoBlocks implementation. Users can turn individual blocks on/off or even entire sections, such as Common Blocks, Formatting, and Embeds. Block management should help users …
New Tools for Theme Developers: Theme Sniffer Plugin and Automated Accessibility Testing
WordPress contributor teams have shipped several new tools for theme developers in the past couple weeks, which have the potential to raise the quality of new themes coming into the ecosystem. The Theme Sniffer plugin is a new effort from the Theme Review team that uses custom sniffs for PHP_CodeSniffer to test a theme against WordPress coding standards and check …
Brand Activism: Turning Your Purpose Into Action
Doing good has become the ultimate competitive advantage for brands in the 21st century. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Smush Now Has Lazy Loading… and it’s Free!
WP Smush, Queen of image optimization, just added image lazy loading to her bag of tricks… And it’s free! If you thought Smush couldn’t get any better after 3.0, think again. Our CDN upgrade unlocked the future of site speed and WordPress performance – instantaneously delivering next-gen images at the right size for every container […] View original post at …
How to Completely Customize the WordPress Login Page
The WordPress login page provides a generic looking one-size-fits-all solution for logging into WordPress. The only problem is customizing it can get a little awkward. In this comprehensive tutorial we show you how to modify the login screen to look exactly how you want. View original post at WPMU
Forminator Quizzes now With Integrations and Wizardry
Forminator, our WordPress form, poll & quiz builder, was just released this year and has already moved into our top 10 most active pro plugins – and his powers are only expanding! This time it’s Quizzes, now with integrations, a new wizard, and a multi correct answers upgrade. In the past, WordPress form builders have […] View original post at …
How to Serve Images in Next-Gen Formats in WordPress
Just when everyone thought WebP images were done, they came back in a big way. WebP images are smack in the middle of their comeback story, now that Firefox and Microsoft Edge have recently started supporting WebP images. What is WebP? It’s is the best image format that no one has heard of, but that’s […] View original post at …