WordCamp Denver begins Friday this week and tickets are free for anyone who wants to join June 26-27. The event has been running since 2012, but like many other conferences, it is going virtual in 2020, as the pandemic continues to worsen around the globe. Attendees will have to forego the city’s extraordinary landscapes, friendly summer climate, and legendary beer …
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 and Rayshard Brooks, along with the protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement, many repository owners are rejecting the use of the term ‘master’ for the default branch as oppressive terminology. As Git-based repository hosting platforms are moving to …
This Is What LGBTQ Customers Actually Want to See During Pride Month
We command $3.7 trillion in market share and want to see more than a rainbow logo in 2020. View original post at Entrepreneur…
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 branch. It is one of ten free courses offered to the general public in a catalog that includes courses on management, communication, personal finance, customer service, and small business marketing. Creating WordPress websites has become an essential skill, as the …
WordPress 5.5 to Include Extensible Core Sitemaps
One year ago developers at Google and Yoast began collaborating with other contributors on a proposal to add XML sitemaps to WordPress core. The XML Sitemaps feature plugin went into testing in late January and the feature is now on deck for inclusion in WordPress 5.5. This week contributors merged a basic version of sitemaps that plugin developers can either build on or …
Aunt Jemima's Logo Has Changed 6 Times, and Its History Is Rooted in Racial Stereotypes and Slavery
Check out how the brand started and evolved over 130 years. View original post at Entrepreneur…
BuddyPress Contributors Begin Work on Block-based Activity Post Form
BuddyPress broke into the world of blocks last month with its 6.0 release. Group and Member blocks were the first blocks to make it into the core plugin and next up are block versions of the existing widgets. Contributors are also working on block requests based on community feedback. Today, BuddyPress core developer Mathieu Viet shared a prototype of his …
Review Signal Publishes WordPress Hosting Benchmarks for 2020, Introduces WooCommerce Testing
Review Signal founder Kevin Ohashi has published the site’s annual WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks for 2020, along with a smaller set of benchmarks for WooCommerce hosting. For the past seven years Ohashi has been using sentiment analysis to capture consumer reviews of hosting companies on Twitter. He also performs a set of tests to measure peak performance and consistency for WordPress …
Brands Do Need to Take a Stand. Here's How to Do So Responsibly.
Right now isn’t the time to be silent. Here’s how to get your message across. View original post at Entrepreneur…
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 some great form plugins out there, but far too often the choices are between massive builders that do things their own way and solutions so simple that they do not quite live up to expectations. Munir Kamal has put his …