Finding WordPress Work with Your Developer Skills

You have amazing talent. You’re specialized in WordPress. You want to share your skills with the world and make a few bucks in the process — whether that be full-time, part-time, or just as additional income. But how do you market yourself and your services to businesses that have no idea how to make a WordPress site? I’ll be showing …

How to Remove Menus From the WordPress Dashboard

The WordPress codex is full of fun things that you can experiment with. Have you ever wanted to remove a menu page from the WordPress dashboard to prevent clients getting confused by the settings menu? Blow the dust off of your handy codex and check out the function references for removing menu pages. Here’s what you’re looking for: Replace the …

New Gatsby Source WordPress Plugin Now in Beta

Gatsby announced its new source plugin (v4) for WordPress is now in beta. The plugin has been completely revamped to improve headless WordPress setups where Gatsby powers the frontend. It also integrates with Gatsby Cloud to provide real-time previews and incremental builds. The Gatsby team has had a long journey towards creating an integration for WordPress sites that would satisfy more complex …

WordCamp Attendance Badges Could Be a Good Thing, but That’s the Wrong Discussion

WordPress profile badges. On July 3, Timi Wahalahti opened a discussion on the Community WordPress blog on whether WordCamp volunteers, WordCamp attendees, or Meetup attendees should be awarded a WordPress.org profile badge. The discussion stemmed from a nearly two-year-old Meta ticket that was recently resurfaced. The general consensus from the comments on the post seems to be that volunteers should …

New Block-based Navigation and Widgets Screens Sidelined for WordPress 5.5

The new navigation block and navigation and widget screens that were originally planned for WordPress 5.5 have been pushed back to the next release. These projects are currently available in the Gutenberg plugin experiments screen but are not yet ready to land in core. Converting the widget-editing areas and updating the widgets UI to use the block editor is a project that …

WordPress Contributors Seek Sponsorship for Improving Gutenberg Developer Docs

WordPress developers Milana Cap and Jonathan Bossenger are starting a fundraiser for improving Gutenberg developer documentation. The conversation began yesterday when Cap tweeted about how documentation is often overlooked when companies hire full-time contributors to work on WordPress. I wish someone pay people to work on Gutenberg Docs. All devs who understand Gutenberg are working on building it and no …