WordPress 5.6 will ship with the latest jQuery library next month. This is a major update that all plugin and theme developers should begin testing against. Last week, Marius Jensen announced the change on the Make Core blog. The following jQuery-related libraries are expected to ship in the update (WordPress Trac ticket): jQuery 3.5.1 jQuery Migrate 3.3.2 jQuery UI 1.12.1 …
5 Fresh Content Ideas for Your Personal Brand
How leaders can cultivate authentic relationships with their tribe right now. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Editor Plus 2.1 Overhauls Block Controls UI and Adds Lottie Animations
Yesterday, Munir Kamal released version 2.1 of the Editor Plus plugin. The biggest change is a complete overhaul of its design controls. The developer also added a new Lottie animation block. I probably sound like a broken record after covering the last several releases of the plugin, but Kamal is doing some amazing things with the block editor. He is …
There's No Such Thing as Business as Usual This Holiday Season
Three tips to enhance your brand’s online revenue. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Frontity Inks Partnership with 10up
photo credit: Matt Moloney Frontity has launched a partnership program to support the maintenance of its open source framework for building React-based WordPress sites. 10up, a large agency that provides headless solutions to enterprise customers, is the first partner to join in support of the project. “Since we launched Frontity Framework last year, dozens of WordPress publishers have asked our team about …
Gutenberg 9.3 Provides Indicator of Where Full-Site Editing Is Going, a Future Without Widgets and Customizer Screens
Version 9.3 of the Gutenberg plugin dropped earlier today. It is the first version of the plugin during the WordPress 5.6 release cycle that will not see its new features land in the core platform. However, bug fixes have been backported to WordPress 5.6 beta 2 and 3. Much of the work for the release focused on full-site editing (FSE) …
WordPress 2019 Survey Results Show Professionals Slow to Adopt Block Editor, 2020 Survey Now Open
WordPress has opened its 2020 Annual Survey, a short set of questions designed to collect more information on how different groups of people are using the software. It takes approximately 5 minutes to complete and all data is anonymized. WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy said she uses the results from the survey to inform her plans and recommendations all …
Create an Irresistible and Magnetic Brand Using Storytelling
A case study of how one company turned a sad ad campaign into a winner with staying power. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Get the Most Out of The Hub
With The Hub, you can easily manage, monitor, scan, access, and maintain unlimited WordPress sites — all in one place! Everything you need for security, performance, SEO, white labeling, and streamlined site management is available in just a few clicks. This article shows you how to get the most out of The Hub and how to use it to its …
WordPress Auto-Update System Misfires, Updating Live Sites to an Alpha Release
WordPress’ Core systems team had an eventful Friday when an error in the auto-update system caused sites to update to WordPress 5.5.3-alpha-49449, including live production sites with no auto-update constants defined. I just had a random production site auto-update itself to #WordPress 5.5.3-alpha 😨 Anyone else seeing this? — Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) October 30, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Those who received an …