In her column for ‘Entrepreneur,’ Brit Morin talks about her decision to name Brit + Co after herself, and advises on looking at big picture motivations when building a brand. View original post at Entrepreneur…
FSE Outreach Round #5: Venturing out a Query Quest
The Full Site Editing (FSE) outreach program is chugging along. Since December, it has called for and completed four rounds of testing. The latest round asks volunteers to provide feedback on the Query block, arguably one of the most crucial pieces of the FSE-puzzle. Automattic Developer Relations Wrangler Anne McCarthy has been overseeing the program since its inception. Each round …
Why you should give Clubhouse a try
Clubhouse is a platform where the conversation can be recovered, without distracting emojis, texts, photos or videos. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Easily Use QR Codes with WordPress (for free!)
QR codes have been around a while now, and they don’t seem to be going away any time soon. That’s a good thing because they can benefit your WordPress site for sales, awareness, engagement, and more. Though they look complicated, adding a WordPress QR code is simple to do — and free! Are they that great? Well, considering mobile QR …
Yet Another WordPress Block Library Plugin
You are the team manager at a WordPress development company. You just spent the last couple of months directing the group of highly skilled developers that you oversee to create the latest and greatest block library for WordPress. Your developers just spent those two months recreating what has already been done at least a couple of dozen times. You go …
Display Digital Sheet Music With the WordPress Block Editor
OSMD plugin output on the front end. PhonicScore, a company out of Vienna, recently released its OpenSheetMusicDisplay (OSMD) plugin. It is a WordPress block built for rendering digital sheet music in the browser. The OSMD plugin is built on top of the team’s JavaScript library of the same name, a project officially released in 2016. It is a bridge between …
Set Up a Gutenberg Test Site in 2 Minutes with the Gutenberg Nightly Plugin
WordPress contributors are working towards landing full site editing (FSE) sometime this year, an ambitious plan that will require all hands on deck for testing. A meeting of a small group of core leads on April 14 will start the process of deciding whether FSE will land in version 5.8. In the meantime, the FSE outreach program has extended the …
Will Full Site Editing Land in WordPress 5.8? A Decision Is Forthcoming
Yesterday, Josepha Haden Chomphosy announced the roadmap for deciding whether Full Site Editing (FSE) will land in WordPress 5.8. After the launch of Gutenberg 10.4 on April 14, a small group of core leads will participate in a go/no-go demo. The following people will be on the call: Matias Ventura – Gutenberg Project Lead who will host the demo. Matt …
Yes, Comments Are Still Relevant, But We Need a Better System
More and more, open comments are becoming a thing of the past. Large news organizations have kicked them to the curb. Frustrated bloggers who no longer desire all of the hassles with moderation shut down their forms. The conversations have moved to corporate-controlled social media. It is hard to pinpoint the exact moment much of the web devolved into chaos. …
Calling All Themers: Design the Next Round of Query Block Patterns
The Gutenberg plugin repository currently has an open ticket calling for community-contributed Query block patterns. These would launch alongside Full Site Editing’s inclusion in WordPress, which could be as soon as version 5.8 — no hard decision has been made on that yet. Some may not end up bundled directly in WordPress but could be included in the upcoming pattern …