Gutenberg 1.0.0 was released this week as another iteration in the beta period that will continue on with 1.1 next week. Design lead Tammie Lister said the team decided “not let numbers set expectations” and will carry on at the same pace with weekly releases. One of the most visible UI updates in version 1.0 is the new ability to …
100+ New Reasons to Use the Upfront Theme Framework
If you blinked you probably missed it. We recently gave our Upfront drag and drop theme framework a new UI, improved plugin integrations, and a bunch of performance enhancements! Every Tuesday, we take the time to highlight a special product release or new feature and this year has been jammed with some serious AWESOME including: Optimize […] View original post at …
5 Signs You Need to Start Building Your Personal Brand
Time, time, time — find it, grab it — and build your personal brand now. View original post at Entrepreneur…
A Guide to SMS for WordPress and Integrating It With Your Website
It’s funny. I think that for every step forward we make in bridging the physical gaps that separate us from one another, we take one step backward in terms of actual human-to-human contact. I’m not saying I object to any of it. As a millennial, I’m much more comfortable with emailing and Facebook messaging than […] View original post at …
Matt Mullenweg Addresses Concerns About Gutenberg, Confirms New Editor to Ship with WordPress 5.0
Matt Mullenweg published an appeal to WordPress users over the weekend in a post titled “We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason.” In it he offers a better look at his vision for Gutenberg, which he contends will be as transformative for WordPress’ future as the first movable type printing was for Europe’s printing revolution. Mullenweg identified the new Gutenberg …
How to Make the Most of WordPress’s Bulk Editing Functionality
WordPress is an intuitive enough platform. Once you’ve got the hang of where to find the Add New button and familiarized yourself with the page and post edit screens, you can create and edit content in little to no time. Now, think about how long it takes you to navigate to one of your posts or […] View original post at …
Styling Text on Your Website: What the Research Says
I was recently helping a friend build a site for his new podcast when he asked, “How do you make these all caps go away?” I’ve spent enough time in WordPress and with premium themes to know where to go to alter typography—and this quickly became one of those times where the theme did not […] View original post at …
Social Media Tips From 4 Dogs With More Followers Than You
To celebrate National Dog Day, these pup-fluencers (and their humans) revealed their brand-building secrets. View original post at Entrepreneur…
An Introduction to Copyright Law for WordPress Businesses
You know that the content on your site is valuable. That’s why you do things like protect your images from theft. But for those of you who have additional content of value—like web designs, logos, copy, custom video content, etc.—you should know how to keep them safe as well. Rather than try to find one-off […] View original post at …
Core Team Explores Idea to Automatically Upgrade Sites Running WordPress 3.7 to 3.8
WordPress 3.7 ‘Basie’ was released on October 24, 2013 and introduced automatic updates for minor releases to the masses. Although it’s not labeled as such, WordPress 3.7 has effectively acted as a LTS version or Long-term support. Security updates and crucial bug fixes have been ported back to previous branches up to 3.7. In this week’s WordPress developer chat, Aaron …



