From this blog to Hello WP and The WhiP email newsletter, we’ve got a long and storied history of publishing about WordPress… and now it’s time to start a new chapter. So, if WP is your passion, read on! Did you know that this blog (which started as wpmu.org) is almost 11 years old and has, over the years posted …
Gutenberg 0.5.0 Adds New Verse Block for Poetry and a New Display for Recent Blocks
Another round of Gutenberg updates was released today. Last weekend brought version 0.4.0, which didn’t have too many noteworthy visible changes on the frontend but introduced an API for handling pasted content. Gutenberg developers are aiming to have specific handling for converting pasted content from applications like Word, Markdown, and Google Docs to native WordPress blocks. Version 0.4.0 also added …
Gutenberg Editor Review: Please Don’t Include This in WordPress Core
Much of my time on here generally focuses around reviewing and comparing a handful of WordPress themes or plugins against one another. In today’s post, however, I want to take a closer look at one new WordPress plugin: the Gutenberg editor plugin. Some of you may be wondering what makes this plugin so special that […] View original post at …
WordPress Editor Experience Survey Shows 75% of Respondents Don’t Use Distraction-Free Writing Mode
The WordPress Editor Experience survey results have been published with data from 2,563 participants, a significantly larger sampling than the 50 who responded to the recent customizer survey. Both the editor and the customizer are included in Matt Mullenweg’s three main focus areas for core development in 2017. The purpose of the surveys is to find out how WordPress users …
Matt Mullenweg Announces Tech and Design Leads for New Focus-Based Development Cycle
photo credit: Angelina Litvin WordPress core development is kicking off in 2017 with the new focus-based development process that Matt Mullenweg announced during the 2016 State of the Word. The new approach to releases shifts WordPress from the familiar time-based release cycle to one that is more project-based. The idea is that design and user testing will lead the way …
WordPress 4.7 Removes the Underline and Justify Buttons From the Editor
Back in August, we highlighted potential changes to the WordPress editor that would improve the user experience. The team has since implemented some of the suggestions outlined in ticket #27159 into WordPress 4.7, including rearranging some of the toolbar buttons. The headers drop-down menu is now in the top row of buttons while the strikethrough and horizontal rule buttons are …
Improving the User Experience by Rearranging the WordPress Post Editor
When the floor was opened up to users for suggestions on what they want to see included in WordPress 4.7, Mark Root-Wiley advocated for Trac ticket #27159. The three-year old ticket was created by Hugo Baeta and suggests that certain buttons in the post editor be removed in order to improve the user experience. In the initial proposal, Baeta recommends that the Underline, …
Ulysses 2.6 Released, Users Can Now Publish Posts to WordPress
Based in Leipzig, Germany, The Soulmen is a company made up of a small team of people who develop exclusively for Apple devices. One of the products the company develops is called Ulysses. Ulysses is a text editor that’s available on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The company has released version 2.6 which adds the ability to publish posts to …