WordPress.org is sporting a new design. This redesign leans on the aesthetics of jazz (of course) and leaves more space for content, new typefaces and color palettes. Go check out the new look. The second major release of WordPress 6.0 is scheduled for beta on April 12th. This release will follow the same cadence as…
Like a lot of entrepreneurs, I’m constantly filled with self-doubt. Will this experiment work? Can I make it a sustainable publication? There aren’t that many people who _care_ about WordPress news, let alone care to contribute to it. This is a topic I unpacked in my interview with Kim Coleman on funding a WordPress news…
I’ve been in web design since 1996. And for the first 14 years of my career, my focus was primarily on writing HTML and (eventually) CSS. It was an enjoyable time, but I started to feel very limited with just those tools in my repertoire. Then I started experimenting with WordPress. In its early days,…
News There have been a lot of people working with the latest 5.9 WordPress release and reporting their successes and failures. Tammie Lister wrote a post about the features in the editor and would like people to quit using the term FSE – Full Site Editing in 2022. The release is not an all-or-nothing proposal…
News Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, made the news again (this time with the Wall Street Journal). He talks about ‘asynchronous work’ and why he thinks hybrid models will die out. Automattic employees are already living the work from anywhere model and are able to adjust their work schedules…
Spencer Forman of WPLaunchify is back to explore the future of the WP stack and how it might impact you as an agency owner or WordPress freelancer. It wasn’t too long ago that HTML/CSS and some PHP knowledge was all that you needed to develop moderately advanced sites, now, the future looks a bit different….
News Matt Mullenweg recently announced that he would be personally running Tumblr for a while. Tumblr lost their CEO and Matt is making this his top priority within Automattic for the immediate future. Keep an eye open for improvements in the community. Are you or your clients using WordPress.com? WordPress.com is now making it possible…
We hosted our first WP Minute Live Twitter Space covering learning WordPress. It was Bring Your Own Link (BYOL) style where our guest panelists brought a link to share with the audience. Here were the guests that appeared on the live show: Hauwa Abashiya, Freelance Project Manager transitioning into the WordPress space; Board Member and…
News WordPress 5.9 – Joséphine was released this week. There is a lot of good stuff to check out on blocks and themes. If you would like an understanding of how this major release with Full Site Editing (FSE) will impact you as a freelancer, you should read Eric Karkovack’s article right here on the…
The release of WordPress 5.9 marks the dawn of a new era. One that will change the way websites are designed, built, and maintained. We’re talking about Full Site Editing (FSE). When coupled with a compatible theme, this new feature will allow virtually every aspect of a website to be tweaked within the block editor….
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