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Automattic Acquires Tumblr, Plans to Rebuild the Backend Powered by WordPress

August 21, 2019design tips

Automattic has acquired Tumblr, a long-time friendly rival company, for an undisclosed sum. Just six years after Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the company is said to have been acquired for “a nominal amount” from Verizon, who indirectly acquired Tumblr when it bought Yahoo in 2017. Automattic CEO Matt (more…)

WooCommerce 3.7 Introduces New Blocks, Updates Minimum WordPress and PHP Requirements

August 20, 2019design tips

WooCommerce 3.7 was released today after four months in development. This minor release is backwards compatible with previous versions. Despite containing more than 1,290 commits, 3.7 is smaller than previous releases, as the WooCommerce team is working towards delivering more frequent releases to improve the stability of the platform. WooCommerce (more…)

BuddyPress 5.0 to Add Category for Storing BuddyPress Blocks

August 19, 2019design tips

BuddyPress 5.0 will include a way for developers to organize their blocks under a BuddyPress blocks category. Mathieu Viet shared a code example on the BuddyPress Dev Updates blog, demonstrating how to set the category property of a block to BuddyPress when registering a block type. The blocks registered with (more…)

Build Customizer Settings Faster by Using the Kirki Framework in Your Project

August 19, 2019design tips

Kirki is a free open-source (MIT-licensed) framework built for developers who are looking to add Customizer Controls to their themes or plugins. Aristeides Stathopoulos, Kirki’s lead developer has been working on the framework since 2014. Thanks to the continuous updates and improvements, Kirki has built a community on Github which (more…)

Proposal to Auto-Update Old Versions of WordPress to 4.7 Sparks Heated Debate

August 19, 2019design tips

WordPress contributors, developers, and community members are currently debating a proposal to would implement a new policy regarding security support for older versions. The discussion began last week when security team lead Jake Spurlock asked for feedback on different approaches to backporting security fixes to older versions. Following up on (more…)

Jetpack 7.6 Improves AMP Compatibility, Adds Preview and Upgrade Nudge for Blocks Only Available on Paid Plans

August 18, 2019design tips

Jetpack 7.6 was released this week with several improvements to the plugin’s AMP compatibility. Automattic was one of the earliest publishing partners on Google’s AMP project, as well as the original author of the official AMP plugin for WordPress. This release makes three more Jetpack features compatible with AMP: Related (more…)

EditorsKit 1.9 Introduces Block Styles, Utility Classes, and Full Height Editor Screen

August 15, 2019design tips

EditorsKit 1.9 was released this week with a new Block Styling feature for the image and cover blocks. It allows users to change these blocks to be displayed as circular, diagonal, inverted diagonal, rounded corners, or with a shadow. It also adds a “full screen height” display option to the (more…)

WordCamp Long Beach to Debut a “Future of WordPress” Track

August 15, 2019design tips

The first-ever WordCamp Long Beach is happening October 5-6 at the Pointe Conference Center at Walter Pyramid (CSULB). Organizers are planning to host practical, skill-building talks and panels, abstract discussions, and networking events at locally-owned eateries. The event will be the only WordCamp happening in Los Angeles county this year. (more…)

O’Reilly Partners with Netlify to Publish Free E-Book: Modern Web Development on the JAMstack

August 14, 2019design tips

If you are following the JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and markup) craze and want to learn more about the history and best practices of the architecture, O’Reilly has published a short book called Modern Web Development on the JAMstack that is now available as a free download. Netlify CEO Mathias Biilmann, (more…)

Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia

August 14, 2019design tips

Topher DeRosia took some time to reflect on HeroPress and recount his own path to WordPress, the long and winding road of freelancing, and his role as a developer evangelist for BigCommerce.

Monthly Archives: August 2019

Automattic Acquires Tumblr, Plans to Rebuild the Backend Powered by WordPress

WooCommerce 3.7 Introduces New Blocks, Updates Minimum WordPress and PHP Requirements

BuddyPress 5.0 to Add Category for Storing BuddyPress Blocks

Build Customizer Settings Faster by Using the Kirki Framework in Your Project

Proposal to Auto-Update Old Versions of WordPress to 4.7 Sparks Heated Debate

Jetpack 7.6 Improves AMP Compatibility, Adds Preview and Upgrade Nudge for Blocks Only Available on Paid Plans

EditorsKit 1.9 Introduces Block Styles, Utility Classes, and Full Height Editor Screen

WordCamp Long Beach to Debut a “Future of WordPress” Track

O’Reilly Partners with Netlify to Publish Free E-Book: Modern Web Development on the JAMstack

Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia

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