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WPWeekly Episode 349 – Sandy Edwards and the Kids Event Working Group Initiative

April 3, 2019design tips

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Sandy Edwards. Sandy gave us a behind the scenes look at what it takes to organize a WordPress event for children and teens. She also provides background information on a new group that’s been formed called the Kids Events (more…)

WordPress Ends Support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5, Bumps Minimum Required PHP Version to 5.6

April 2, 2019design tips

WordPress has officially ended support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5 and bumped its minimum required PHP version to 5.6. The plan announced last December was to bump the minimum required version in early 2019 and, depending on the results, bump it again to PHP 7 in December 2019. Sites on (more…)

New Theme: Twenty Nineteen

April 2, 2019WPDev News

Meet Twenty Nineteen, the brand new WordPress default theme.

Gutenberg 5.3 Introduces Block Management, Adds Nesting to the Cover Block

April 2, 2019design tips

Gutenberg 5.3 was released today with basic block management, a feature that will be included in WordPress 5.2. It is a new modal that can be launched from the vertical ellipses menu, inspired by Rich Tabor’s CoBlocks implementation. Users can turn individual blocks on/off or even entire sections, such as (more…)

WordCamp Miami Draws 100+ for Kid’s Camp, Plans to Host Standalone Kid’s WordPress Conference in Summer 2019

April 1, 2019design tips

The 11th edition of WordCamp Miami was held this past weekend, a three-day event that featured multiple learning workshops and six different tracks. The speaker ratio was 50% male and 50% female, and nearly half of the speakers were new to WordCamp Miami. Another great year of amazing, diverse speakers! (more…)

New Tools for Theme Developers: Theme Sniffer Plugin and Automated Accessibility Testing

April 1, 2019design tips

WordPress contributor teams have shipped several new tools for theme developers in the past couple weeks, which have the potential to raise the quality of new themes coming into the ecosystem. The Theme Sniffer plugin is a new effort from the Theme Review team that uses custom sniffs for PHP_CodeSniffer (more…)

Monthly Archives: April 2019

WPWeekly Episode 349 – Sandy Edwards and the Kids Event Working Group Initiative

WordPress Ends Support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5, Bumps Minimum Required PHP Version to 5.6

New Theme: Twenty Nineteen

Gutenberg 5.3 Introduces Block Management, Adds Nesting to the Cover Block

WordCamp Miami Draws 100+ for Kid’s Camp, Plans to Host Standalone Kid’s WordPress Conference in Summer 2019

New Tools for Theme Developers: Theme Sniffer Plugin and Automated Accessibility Testing

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