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Elementor Launches Hello Theme on WordPress.org

Elementor launched its Hello theme on WordPress.org this week. After just a few days in the directory, the theme already has more than 10,000 active installations. It is essentially a blank starter theme that offers 100% compatibility with Elementor. Page builders with a large user base are in a unique (more…)

Loveland Public Library to Host Free Beginners WordPress Class Online May 22, 2019

Public libraries are one of the few remaining community centers where people freely pass on valuable skills to neighbors young and old. In addition to offering free access to books, computers, and the internet, libraries often host educational classes as a public service, with an emphasis on teaching fundamental skills (more…)

WPWeekly Episode 353 – Slack of Boundaries and A Walk to WCEU

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I discuss an article published by Vox on how Slack is not improving productivity, especially in large team environments. We highlight what’s new in WordPress 5.2.1, why libraries are important to the communities they serve, and new security features in WordPress 5.2. At (more…)

New in EditorsKit 1.5: Justify Text Alignment, Autosave On/Off Toggle, and Highlighted Text

WordPress plugin developer Jeffrey Carandang continues to plough forward with new features for EditorsKit, a collection of page building block options for Gutenberg. What began as a block visibility management plugin has grown to include more features aimed at tweaking various settings in the editor. Version 1.5 adds some text, (more…)

CoBlocks 1.9.5 Merges Block Gallery Plugin into Collection, Adds New Form Block

CoBlocks, a collection of page builder blocks that was recently acquired by GoDaddy, has added four new blocks in version 1.9.5. This is the first major release since the plugin was acquired from Rich Tabor and his co-creators. Tabor now heads up a WordPress Experience team at GoDaddy where CoBlocks’ (more…)

WordPress 5.2 Improves the Security of Automatic Updates

WordPress 5.2, released earlier this month, added the first step towards fully secure updates with offline digital signatures. Scott Arciszewski, Chief Development Officer for Paragon Initiative Enterprises, explains how it works and how developers can migrate away from mcrypt to libsodium. When your WordPress site installs an automatic update, from (more…)

Jetpack Opens Signup for Membership Block Beta

Jetpack has opened a signup for the beta of its upcoming Membership feature in order to collect feedback from potential testers. The changelog for version 7.3, released two weeks ago, hinted at a new Membership block coming to the plugin. The work in progress was added behind the JETPACK_BETA_BLOCKS constant, (more…)

Jetpack Retires Proofreading Module, Time to Find A New Grammar and Spellchecking Alternative

Jetpack 7.3 was released last week and if you didn’t read the changelog, you may have missed that the spelling and grammar checking module that uses After the Deadline has been retired. “Grammar and Spelling: Remove from Jetpack. We’ve chekced the spelling alot over the years, but now time to (more…)

VVV 3.0 Introduces New Ubuntu 18 Box, Support for VVV 2 is Discontinued

VVV 3.0 was released this week, introducing a new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS box. The project’s previous versions used Ubuntu 14, which has now reached end of life (EOL). Support for VVV 2 is now discontinued, due to an unforeseen complication with its PHP dependencies. Ondřej Surý, who maintains all the (more…)

Block building without JavaScript: Testing ACF, Block Lab, and Lazy Blocks

Not everyone is able or willing to build blocks in JavaScript just yet, and sometimes you have to install three or four block collections until you find the blocks you would like. There is a third way: plugins that create the blocks for you from a set of specific custom (more…)

Monthly Archives: May 2019

Elementor Launches Hello Theme on WordPress.org

Loveland Public Library to Host Free Beginners WordPress Class Online May 22, 2019

WPWeekly Episode 353 – Slack of Boundaries and A Walk to WCEU

New in EditorsKit 1.5: Justify Text Alignment, Autosave On/Off Toggle, and Highlighted Text

CoBlocks 1.9.5 Merges Block Gallery Plugin into Collection, Adds New Form Block

WordPress 5.2 Improves the Security of Automatic Updates

Jetpack Opens Signup for Membership Block Beta

Jetpack Retires Proofreading Module, Time to Find A New Grammar and Spellchecking Alternative

VVV 3.0 Introduces New Ubuntu 18 Box, Support for VVV 2 is Discontinued

Block building without JavaScript: Testing ACF, Block Lab, and Lazy Blocks

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