Yearly Archives: 2019

Richard Best Releases Free Audio and Ebook: “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL”

September 18, 2019design tips

If you’re itching to go deeper into the legal aspects of navigating WordPress’ relationship to the GPL license, Richard Best has recently made his ebook (and the audio version) called “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL” available for free. Best, a technology and public lawyer based in New (more…)

Kioken Blocks: The New Street Fighter-Inspired Block Collection that Is Taking Aim at Page Builders

September 18, 2019design tips

With the proliferation of block collection plugins over the past year, Kioken Blocks is a relatively unknown newcomer that you may have missed. Compared to competitors with thousands of users like CoBlocks (30K+), Atomic Blocks (20K+), Stackable (10K+), and Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg (100K+), Kioken is a small fish in (more…)

Creative Commons Releases New WordPress Plugin for Attributing Content with Gutenberg Blocks

September 17, 2019design tips

Creative Commons has released an official WordPress plugin for attributing and licensing content. It is an updated and revamped version of the organization’s WPLicense plugin. It is also loosely based on an old plugin called License, which seems to have been abandoned after not receiving any updates for six years. (more…)

Gutenberg Team Explores the Future of Full-Site Editing with New Prototype

September 17, 2019design tips

From its inception, the block editor was always intended to be more than just an editor for the main content area. Gutenberg phase 2 brings the block editor to other parts of the site, including widgets, menus, and other aspects of site customization. Matias Ventura, one of the lead engineers (more…)

First Look at Twenty Twenty: New WordPress Default Theme based on Chaplin

September 16, 2019design tips

Anders Norén unveiled the designs for the new Twenty Twenty theme today. As speculated earlier this week, WordPress will repurpose Noren’s Chaplin theme in order to expedite shipping the new default theme on the constrained 5.3 release timeline. Although the new default theme will be based on Chaplin, it will (more…)

Google Releases Native Lazyload Plugin for WordPress

September 16, 2019design tips

The most recent release of Chrome (76) added a new “loading” attribute that supports native lazy loading in the browser. An implementation for WordPress core is still under discussion. In the meantime, plugins that enable this for WordPress sites are starting to pop up, and Google has just released one (more…)

WordSesh EMEA Schedule Published, Registration Opens September 9

September 15, 2019design tips

WordSesh EMEA, a 12-hour virtual conference designed for the WordPress community in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, has published the full schedule for the upcoming event. The lineup includes speakers from the UK to Cape Town to Sri Lanka, and other parts of the wider world of WordPress. Approximately (more…)

Anders Norén to Design Twenty Twenty Default Theme, Shipping in WordPress 5.3

September 15, 2019design tips

WordPress 5.3’s release lead coordinators announced a new batch of focus leads during yesterday’s core dev chat. Anders Norén, one of the most well-respected theme authors in the community and an early adopter of Gutenberg, will be leading the design of the upcoming Twenty Twenty default theme. He is working (more…)

WordPress Governance Project Looks for New Leadership

September 12, 2019design tips

The WordPress Governance project is looking for new leadership after its current leaders, Rachel Cherry and Morten Rand-Hendriksen, announced that they will be stepping down. Weekly meetings have been canceled until the organization selects new leadership. After its introduction at WordCamp Europe 2018, the project went through what its leadership (more…)

WordPress 5.3 to Use Robots Meta Tag to Better Discourage Search Engines from Listing Sites

September 12, 2019design tips

WordPress is changing the method it uses to prevent search engines from indexing sites. Previously, if a user checked the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” option in a site’s Settings > Reading screen, WordPress would add Disallow: / to the robots.txt file. This would prevent crawling but did (more…)

Yearly Archives: 2019

Richard Best Releases Free Audio and Ebook: “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL”

Kioken Blocks: The New Street Fighter-Inspired Block Collection that Is Taking Aim at Page Builders

Creative Commons Releases New WordPress Plugin for Attributing Content with Gutenberg Blocks

Gutenberg Team Explores the Future of Full-Site Editing with New Prototype

First Look at Twenty Twenty: New WordPress Default Theme based on Chaplin

Google Releases Native Lazyload Plugin for WordPress

WordSesh EMEA Schedule Published, Registration Opens September 9

Anders Norén to Design Twenty Twenty Default Theme, Shipping in WordPress 5.3

WordPress Governance Project Looks for New Leadership

WordPress 5.3 to Use Robots Meta Tag to Better Discourage Search Engines from Listing Sites

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