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In Case You Missed It – Issue 25

There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post. Open Call for People Interested in Being (more…)

Experimenting With Reusable Blocks to Create Post Templates

For the past several years, I’ve used the Post Template plugin developed by Vincent Prat to create and manage post templates. For example, some of the information in the WordPress Weekly and In Case You Missed It posts never changes and instead of manually entering it each time, it’s nice (more…)

Minimum PHP Version update

WordPress 5.2 is targeted for release at the end of this month, and with it comes an update to the minimum required version of PHP. WordPress will now require a minimum of PHP 5.6.20. Beginning in WordPress 5.1, users running PHP versions below 5.6 have had a notification in their dashboard that includes information to […]

Branch Continuous Integration Service Selected for TinySeed Startup Accelerator

Branch, a Docker-based continuous integration service for WordPress, has been selected for TinySeed’s startup accelerator. The company was founded by Peter Suhm who is also the creator of WP Pusher, a plugin that lets developers install and update WordPress themes and plugins directly from GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. TinySeed, founded (more…)

Joost de Valk Steps Down as WordPress Marketing Lead

Joost de Valk has announced that he’s stepped down from the WordPress Marketing and Communications Lead role. The position was created and awarded to de Valk earlier this year. Not only was it a new position, but it also expanded the leadership roles in the WordPress project. Despite making progress, (more…)

Google Adds New Desktop/Mobile Selector to the Rich Results Testing Tool

Google’s rich results testing tool has been updated to include a selector for desktop or mobile so website owners can check their results on both platforms. This tool shows if pages are properly structured for display in Google’s carousels, images, breadcrumbs, events, books, and other types of rich snippets. A (more…)

Automattic Adopts Alex Mills’ Plugins

Automattic announced today that a team inside the company will be adopting Alex Mills‘ plugins and continuing their development and support. Mills, also known around the web as @Viper007Bond, was a WordPress core contributor and prolific plugin developer who passed away in February 2019 after a battle with Leukemia. At (more…)

WPWeekly Episode 355 – Food Poisoning Is No Joke

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I discuss Joost de Valk’s decision to step down as WordPress’ Marketing Lead. I shared my recent encounter with food poisoning and some of the lifestyle changes I’m making to improve my health. We also talk about a new experimental plugin by Automattic (more…)

Take Back Your Web: Tantek Çelik’s Call to Action to Join the Independent Web

Tantek Çelik, Web Standards Lead at Mozilla and co-founder of IndieWebCamp, delivered an inspirational talk titled “Take Back Your Web” at the most recent beyond tellerrand conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. He opened the presentation with a litany of Facebook’s wrongdoings, taking the world’s largest social network to task for its (more…)

Jetpack 7.4 Adds Business Hours Block and Ability to Share Content Through WhatsApp

Jetpack 7.4 is now available and includes a new Business Hours block. This block contains a toggle that users can set to show whether they’re open or closed. There’s also a way to add additional times so restaurants, for example, can display when they’re open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (more…)

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In Case You Missed It – Issue 25

Experimenting With Reusable Blocks to Create Post Templates

Minimum PHP Version update

Branch Continuous Integration Service Selected for TinySeed Startup Accelerator

Joost de Valk Steps Down as WordPress Marketing Lead

Google Adds New Desktop/Mobile Selector to the Rich Results Testing Tool

Automattic Adopts Alex Mills’ Plugins

WPWeekly Episode 355 – Food Poisoning Is No Joke

Take Back Your Web: Tantek Çelik’s Call to Action to Join the Independent Web

Jetpack 7.4 Adds Business Hours Block and Ability to Share Content Through WhatsApp

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