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New Attock WordPress Meetup Empowers Pakistani Women Freelancers and Business Owners

September 23, 2019design tips

WordCamp Lahore is getting rebooted on November 30 – December 1, at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. The first edition of the event was planned for 2016 but was derailed by local disagreements and ultimately canceled. For the past three years organizers have worked to strengthen their (more…)

WordPress 5.2.1 Maintenance Release

September 22, 2019WPDev News

WordPress 5.2.1 is now available! This maintenance release fixes 33 bugs, including improvements to the block editor, accessibility, internationalization, and the Site Health feature introduced in 5.2. You can browse the full list of changes on Trac. WordPress 5.2.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. Version 5.2.2 is expected to follow in approximately two weeks. You can download […]

Justin Tadlock Joins WP Tavern

September 22, 2019design tips

The kid scampered ahead of his classmates. He wanted to be one of the first to set foot in the building, but he stopped as he got to the first step. He looked up to count the floors. One, two, three…it wasn’t The Times. He was awestruck all the same. (more…)

Adam Jacob Advocates for Building Healthy OSS Communities in “The War for the Soul of Open Source”

September 22, 2019design tips

Chef co-founder and former CTO Adam Jacob gave a short presentation at O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference (OSCON) 2019 titled “The War for the Soul of Open Source.” In his search for meaning in open source software today, Jacob confronts the notion of open source business models. “We often talk (more…)

Local Lightning Now in Public Beta with Major Performance Improvements

September 19, 2019design tips

Flywheel put its new Local Lightning app into public beta this week. The app is an improved version of the company’s local WordPress development tool, formerly known as Pressmatic before Flywheel acquired it from Clay Griffiths and renamed it to “Local by Flywheel.” Since its acquisition in 2016, Local has (more…)

Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm

September 18, 2019design tips

You may know Peter Suhm as the man behind WP Pusher, a plugin that lets you securely deploy your plugins and themes directly from GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab to any WordPress site on any type of hosting.

WPHindi Plugin Instantly Converts Text from English to Hindi in the Block Editor

September 18, 2019design tips

Hindi is one of the world’s top languages, with more than 520 million native and non-native speakers, and is the fastest growing language in India. In a region where English is also commonly spoken, many Hindi publishers have the unique requirement of being able to switch back and forth between (more…)

Google Announces New Ways to Identify Nofollow Links, Progress on Related Gutenberg Ticket Is Currently Stalled

September 18, 2019design tips

This week Google announced changes to the 15-year old nofollow attribute that was previously recommended for identifying links related to advertising, sponsors, or content for which users are not intending to pass along ranking credit. The nofollow attribute is no longer a catchall for these types of instances, as Google (more…)

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…)

Latest News

New Attock WordPress Meetup Empowers Pakistani Women Freelancers and Business Owners

WordPress 5.2.1 Maintenance Release

Justin Tadlock Joins WP Tavern

Adam Jacob Advocates for Building Healthy OSS Communities in “The War for the Soul of Open Source”

Local Lightning Now in Public Beta with Major Performance Improvements

Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm

WPHindi Plugin Instantly Converts Text from English to Hindi in the Block Editor

Google Announces New Ways to Identify Nofollow Links, Progress on Related Gutenberg Ticket Is Currently Stalled

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

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