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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…)

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…)

Latest News

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

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

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