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GoDaddy Launches eCommerce Hosting Plan in Partnership with WooCommerce

November 11, 2019design tips

GoDaddy launched an eCommerce tier for their managed hosting plans on October 22. The new tier launched in partnership with WooCommerce and offers over $1,500 of commercial extensions and themes for setting up an online shop. The eCommerce plan utilizes GoDaddy’s onboarding process available with all managed hosting plans. The (more…)

Curated List of Featured Themes Coming to the Theme Directory

November 10, 2019design tips

Themes are the face of WordPress. Like it or not, the average user is more interested in what their site looks like when they first begin using the platform than what the thousands upon thousands of plugins can do for them. Perhaps that’s unfair to plugin developers — there are (more…)

Gutenberg 6.7 Introduces Storybook and Gradient Backgrounds

November 7, 2019design tips

The Gutenberg team released version 6.7 of the Gutenberg plugin last week. The announcement post listed a little over three dozen bug fixes and several enhancements to existing features. The most notable features included in the update are Storybook support and gradient backgrounds for the button block. All of the (more…)

An Interview with Reyes Martínez of Frontity — a new WordPress framework

November 7, 2019design tips

Reyes Martínez directs Digital Marketing and Communications at Frontity. She gave us some background and answered a few of our questions about the company and the project.

Coming in WordPress 5.3: What is the PHP Spread Operator?

November 6, 2019design tips

On October 9, Juliette Reinders Folmer announced on the core WordPress blog that WordPress 5.3 will use the spread operator. The spread operator was one of the new features made available in PHP 5.6, a version released in 2014. WordPress abandoned PHP 5.2 – 5.5 with the release of WordPress (more…)

Product Reviews in the WordPress Ecosystem: Honesty and Genuine Experiences

November 5, 2019design tips

I don’t write fluff pieces. I call ’em like I see ’em. If your project is a dumpster fire, I’m going to say it’s a dumpster fire. Whenever someone comes to me in hopes that I review their product, I give them some form of the preceding paragraph. It doesn’t (more…)

Chilean News Publication El Soberano First to Launch on Newspack

November 3, 2019design tips

Nine months after the announcement of Newspack by WordPress.com, the Chilean news site El Soberano became the first publication to launch on the new platform. On October 16, the small news team relaunched with a fresh design powered by the Newspack theme and its newsroom-focused plugins. Newspack is a project (more…)

“Become the best version of yourself.” An Interview with Rich Tabor

November 1, 2019design tips

Rich Tabor is taking CoBlocks and his other work to GoDaddy, where he’ll continue to development experiences for using WordPress with Gutenberg.

Mark Davies Joins Automattic as Chief Financial Officer

October 31, 2019design tips

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and various other products, announced earlier today that Mark Davies has joined the team as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). This news comes fresh off the heels of Automattic’s acquisition of Tumblr in August and a $300 million Series D investment from Salesforce Ventures (more…)

Kioken Blocks Partners with Gutenslider Plugin

October 29, 2019design tips

Kioken Blocks creator Onur Oztaskiran is teaming up with Niklas Jurij Plessing, a Berlin-based developer and author of the Gutenslider plugin, to improve both products under the same roof. Oztaskiran said the partnership is not an acquisition but rather a unification of efforts that may eventually result in combining under (more…)

design tips

GoDaddy Launches eCommerce Hosting Plan in Partnership with WooCommerce

Curated List of Featured Themes Coming to the Theme Directory

Gutenberg 6.7 Introduces Storybook and Gradient Backgrounds

An Interview with Reyes Martínez of Frontity — a new WordPress framework

Coming in WordPress 5.3: What is the PHP Spread Operator?

Product Reviews in the WordPress Ecosystem: Honesty and Genuine Experiences

Chilean News Publication El Soberano First to Launch on Newspack

“Become the best version of yourself.” An Interview with Rich Tabor

Mark Davies Joins Automattic as Chief Financial Officer

Kioken Blocks Partners with Gutenslider Plugin

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