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Ninja Forms Parent Company Saturday Drive Acquires CalderaWP

August 12, 2019design tips

Saturday Drive, makers of Ninja Forms, Ninja Shop, and SendWP, has acquired Caldera Forms, a React-based, drag-and-drop forms builder plugin. In addition to the free plugin on WordPress.org, which has more than 200,000 active installs, CalderaWP’s product line includes a Pro version and more than 30 free and commercial add-ons (more…)

Automattic has purchased Tumblr

August 11, 2019design tips

Automattic has purchased Tumblr from Verizon, in a firesale move reported to be for less than $3 million. There is still value in the site, however, for Automattic.

WPWeekly Episode 362 – Fitness, Freelancing, and More With Michelle Schulp

August 11, 2019design tips

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Michelle Schulp, an independent freelancer and Director of Technology at AIGA Minnesota. We discussed the impacts speaking at multiple WordCamps had on her business early on, why she continues to be a freelance contractor as opposed to managing her (more…)

An Interview with Ernst-Jan Pfauth of De Correspondent

August 11, 2019design tips

Ernst-Jan Pfauth is co-founder and CEO of The Correspondent, which is launching this year as an English language spinoff of the Dutch news site De Correspondent.

Gutenberg 6.2 Adds Nesting Capabilities to Cover, Media & Text Blocks

August 8, 2019design tips

Gutenberg 6.2 has two new user-facing features that were added based on community feedback. The Cover and Media & Text blocks now allow for nesting any type of block inside. Previously, the Cover block only allowed users to add a heading, button, or paragraph block. Users had resorted to employing (more…)

Meta Box Plugin Introduces MB Blocks, a PHP-based Extension for Creating Custom Blocks

August 8, 2019design tips

Meta Box, one of the most popular WordPress custom fields frameworks, has released a new extension for creating custom Gutenberg blocks using only PHP. MB Blocks gives developers the ability to build blocks with various settings, using a similar syntax as creating a meta box, without having to know React, (more…)

WordPress Security Team Discusses Backporting Security Releases to Fewer Versions

August 8, 2019design tips

The WordPress Security Team is exploring different approaches to backporting security fixes to older versions of the software. The effort that goes into supporting versions back to 3.7 (the release that introduced automatic background updates) increases with each major version released. “For the Core Security team, that means when security (more…)

WordSesh EMEA Coming September 25: A New Virtual WordPress Event for Europe, Middle East, and Africa

August 7, 2019design tips

WordSesh is launching a new event aimed at WordPress enthusiasts living in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. The 12-hour virtual event is scheduled for September 25, 2019, from 7:00-19:00 UTC. While the event has always been open to participants across the world, WordSesh “EMEA” will be the first to (more…)

WordPress Contributors Explore the Possibility of a Global Accessibility Event

August 6, 2019design tips

WordPress’ accessibility team is evaluating the possibility of organizing a virtual Global Accessibility Day, similar to the Polyglots’ Global Translation Day. This marathon-style contributor event has proven to be valuable for the Polyglots in terms of recruiting, onboarding, and fueling progress on translation projects. Accessibility contributors proposed the idea at (more…)

WordCamp US 2019 to Offer Free On-Site Childcare

August 5, 2019design tips

WordCamp US announced today that the event will be offering free on-site childcare for children aged 6 weeks to 12 years old. Organizers have contracted A Helping Hand, a licensed conference childcare service company based in Virginia Beach, VA, to provide childcare for all three days, with flexible drop off (more…)

design tips

Ninja Forms Parent Company Saturday Drive Acquires CalderaWP

Automattic has purchased Tumblr

WPWeekly Episode 362 – Fitness, Freelancing, and More With Michelle Schulp

An Interview with Ernst-Jan Pfauth of De Correspondent

Gutenberg 6.2 Adds Nesting Capabilities to Cover, Media & Text Blocks

Meta Box Plugin Introduces MB Blocks, a PHP-based Extension for Creating Custom Blocks

WordPress Security Team Discusses Backporting Security Releases to Fewer Versions

WordSesh EMEA Coming September 25: A New Virtual WordPress Event for Europe, Middle East, and Africa

WordPress Contributors Explore the Possibility of a Global Accessibility Event

WordCamp US 2019 to Offer Free On-Site Childcare

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