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The News Project Launches Its First Customer Site CALmatters

July 23, 2019design tips

The News Project founded by Merril Brown has launched its first customer site, CALmatters. CALmatters is a nonprofit journalism venture that covers politics, environmental regulation, education, and more. The site sports a new design, a fresh logo, and was built using WordPress. The News Project describes itself as a “solution (more…)

Anders Norén Release Free Chaplin Theme Designed for Block Editor, Theme Authors Discuss Better Ways to Promote Truly Free Themes

July 22, 2019design tips

Anders Norén has released Chaplin, his 20th free WordPress theme, designed specifically for use with the block editor. Chaplin could be loosely described as an agency or business stye theme but the capabilities of the block editor enable users to create advanced page layouts that would suit many different types (more…)

WPWeekly Episode 359 – Diversity Speaker Training With Jill Binder

July 17, 2019design tips

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Jill Binder, Founder, and Chief Consultant and Trainer at Diverse Speakers In Tech. We discussed how and why the Diverse Speaker Training group was created, how the training encourages underrepresented people to speak at WordCamps, and how the recent (more…)

Google Launches Effort to Make Robots Exclusion Protocol an Internet Standard, Open Sources Robots.txt Parser

July 17, 2019design tips

Website owners have been excluding web crawlers using the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) on robots.txt files for 25 years. More than 500 million websites use robots.txt files to talk to bots, according to Google’s data. Up until now, there has never been an official Internet standard, no documented specification for (more…)

Font Awesome is Branching out with Duotone Colors and Icon Smashups

July 15, 2019design tips

Font Awesome 5.9 was released last month with 421 new and updated icons. The popular icon font library has grown to include more than 5,000 vector icons and is used on 34% of the top million websites. It’s also one of the top open source projects on GitHub and a (more…)

Walking 718km to WCEU, an Interview With Marcel Bootsman

July 11, 2019design tips

I have a hard time walking a mile or two let alone 718km, but that’s what Marcel Bootsman did on his journey to WordCamp EU to generate funds for DonateWC. In this interview, Bootsman explains how he prepared for the journey, what he experienced during his trip, and why he (more…)

msgWP to Launch Plugin Enabling WordPress Microblogging with Telegram

July 11, 2019design tips

msgWP piqued public interest this week with a demo of its new microblogging product that allows users to publish text messages and photos to WordPress sites using Telegram. Although the plugin hasn’t officially launched yet, a live demo on the website allows people to anonymously publish a post to msgWP’s (more…)

Matt Mullenweg’s State of The Word, 2018

July 11, 2019design tips

Matt Mullenweg took the stage once again for his annual “State of the Word” talk at WordCamp US in a packed room of over 1,500 attendees.

CMS Backend Opener: A Firefox Extension to Quickly Locate the Login Page to Popular CMS Backends

July 10, 2019design tips

If you use Firefox and manage multiple websites that use different Content Management Systems and have a hard time keeping track of the various URLs to their backends, consider using the CMS Backend Opener Firefox extension created by Andy R. Once installed, you can use either a keyboard shortcut (Alt (more…)

Lessons from the GraphQL Documentary: Never Underestimate the Power of Open Source Communities

July 9, 2019design tips

Honeypot, a tech-focused job platform based in Europe, has produced a documentary that offers a fascinating look at the origins of GraphQL. The 28-minute video explores how quickly the project began to have an impact on the wider tech industry after Facebook publicly released it as an open source project. (more…)

design tips

The News Project Launches Its First Customer Site CALmatters

Anders Norén Release Free Chaplin Theme Designed for Block Editor, Theme Authors Discuss Better Ways to Promote Truly Free Themes

WPWeekly Episode 359 – Diversity Speaker Training With Jill Binder

Google Launches Effort to Make Robots Exclusion Protocol an Internet Standard, Open Sources Robots.txt Parser

Font Awesome is Branching out with Duotone Colors and Icon Smashups

Walking 718km to WCEU, an Interview With Marcel Bootsman

msgWP to Launch Plugin Enabling WordPress Microblogging with Telegram

Matt Mullenweg’s State of The Word, 2018

CMS Backend Opener: A Firefox Extension to Quickly Locate the Login Page to Popular CMS Backends

Lessons from the GraphQL Documentary: Never Underestimate the Power of Open Source Communities

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