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Gutenberg 5.7 Adds New Block Appender for Group and Columns Blocks

May 21, 2019design tips

Today’s release of Gutenberg brings a major improvement to the usability of the Group block. In previous versions of the editor, it wasn’t easy to see if a block had been inserted as a child block, especially since the default behavior was to insert an empty paragraph block. Gutenberg 5.7 (more…)

Site Health Tool Manager Provides A Convenient Way to Disable Unnecessary Site Health Check Tests

May 21, 2019design tips

WordPress 5.2, released last week, added two new pages to the WordPress backend to help users diagnose common configuration issues. The Site Health Check page runs a series of tests and categorizes the results as critical, recommended, and good. This helps users prioritize which issues require immediate attention. WordPress 5.2 (more…)

Pressing Topics – Episode 2

May 20, 2019design tips

Pressing Topics is a daily podcast hosted by Malcolm Peralty and myself. We discuss the news that’s making headlines in the WordPress ecosystem as well as related topics that catch our eyes. Generally speaking, if you listen to this show on a daily basis, you should have a good idea (more…)

Reakit Version 1.0 Released: A New Toolkit for Building Accessible Web Apps with React

May 20, 2019design tips

Reakit is a new toolkit for building accessible web apps with React. Brazilian developer Diego Haz launched his MIT-licensed open source project this week with a stable version 1.0 now available to the public. The toolkit offers offers composable, themeable, and accessible UI components that strictly follow WAI-ARIA 1.1 standards. (more…)

WPWeekly Episode 352 – Capital P Dangit and My Future Plans

May 19, 2019design tips

*Update* The previous mp3 attached to this post inadvertently ended around the 31 minute mark. I’ve reuploaded the episode and corrected the problem. The full episode is attached below. In this episode, John James Jacoby and I share what’s new in WordPress 5.2, discuss why not capitalizing one letter can (more…)

Bear App Adds WordPress Publishing Integration for iOS

May 19, 2019design tips

For several years, Bear App users have eagerly requested the ability to publish their notes to WordPress. Bear features a zen writing experience blended seamlessly with note-taking capabilities, a combination that landed the app an Apple Design Award in 2017. People use Bear for everything from taking notes to writing (more…)

The Most Common WordPress Theme Development Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)

May 17, 2019design tips

Submitting a theme to the WordPress.org theme directory is a great way to share your work and contribute to the WordPress community. Currently, there are over 7000 themes in the directory, the most popular of which exceeds 300,000 active installations. (Not including Twenty____ Themes which are packaged with WordPress and (more…)

Pressing Topics – Episode 1

May 16, 2019design tips

Pressing Topics is a daily podcast hosted by Malcolm Peralty and myself. We discuss the news that’s making headlines in the WordPress ecosystem as well as related topics that catch our eyes. Generally speaking, if you listen to this show on a daily basis, you should have a good idea (more…)

WordPress Translation Day 4 Successfully Hosts 77 Local Events in 35 Countries, Recruits 183 New Translators

May 16, 2019design tips

WordPress Translation Day 4 was held over the weekend. The 24-hour global event hosted 77 local events in 35 countries and the Polyglots team added 183 new contributors to their ranks. The team also designated 12 new GTEs (Global Translation Editor) and 14 PTEs (Project Translation Editor). Naoko Takano, a (more…)

WPTracSearch: An Elasticsearch-Powered Search Interface for WordPress Trac Tickets

May 15, 2019design tips

WordPress Trac is one of the more utilitarian and uninspiring interfaces that many contributors have to contend with in the process of giving back to the project. After growing tired of Trac’s mediocre search functionality, William Earnhardt set out to improve it with a new project called WPTracSearch that gave (more…)

Gutenberg 5.7 Adds New Block Appender for Group and Columns Blocks

Site Health Tool Manager Provides A Convenient Way to Disable Unnecessary Site Health Check Tests

Pressing Topics – Episode 2

Reakit Version 1.0 Released: A New Toolkit for Building Accessible Web Apps with React

WPWeekly Episode 352 – Capital P Dangit and My Future Plans

Bear App Adds WordPress Publishing Integration for iOS

The Most Common WordPress Theme Development Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)

Pressing Topics – Episode 1

WordPress Translation Day 4 Successfully Hosts 77 Local Events in 35 Countries, Recruits 183 New Translators

WPTracSearch: An Elasticsearch-Powered Search Interface for WordPress Trac Tickets

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