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Tips for Replying to A Call for Papers or A Call for Speakers

May 15, 2019design tips

The following is a guest post written by Jennifer Bourn. With 21 years experience as a graphic designer, 15 years experience as a web designer, 14 years as a creative agency owner, and 11 years as a blogger, Jennifer Bourn has worked with hundreds of service-based businesses to build brands (more…)

Storefront 2.5.0 Introduces a Custom, Block-Based Homepage

May 15, 2019design tips

Storefront, WooCommerce’s free flagship theme, has just released version 2.5.0 with updates that make it easier to setup and customize the homepage. In 2017, WooCommerce 2.2 introduced starter content to help users set up the homepage template, menus, widgets, and add some demo products. This content has been updated to (more…)

Advanced Custom Fields 5.8.0 Introduces ACF Blocks: A PHP Framework for Creating Gutenberg Blocks

May 15, 2019design tips

After six months in development, Advanced Custom Fields 5.8.0 was released yesterday with a new PHP-based framework for developing custom Gutenberg block types. ACF Blocks was announced in October 2018, to the great relief of many developers who didn’t know how they were going to keep pace with learning the (more…)

WPWeekly Episode 351 – Results of the Gutenberg Accessibility Audit

May 14, 2019design tips

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Rachel Cherry, Freelance software engineer, consultant, and director of WPCampus and Brian DeConinck, a front-end designer and developer with the OIT Design and Web Services team, part of the Office of Information Technology at NC State University. We learn how Tenon was chosen as (more…)

New Membership Block Coming to Jetpack, Site Health and Debug Info Added to Version 7.3

May 14, 2019design tips

Jetpack 7.3 was released yesterday with changes that improve the “out of the box” experience. The plugin now enables fewer features on setup so users can have more control over what they activate on their sites. The new version also integrates with WordPress 5.2’s new Site Health checks. It includes (more…)

WordPress Professionals: Take the Future of WordPress Careers Survey

May 14, 2019design tips

Nevena Tomovic, a Business Developer at Human Made, is researching the most important skills for pursuing a career in WordPress. She is conducting a survey for professionals that is open to anyone working in a WordPress-related capacity, including writers, developers, marketers, UI & UX designers, illustrators, community drivers, evangelists, project (more…)

Registration for WordSesh 6 Is Now Open

May 13, 2019design tips

Registration for the sixth installment of WordSesh is now open and thanks to Pantheon, those who attend the conference live will be able to watch all of the sessions for free. WordSesh is a virtual WordPress conference with speakers from around the world sharing knowledge. This year’s event has 14 (more…)

WordPress 5.2 “Jaco” Released, Includes Fatal PHP Error Protection and A Recovery Mode

May 13, 2019design tips

WordPress 5.2 “Jaco” named after bassist Jaco Pastorius, is now available for download. Normally, I’d start listing new features but I’m going to do something a little different this time. Let’s begin by recognizing the 327 people who contributed to this release with 109 of those being first time contributors. (more…)

Theme Review Team Leadership Implements Controversial Changes to Trusted Authors Program, Requiring Theme Reviews in Exchange for Making Themes Live

May 13, 2019design tips

The WordPress Theme Review team has implemented a controversial change to its Trusted Authors Program that puts a hard requirement on participants to join the theme review team and perform a minimum number of reviews in order to continue having their own themes fast tracked through the review process. “As (more…)

Tabor Theme Now Available as a Free Gatsby Theme for WordPress

May 13, 2019design tips

Gatsby WordPress Themes, a project launched earlier this year by a group of collaborators, has just released its second free theme. The team is led by Gatsby and GraphQL aficionados Zac Gordon, Jason Bahl, Muhammad Muhsin, Hussain Thajutheen, and Alexandra Spalato. Inspired by the scalability, speed, and security that the (more…)

design tips

Tips for Replying to A Call for Papers or A Call for Speakers

Storefront 2.5.0 Introduces a Custom, Block-Based Homepage

Advanced Custom Fields 5.8.0 Introduces ACF Blocks: A PHP Framework for Creating Gutenberg Blocks

WPWeekly Episode 351 – Results of the Gutenberg Accessibility Audit

New Membership Block Coming to Jetpack, Site Health and Debug Info Added to Version 7.3

WordPress Professionals: Take the Future of WordPress Careers Survey

Registration for WordSesh 6 Is Now Open

WordPress 5.2 “Jaco” Released, Includes Fatal PHP Error Protection and A Recovery Mode

Theme Review Team Leadership Implements Controversial Changes to Trusted Authors Program, Requiring Theme Reviews in Exchange for Making Themes Live

Tabor Theme Now Available as a Free Gatsby Theme for WordPress

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