[ad_1] As my 2 weeks as a guest writer at The Tavern wind down, I thought y’all might be curious to hear some of my reflections on the experience. As James wrote, bringing 7 writers in for 2-week stints is kind of like The Hunger Games – many go in, two get the job. That […]
[ad_1] Knowledge and training for WordPress has traditionally been very decentralized. There’s the official documentation, the developer documentation, the support forums, WordPress.tv, and then the wide array of community blogs, tutorials, and YouTube videos. Resources like documentation and support forums exist to answer questions and explain features, but their purpose is not to teach a […]
[ad_1] As you likely know, WordPress software powers 46% of all websites on the Internet. I thought it would be fun to dive a bit deeper and note some trends that affect the WP community. WordPress powers 46% of all websites on the Internet WordPress usage remains dominant and steady Antiquated software is still used […]
[ad_1] Today I embarked on a mission to figure out which WP.org themes are used the most and why. As you likely know, “Top 5” lists, as a rule, are generally very opinionated and based on fuzzy assumptions and non-standard use cases. I want to assure you – this article is no exception to that […]
[ad_1] Over the years, WordPress’s developer documentation, originally the Codex but now the WordPress Code Reference, has served the project well. However, there’s been a sense in the community that much of the more recent documentation- for example, the JavaScript APIs and packages coming out of Gutenberg- has been inconsistent and harder to read and […]
[ad_1] With all the consolidation happening in the WordPress plugin ecosystem, it’s easy to think that it’d be futile to start your own WP plugin business. But the reality is that there are many small plugin developers making a living flying under the radar of the big dogs. As Valuable as 1 Big Project Per […]
[ad_1] Matias Ventura, Gutenberg’s Lead Architect, recently made a pitch to incorporate some single-block plugins in the Gutenberg GitHub repository: “There’s a growing subset of blocks that we may contemplate creating that are either more niche or—for various reasons—not necessarily an immediate fit for the bundled library in core. This would include blocks that have […]
[ad_1] Gutenberg 16.8 was released this week with improvements to existing blocks and some experiments that lay the foundation for Phase 3 focused on collaboration. The Cover block now automatically sets an overlay color when a user applies the initial background image. If the user doesn’t manually set an overlay color prior to uploading the image, […]
[ad_1] Today we are continuing on with our new Building with Blocks series, where we demonstrate some fun things you can create with blocks. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to build a simple vCard website with a video background in under five minutes. I wanted to build a website like […]
[ad_1] After being involved in web design for almost 19 years now, there are grinding days where nothing feels fresh. However, there are also moments where you look at another web developer’s approach to problems and feel like there is a whole world of possibilities that you have yet to step into. And, it is […]










