This week on WP Owls: WordPress community in 2020, Gatsby, WPGraphQL, WordPress in numbers and much more…
Yoast prepared a great guidebook on Open Source – ideal for those eager to start their adventure. In the process You’ll find out how Yoast influences WordPress development.
Open source: Better solutions and a more inclusive society
Literally, a few days ago, the RC WordPress 5.6. version appeared. You can download it now & check out the previously announced changes. It officially premieres on December 8th.
WPGraphQL has finally received the 1.0 update. It took 4 years. Interestingly, the 1.0 version didn’t introduce any major changes – it’s more of a symbolic indication that the plugin is stable. Additionally, you can finally install it from the official WordPress repository.
LearnDash is taking cutting-edge e-learning methodology and infusing it into WordPress. Trusted to power the learning programs for major universities, small to mid-size companies, startups, entrepreneurs, and bloggers worldwide.
Gatsby based their website on WordPress (headless – obviously). Why did they decide to choose WordPress? Hashim Warren explains it all.
Kinsta blog serves up a detailed presentation on Twenty Twenty One theme. Soon with WordPress 5.6, you’ll be able to test this theme.
How has 2020 influenced the WordPress community and our well-known events? What are the benefits and downsides of online meetings? Joe Casabona wrote a great piece on just that topic.
UN-OCHA (a branch of the United Nations) uses Strattic services for security reasons. Find out about the benefits of switching to static websites for such an Organization.
Tim Nash describes how important automatic WP updates are. He’s quite right as we’re often not capable of controlling everything. He also indicates that currently this mechanism lacks a few elements, e.g. delays in updates or backup & rollback mechanisms.
Chris Coyier wrote an engaging article on how the comments module in WordPress should change according to him. It’s a crucial functionality, which could, in fact, be further developed.
Pittsburgh WordPress Meetup Group published a very appealing movie presenting that the future for WP lies in headless approach.
Lesley Sim – a guest in this week’s Pressing Matters – talked about her Newsletter Glue plugin. It’s really worthwhile as it can brilliantly simplify the workflow of sending newsletters.
WP Punk masterfully explains what SOLID is. Concisely & to the point.
If you like numbers, find out how they currently describe WordPress. Lindsay Liedke created a compelling article presenting the most interesting statistics related to WordPress..
This plugin shows once more the wonders Gutenberg allows for – in this case: comments to particular blocks, based on the ones I use in Google Docs. Fantastic functionality, perfect for websites with many contributors.
Creating themes for WordPress from design & functionality point of view is not the easiest of tasks. Find out how Pixelgrade’s designers workflow on the GEMA theme looked like.
Evan Hildreth from WebDevStudios shows how to deal with CORS errors with ‘proxy’ in PHP. An excellent approach.
More & more people treat accessibility seriously. It ensures that everyone can use our shops or websites. Have you, however, wondered how to create a friendly & accessible code from a disabled developer’s perspective?
Black Friday
Get a sneak peak into WP Desk’s special Black Friday offer. This year they are giving you a 30% off for all their shipping integrations at flexibleshipping.com. However, it’s not their final word and there is still much more to come. Stay tuned and read on for more information.