This week: Code review, interview with Joost de Valk, some useful plugins for Gutenberg blocks, and much more.
WordPress is finally preparing to drop Internet Explorer 11 support – either in version 5.8 or 5.9.
WordPress to Drop Support for IE11 in Upcoming 5.8 or 5.9 Release
I fully agree with Max Denysenko, who, in his excellent article, claims that Code Review is essential, time-saving, and at the same time educational.
Conditional Blocks is a plugin that allows you to show blocks conditionally (the name is pretty self-explanatory). I admit I haven’t heard of it before, but it seems promising. Its potential might be even more significant, especially in connection with Full Site Editing.
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.
Here’s a nice interview with Joost de Valk about the origins of the Yoast SEO plugin.
10up has just published a plugin with a telling name – Convert to Blocks. It converts the content created in Tiny MCE into blocks.
WP Tavern joined the podcasting community with their WP Tavern Jukebox. Nathan Wrigley hosted his first guest – Josepha Haden Chomphosa.
In his podcast, Lee Matthew Jackson tells us why his agency is also starting to look for solutions other than WordPress.
Peter Tasker from Delicious Brains describes how cURL exactly works in WP.
Joe Casabona considers when it is better to be in full control of the service and when to find a service that does it for you.
Scott Anderson from WebDevStudios suggests why it’s worth using Cloudflare. I use it too and appreciate it a lot, so I agree wholeheartedly.
Matt Watson of Wholesome Code continues the series of tutorials on Gutenberg – this time, he investigates the sidebar.
Leonardo Losoviz describes the benefits of monorepo and how it influenced the maintenance of his project.
I highly recommend Kamil Ruczyński‘s set of valuable tips on unit testing.
Caldera Forms is one of the most esteemed form-building plugins. Unfortunately, the owners (Ninja Forms) concluded that there is no point developing the plugin when they offer an almost identical one. As a result, Caldera Forms will be retired at the end of the year.
A strong stance from Oracle on Privacy Sandbox and FLoC from Google. As it concerns our privacy, I believe it’s worth reading.
Upcoming events:
On March 31, the Czech WordPress community is organizing an English-language online meetup – WP Beer about static pages and podcasts.
On April 6, Mel Choyce-Dwan and Carolina Nymark will be guests at the WP Café Show.
On April 9, there will be a webinar that will show you how to create static pages with Buddy and Strattic.
WordCamp Greece 2021 Online will take place on 16-18.04.
On April 27-28, GoDaddyPro is organizing Expand 2021, aimed at website designers and developers.
WordSesh 2021 will take place on May 24-28.