This week: WooCommerce, XWP Recruiting, New version of Newsletter Glue, WordCamps in 2022, and much more.
Eric Karkovack is a freelance web designer and writer. A 25+ year veteran of the industry, Eric both works with and writes about his journey in using WordPress to tackle everyday challenges for clients.
Block themes are poised to make a significant impact on designers, developers, and users. As one of the key ingredients to Full Site Editing (FSE), they’ll allow us to edit virtually every part of a website right from the block editor.
If you’re familiar with “classic” WordPress themes, you’ll note several differences in how block themes are put together. For example, templates use the .html file extension (as opposed to .php) and contain block markup. They also use a unique folder structure.
While still a nascent technology, it’s worth taking a deeper look into block themes. They promise to change how we design, build and maintain websites with WordPress.
I put together a look at the basics of block themes and what makes them work. The article also demonstrates how they compare and contrast with classic themes.
The latest default WordPress theme, Twenty Twenty-Two, is also a block theme. Carlo Daniele from Kinsta provides a full tour, along with a step-by-step guide to editing.
If you’re interested in building a block theme, you’ll want to check out Carolina Nymark’s outstanding course. She takes you through every step of the process and leaves no stone unturned. It’s everything you could ever want to know about this new way of theming.
One of the main complaints about WooCommerce has been the structure of its database. At long last, the plans to transfer orders and address data into separate tables have been presented.
A two-part interview with Josepha Haden Chomphosy has shown up on the Matt Report website. She discloses her role in Five for the Future and her thoughts on the initiative.
In her article, Linnea Huxford describes the code review process at Alley and touches upon many interesting issues, such as the impact of the “Approve” and “Reject” buttons on GitHub.
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.
Lance Robbins from XWP describes their recruitment process in detail. Starting with the job advertisement that provides salary range, through successive stages of the process to signing the contract. It’s admirable the recruitment process of more and more companies is so transparent.
Daniel Schutzsmith reported live on Twitter his first encounter with Full Site Editing.
An article on updating & automating plugin releases with Git Updater has surfaced on the Buddy blog.
Topher DeRosia describes the process of building WP Podcasts.
All the speakers & presentations of the WordFest are already displayed on its website. I am counting down the days.
Carl Alexander published a tutorial on how to use CloudFront in conjunction with Page Cache in WP.
Joe Dolson aptly remarks that the number of open and closed accessibility issues does not necessarily translate into more or less accessible Gutenberg. Numbers without context mean nothing.
On the Convesio blog, Hernan Salvarezza offers 5 tips on scaling WooCommerce for high-volume stores.
Big Bite has published a very useful WP Cypress library on GitHub. It’s but a toolkit that simplifies WP testing with Cypress.io very much.
Lesley Sim has just shared the Newsletter Glue v.2. The change is mainly about rewriting options to React.
Iain Poulson explains the benefits of moving WordPress to a subdirectory and how to do it.
WordCamp Birmingham 2022 was to be this year’s first analog WordCamp. Sadly enough, due to COVID, the event was postponed. I fear that organizing analog WordCamps in 2022 will be a game of chance.
The Austrian data protection authority has deemed the use of Google Analytics to be a GDPR violation. The situation calls for a review and it might be time to consider alternatives to GA.
Upcoming events:
On February 2nd, Buddy hosts a webinar intended as an introduction to creating accessible websites.
Excellent news comes from Big Orange Heart. WordFest Live 2022 will take place on March 4.
The WordPress Career Summit will take place on April 8, 2022.
WordCamp Europe is back, with plans for an organized analog version in Porto this time. On June 2-4 2022, we will find out whether it works out.