In this issue: creating plugins, WordPress support, Git, Post States & much more…
Very stimulating reflections concerning discounts & how they in fact are unnecessary in our business.
I discount, you discount, we both lose
Rich Tabor describes how themes will look like in Full Site Editing era.
Carl Alexander shows how to use GrumpPHP, i.e. a tool automatically performing many valuable tests preceding each git commit. I personally recommend it as well – thanks to such tools we are able to catch some mistakes before putting code onto production.
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.
An engaging interview with one of more important figures in the world of Gutenberg – Birgit Pauli-Haack – the author of Gutenberg Times bulletin & the founder of Pauli Systems.
GitHub launched a very appealing project – ReadME. It allows us to better familiarize with open source developers.
Maintainn.com shares their observations on how daily work at support looks like. I can confirm that it is not a piece of cake and requires tons of patience and general knowledge of the WP world
ACF Extended plugin finally launched its premium version. 11 new field types & support are included there. Additionally, a few extra modules are expected to turn up soon, e.g. the possibility of creating our own post types or advanced forms.
If for whatever reason you haven’t used Git yet, I recommend reading this article to catch up on it.
This boilerplate for creating WordPress plugins looks pretty interesting.
Igor Benić shares with us the benefits of writing tutorials.
A very helpful tutorial showing how to create and use Gutenberg’s sidebar in the admin panel.
Mark Wilkinson shows how to use the so called Post States. It is really a valuable option worth knowing
Barely has Hacktober Fest ended and we already have the next opportunity to support open source projects & be rewarded a small gift. This time owing to Pantheon. If You have no other plans for December, I recommend registering & trying your hand at it.
Do you need to quickly check something in WP but don’t have a server at hand? Use Taste WP. It’s a service enabling fast configuration of a WP site that will expire in 48 hours.
Thanks to @wordpress/create-block we can quickly create a new block. Unfortunately, this tool is mainly designed to work with one block. In this article Leonardo Losoviz shows what to do to use it for working with many blocks.
Lately Automattic launched a few cool themes – Spearhead was designed for podcast or blog creators mainly. More themes here.