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Automattic Launches Happy Tools Product Line for Distributed Teams

April 10, 2019design tips

Automattic has released Happy Schedule, the first in a new line of products called “Happy Tools,” created to solve problems for distributed teams. The products have grown out of internal tools that Automattic uses with its distributed team of more than 850 employees in 68 countries. Most employee scheduling tools (more…)

Introducing the 2019 ‘Anything Is Possible’ List

April 10, 2019WPDev News

WordPress.com’s inaugural New Year’s list celebrates the people and organizations who are using the web to make the world a better place.

WordCamp Asia Proposed for 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand

April 10, 2019design tips

The organizers of WordCamp Asia, a brand new regional WordCamp, have published a proposal for making Bangkok, Thailand, the host city for a 2-3 day event in early 2020. They are currently planning for February or March to avoid clashing with other regional WordCamps (WCEU, WCUS). The camp has been (more…)

New Gutenberg Playground Offers a Standalone Version of the Editor for Testing Outside the WordPress Admin

April 9, 2019design tips

The Gutenberg team merged a pull request three days ago that adds a local “playground” development environment for testing outside of the WordPress admin. Riad Benguella, the technical lead for Gutenberg phase 2, said that the playground could grow over time to contain “more than just a standalone version of (more…)

WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 Released: Help Test New Blocks, Block Manager, and Improved Fatal Error Protection

April 9, 2019design tips

WordPress 5.2 beta 1 was released this evening with an exciting lineup of new user-facing features that are ready for testing. The upcoming release introduces new blocks for RSS, Search, Calendar, Tag Cloud, and Amazon Kindle embed. The proliferation of block collection plugins as a block distribution mechanism has caused (more…)

The Month in WordPress: January 2019

April 7, 2019WPDev News

The momentum from December’s WordPress 5.0 release was maintained through January with some big announcements and significant updates. Read on to find out what happened in the WordPress project last month. WordPress Leadership Grows In a milestone announcement this month, WordPress project lead, Matt Mullenweg (@matt), named two individuals who are coming on board to […]

rtCamp Releases GitHub Actions for Automated Code Review, Deploying WordPress, and Slack Notifications

April 7, 2019design tips

rtCamp, a 60+ person agency and WordPress.com VIP service partner, has released three new GitHub Actions that handle automated code review, WordPress deployment, and Slack notifications. The PHPCS Code Review action takes advantage of GitHub’s pull request review feature. It performs an automated code review on pull requests using PHPCS. (more…)

How Will Gutenberg Phase 4 Impact Multilingual Solutions for WordPress?

April 7, 2019design tips

During the 2018 State of the Word address, Matt Mullenweg announced that Phase 4 of the Gutenberg project would be aimed at developing an official way for WordPress to support multilingual sites. There are no technical details available yet for what approach core will take, because it’s still in the (more…)

Codecademy Launches New Free PHP Course

April 4, 2019design tips

Codecademy introduced a new free course today called Learn PHP. The company, which offers free coding courses, is rebuilding its PHP education after removing all of its PHP courses in 2017. A Codecademy representative explained that the courses were outdated and that their team thought PHP was declining in popularity: (more…)

Gutenberg Cloud Team Advocates for Making WordPress.org’s New Block Directory a CMS-Agnostic Library

April 3, 2019design tips

Frontkom‘s presentation at WordCamp Nordic introduced the audience to the Gutenberg Cloud project, which allows developers to share JS-only blocks across CMS platforms. Marco Fernandes and Thor Andre Gretland, representatives of the 45-person agency based in Europe, are also part of the Drupal Gutenberg project that brings WordPress’ open source (more…)

Monthly Archives: April 2019

Automattic Launches Happy Tools Product Line for Distributed Teams

Introducing the 2019 ‘Anything Is Possible’ List

WordCamp Asia Proposed for 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand

New Gutenberg Playground Offers a Standalone Version of the Editor for Testing Outside the WordPress Admin

WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 Released: Help Test New Blocks, Block Manager, and Improved Fatal Error Protection

The Month in WordPress: January 2019

rtCamp Releases GitHub Actions for Automated Code Review, Deploying WordPress, and Slack Notifications

How Will Gutenberg Phase 4 Impact Multilingual Solutions for WordPress?

Codecademy Launches New Free PHP Course

Gutenberg Cloud Team Advocates for Making WordPress.org’s New Block Directory a CMS-Agnostic Library

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