Monthly Archives: October 2019

Mark Davies Joins Automattic as Chief Financial Officer

October 31, 2019design tips

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and various other products, announced earlier today that Mark Davies has joined the team as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). This news comes fresh off the heels of Automattic’s acquisition of Tumblr in August and a $300 million Series D investment from Salesforce Ventures (more…)

The Month in WordPress: September 2019

October 31, 2019WPDev News

September has been a particularly busy month in the WordPress community—a lot of important work has been done as everyone in the project works towards an upcoming major release. Read on to find out more about this and everything else that has been going on over the past month. WordPress 5.2.3 Security and Maintenance Release […]

Kioken Blocks Partners with Gutenslider Plugin

October 29, 2019design tips

Kioken Blocks creator Onur Oztaskiran is teaming up with Niklas Jurij Plessing, a Berlin-based developer and author of the Gutenslider plugin, to improve both products under the same roof. Oztaskiran said the partnership is not an acquisition but rather a unification of efforts that may eventually result in combining under (more…)

WordPress 5.2.4 Release Addresses Several Security Issues

October 28, 2019design tips

The core WordPress team released version 5.2.4 of WordPress on October 14. The release addresses six security issues that were all privately reported through WordPress’ responsible disclosure procedure. Like any security release, users should update immediately to the latest version to keep their sites secure. For those with automatic updates (more…)

WordPress 5.3 Beta 2

October 28, 2019WPDev News

WordPress 5.3 Beta 2 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend running it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. You can test the WordPress 5.3 beta in two ways: Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (choose the “bleeding edge […]

Meetup.com Introduces RSVP Fees for Members, WordPress Meetup Groups Unaffected by Pricing Changes

October 27, 2019design tips

Meetup, a subsidiary of WeWork, has announced a significant change to its pricing structure that will require members to pay a $2 fee in order to RSVP to events. The change will go into effect in October, ostensibly to distribute meetup costs more evenly between organizers and members. Some meetup (more…)

AMP Project Joins OpenJS Foundation Incubation Program

October 24, 2019design tips

Last week at the AMP Contributor Summit 2019 in New York City, the AMP project announced that it will be joining the OpenJS Foundation incubation program. OpenJS was formed by a recent merger between the JS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation. AMP will join webpack, jQuery, Mocha, Node.js, ESLint, Grunt, (more…)

Inside Look at GoDaddy’s Onboarding Process for Managed WordPress Hosting

October 23, 2019design tips

The Tavern was provided access to test GoDaddy’s onboarding process, which is a part of its managed WordPress hosting service. The company has revamped its system since we covered it in 2016. The web host has had time to garner feedback since then and build an easy-to-use, headache-free way to (more…)

Edit Flow Future in Flux: Here Are 5 Alternative Plugins

October 23, 2019design tips

After years of unpredictable development and support, it seemed the Edit Flow plugin had finally given up the ghost last week when an Automattic support representative confirmed that it is no longer being actively developed and recommended users switch to an alternative. Nick Gernert, head of WordPress.com VIP, has since (more…)

Meta Box Settings Page Extension Adds Support for Customizer, Network-Wide Settings

October 22, 2019design tips

The team behind the Meta Box plugin updated their MB Settings Page add-on to include support for the customizer and multisite. The customizer feature allows theme authors to integrate their custom settings into the customizer using framework-specific code. The multisite integration allows plugin authors to create a network settings page. (more…)

Monthly Archives: October 2019

Mark Davies Joins Automattic as Chief Financial Officer

The Month in WordPress: September 2019

Kioken Blocks Partners with Gutenslider Plugin

WordPress 5.2.4 Release Addresses Several Security Issues

WordPress 5.3 Beta 2

Meetup.com Introduces RSVP Fees for Members, WordPress Meetup Groups Unaffected by Pricing Changes

AMP Project Joins OpenJS Foundation Incubation Program

Inside Look at GoDaddy’s Onboarding Process for Managed WordPress Hosting

Edit Flow Future in Flux: Here Are 5 Alternative Plugins

Meta Box Settings Page Extension Adds Support for Customizer, Network-Wide Settings

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