Do you notice anything different about the Tavern’s URL? We recently enabled SSL on the site. Although the transition from HTTP to HTTPS was relatively smooth, we encountered a few issues. Postmatic Thought The Tavern Disappeared Soon after making the switch, we received error notices from Postmatic when trying to moderate comments via email. Because…
WordPress for Android version 5.4 was released this week with a couple of exciting new features and the eagerly anticipated new visual editor. The editor received a complete rewrite to use WebView, which allows the app to render and edit HTML via ContentEditable. The app’s developers had to work around a few bugs with WebView…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss the news that’s made headlines in recent weeks, including WordPress’ birthday as the project turns 13 years old. We discuss the gesture of good will from Syed Balkhi donating the WP.org domain to the WordPress Foundation. Last but not least, I share some of…
UpThemes co-founder Chris Wallace announced this week that the theme company has been acquired by Andy Wilkerson of Parallelus, a successful Themeforest author. The two met at PressNomics and worked out a deal for the sale of everything related to UpThemes, including some unreleased themes and the managed hosting business the company launched last year.…
If you’ve ever clicked on a URL to WP.org and ended up on WPBeginner.com within the past two years, you’re not alone. It routinely happens on discussion forums like the Advanced WordPress Facebook group and Twitter where referencing WP.org turns into a link to WPBeginner.com. A great example occurred in 2015 when Antti Kuosmanen tweeted…
The WordPress Theme Directory will soon be rolling out new and updated tags for filtering the 3,800+ free themes hosted there. After a year of discussion and preparation of core and meta trac tickets, the Theme Review team finalized its proposal for overhauling the tags. Theme authors are now encouraged to update their themes to…
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