Month: August 2017

  • Gutenberg Development Team Confirms Meta Box API Will Not be Formally Deprecated

    Gutenberg Development Team Confirms Meta Box API Will Not be Formally Deprecated

    The discussion surrounding how Gutenberg will handle meta boxes heated up over the weekend after a participant commented on the GitHub issue with concern regarding meta box support being removed from the most recent milestone. “I see this vital issue has been removed from any milestone,” @steveangstrom said. “It has been de-prioritized again while bells…

  • Gutenberg 0.7.0 Adds Opt-In Usage Tracking

    Gutenberg 0.7.0 Adds Opt-In Usage Tracking

    Gutenberg 0.7.0 was released just before the weekend with improvements to the writing flow and greater flexibility for theme authors to add their own customizations. Last week’s version 0.6.0 release made significant changes to the way paragraphs are created within text blocks, allowing for blocks to split when pressing enter. However, it inserted a “New…

  • In Case You Missed It – Issue 22

    In Case You Missed It – Issue 22

    There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post. WordPress Foundation is Taking Submissions for The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship For…

  • Publishers Are Moving Back to WordPress After Short Experiments with Medium

    Publishers Are Moving Back to WordPress After Short Experiments with Medium

    The Awl, ThinkProgress, Film School Rejects, and several other publishers have moved back to WordPress after short experiments on Medium. In early 2016, Medium convinced a collection of small, independent publications to move to its platform but shortly thereafter discontinued its unsuccessful ad-driven publishing model without notifying publishers. In March 2017, Medium CEO Ev Williams…

  • WordPress 4.8.1 Released, Adds Custom HTML Widget

    WordPress 4.8.1 Released, Adds Custom HTML Widget

    WordPress 4.8.1 is available for download or as an update from the WordPress Dashboard. This release contains 29 bug fixes and improvements. The most notable addition is a dedicated Custom HTML widget. The Custom HTML widget works similar to the Text widget in WordPress 4.7 and below. To see a full list of changes in…

  • WPWeekly Episode 283 – A Visit From St. Gutenberg

    WPWeekly Episode 283 – A Visit From St. Gutenberg

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I start off the show with an adaptation of ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas‘ created by Clement Clarke Moore. Since we didn’t have a guest, Jacoby and I opened up about our personal lives which turned into a conversation about remote working from home. We also discussed the…

  • WordPress Polyglots Team Fuels International Community Growth with 3rd Global Translation Day

    WordPress Polyglots Team Fuels International Community Growth with 3rd Global Translation Day

    The 3rd Global WordPress Translation Day has been set for September 30, 2017. The success of previous events has generated momentum to continue the 24-hour global translation sprints and has also increased the visibility of the Polyglots team’s contributions. These sprints have provided a catalyst for the team’s growth from 5,000 contributors in April 2015…

  • Jetpack 5.2 Brings Major Improvements to the Contact Form Module

    Jetpack 5.2 Brings Major Improvements to the Contact Form Module

    Jetpack’s Contact Form module hasn’t seen too many changes since its first release (version 1.3) in 2012. It is easily one of the most compelling features included in the plugin and has long been overdue for a refresh. Today’s 5.2 release brings major improvements to the Contact Form module. Previously, Jetpack launched the form builder…

  • A Fix for WordPress Weekly Subscribers Using Pocket Casts

    A Fix for WordPress Weekly Subscribers Using Pocket Casts

    Last week, you may have noticed that the Tavern was intermittently offline and generating errors. We’ve been experiencing technical issues for the past several months but they peaked last week. After working with Bluehost, they migrated the site from a VPS, to a Dedicated Server that has more powerful hardware. Since the migration, we’ve noticed…

  • New Dobby Plugin Captures and Hides Unwanted WordPress Admin Notices

    New Dobby Plugin Captures and Hides Unwanted WordPress Admin Notices

    With the right combination of plugins and events, the WordPress admin area can quickly become a confusing mess of notices. WordPress’ notification system is often abused and overused by plugin authors who want to inject upsells and announcements into the admin. These can stack up like a pile of junk mail vying for users’ attention…

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