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Year: 2019

  • Jetpack Is Promoting Paid Upgrades on Plugin Search Screen, WordPress Plugin Team Says it “May be a Violation” of Directory Guidelines

    Jetpack Is Promoting Paid Upgrades on Plugin Search Screen, WordPress Plugin Team Says it “May be a Violation” of Directory Guidelines

    Yesterday the discussion surrounding Jetpack’s implementation of feature suggestions in the plugin search screen became heated after developers pointed out that Automattic is also using these suggestions to promote paid upgrades. You can test this by searching for “backups” where you find that Jetpack’s commercial offering takes the place of the first result, pushing all…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Jetpack 7.1 Adds Feature Suggestions to Plugin Search Results

    Jetpack 7.1 Adds Feature Suggestions to Plugin Search Results

    Jetpack 7.1 was released earlier this month with new blocks for WordAds, Business Hours, Contact Info, Slideshows, and Videos. This release also quietly added suggestions to the plugin search screen, a change that has not been well-received by the developer community. If a user searches for a plugin that has a feature that is already…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Automattic Launches Happy Tools Product Line for Distributed Teams

    Automattic Launches Happy Tools Product Line for Distributed Teams

    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 are designed for more traditional…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WordCamp Asia Proposed for 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand

    WordCamp Asia Proposed for 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand

    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 informally discussed since 2015 while…

    Sarah Gooding

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

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

    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. This Action is based on…

    Sarah Gooding

  • How Will Gutenberg Phase 4 Impact Multilingual Solutions for WordPress?

    How Will Gutenberg Phase 4 Impact Multilingual Solutions for WordPress?

    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 experimental stage. The site building…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Codecademy Launches New Free PHP Course

    Codecademy Launches New Free PHP Course

    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: The PHP courses were very…

    Sarah Gooding

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

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

    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 editor to Drupal via an…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WPWeekly Episode 349 – Sandy Edwards and the Kids Event Working Group Initiative

    WPWeekly Episode 349 – Sandy Edwards and the Kids Event Working Group Initiative

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Sandy Edwards. Sandy gave us a behind the scenes look at what it takes to organize a WordPress event for children and teens. She also provides background information on a new group that’s been formed called the Kids Events Working Group. This group is…

    Jeff Chandler

  • Gutenberg 5.3 Introduces Block Management, Adds Nesting to the Cover Block

    Gutenberg 5.3 Introduces Block Management, Adds Nesting to the Cover Block

    Gutenberg 5.3 was released today with basic block management, a feature that will be included in WordPress 5.2. It is a new modal that can be launched from the vertical ellipses menu, inspired by Rich Tabor’s CoBlocks implementation. Users can turn individual blocks on/off or even entire sections, such as Common Blocks, Formatting, and Embeds.…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WordCamp Miami Draws 100+ for Kid’s Camp, Plans to Host Standalone Kid’s WordPress Conference in Summer 2019

    WordCamp Miami Draws 100+ for Kid’s Camp, Plans to Host Standalone Kid’s WordPress Conference in Summer 2019

    The 11th edition of WordCamp Miami was held this past weekend, a three-day event that featured multiple learning workshops and six different tracks. The speaker ratio was 50% male and 50% female, and nearly half of the speakers were new to WordCamp Miami. Another great year of amazing, diverse speakers! #WCMIA #WordPress pic.twitter.com/e2smmCpPAF — WordCamp…

    Sarah Gooding

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