June 2020

Flywheel has relaunched Local Pro, the commercial upgrade for its free local WordPress development product. The first version of Local … Continue reading Flywheel Relaunches Local Pro with Revamped Live Links and New Host-Agnostic Pre-Launch Tools →

Earlier today, Impress.org released version 2.7 of its popular donation plugin GiveWP. The update focuses on laying the foundation for … Continue reading GiveWP 2.7 Adds Donation Form Templates and Per-Form Stripe Connections →

On June 23, Awesome Motive announced it had acquired Smash Balloon, a company that focuses on a family of social … Continue reading Smash Balloon Joins Awesome Motive →

As the pandemic and lockdown measures have caused major shifts in consumer behavior, accelerating the trend towards e-commerce, many WooCommerce-powered … Continue reading WooCommerce 4.3 to Introduce New Home Screen →

Hear me out before telling me how wrong I am. Over the past couple of weeks, I have read a … Continue reading The Best Documentation Is No Documentation →

Tulsa’s first ever WordCamp, which was scheduled for August 29-30, 2020, has officially been canceled due to uncertainty surrounding the … Continue reading WordCamp Tulsa 2020 Canceled →

Matt Watson, through his Wholesome Code brand, released a plugin called Wholesome Publishing on the WordPress plugin directory on Tuesday. … Continue reading Add Per-Block Notes and Create Draft Blocks With the Wholesome Publishing Plugin →

WordPress contributors are currently discussing adopting friendlier terms for some of the trac ticket resolutions to create a more welcoming … Continue reading WordPress Contributors Propose Updating Trac Ticket Resolutions to Be More Friendly →

Gutenberg 8.4 landed today with some major user-facing changes, including new image editing tools and the ability to edit options … Continue reading Gutenberg 8.4 Adds Image Editing, Includes Multi-Block Controls, and Enables Block Directory Search →

WordCamp Denver begins Friday this week and tickets are free for anyone who wants to join June 26-27. The event … Continue reading WordCamp Denver 2020 Online Features Yoga, Coffee, Virtual Swag, and 3 Tracks of WordPress Sessions, June 26-27 →

Last week, as I was making the final edits on a review of his Gutenberg Forms project, Munir Kamal was … Continue reading Control Block Design via the EditorPlus WordPress Plugin →