Month: February 2022

  • Creating Slides With the Carousel Slider Block WordPress Plugin

    Creating Slides With the Carousel Slider Block WordPress Plugin

    Over the weekend, Virgiliu Diaconu asked me to check out his Carousel Slider Block plugin, a project he has maintained for three years. It has slowly garnered more than 5,000 active installs since its release. I get emails like this every day. More often than not, the projects are fundamentally broken or are a bit…

  • Creating Content Dividers With the Wavy Divider WordPress Plugin

    Creating Content Dividers With the Wavy Divider WordPress Plugin

    Kevin Batdorf, the Project Lead Developer at Extendify, released the Wavy Divider plugin earlier this week. It is described as “a colorful, fun, lightweight divider block to energize your website with character and pizazz.” As someone who believes every Friday should be officially titled “Fun Friday,” how could I not install and activate it? I…

  • FSE Program: The Media Experience and Its Future in WordPress

    FSE Program: The Media Experience and Its Future in WordPress

    The FSE Outreach Program is back with another round of testing. Anne McCarthy asks for volunteers to test and provide feedback on media-related features in WordPress. Anyone is welcome to contribute, and feedback is open until February 23. This round of the program includes two tasks. The first has users explore today’s media-related experience. The…

  • German Court Fines Website Owner for Violating the GDPR by Using Google-Hosted Fonts

    German Court Fines Website Owner for Violating the GDPR by Using Google-Hosted Fonts

    In late January, a Munich regional court ruled that a plaintiff was entitled to injunctive relief and damages of 100 € from an undisclosed website owner for passing on the visitor’s IP address to Google through the use of Google Fonts. Since it is possible to use the fonts without connecting to Google, the court…

  • Sensei LMS 4.0 Introduces New Block-Based Learning Mode Course Theme

    Sensei LMS 4.0 Introduces New Block-Based Learning Mode Course Theme

    Full-site editing has come to Sensei LMS in the plugin’s latest 4.0 release. The headline feature of this update is Learning Mode – a new block-based theme that gives course authors the ability to customize the learning experience in ways that were not possible before. This version also updates the nine-year-old plugin’s menus and admin…

  • Look Under the Hood With the Block X-Ray WordPress Plugin

    Look Under the Hood With the Block X-Ray WordPress Plugin

    One of my favorite tools in the past few days is the Block X-ray Attributes plugin by Sal Ferrarello. It is geared toward developers and shows block attributes in the WordPress editor. After seeing his tweet on Friday, I immediately installed it. The plugin is currently only available via its GitHub repository, and anyone who…

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