Year: 2022

  • Block, FSE, Hybrid, Universal? What Do We Call These New WordPress Themes?

    Block, FSE, Hybrid, Universal? What Do We Call These New WordPress Themes?

    Ellen Bauer, developer and co-owner of ElmaStudio, posed the question on Twitter last week that many have been asking. What do we call these new types of WordPress themes made from blocks? She was not the first to ask. The question also came up via the Post Status Slack chat earlier this week. The short…

  • Kadence Blocks 2.2.4 Adds Lottie Animations Block

    Kadence Blocks 2.2.4 Adds Lottie Animations Block

    Kadence Blocks, a popular block collection plugin, added a new Lottie Animations block today in version 2.2.4. Most of the blocks in the plugin offer commonly used page building features like rows, buttons, galleries, and testimonials. The Lottie Animations block introduces something a little more fun and whimsical. Developed by the design team at Airbnb,…

  • Miniblock OOAK and Outside-the-Box Ideas in the Theme Directory

    Miniblock OOAK and Outside-the-Box Ideas in the Theme Directory

    I have been fascinated by the concept of Carolina Nymark’s Miniblock OOAK theme for a couple of weeks now. It has served as inspiration for a design idea I have been working on, and I am happy to see Nymark pushing boundaries in a space where few pioneers are left. Her design style always dares…

  • WordPress Community Support Program Recommends Cautious Spending Until In-Person Events Can Renew Revenue Stream

    WordPress Community Support Program Recommends Cautious Spending Until In-Person Events Can Renew Revenue Stream

    WordPress Community Support (WPCS), the subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation that handles financial and legal support for official WordPress events, has published an overview of the program’s current finances and a summary of 2020. Harmony Romo, a financial wrangler at Automattic, reported that WPCS ended the year with approximately $1.2M of cash on hand. $293,000…

  • Block Editor Sidebar Panels Are the New Admin Notices

    Block Editor Sidebar Panels Are the New Admin Notices

    There is a problem. Well, it is not an OMGBBQ problem, but it has the potential to become one. Maybe by calling attention to it, I will set off a landslide of copycats who will see this as another trick of the marketing trade, implementing it in their own projects. I am torn, but it…

  • Convesio Raises $5M to Expand Docker-Powered Hosting Platform

    Convesio Raises $5M to Expand Docker-Powered Hosting Platform

    WordPress hosting company Convesio has raised $5 million from private investors. This funding round includes some of the company’s original investors who participated in Convesio’s 2019 Wefunder crowdfunding campaign, which brought in more than $1 million from 800+ investors. “I started Convesio because legacy hosting providers have not evolved their technology, struggled to provide high…

  • 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…

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