If your job involves working with WordPress, you probably switch between front and backend countless times every day while getting things done. Kellen Mace, a developer at WebDevStudios, has just released a handy Google Chrome Extension that will save you a few clicks while switching back and forth. WordPress Admin Switcher offers a keyboard shortcut…
During a recent NerdWallet hackathon, WordPress plugin developer Mickey Kay and his colleague John Lee came up with an idea for creating a visual archive for the site’s content that would allow them to look back at previous versions and associate SEO and performance shifts with content changes. WordPress powers a large portion of NerdWallet…
If you missed out on attending WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna or were not able to attend all the sessions you wanted to see, check out the raw livestream feeds now available on the event’s website. Each day’s sessions are broken down into recordings for morning and afternoon, separated by track: Track 1 Livestream Track…
WordCamp Europe 2016 had 500 attendees sign up for contributor day, which was held on Sunday at the University of Vienna. For the first time ever, the event hosted a plugin review workshop led by Mika Epstein where attendees learned about how the repository and review system works. Epstein announced a new #pluginreview channel on…
WordPress for Android version 5.5 was released today and introduces a completely rewritten visual editor. The new editing experience offers the same styling tools as the web version of WordPress but places them in a thumb-friendly toolbar at the bottom. The visual editor is the default when you open the app to create a new…
During the first day of WordCamp Europe, Brian Krogsgard interviewed Matt Mullenweg on stage before his Q&A session with the audience. Mullenweg opened up about his multi-decade vision for WordPress and spoke frankly about some of WordPress’ competitors that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising. Here are a few of the highlights.…
WordCamp Europe took place over the weekend in Vienna with nearly 1900 attendees on the ground and more than 1,000 tickets claimed for live streaming. The event received 150 micro-sponsorships and support from more companies than ever before. During the closing remarks, lead organizer Petya Raykovska announced that WordCamp Europe 2017 will be held in…
Udacity, an online education site, has launched a free web accessibility course built by Google. The site previously provided university-style courses, but is now focusing on its “Nanodegree programs,” offering courses and tracks created in partnership with industry leaders. The new “Web Accessibility: Developing with Empathy” course lasts for approximately six weeks and students can…
WordCamp Europe 2016 will begin bright and early this morning in the halls of the Leopold Museum and the Baroque suites of the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. The sold-out event is the largest WordCamp to date with 2,200 attendees expected. Magnificent stage at Track 1 #WCEU pic.twitter.com/KLGKlbp9Hp — Milan Ivanović #WCASIA (@lanche86) June 23, 2016 While…
Last month Daniel Bachhuber, maintainer of WP-CLI, opened up a discussion on how to create a more sustainable future for the project. He asked users the following question: How do I reduce WP-CLI’s bus factor, and more generally lay a foundation for WP-CLI’s long-term organizational stability? The bus factor is a term sometimes used in…
BuddyPress 2.6.0 “Espejo” was released today, named for the owners of an obscure restaurant named Pizza & Subs in Rock Island, IL. Pizza & Subs is known for its excellent pizza and taco calzones, a Quad-City original. Introducing Activity Embeds One of the most visible and exciting new features of 2.6 is the ability to…
The wheels are already turning for WordCamp US 2016, which will be held in Philadelphia, PA, December 2-4. Tickets went on sale just days after the 2015 event concluded and today organizers opened speaker applications. Speakers should be prepared to present to a large audience. The inaugural WordCamp US sold 1,788 tickets and 865 people…
Deborah Donnier and Emilie Lebrun, creators of ThinkWP, are producing a 50-minute documentary to promote the WordPress community and its ecosystem in France. The team plans to interview entrepreneurs and enthusiasts in several French cities, including Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Biarritz. ThinkWP has titled its upcoming documentary “Why WordPress?” and will ask participants…
Last week we featured Ahmad Awais’ WordPress package for Sublime Text that adds a snippet-based library for creating customizer options. Yesterday WordPress developer Chris Wilcoxson published a similar package for the free and open source Atom Text editor. Atom is developed by GitHub to be a “hackable text editor for the 21st Century,” thanks to…
WordPress 4.5.3 was released today to fix seven important security issues that affect 4.5.2 and prior versions. Automatic background updates are already rolling out and all users are advised to update immediately. The release patches the following security issues: Redirect bypass in the customizer (reported by Yassine Aboukir) Two different XSS problems via attachment names…