After three months in the WordPress.org theme review queue, Morten Rand-Hendriksen‘s new mobile-first theme is now live in the official theme directory. Popper is one of the few themes worthy of the “accessibility ready” tag, which requires the author to meet all of the WordPress Accessibility Guidelines. This includes features such as semantic markup and…
If you’re looking for a real-world example of the WordPress REST API with code that you can dig into, the new ustwo.com website is open source on GitHub. ustwo is a digital product agency most well known for their work on the award-winning Monument Valley app. They partnered with Human Made, a WordPress development agency,…
The first conference dedicated to the WordPress REST API is on its way to selling out. A Day of REST will be held January 28, 2016, at Conway Hall in London. The venue has a capacity of 250 people and Petya Raykovska, one of the organizers from Human Made, reports that more than half the…
Last week the WordPress community took to Twitter and the Treehouse forums to express disappointment at the company’s decision to fire educator Zac Gordon. According to Gordon, the company will be giving his salary to a .NET developer and will no longer create new WordPress courses, nor do they plan to update the existing courses.…
Four months ago, Richard Best, a lawyer who maintains a blog focused on legal matters related to WordPress and open source, published a poll asking for people’s views on the reselling of commercial themes and plugins. Best is working on a 10-chapter ebook called “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL.” He created the…
Politics is a new free theme on WordPress.org designed to support politicians, campaigns, causes, and government agencies. The theme was created by Jami Gibbs, author of the Gateway theme and founder of Rescue Themes. After just three days on WordPress.org, it is already active on more than 700 sites. Politics features a homepage template with…
Earlier this week Dries Buytaert, creator and project lead for Drupal, opened up a discussion on his blog about the future of Drupal architecture in a post titled Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework? Buytaert contends that users have come to expect application-like experiences from websites, given their experiences interacting with the Facebook…
Since Matt Mullenweg gave the WordPress community a homework assignment to “Learn JavaScript, deeply,” links to tutorials and training courses have been flying around. Once you have grasped some of the basics, one of the best ways to learn is to start building a small project. If you’re looking to explore adding JavaScript to WordPress…
WP Engine customers received an urgent notification in their inboxes Wednesday evening regarding a security breach. At WP Engine we are committed to providing robust security. We are writing today to let you know that we learned of an exposure involving some of our customers’ credentials. Out of an abundance of caution, we are proactively…
All of the sessions from WordCamp US 2015 are slowly making their way to WordPress.tv. If you weren’t able to attend the event, the good news is that you don’t have to miss out on any of the WordPress education. The sessions are packed full of knowledge and inspiration from some of the brightest minds…
WordCamp Europe 2016 organizers made 500 more tickets available this week after the first 1,000 sold out within three weeks of opening ticket sales. According to organizer Petya Raykovska, they are expecting 1700 attendees this year in Vienna, Austria. “We opened ticket sales more than seven months before the event and it’s going a lot…
Treehouse will be discontinuing its WordPress education courses. According to Zac Gordon, one of the site’s former educators, no new WordPress, BuddyPress, or WooCommerce courses will be created and existing content will not be updated in the future. “The online learning company where I have been teaching WordPress for the last 3+ years told me…
Last week Jetpack announced that its Photon image service added support for the WebP image format, which provides up to 34% size reduction for served images when compared JPEG images of the same visual quality. For Photon users this translates into faster-loading pages. WebP is not yet natively supported by all browsers, so Photon will…
The inaugural WordCamp US was held this weekend at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in the heart of Philadelphia, one of America’s oldest cities. Roughly 1,800 WordPress enthusiasts came from all corners of the world to attend the event. Ambling down Philly’s historic streets, lined with Benjamin Franklin monuments, one cannot help but consider how far…
Daniel Bachhuber, the current maintainer of WP-CLI, announced today that his Kickstarter campaign to develop a more RESTful WP-CLI is now complete. The original goal of $17,500 was fully funded within 12 hours of launching the campaign, pushing it onto the stretch goal where every additional $100 raised equals one hour of his time towards…