Peter Suhm of WP Pusher recently launched a free email-based Git crash course for WordPress developers who want to gain a basic understanding of managing projects with Git. The five-day drip content course is suitable for both plugin and theme developers and begins with instructions on how to structure your projects for an efficient Git…
The very first WordCamp Croatia will be held in Rijeka the weekend of September 4-6. The WordPress community and the tech industry in general are growing in the Balkans. A large contingency of Croatian WordPress enthusiasts were present at neighboring Serbia’s first WordCamp in Belgrade earlier this year. The Croatian WP community has now grown…
WordPress for Android version 4.1 is sporting some major design changes. Navigation in the app has been redesigned to remove the the hamburger button in favor of four simplified tabs spanning the top of the screen. The ubiquitous hamburger icon, used on apps and websites for years, is slowly falling out of fashion on the…
BackPress supporters hosted a preliminary discussion yesterday to flesh out plans for bringing the long-abandoned project back to life. Organizers Roy Sivan and John James Jacoby were surprised by how many developers were interested in the prospect of reviving BackPress. Unfortunately, the live Google Hangout wasn’t broadcasted publicly and was limited 10 people, which gave…
The WordPress Theme Review Team is now curating a library of code examples on GitHub for theme developers. The first section is devoted to customizer code with examples for panels, sections, basic controls, and advanced controls. “We will continue to add to the library, including more examples of custom controls, and more advanced examples, such…
The Menu Customizer plugin was merged into WordPress trunk today and will be one of the headline features of the 4.3 release. Roughly a week ago the feature plugin was tentatively approved for merge, pending an a11y audit and PHP and JS tests. Following an overwhelming amount of negative feedback from the community, core contributors…
Yesterday Nick Haskins, creator of Aesop Story Engine, released a new search plugin for WordPress. WP Live Search utilizes the new WP REST API, in combination with Backbone.js and Underscore.js, to deliver live search results as the user types in a search query. The result is instantaneous searching that doesn’t require pressing enter or refreshing…
WordPress developers Roy Sivan and John James Jacoby have taken a keen interest in reviving the BackPress project. They will be discussing their plans to bring it back to life on a live Google Hangout at 1PM PST (8pm UTC) today, June 16. BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications. It…
Over the weekend Postmatic version 1.2.3 was released with a new importer for the Subscribe to Comments plugin. Founder Jason Lemieux and his team launched the 100% email-based commenting service in April and have been steadily adding importers for users of other various comment subscription plugins. Postmatic launched with importers for Mailpoet, Mailchimp, and one-click…
This weekend at WordCamp Denver, Kevin Conboy announced that Automattic’s long-awaited O2 project is now publicly available on GitHub. In a recent interview with WP Tavern, Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the o2 development team is shifting its focus to WordPress.com’s core products but that the o2 code would be public for anyone to use. o2…
WP Site Care recently launched its new WP Featherlight plugin on WordPress.org. While there are already hundreds of lightbox plugins available for WordPress, this one may prove to be the “lightest” of them all. The plugin is essentially a wrapper for the Featherlight jQuery lightbox script created by Noel Bossart. Featherlight.js was designed to be…
One of the habits I developed when I started using WordPress is to always read a plugin’s changelog before updating. The changelog is a communication channel that bridges the gap between me and the developer. It tells me what’s changed, what to expect, and any other information the developer thinks I should know. The most…
This week HHVM developers shared the results of their first ever open source performance lockdown. HHVM is Facebook’s open source PHP execution engine, originally created to help make its infrastructure more efficient. WordPress managed hosts, including WP Engine, Pagely, and SiteGround, have added HHVM hosting options within the last year to cater to customers who…
StackExchange community members have proposed a new Q&A site for users and developers of WooCommerce. The proposal is currently in the “Definition” phase, which means that participants are working to design the community by proposing hypothetical questions that embody the topic’s scope. So far for WooCommerce, popular hypothetical questions include: How do I handle the…
One option that users often appreciate in themes is the ability to control typography without having to modify any code. Justin Tadlock has been experimenting with adding a typography control class for the WordPress customizer. Instead of writing a lengthy tutorial, he opted to create a a proof-of-concept plugin that demonstrates how theme authors might…