Development

August 11, the target release date for WordPress 5.5, is just shy of two weeks away. For developers who have … Continue reading Upcoming in WordPress 5.5: Features and Changes Theme Authors Should Know About →

Riad Benguella released BlockBook, a project that promises to overhaul how developers build blocks and more, on Tuesday. It is … Continue reading Develop, Test, and Showcase Blocks in Isolation With BlockBook →

Theme developers can finally rejoice. For the first time, it is now possible to pass data to templates via the … Continue reading Theme Authors Can Pass Data to Template Files in WordPress 5.5 →

Gatsby announced its new source plugin (v4) for WordPress is now in beta. The plugin has been completely revamped to … Continue reading New Gatsby Source WordPress Plugin Now in Beta →

Flywheel has relaunched Local Pro, the commercial upgrade for its free local WordPress development product. The first version of Local … Continue reading Flywheel Relaunches Local Pro with Revamped Live Links and New Host-Agnostic Pre-Launch Tools →

Hear me out before telling me how wrong I am. Over the past couple of weeks, I have read a … Continue reading The Best Documentation Is No Documentation →

WebDevStudios released its custom block scaffolding tool to the public on Tuesday. It is a fork of the core WordPress … Continue reading WebDevStudios Releases Block Scaffolding Tool for Developers →

Flywheel’s Local development app has received several major updates during the past month. The most recent release brings back support … Continue reading Local Brings Back Support for Apache and Site Cloning →

WordPress is a dinosaur. If you are a PHP programmer and have had the opportunity to work outside of WordPress … Continue reading Proposal to Update the WordPress Coding Standards for Modern PHP →

The Gutenberg project and its eventual full-site editing feature is coming upon a major issue that will need to be … Continue reading Block-Based Themes and the Problem with Dynamic Data in HTML Templates →

With the release of WordPress 5.4 looming, it is time for plugin and theme developers to begin testing their extensions … Continue reading Preparing for WordPress 5.4: Changes Theme and Plugin Developers Should Know About →