Development

Kinsta, a managed WordPress hosting company, announced its local development tool named DevKinsta earlier today. The tool allows developers to … Continue reading Kinsta Launches Free Local WordPress Development Tool →

Block-based themes are not complicated. Their structure is almost simple enough that developers are unlikely to need a tool to … Continue reading Jump Start Block-Based Theme Development With the FSE Theme Generator →

Update some of the things. That was the goal that Jon Quach, a Principal Designer at Automattic, laid out in … Continue reading G2 Components, a From-Scratch Reimagining of WordPress Components →

On Monday, WordPress core contributor Jonathan Desrosiers published a detailed post on the Make WordPress Core blog about the upcoming … Continue reading Getting Your WordPress Plugins and Themes Ready for PHP 8 →

Version 1.0 of the WPGraphQL plugin is now available in the official plugins directory on WordPress.org. This is the first … Continue reading WPGraphQL 1.0 Released, Now Available in WordPress.org Plugins Directory →

In August, GitHub announced that it would change the “master” branch name for all new repositories created on the platform … Continue reading GitHub to Use ‘Main’ Instead of ‘Master’ as the Default Branch on All New Repositories Starting Next Month →

I could hardly sleep last night. Once in a blue moon, I have an idea I want to try out. … Continue reading Addressing the Theme Design Problem With Gutenberg’s New Block-Based Widgets System →

Over the weekend, David Gwyer announced a custom server-side render component for block plugins. The co-founder of WPGO Plugins primarily … Continue reading Improved Server-Side Rendering of Dynamic WordPress Blocks →

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 →