Opinion

Generated social images seem to be all the rage now. Automattic scooped up Daniel Post’s Social Image Generator last month … Continue reading Branded Social Images, a New Plugin for Generating Per-Post Open Graph Images →

A few weeks ago, WP Ninjas announced it was stepping into the media optimization plugin market. The team released its … Continue reading Tidying the Media Library With WP Ninjas’ Remove Unused Media Plugin →

A friend and I were discussing the need for more one-off block plugins earlier today. He had mentioned that WordPress … Continue reading Build Notification Banners With ElmaStudio’s Latest Block Plugin →

Something on my radar right now is third-party plugins that have settings in the Customizer. What I gather of friends … Continue reading Ask the Bartender: What Happens to the Customizer When a Block Theme Is Active? →

Released yesterday, Gutenberg 11.7 is one of the more exciting releases we have had in a while. The Global Styles … Continue reading Gutenberg 11.7 Iterates on Global Styles, Improves Adding Navigation Links, and Adds Column Spacing →

As usual, I am always on the lookout for plugins that allow users to have fun with their websites. I … Continue reading Take the Guesswork Out of Selecting Fonts With the Adrian WordPress Plugin →

Things move fast on social media. You get mere seconds to impress those who happen upon your posts promoting your … Continue reading Dynamic Social Images for Plugins, Themes, and Patterns? Yes, Please →

Should developers bundle block patterns with their themes or submit them to the WordPress.org directory? That is the question that … Continue reading Proposal for Themes To Highlight Block Patterns From the Directory →

Jamie Marsland, the founder of Pootlepress, reached out a few weeks ago, asking for feedback on a beta version of … Continue reading Contextually Display Content With the Block Injector Plugin →

Last week, under its news section, The Next Web published what could only be described as a hit piece: Developers … Continue reading The Next Web Publishes Storyblok-Sponsored Hit Piece on WordPress →

Gutenberg 11.6 landed yesterday. Contributors added dozens of enhancements and bug fixes. Admittedly, there was not a whole lot that … Continue reading Gutenberg 11.6 Improves the Global Styles UI, Adds Child Theme Support →

Ari Stathopoulos announced a proposal for implementing a web fonts API in core WordPress. The goal is to standardize how … Continue reading A Web Font API Possibly Coming to WordPress →