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  • WordPress and Drupal Co-Founders Discuss Open Source, AI, and the Future of the Web

    WordPress and Drupal Co-Founders Discuss Open Source, AI, and the Future of the Web

    WordPress is celebrating its 20th anniversary tomorrow and recently its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, joined Drupal founder Dries Buytaert together on stage at a private event for the first time on May 17. They discussed how their lives were influenced by open source and how they built their projects around the freedoms it…

  • WordCamp Spain 2020 Q&A: Matt Mullenweg Discusses Virtual Events, Decoupled WordPress, and the Future of Page Builders

    WordCamp Spain 2020 Q&A: Matt Mullenweg Discusses Virtual Events, Decoupled WordPress, and the Future of Page Builders

    Matt Mullenweg joined Matías Ventura at WordCamp Spain yesterday for a lively Q&A session. The virtual event drew 5,000 registered users, and attendees came prepared with some thought-provoking questions about the future of WordPress. Here are a few highlights on some recent topics of interest. WordCamps around the globe have been going virtual, embracing the…

  • Learn How to Build a Headless WordPress App with WPCasts’ Free Crash Course

    Learn How to Build a Headless WordPress App with WPCasts’ Free Crash Course

    Alex Young, creator of the WPCasts video tutorials site, has published a free crash course that offers a brief introduction to using WordPress as a headless CMS. The 28-minute tutorial covers the basics of setting up a bare bones React application that uses WPGraphQL to query ACF data. Young begins by installing four plugins: WPGraphQL,…

  • Walking 718km to WCEU, an Interview With Marcel Bootsman

    Walking 718km to WCEU, an Interview With Marcel Bootsman

    I have a hard time walking a mile or two let alone 718km, but that’s what Marcel Bootsman did on his journey to WordCamp EU to generate funds for DonateWC. In this interview, Bootsman explains how he prepared for the journey, what he experienced during his trip, and why he chose DonateWC as the charity…

  • Take Back Your Web: Tantek Çelik’s Call to Action to Join the Independent Web

    Take Back Your Web: Tantek Çelik’s Call to Action to Join the Independent Web

    Tantek Çelik, Web Standards Lead at Mozilla and co-founder of IndieWebCamp, delivered an inspirational talk titled “Take Back Your Web” at the most recent beyond tellerrand conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. He opened the presentation with a litany of Facebook’s wrongdoings, taking the world’s largest social network to task for its role in increasing polarization, amplifying…

  • Celebrate Earth Day by Learning about Environmentally Friendly Web Development on WordPress.tv

    Celebrate Earth Day by Learning about Environmentally Friendly Web Development on WordPress.tv

    Today is Earth Day, a worldwide annual event first celebrated in 1970 that focuses on addressing environmental concerns. Earth Day Network coordinates 192 countries with more than a billion people participating in today’s event. The organization uses WordPress to build the world’s largest environmental movement through education, public policy, and consumer campaigns. Over the past…

  • How Will Gutenberg Phase 4 Impact Multilingual Solutions for WordPress?

    How Will Gutenberg Phase 4 Impact Multilingual Solutions for WordPress?

    During the 2018 State of the Word address, Matt Mullenweg announced that Phase 4 of the Gutenberg project would be aimed at developing an official way for WordPress to support multilingual sites. There are no technical details available yet for what approach core will take, because it’s still in the experimental stage. The site building…

  • Automattic Takes on Facebook with “A Meditation on the Open Web”

    Automattic Takes on Facebook with “A Meditation on the Open Web”

    Last week Automattic published a video titled “A meditation on the open web” that calls out Facebook as the antithesis of the open web: As you get closer the air gets smoggier and you realize it’s a vast metropolis. It’s surrounded by high concrete walls, completely contained. Inside it’s bustling, lots of honking traffic, people…

  • 9 Year Old Shares his Journey Learning React

    9 Year Old Shares his Journey Learning React

    If learning React is among your New Year’s goals, here’s some inspiration from nine-year-old Revel Carlberg West. The video below is a recording of his presentation at the React NYC meetup. West describes how he learned basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and then moved on to learn React using the CodeSandbox online code editor. He…

  • Video: Matt Mullenweg’s Summertime Update At WCEU 2018

    Video: Matt Mullenweg’s Summertime Update At WCEU 2018

    Sessions from WordCamp Europe 2018 are making their way onto WordPress.tv, including Matt Mullenweg’s Summertime Update. In the video, Mullenweg shares the progress that’s been made on Gutenberg, WordPress core development, a Gutenberg road map for including it into core, and what to expect after WordPress 5.0 is released. Be sure to watch the video…

  • Three Minute Movie Showcases The WordCamp EU 2018 Experience

    Three Minute Movie Showcases The WordCamp EU 2018 Experience

    If you happened to miss out on WordCamp EU this year, check out the following short film produced by Production Pool. Production Pool is a video production company based in Belgrade, Serbia that was hired to record all of the videos and wrap up the live stream for WordCamp Europe. The video is just shy…

  • Conceptual Ideas on How the Customizer Could Integrate With Gutenberg

    Conceptual Ideas on How the Customizer Could Integrate With Gutenberg

    While the initial focus of Gutenberg is the editor, the second focus is the Customization experience in WordPress. Mel Choyce, Product Designer at Automattic, recently spoke at LoopConf, on the past, present, and future of the customizer. Choyce begins the presentation by describing when and how the customizer was added to WordPress. Fun fact, the…