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5 Promising PRs – a WordPress 6.6 Wishlist
Work on WordPress 6.6 is underway. If I’m being completely honest with you, I would love it if WordPress 6.6 introduced zero new features. I have not been shy about my desire for a cleanup-only release cycle (this tweet about it had 31k views). A maintenance-only release is an idea that originated with the project’s…
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WP Tavern and Livestreams
Hey all, Just wanted to send out a quick note on a few exciting things. Catch me at the WP Tavern For the next two weeks, I’ll be contributing regularly to the WP Tavern. It’s all part of Matt Mullenweg’s devious Hunger Games to find contributors/editors for the venerable WordPress news site. Check out my…
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Bricks, Blocks, and Building in Public
There’s something special about WordCamps, big and small. Meeting up with WordPressers in real life is always a rewarding communal experience. So much better than Twitter. This past week at WordCamp Phoenix all the labels of competing hosting companies and competing plugins disappeared and the vibes were harmonious. As soon as I have my hands…
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Page Builders and Response Videos
Let’s talk WordCamp Phoenix, page builders vs Gutenberg, and secret bonus content.
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Site Editing and Lengthy GitHub Issues
Hello WordPress friends, These past few months I’ve been digging into Full Site Editing in WordPress. My theory is that it’s almost ready for primetime use by the developer/agency community, so I’m testing it out on some client projects. Overall I’m… mostly impressed. Don’t get me wrong- there are still a ton of rough edges,…
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20 Years of WordPress
As anniversaries go, I’m really not sentimental. My wife just had to remind me that we’re hitting ours this week. I’m glad WordPress is sticking around, though, and I do appreciate the schmoozy posts and all that. If I have to pick one anniversary to try to remember, it should probably be my own wedding.…
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WordPress Icons and a YouTube Video
What a fun week in WordPress. The twentieth anniversary of WP is kicking off with the #WP20 campaign and you can feel the community coming out of it’s winter cave and engaging with each other more. Not always in the most positive way, but overall it’s been fun to see the conversations pick up on…
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Learning out Loud and WCPHX
Last month was a bit of a whirlwind, culminating in a trip to Arizona for WordCamp Phoenix. I was hoping to share a few of my favorite talks, but I’ll probably wait until the edited videos are all available. Let’s just say that I learned a LOT about PHP 8, generative AI, WooCommerce, and the…
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Theme.json and Blocks Three Ways
If I’ve been a little quiet on the blog here, it’s because I’ve been busy preparing for WordCamp Phoenix, just around the corner. I’ll be giving a presentation titled Migrating your Workflow from ACF Flexible Content to ACF Blocks. (In case you couldn’t tell, that’s been a theme around here.) If you’re interested in WordPress…
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Project Kickoffs and a Block Editor Build Process
Some people LOVE to start new things. They register domain names with reckless abandon. Others (like me) get hit with insecurity before they can even begin. They talk themselves out of it or fall victim to resistance. But I’m trying, people. It’s been a new year of new projects, most notably the viewSource podcast (and…