by Sarah Gooding | Jun 16, 2018 | customizer, gutenberg, News, Themes, Wordpress Resources
The Gutenberg team took questions from a full room users and developers this morning before diving into the specifics of the editor’s design, block creation, and how to further extend the new interface. The first question they addressed is the one everyone is...
by Sarah Gooding | Nov 16, 2017 | customizer, News, wordpress, WordPress 4.9, Wordpress Resources
WordPress 4.9 “Tipton” was released today, named for Oklahoma-born jazz musician William Lee Tipton, a gifted pianist and saxophonist. This update introduces major improvements to the design and collaboration workflow in the Customizer, improves...
by Sarah Gooding | Aug 11, 2017 | customizer, News, syntax highlighting, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
photo credit: Sophie OllisWordPress core contributors have set a tentative schedule for the upcoming 4.9 release, which will be co-led by Mel Choyce and Weston Ruter. The development cycle kicked off in early August with Beta 1 scheduled for early October and the...
by Jeff Chandler | May 23, 2017 | customizer, resizer, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
WordPress 3.4 introduced the WordPress Customizer API and over time it has evolved from being a theme customizer to a framework for live-previewing changes to WordPress. Since its inclusion, one of the most common complaints about the Customizer is...
by Sarah Gooding | Mar 7, 2017 | customizer, News, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
In January 2017, WordPress core design contributors posted a survey titled What are you using the Customizer for? The link was published on the Make WordPress Design blog and wasn’t widely shared, so it only received 50 replies. Responses were anonymous, but...
by Sarah Gooding | Jan 6, 2017 | customizer, editor, News, wordpress, wordpress 4.8, Wordpress Resources, wp rest api
photo credit: Angelina LitvinWordPress core development is kicking off in 2017 with the new focus-based development process that Matt Mullenweg announced during the 2016 State of the Word. The new approach to releases shifts WordPress from the familiar time-based...
