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WordPress 4.9 to Focus on Managing Plugins and Themes, Gutenberg Targeted for 5.0

Posted on by Sarah Gooding
photo credit: Oli Dale Matt Mullenweg, the overall product lead for core releases in 2017, has published an overview for what users can expect in WordPress versions 4.9 and 5.0. After the success of 4.8 and the initial release of Gutenberg last week, Mullenweg is aiming to see the plugin installe...

WordPress Core JavaScript Framework Debate Heats Up, Contributors Narrow Discussion to React vs. Vue

Posted on by Sarah Gooding
photo credit: oskay Small Parts – (license) WordPress core contributors met this morning to continue the discussion on selecting a new JavaScript framework for use with new core features. The discussion on the Make/Core post intensified over the weekend with more Vue.js proponents commenting to a...

Matt Mullenweg Announces Tech and Design Leads for New Focus-Based Development Cycle

Posted on by Sarah Gooding
photo credit: Angelina Litvin WordPress 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 release cycle to one that is mor...

WordPress 4.7 Introduces Twenty Seventeen Default Theme and WP REST API Content Endpoints

Posted on by Sarah Gooding
photo credit: Wikimedia Commons WordPress 4.7 “Vaughan” was released today, named in honor of American jazz vocalist Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan. This release makes significant improvements to the new theme setup experience, inspiring the tagline: “Your site, your way.” Twenty Seventeen is ...

WordPress Passes 27% Market Share, Banks on Customizer for Continued Success

Posted on by Sarah Gooding
photo credit: Luis Llerena WordPress now powers 27.1% of all websites on the internet, up from 25% last year. While it may seem that WordPress is neatly adding 2% of the internet every year, its percentage increase fluctuates from year to year and the climb is getting more arduous with more weigh...

A Preview of the Custom CSS Editor Added to the Customizer in WordPress 4.7

Posted on by Jeff Chandler
WordPress 4.7 is a little more than a month away and is going to be packed with new features and improvements. In particular, five feature projects related to the customizer were approved for merge and will be part of the release. One of the feature projects is the custom CSS editor that enables ...

WordPress 4.7 Brings Custom Page Template Functionality to All Post Types

Posted on by Sarah Gooding
photo credit: Mari Pi WordPress 4.7 will introduce support for post type templates, an exciting new feature for theme and plugin developers. Page templates, which allow developers to specify a different layout or design for a page, are nearly as old as WordPress itself. For years developers have ...