by Sarah Gooding | Jan 12, 2019 | News, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
WordPress 5.0.3 was released this week with more than a dozen fixes related to the block editor. The automatic background update has gone out and 23.2% of sites are currently running on 5.0+, with 47.2% hanging back at 4.9. Meanwhile, work on WordPress 5.1...
by Sarah Gooding | Dec 12, 2018 | gutenberg, News, state of the word, wordcamp us, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
photo credit: WP TavernWordCamp US kicked off in Nashville over the weekend, following the release of WordPress 5.0. In the first 48 hours, 5.0 had been downloaded more than 2.8 million times. It passed 3 million Saturday night. “There’s been a lot...
by Jeff Chandler | Dec 8, 2018 | bebo, gutenberg, wordpress, WordPress 5.0, Wordpress Resources
In 2016 at WordCamp US in Philadelphia, PA, Matt Mullenweg announced to the world that a new post and page editor would be coming to WordPress. “The editor does not represent the core of WordPress publishing,” Mullenweg said. His vision of the editor was...
by Sarah Gooding | Aug 28, 2018 | gutenberg, News, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
During the 2017 State of the Word address, Matt Mullenweg announced the availability of the Classic Editor plugin for site owners who are not ready to adopt Gutenberg when it makes its debut in WordPress 5.0. Since its release, the community has speculated about what...
by Sarah Gooding | Jul 17, 2018 | News, Plugins, pwa, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
WordPress contributors are working on getting support for Progressive Web Apps (PWA) into core. A new PWA feature plugin is now available on WordPress.org, spearheaded by the teams at XWP, Google, and Automattic. Progressive Web Apps are applications that run on the...
by Sarah Gooding | Nov 23, 2017 | News, Plugins, Tide, wordpress, wordpress plugin directory, Wordpress Resources
Last week XWP dropped an intriguing preview of a new project called Tide that aims to improve code quality across the WordPress plugin and theme ecosystems. The company has been working with the support of Google, Automattic, and WP Engine, on creating a new service...
