This week: GraphQL, product manager in open source, headless WordPress, creating newsletters in WordPress and much more…
A week ago, we wrote about the problems of the creator of CURL, and now comes the story of Mika Epstein, plagued by one developer whose account she once banned.
Words cannot describe what happened to her.
Leonardo Losoviz compared the GraphQL and WPGraphQL plugins and listed all their advantages and disadvantages. The result? See for yourself.
Eric Karkovack shared his thoughts on WordPress already powering 40% of websites and what its development should look like not to lose this position.
LearnDash is taking cutting-edge e-learning methodology and infusing it into WordPress. Trusted to power the learning programs for major universities, small to mid-size companies, startups, entrepreneurs, and bloggers worldwide.
Oana from Pixelgrade explains the importance of the connection between design and content. Unfortunately, many customers fail to realize it and send the content at the end.
We published a guide by Olga Gleckler that should help you understand what learn.wordpress.org is.
Iain Poulson provides tips on how to best subcontract plugin support.
Last week, Bluehost violated the terms of use of the WordPress logo for commercial purposes. Consequently, it relit the topic of the outdated subpage on wordpress.org devoted to recommended hosting.
In her post, Josepha Haden Chomphosa explains what it means to be a product manager in an open-source project.
WPMU DEV asked four security specialists for valuable advice on protecting our websites and dealing with a break-in.
WP Engine has launched a website for the Atlas service, a platform for headless WordPress.
Torque presented seven cool examples of how you can use headless WordPress.
Automattic and XWP have released a plugin called Jetpack Boost. The name itself stresses me a bit, but its capabilities are promising.
A tutorial on what they are and how to use Reusable Blocks has appeared on WordPress.org.
GP Theme Builder has appeared in GP Premium 2.0. Thanks to this new functionality, you can create your own blocks without writing a single line of code. While I’m not in favor of such solutions, I admit that it is a perfect example of what you can squeeze out of Gutenberg.
Here’s how the Yoast Core team spent last week.
MetaBox summed up 2020. Despite the pandemic, it was a very successful year for this plugin as far as sales and development go.
Automattic has published a Newspack Newsletter plugin that allows to quickly create newsletters from within Gutenberg and send them via Mailchimp or Constant Contact.
If you enjoy Material Design, their WordPress plugin will allow you to utilize unique components and icons.
wpMail.me reached 500th number. You’ve done something extraordinary. I can’t wait to congratulate you on your 1000th number.
Upcoming events:
March 3 – DE{CODE} 2021 conference.
Jason Cohen, Marieke van de Rakt, and Mike Little are among the speakers.
On March 8, i.e., International Women’s Day, the first edition of Balkan Women WordPress Meetup will take place. You can read more about this event on Evangelia Pappy’s blog.
On March 9, Git Tower and Buddy are organizing another webinar – “How to Automate Git like a Master Developer.”
March 11 – Benefits of connecting Gatsby with WordPress – a webinar.
April 16-18 – WordCamp Greece 2021 Online. A call for speakers and sponsors has been issued.