This Week: the redesign of WordPress News, who is Full Site Editing for, Newsletter Glue on Product Hunt, and more.
Daniel Schutzsmith is a rare breed – a hybrid of equal parts design, code, strategy, and management. He’s devoted his career to making positive change to protect our world for generations to come!
In WordPress we’ve been given a robust framework to make our websites amazing for visitors around the world, but what about making the editing and administration experience exceptional for us? How much time do we give ourselves to make the WordPress administration experience in wp-admin as efficient and usable for our Editors and Authors?
is_admin() and current_user_can() – these functions helps us know if the current page is an administration screen and whether the user is signed in as someone who has the capabilities for something. This is my hidden little gem to make messages appear in custom ACF Blocks or execute a function only on a specific admin page to specific user roles. I’ve found it invaluable over the years to do anything I want to in the administration area.
A staple for many WordPress Developers, it helps customize almost the entire user interface of the administration area. While the free version in the .org repo focuses on just customizing the side menu, the Pro version goes way beyond that and provides that capability to handle the top menu, override the admin CSS, turn blocks off, edit user roles, and more with minimal load to the back-end.
If you work with Advanced Custom Fields then you’ll love this! This plugin provides optimizations and improvements for ACF like the ability to create a new Gutenberg block or a front-end form via a GUI. This helps
Check out the full list of Daniel’s resources related to the WP-Admin experience.
Kinsta has published the results of their benchmarks once more. The difference between PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 is intriguing.
Leonardo Losoviz considers the repercussions of Block Protocol. Who will benefit from it, who will not, and where WordPress is in it all.
Several people, whose careers are tied to WooCommerce, have been interviewed on Do the Woo. The spectrum of their specializations is amazing.
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.
The Clarity plugin acts as an adblocker for the admin panel. I appreciate their approach and their draft on ads policy.
Eric Karkovack wonders if WordPress, along with FSE, might be a push away from freelancers. Erik touched on a lot of threads in his article and he is quite right about what he writes.
Tammie Lister advocates substituting the phrase “Full Site Editing” with specific terms. At the moment FSE covers many separate features.
WordPress News has been finally redesigned. We are now waiting for the rest of the page.
Bet Hannon has published an engaging tutorial on how to describe Alt Tags for pictures. Many will find it useful for handling this difficult task.
Fershad Irani explains the impact of the website’s optimization on the planet’s wellbeing.
Frog is a quite simple debugger with WP integration. It’s no Ray but it still beats var_dump.
We often discuss the variety of image formats but hardly ever do we tackle audio formats. A post on the Infinite Uploads blog compensates for this oversight.
Lax Mariappan lists the 6 most common mistakes we make in WordPress, which might cost us a lot.
Last week, the Newsletter Glue debuted on Product Hunt. In the article below, you can learn what worked out and what did not.
Torque Magazine invites up nominations for the next edition of Plugin Madness. I wonder who will win this year.
Laura Coronado has published a list of WordPress newsletters worth following. We’re happy to announce that WP Owls is also on the list.
Pantheon has just released the official template that allows you to use Bedrock with their hosting.
On SpinupWP Ashley Rich shows how to automate tasks with Ansible.
Have you ever heard of the Piklist plugin? It was similar to Advanced Custom Fields but more developer-oriented. Sadly enough, after 9 years, its creators ceased to develop it.