In this week’s edition: State of the Word 2020, WordPress 5.6, Full Site Editing, announcing lecturers for WordFest Live 2021.
Guest Editor:
A graphic designer who focuses on visual communication and lettering-based design. An image and communication expert specializing in election and sales campaigns.
Polish WordPress community member & WordUp! Kalisz promoter.
For a few months, he’s been using his digital competence to support a local community center’s survival by moving it online.
The community, which is the crucial WordPress feature, has been a continuous inspiration to me. I find the open code, exchanging knowledge, and maintaining relations more valuable than complex code, React, and thousands of lines behind our CMS. That is why my list is more emotional than technical.
There are 7,5 million websites, over 31 terabytes of data, and 22 chapters behind a grand ‘Web Almanac’ project, a precise summary of 2020. I recommend the chapter on CMS. It describes how WordPress is doing, if its dominance is threatened, and whether it makes sense to invest in it. A lot of good reading.
If you organize WordCamp, a local meetup, workshops, or Contributor Days – WordPress.org grants access to free Zoom Pro accounts. Even the best tools won’t substitute community meetings, but you make use of what is available.
WordPress 5.6 launched a few days ago and received Nina Simone’s name. She’s not the first female patron, but this version is unique otherwise. Team responsible for ‘Simone’ are female experts in their domains. I’m proud we can already benefit from this edition. It’s a show of women’s strength and their actual influence on world changes.
On December 17th, State of the Word, i.e., keynote on WordPress, will take place. Matt will sum up the current year and tell us about plans.
While everybody discusses the innovations in WordPress 5.6, I am more excited by its creation process. And Francesca Marano focuses on just that.
WooCommerce has bought MailPoet. Thus far, everything is supposed to function as it used to, but in the future, we can expect further integration with WooCommerce.
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.
Kinsta analysed and described in detail, as usual, what awaits us in WordPress 5.6.
Along with a new WordPress version came Application Passwords. They allow external applications to perform specific operations by REST API. Though it’s good news for developers, Wordfence warns against a potential threat.
On Black Friday, Weglot turned to charity rather than discounts. In this article, they sum up how successful this approach was.
Here’s a holiday calendar full of great articles. Jonathan Bossenger and Francesca Marano are among the authors.
Timber 2.0 Alpha has just appeared.
Matias Ventura summarises what the current state of Full Site Editing is.
If you haven’t yet seen innerBlocks with ACF Block in action, now you have a chance.
Automattic became the first platinum sponsor for ESlint, i.e., a tool for code analysis.
The Knight Foundation aims mainly at supporting local journalism. As part of one of their actions encouraging newsrooms to digitalize, it turned out that out of 24 newspapers, 20 chose WordPress.
Axosoft (the company behind GitKrakken) has just published an excellent introduction to Continuous Integration
Greg Ziółkowski shows how to contribute to Gutenberg.
For quite a while, Carl Alexander has been working on a serverless WordPress platform (YMIR). It’s finally available in early access.
Delicious Brains show how they use PHP Storm in the WordPress environment.
WordFest Live 2021:
WordFest Live 2021 has revealed its third round of speakers:
Events:
On December 15th, you are cordially invited to a Buddy webinar on WordPress and CI/CD