This week: Summary of the State of the Word, CI/CD & WordPress, Git for WordPress Developers, and what interactive agencies lack…
Oana from Pixelgrade published a significant article touching on the importance of complete ownership of rights to the created content. Don’t miss the part on social networks either.
Own your website content to control the experience
Sarah Gooding summarized the State of the Word that took place last week. The central theme of the keynote was the Gutenberg, Full Site Editing in particular.
‘How to deliver WP like a PRO’ webinar by Rafał Sztwiorok took place last week. The author described the five most important rules concerning CI/CD.
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.
I recommend a great interview with Jill Binder touching upon many topics concerning our community.
The State of the Word summary can also be found on Gutenberg Times.
Suzanne Scacca named a few worst practices used by website creators to keep the user on the site or encourage them to click again.
Sadly enough, many companies consider this approach an excellent means to extend user engagement.
Though we mentioned learn.wordpress.org some time ago, the platform officially started only last week.
I browsed through available courses, and some of them are fascinating, e.g., “WordPress for children.”
As always, at the turn of December and January, articles prophesizing the dawn of platforms or programming languages appear (for instance, PHP has been dying for approximately ten years).
Mayleen Meñez decided to fight off the rumors of WordPress’s impending death.
Here’s a fine introduction to using composer & autoload on Metabox.io.
Michelle Frechette wrote an engaging article on what many agencies fail to recognize.
I fully agree with the author since I have worked in interactive agencies most of my life. The faulty approach might not always result from bad intentions, but is often due to acting merely as a sub-contractor.
Many people starting their adventure with Git & WordPress ask themselves what they should keep in the repository. This article presents a few strategies.
Steve Grunwell shows how to get on with CI/CD in WordPress.
We have known the fourth and the fifth group of speakers for WordFest Live 2021. Now you can meet the fifth group introduced by the organizer last week.
Kelly Choyce-Dwan shared a script that allows testing various admin panel designs in different colors.
Though it might not particularly concern WP, testing is an integral part of each developer’s work, and this article includes many useful hints on Test Driven Development.
No one likes cookie notices on websites. GitHub decided to share how they managed to remove them from their WP based blog legally.