This week: WordPress 5.9, Yoast acquisition, Open Source, PHP and WP, and much more.
make.wordpress.org has released the Field Guide, i.e. an article gathering all the changes in the upcoming WordPress version.
In the latest episode of Gamechangers Marieke van der Rakt spills the beans on how the takeover of Yoast went through.
Yoast Acquisition: Exiting CEO Marieke van de Rakt Shares Her Insights for WordPressers in 2022
Recently, Open Source has garnered much attention for all the wrong reasons. Firstly, for a bug in Log4j, then, a few days ago, for faker and colors libraries. Morten Rand-Hendriksen shares his thoughts on the whole movement and the changes that should take place.
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.
Brent Roose brings up the changes awaiting us in PHP in 2022. On the one hand, there will be a lot of them, on the other – you do know what the situation of PHP in the WP world is.
Alex Denning has published an excellent article in Freemius on various aspects of plug-in acquisitions.
On the WebDevStudios blog, Dave Romsey shares a typical workday for a backend developer.
Chris Hardie offers remarkable insight into our WordPress community.
In a Twitter thread, Daniel Schutzsmith focuses on the differences between WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
Keramot UL Islam has published on Github an interesting plugin starter – Howdy.
Roy Tanck describes how to customize the Surge plugin with a configuration file.
Juan Hernando has published a very informative article on how WordCamp Sevilla was organized.
Tom McFarlin has published an article explaining how to use Ray (a very useful debugging tool) to display more complex data structures.
Konstantin Kovshenin has just launched the Premium version of his Sail tool.
On the WebDevStudios blog, Lax Mariappan explains where to start your adventure with React.
Rich Tabor has announced the sale of one of his plugins – Login Designer – to WP Experts.
Jeff Geerling makes some observations on how difficult it is to maintain an open-source project.
Upcoming events
On February 2nd, Buddy hosts a webinar intended as an introduction to creating accessible websites.
Excellent news comes from Big Orange Heart. WordFest Live 2022 will take place on March 4.
The WordPress Career Summit will take place on April 8, 2022.
WordCamp Europe is back, with plans for an organized analog version in Porto this time. On June 2-4 2022, we will find out whether it works out.