This week: WordCamp Europe, WP Engine went plugin shopping again, Kinsta Academy, Shifter, and much more.
The surprise of the week is WP Engine taking over all Delicious Brains plugins and the people responsible for their development.
I have mixed feelings about this since I believe Delicious Brains was a great place to develop plugins such as ACF or Migrate WP.
Last week we linked Joost’s article on the impact of crawling sites on ecology. Today Joost wonders how to make crawling even more effective.
The next host of WordCamp Europe was announced at the end of the one just wrapped up in Porto. In 2023 we’re flying to Athens.
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.
Max Denysenko explains how to use WordPress coding standards for CSS.
Eric Karkovack points out why WordPress’ current position as the leader in the CMS market poses problems too – for example, the need to adapt to numerous hosting services.
Automattic decided to invest in InstaWP, a website for launching WordPress-based sandboxes. This is great news as, knowing Vikas, he will put this funding to good use.
Spencer Forman advises developers who are unsure of their position due to Full Site Editing: just ignore FSE. And it does make sense.
Kinsta has launched its educational website with three courses to start with and I’m sure this number will grow quickly. The website also grants certificates.
Check out this family photo of the WordCamp Europe participants.
Brad Williams of WebDevStudios describes the benefits of a headless approach to WordPress.
Shifter organized a small online event during WordCamp Europe to share the news about the platform.
Rachel Winchester from Shifter talks to Matt Medeiros about her Internet art project.
Jetpack has finally decided to break its plugin into several smaller ones.