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WordPress 5.3 Is Out – Update right away?
WordPress 5.3 is out. With it comes some great new features. Significant improvement of the Site Health Tool Addition of a default theme that is known as TwentyTwenty Enhancement of the Admin User Interface Enhanced support for PHP 7.4 Enhanced accessibility So, do you run out and go install 5.3 right away or do you…
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Are WordCamps Dying?
I’ll skip to the answer. No. In a WordCamp US recap article on Freemius Brandon Ernst talks about how WordCamp US had received some strong feedback about how it was run this year. He initially asks the question if WordCamps are dying? In the end he says no, and I agree. Honestly look at the…
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Matt Mullenweg, Automattic, & WordPress
So many people are complaining about Matt Mullenweg and his “aspirations” for Automattic and WordPress.com. I don’t have issues with any of those “aspirations” or his getting investment from Salesforces. What I do have a problem with is that Matt has co-opted and confused the brand of WordPress. There is the self-hosted and open source…
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The Block Editor In WordPress
Apparently after a year of neglect my old personal site was too far gone to repair. Having this experiment going to play with the block editor (aka Gutenberg), I decided last night to make this site my main site going forward. I’m still undecided if I’m going to swamp the domains around. It would probably…
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WordPress & WordCamp US 2019
After watching the live stream of WordCamp US this past weekend, I decided to spin up a site and to beta test all the new features coming out in the next few months and year with WordPress. The block editor is something that I need to get used to and with the coming functionality in…
