New Community Theme Launched WordPress Themes Team released a new block theme, Stacks, designed to build slide decks. Stacks was designed and constructed by Saxon Fletcher with help from Ben Dwyer. After customizing the theme, users can create slides on any post or page using the ‘Stacks’ pattern. The theme is mobile-friendly and not likely… Continue reading Tech Roundup Week Ending May 5
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Community Roundup Week Ending May 5
AI and WordPress is AI and All of Us In a recently blog post, Kathy Zant wrote about using AI for new headshots, and how that caused her to think about how we perceive ourselves versus how we might perceive ourselves – and our possibilities – when we look at ourselves through AI “eyes.” She… Continue reading Community Roundup Week Ending May 5
Launching a WordPress Product in Public: Session 12
Corey Maass and Cory Miller continue the development of their new WordPress plugin, Crop.Express. They discuss the current state of WordPress, its future, and what it means for WordPress professionals. Discover the top takeaways for developers, designers, and business owners in the WordPress ecosystem. Expect to gain insights on navigating the evolving WordPress landscape and… Continue reading Launching a WordPress Product in Public: Session 12
WordPress Products in the Enterprise with Crowd Favorite-Post Status Draft
In this episode, Cory Miller talks with Karim Marucchi, Pat Ramsey, and Alex Nitu of Crowd Favorite. They share their insights on scaling WordPress for the enterprise. Their discussion includes the challenges of managing large WordPress sites, tips for optimizing site performance and security, and advice for hiring and managing a WordPress development team. Estimated… Continue reading WordPress Products in the Enterprise with Crowd Favorite-Post Status Draft
Blogs to Blocks • Core + AI • LCP Image Performance • Testing FSE Front Page
This Week at WordPress.org (May 1, 2023) The WordPress Marketing Team is hosting a Blogs to Blocks celebration and invites you to get involved by creating and responding to daily prompts around blogging, design, development, photos, community, and more ways to contribute. The Core Team is considering how to include extendible technology to integrate AI.… Continue reading Blogs to Blocks • Core + AI • LCP Image Performance • Testing FSE Front Page
Community Roundup Week Ending April 28
A Community Gift Last week I launched a new website as a gift to event organizers, podcasters, bloggers, and speakers in the WordPress community. It’s an online database of WordPress speakers including what topics they present on, what time zones they are in, and what region on the world they live in, along with bios,… Continue reading Community Roundup Week Ending April 28
Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins Showcases 108 Most Popular Plugins
WordPress core committer Pascal Birchler has published a Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins to celebrate the software’s upcoming 20th anniversary. The table showcases 108 of the most popular free plugins on WordPress.org. Ten years ago Birchler created a website that showed the most popular plugins in a similar table layout, ranking them by number of… Continue reading Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins Showcases 108 Most Popular Plugins
Tech Roundup Week Ending April 28
Accessible Target Sizes Cheatsheet Vitaly provides practical guidelines for preventing rage taps, and rage clicks on mobile devices, including recommended target sizes for icons, links, and buttons. It also offers helpful conversion tables for translating point units to CSS pixels or Android/iOS units. OpenAI is trying to trademark “GPT.” What are your thoughts? A discussion… Continue reading Tech Roundup Week Ending April 28
Talking With Valet’s Ceo Kimberly Lipari About The Changing Value Of Websites To Organizations-Post Status Draft
In this episode, Kimberly Lipari and Cory Miller discuss the ups and downs of building and selling WordPress companies. They share their experiences, including the challenges they faced and lessons learned. They also give advice to entrepreneurs and business owners looking to grow and sell their own WordPress companies. Estimated Reading Time: 30 minutes Transcript… Continue reading Talking With Valet’s Ceo Kimberly Lipari About The Changing Value Of Websites To Organizations-Post Status Draft
Launching a WordPress Product in Public: Session 11
From practicing mindfulness to the evolution of WordPress, Corey Maass and Cory Miller cover a wide variety of topics in this episode as they continue the development of their new WordPress plugin, Crop.Express. Estimated Reading Time: 48 minutes Transcript ↓ In this episode, Corey Maass and Cory Miller move from personal to professional. They offer… Continue reading Launching a WordPress Product in Public: Session 11