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Latest WordPress News and Resources
Divi Announces Security Vulnerability

The Wordfence Security team has found a security vulnerability in Elegant Themes's themes Divi and Extra, as well as in the Divi Builder plugin. Elegant Themes writes: Today Divi, Extra and the Divi Builder plugin were updated to fix a… [Keep reading]
A Great Comparison of Local-Development WordPress Options

I really really appreciate this rundown of the major options for setting up a local WordPress development (which is to say---on your own computer) that Ram Ratan Maurya updated for Delicious Brains. I feel like on the whole for those… [Keep reading]
Shout Out to the Pods Plugin

I'm working on a WordPress project that needs custom post types, custom fields, custom taxonomies, and custom taxonomy meta. To do this, I installed three entirely separate plugins: CPT UI, Advanced Custom Fields, and a taxonomy metabox solution that I… [Keep reading]
Good (Free) Video Tutorial on Making Gutenberg Blocks

More than a few weeks ago now, my friend Jeremy Green talked at the Fort Collins WordPress Meetup about how to make Gutenberg blocks. One of the struggles he mentioned was the lack of great tutorials on the details of… [Keep reading]
“Hello, World!” in 30 (Programming) Languages

I know that this is a WordPress-focused site. But I also know that programming is as central to WordPress as writing. So I thought I'd share this fun little article that simply and clearly lays out the (classic) "Hello world"… [Keep reading]
Come to (Virtual) WordCamp Denver!

In just about two weeks (depending on when you read this 🤓) the WordCamp that I (David) have been helping to organize for a few years---I actually forget if I helped in 2017 🤷♂️---is happening. That is it's WordCamp Denver… [Keep reading]
More than you need to know about WP’s Database

I really love this little tour from Iain Poulson at Delicious Brains about the WordPress database. There isn't a lot in this that I didn't know or couldn't guess. That may well be true for you too. But if you… [Keep reading]
Don’t Forget about WordCamp Europe Starting Tomorrow

It being the year of COVID (to say nothing of America’s very recent confrontation with our persistent problems with racial injustice) means that WordCamp Europe—now very online and starting tomorrow—had slipped my memory and attention. If that sounds interesting to… [Keep reading]
Searches for WordPress Have Surged

A quick little uplifting story I missed a few weeks ago: as the COVID-19 lockdowns were setting in worldwide, more and more people were doing web searches for "wordpress." Or so reports Alex Denning, the original creator of WPShout, and… [Keep reading]
WordPress Strong

Another catchy little diddy bankrolled by my friend Zach Katz over at GravityView: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl56USnGkUk I could put other words here, but they would only demean the importance of this video. 🤓[Keep reading]
A Guide to Composer for WordPress

I mentioned in my recent article about Git Subtree that I think the whole workflow is probably better managed with Composer. And that while I abstractly think that Composer is great idea for WordPress projects, I don't particularly feel ready… [Keep reading]
Learn CSS min(), max(), and clamp()
To be clear: I am bad at CSS and the last person you should listen to when you want to learn how to do it better. (My friend Lara Schenck comes to my mind as someone you SHOULD listen to… [Keep reading]
Hack at Slack

There are a number of different reasons I wanted to share this article about the programming language "Hack" here on Shout. The first one is just that I found it an interesting and pleasant conversation of the use and benefit… [Keep reading]
Recording: Our Third Live Q&A Webinar for Up and Running Buyers

Here's last week's live Q&A webinar for buyers of our premium WordPress development course Up and Running. It's a wide-ranging session on the practicalities of WordPress development. We've got one more weekly webinar coming up (tomorrow, April 24), so if… [Keep reading]
Narrative of making a Gutenblock

I enjoyed this little "essay" from Leo over at Design Bombs. First, it was great to read as an introduction to the new Gutenberg-block-making tool I didn't even know was out. The article does a great job giving you the… [Keep reading]
3 Cool Gutenberg Tricks

I really enjoyed this little (video-heavy) post from Bud Kraus about some cool and harder-to-find features of Gutenberg. I'll even cop-to the fact that I only kind of knew one of them. Which I am a little embarassed by. But… [Keep reading]
Recording: Our Second Live Q&A Webinar for Up and Running Buyers

Here's last week's live Q&A webinar for buyers of our premium WordPress development course Up and Running. It's a wide-ranging session on the practicalities of WordPress development. We've got two more weekly webinars coming up (the next one is this… [Keep reading]
A Little More on Block Patterns

I feel like I've heard this "block pattern" idea in a few different places for a while. But I've always taken extra interest in WordPress technology once Justin Tadlock writes about it. So I think I'll want to install Gutenberg… [Keep reading]
Recording: Our First Live Q&A Webinar for Up and Running Buyers

Here's last week's live Q&A webinar for buyers of our premium WordPress development course Up and Running. It's a wide-ranging session on the practicalities of WordPress development. We've got three more weekly webinars coming up (the next one is this… [Keep reading]
Chris Coyier on Learning WordPress Themes Now

For those who haven't been knocking around the WordPress sphere for a long time, there's a possibility that the name "Chris Coyier" and CSS-Tricks isn't so well known. Chris is great, generous thoughtful guy, and if you've got a front-end… [Keep reading]
WordPress 5.4 Is Out Now

WordPress 5.4, "Adderley," launched yesterday, March 31, 2020. It's a very Gutenberg-focused release, with two new default blocks---Buttons and Social Icons---plus a lot of other improvements to the block editor. There are also some non-Gutenberg changes, including one that made… [Keep reading]
Apply to Speak at WordCamp US 2020

From the insular dream-world of COVID-19 Quarantines sweeping into new countries everyday, this feels a little strange to be talking about WordCamp US. The idea that at some point in the future I'll eventually go to a place where hundred… [Keep reading]
WooCommerce 4.0 is Here, but Take Care Before Updating

WooCommerce 4.0 has shipped. I love WooCommerce, and I can't think of another free software package in WordPress that has been the backbone of so many actually-profitable online small businesses. So I say this fondly: WooCommerce is probably the least… [Keep reading]
Block Dependent Themes

An interesting thing as Gutenberg grows is that it's aiming to impact both WordPress themes and page builders. And to do this, we may need or want a way for a theme to say it required a specific Gutenberg block… [Keep reading]
WP&UP Can Use Your Help

We love WP&UP, the UK-based charity whose mission is "Supporting and promoting positive mental health within the WordPress community." We spoke with trustee/founder Dan Maby at WordCamp US 2018, and were beyond impressed not only with his mission but with… [Keep reading]