If there's one post I *always* read about the latest/upcoming WordPress release, it's these "field guide" posts on make.wordpress.org. They're a concise summary of the major highlights to keep an eye on. You should take a look yourself, because different… [Keep reading]

Most everyone in the WordPress world knows the basic image formats: use JPEGs for photos, PNGs for screenshots, and maybe WebP if you're a Google-loving-hipster. Or at least, that's my summary of the situation. (Some other playful/controversial opinions: .bmp is… [Keep reading]

I'm quite confident a lot of WPShout readers are doing at least a little bit of "client work." Whatever way you do that---even if you don't do it using WordPress---problems can crop up. Which is why I really appreciate this… [Keep reading]

As a perennial CSS newbie (who kind of had skills a decade ago) I appreciated this short article from Robin Rendle about when (translation: how little) you should use the float: left that was so common when I last really… [Keep reading]

I use Google a lot. You probably do too. But have you ever thought about tricks that'd make you better at Googling? I honestly don't much of the time. And that's partly down to just how good "normal Googling" is,… [Keep reading]

I share this story from Marc at atthis.link for two reasons: that it is itself interesting and useful, and because I've also been using RSS lately and enjoying its respectfulness. First, Marc's article is itself a useful summary of why… [Keep reading]

I think it's a good practice for us WordPress Pros to at least keep an eye on what's going on the world of websites outside of our chosen CMS. A quick and effective way to learn about other ways people… [Keep reading]

Here we are sharing news of a podcast so new that you probably can't even easily subscribe to in your podcast player. (Or at least I failed. Because they're still mid-podcast-directory approval, it seems.) But I just listened to the… [Keep reading]

I've been using PhpStorm for PHP + WordPress development for gosh, at least 5 years now. For those who aren't familiar, PhpStorm is a PHP-specific IDE ("integrated development environment"; read: text editor with lots of special features) from JetBrains. JetBrains… [Keep reading]

It's hard for me to pass up cool-looking tricks, and this is no exception. This sweet little post from Suzanne Aitchison is just three different little CodePens that show off relatively-realistic looking effects that mimic real-life paper. Would I be… [Keep reading]

Long time readers will know that I consider myself a CSS outsider. I learned how to do it about 10 years ago, and have just enough skills to get by today. So I read with interest Sacha Greif's "The State… [Keep reading]

If you saw my post from last week looking at full-site editing you might wonder what it's like. And if you're lazy/busy like me, you probably haven't yet made a point of giving it a run-through on your own. So… [Keep reading]

You may have seen the headlines about how WordPress.com is coming for all the freelancers. For those that didn't see it, WordPress.com (owned by a company called Automattic) recently announced that its “premium website building service”  is now officially accepting… [Keep reading]

This article from Justin Tadlock over at WP Tavern caught my attention over holiday break. While Justin's been talking about full-site editing themes for a while, Armando was the first of these "future of WordPress themes" that I took a… [Keep reading]

Without knowing this news, MailPoet came up organically last night in a discussion we were having at the Fort Collins WordPress Meetup. Someone was looking to send an email newsletter from WordPress, and MailPoet was the option a few of… [Keep reading]

Always a worthy read, the Field Guide for the next version WordPress---5.6---is here. The new theme, application passwords being integrated, and a load of incremental updates are the highlight features for me. Sure to be a solid release, but if… [Keep reading]

I love this little CSS stylesheet to give you a simple but pleasant little change of color on your site throughout the days of a year. James Stanley's little project is a better-version of some of the first WordPress code… [Keep reading]

I was recently talking to a friend about new projects for Writers.com. He suggested developing a writing clarity checker "like the Hemingway app." I'd heard of Hemingway the writer, but not of an app by that name, so I checked… [Keep reading]

For those who don't know, WordPress run on PHP on the server. This has been true for all of WordPress's life, and remains so. For the most parts, this dependence on the PHP language has been an interesting tidbit. But… [Keep reading]

Frequent readers my recognize me as the not-great-at-CSS person here at WPShout. So for me, this Interactive CSS Grid Generator from Layoutit! is just such a welcome relief. I can (and have) learned all the different bits of markup and… [Keep reading]

If you've been around WordPress for long, you've likely heard of a "CDN." A CDN, or content-delivery network, is one of the most common parts of speeding up a WordPress site, especially for visitors who are far away from where… [Keep reading]

As you might have noticed, in WordPress 5.5 you can now tell WordPress itself to keep specific plugins up to do. This is a great feature and one that I'm eager to turn on for more than a few plugins… [Keep reading]

I recently bought a drawing tablet (googling "Wacom Intuos Wireless Graphic Drawing Tablet (Medium)" should find it for you), because I had no way I liked to write out visual notes, especially timelines and complex process flows. It was one… [Keep reading]

I have to admit that one of the places I feel I most conspicuously show my age is how little interest I have these days for the latest of web-dev hype. I would consider the "JAMstack" hype train one of… [Keep reading]

I admit I haven't been following the concept and execution of Gutenberg Block Patterns very closely. Primarily this is because visual design has never been with a strong suit for me, nor (consequently) something I spent much time on. It… [Keep reading]