As someone who has been tracking both the WordPress world and the Laravel world for years, I was intrigued by Ross Wintle highlighting something I didn't really know much about. (If I'm honest, it's been about a year since I… [Keep reading]

I've loved Torque Mag for a long time as a great source for both technical and editorial content based around WordPress---even if customer satisfaction data and personal experience have me feeling more lukewarm about WP Engine itself. This article reminded… [Keep reading]

One of the first and most powerful lessons I learned while teaching myself to code a decade ago was to read/listen/watch widely. I believe it is one of the most powerful choices you can make in learning to code (or… [Keep reading]

The first WordCamp Asia, scheduled in Bangkok from February 21 through February 23, has been canceled due to COVID-19 fears. It's an unfortunate start to what will be an amazing WordCamp Asia tradition, but there've been a lot of silver… [Keep reading]

Our friend Carl Alexander wrote a (possibly) inflammatory but true argument for Delicious Brains this week. It reflects a lot of thoughts I've had as I've spent the last few years as one of the small minority of people trying… [Keep reading]

I've got a client with a custom nav menu link pointing to a third-party service. He wanted that custom link to open in a new tab, and I realized I didn't know how to do it. Fortunately, opening a menu… [Keep reading]

In 2020, Fred and I are prioritizing featuring writing from people other than ourselves on WPShout. If you've got an urge to write clear, useful, and interesting technical tutorials for the WPShout audience, this is the perfect opportunity for you.… [Keep reading]

Lazy-loading images is one well-known win for site speed, and at present if you want to implement it in WordPress you have to choose among one of many subtly different plugin options. It now looks like WordPress 5.4, due out… [Keep reading]

If there's one problem that developers have with the WordPress.org Plugin (and Theme) directories, it's most likely to be that the process of deploying the Subversion repositories used by that site is annoying, complicated, and cumbersome. I've been looking for… [Keep reading]

They found a security vulnerability in the Elementor plugin. It's patched in the newest version of the plugin, so if you use Elementor, please update to the latest version as soon as you can. (And if you happen to be… [Keep reading]

I'm really excited to know that Cory Miller -- you may know from a year of running a company called iThemes -- is joining Brian Krogsgard at Post Status. While you might not know, Brian is one of the quiet… [Keep reading]

If you're still hesitant to learn CSS's Flexbox module, today's the day. This Flexbox guide from CSS-Tricks is so beautifully clear and so visual that, in my experience, Flexbox almost learned itself---you just need to point your open eyes toward… [Keep reading]

I really appreciated this list from Callie West of conferences for 2020 that may be of interest to WordPress developers. While I trust that her list isn't exhaustive, it does cover all the big conferences that were on my mind… [Keep reading]

Among the most difficult challenges in WordPress development is finding out where a piece of code actually lives. Up to two themes and infinite plugins could be hooking into any part of WordPress and changing things, and if you want… [Keep reading]

I really enjoyed reviewing this post from Steve Burge over at PublishPress (whose plugin we recently published a Quick Guide about). What he covers is the dream of Google Docs-style collaboration in WordPress's native post editor. As he highlights, this… [Keep reading]

As far as I know, I've never gotten editing a hosts file to work. That's a bummer, because sometimes you need to preview a site you've just migrated to new hosting, without pointing the DNS over and dealing with the horrors… [Keep reading]

I was recently talking to my friend Jeremy and mentioned that I'd never quite made a "production" Gutenberg block, but had been meaning to learn for as long as that's been a thing. (For shame!) He pointed me to his… [Keep reading]

I've never really been someone who contributed to WordPress in a disciplined and direct way. (Which is to say, I've never had code I've written pulled into the WordPress project.) As a result, I can't really say what the cognitive… [Keep reading]

I have a great deal of interest in and respect for Ben Thompson, the proprietor of Statechery, one of the most interesting "tech industry analyst" publications I've come across. So this interview he did with John O'Nolan, the founder of… [Keep reading]

WordPress just released today (Tuesday, Nov 12). If, like me, this release kind of snuck up on you, the first place to stop should be this WordPress 5.3 Field Guide. What it does very well is touch on all the… [Keep reading]

I didn't attend WordCamp US this year, for the first time since it started. As such, I was eager and excited to watch the State of the Word, which is definitely the most attention-getting talk of the conference to me.… [Keep reading]

I was pleasantly surprised to learn about this WordPress 5.3 feature which in highlighted by Justin Ahinon on Make WordPress Core. The issue it's meant to solve is an uncompressed 12 megapixel fresh-from-the-phone type of photo being comically too large… [Keep reading]

Now that WordPress is actively pushing the community and sites that run it toward more modern versions of PHP, it's extra important to follow language changes. That's where this summary of the most consequential features of the forthcoming PHP 7.4… [Keep reading]

Almost everyone who reads us knows Matt Mullenweg, the leader of Automattic/Jetpack, and the WordPress project. And you may know David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) from his leadership of the Ruby on Rails project, or from their app Basecamp. And this… [Keep reading]

Found from Ben in the MasterWP newsletter, I love this hilariously short bit of advice about how to be a better programmer. In it, Pete Shirley, who calls himself "a poor programmer" says it's helped him as someone who thinking… [Keep reading]